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Google Play Store will promote tablet apps with “quality” ranking(arstechnica.com)
1 points by bergie 5y ago|0 comments
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by bergie 5y ago
Didn’t that happen in the early 2000s?
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by bergie 5y ago
There is some difference between losing thousands of soldiers in ten years, and in ten days. Though admittedly life has always been cheap-ish in Russia so maybe that won’t matter.
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by bergie 5y ago
> tomorrow would be exactly the same. Right now Ukraine is a democracy with free press etc. Under Russian occupation you'd have dictatorship, death squads, the whole country looted. Exactly the same, sure.
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by bergie 5y ago
Third time’s the charm, right? Yanukovych has been kicked out of Ukraine by a revolution twice. Madness to think the result would be different this time.
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by bergie 5y ago
Which totally makes sense. Russia is a dictatorship waging a war of aggression a democratic neighbour. Why should we give their state propaganda outlets any amplification?
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by bergie 5y ago
That's a great example, especially as South Africa had nuclear weapons at that time.
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Tech Questions for 2022(ben-evans.com)
4 points by bergie 5y ago|0 comments
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by bergie 5y ago
I've been pretty happy with my Nanopresso for that purpose: https://www.wacaco.com/pages/nanopresso Produces a consistent cup of espresso with crema and all. You can also buy the "barista kit" to pull do
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by bergie 5y ago
I can see future archaeologists classifying QR Codes as an “ornamental technique popular in early Plastic Age cultures“. Somewhere a crackpot conspiracy theorist group will be trying to claim that the QR Codes contain messages from this lon
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by bergie 5y ago
Maybe they should advertise that as a feature. "Two days of Package Gym per month included in your Prime membership"
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by bergie 5y ago
Seconding this one. Great lightweight tent without major compromises, but still at a reasonable price and mainstream availability (unlike most of the ultralight tents made of exotic materials)
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by bergie 5y ago
There’s also this implementation we worked on way back http://gss.github.io/
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by bergie 5y ago
They'll also have to fix power consumption. Now the antenna uses 3-4X the daily power consumption of _everything_ on my cruising boat.
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by bergie 6y ago
We’ve had ships this big only for a few years.
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by bergie 6y ago
> Because Facebook and friends are not doing it because it's cool or because it will be useful to humanity, to them it's just another siphon to hoover up and monetise your personal data by steering you into purchasing and votin
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Lying to the Ghost in the Machine(antipope.org)
63 points by bergie 6y ago|36 comments
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by bergie 6y ago
I guess energy will be the big factor here. If we don’t have cheap enough energy sources / storage to replace oil and coal, the growth will stagnate. But on the other hand, if renewables or fusion or whatever becomes cheap and abundant
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by bergie 6y ago
Instead of going watch-only, I went tablet-only for a while. That also discouraged doomscrolling as you’d have to dig the tablet from a bag instead of just grabbing a phone from a pocket. Sadly most tablets are not waterproof, and are quite
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Building an IoT Dashboard with NASA Open MCT(bergie.iki.fi)
1 points by bergie 6y ago|0 comments
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by bergie 6y ago
At the c-base hackerspace in Berlin we integrated OpenMCT with our MQTT/MsgFlo setup to visualize all kinds of stats. Here's a post on how to do it: https://bergie.iki.fi/blog/nasa-openmct-iot-dashboard/
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by bergie 6y ago
If you don't have a spare Kindle lying around, smallish e-paper modules are nowadays quite cheap, and can be driven easily from a Raspberry Pi (Zero W upwards). That's what we did on our boat: https://github.com/me
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by bergie 6y ago
Totally anecdotal, but I feel open source projects were much more community oriented in the 90s and the 00s. But after that, it seems they’re either driven by a company, or an individual. That would roughly conform to the article’s timeline
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by bergie 6y ago
JavaScript in browser can be a nice sandbox for untrusted or semi-trusted code. We used that for a sort of AWS Lambda like thing some years ago https://github.com/flowhub/jsjob
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by bergie 6y ago
Exactly: I have CI produce a Docker image from my dotfiles repo https://bergie.iki.fi/blog/docker-developer-shell/
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Treasury nominee Yellen is looking to curtail use of cryptocurrency(arstechnica.com)
10 points by bergie 6y ago|23 comments
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by bergie 6y ago
There has been quite a lot of IoT automation / rule engine stuff done in NoFlo in the last couple of companies I’ve worked at, but obviously I can’t really go into specifics there. Then there was this startup way back when: https:&#x2
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by bergie 6y ago
Nice to see this here, as it has been the inspiration for quite a few years of my work: https://noflojs.org/
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by bergie 6y ago
RDD - Resume-Driven Development You can find this in lots of places not just FAANGs
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by bergie 6y ago
Visual programming tool for flow-based / dataflow programming. Allows live programming by modifying graphs, retroactive debugging, etc. Doing this all as a web app that connects to actual runtime environments via WebSockets or WebRTC.

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