blakesterz

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by blakesterz 10mo ago
I'm really interested in seeing how much these types of smart glasses are going to help visually impaired people. I don't see that mentioned in this article, I'm hopeful these things are another step for better accessibility.
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by blakesterz 10mo ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HyperCard It was pretty cool, lonnnng time ago!
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by blakesterz 10mo ago
They wrote... "Turns out it was Lyme disease (yes, the real one, not the fake one) and it (nearly) progressed to meningitis" What does "not the fake one" mean, I must be missing something?
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by blakesterz 10mo ago
This was an interesting, very long, read! They say of those 25,000 daily trips, most shifted to cycling, walking and public transport, and some moved to other bridges. And then another 9,000 or so were replaced by alternatives that were jus
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by blakesterz 11mo ago
There's also a follow up that has full data in a spreadsheet like thing: https://leobenedictus.substack.com/p/that-hospital-admission...
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by blakesterz 11mo ago
“We think that, by modulating cerebrospinal fluid pressure and reducing intracranial venous sinuses compression, these drugs produce a decrease in the release of calcitonin gene-related peptide (CGRP), a key migraine-promoting peptide”
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by blakesterz 11mo ago
I was wondering what the definition of "niche" was going to be: Kottke is one of the better known blogs that does not have a specific speciality. I think that's a good one to highlight as NOT niche, and niche is much
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by blakesterz 11mo ago
Wondering the same thing, like is DeleteMe better? Or at least not like this thing?
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by blakesterz 11mo ago
They do have a compare page here: https://github.com/0xCUB3/wBlock/blob/main/Adblock_Compariso...
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by blakesterz 11mo ago
Interesting story from 9 years ago: https://www.thedailybeast.com/the-137-carat-diamond-lost-for... "The 137-Carat Diamond Lost Forever" The Florentine Diamond enjoyed centuries of adventure, a slew of noble owner
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by blakesterz 11mo ago
They do say "Maybe our tests are bad." and then talk about the intelligence side of the tests. I wonder if maybe the other tests are bad, or smart people tend to answer those tests different? That is, maybe it's not the intel
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by blakesterz 11mo ago
They also have a nice cheat sheet there: https://nano-editor.org/cheatsheet.html
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by blakesterz 1y ago
I guess the answer is no, and there's a couple quotes in there near the end: One rep I had known for years finally admitted the truth off the record. "Dude, we know," he said. "Everyone knows. But if we filtered it a
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by blakesterz 1y ago
It took me a little while to figure this out, but it's pretty cool. Try the A-380 limit in the examples and it starts making sense pretty quick. Also, .exposed has been a TLD since 2014? I'm not sure I've seen another .expose
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by blakesterz 1y ago
What are you using to convert Wordpress to static pages?
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by blakesterz 1y ago
The headline writer is a Coupland fan? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microserfs I haven't read that since it came out, I wonder if it still holds up. I read Generation X recently and I didn't like it as much
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by blakesterz 1y ago
I don't have an opinion one way or the other on this, but I do remember it happened at least once before: "Three-time gubernatorial candidate and billionaire B. Thomas Golisano is changing his home address to Florida to escape
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by blakesterz 1y ago
I'm not into trains at all, but the American Association of Private Railroad Car Owners has some pretty nice looking cars you can charter: https://www.aaprco.com/charter-a-private-car I guess it starts at $30,000? Thou
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by blakesterz 1y ago
That was my first thought as well. I know PE is famously eating up Vets, I wonder if they've started on these too?
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by blakesterz 1y ago
There's a famously old accusation against Lance Armstrong https://telegrafi.com/en/keshtu-funksionon-motori-vogel-per-... The video of him reaching behind his seat is interesting I guess.
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by blakesterz 1y ago
The list of bots is pretty short right now: https://developers.cloudflare.com/bots/concepts/bot/#ai-bots
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by blakesterz 1y ago
I would've held off on buying a new phone another year (AT LEAST) had I known all that Apple Intelligence hype was just hype.
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by blakesterz 1y ago
There's a photo on that page with this description: "A picture of two patches of wild grass bifurcated by a retaining pond" I was just thinking how I'd describe that different, and how many different ways it could
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by blakesterz 1y ago
It's worth a read, even if it's not obvious what it's about from that title. "To get the actual data, you need to go through a website maintained by the US Trade Commission. This website has good and bad aspects. On
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by blakesterz 1y ago
Very cool. I first setup my blog way back in the 90s and wrote the HTML by hand and used FTP to get it on the server. Then moved to phpslash and slashcode, Drupal and then Wordpress. Probably something else in there too. This setup feels mu
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by blakesterz 2y ago
Apparently the title of this story changed at The WSJ. That word "Cheat" seems wrong, while the old title makes more sense. "How Hackers Stole Billions in Crypto to Keep North Korea’s Regime Afloat" The archive li
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by blakesterz 2y ago
If normal crawlers are a light rain, AI crawlers are a hurricane. Most sites can handle some rain, but they are not built to handle hurricanes. AI crawlers can look like DDOS attacks. The worst offenders will just crawl a site as fast as po
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by blakesterz 2y ago
I don't know why I found this so interesting to read. After the first few paragraphs I wondered why this was in The New Yorker, afterall, this is about a place in CA. The answer did appear, eventually... “My story begins on the Low
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by blakesterz 2y ago
For some reason I was inserting a dollar sign in the title when reading. They don't make a $30,000 olive oil bar, they make 30,000 olive oil bars at once like this. I assume they cost less than $30k!
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by blakesterz 2y ago
My distrust of Google certainly started with the shutdown of Reader. Everything they've done since has made it worse. I was in the position to choose a cloud provider several years ago and would not even consider GCP. I seriously doubt

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