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by blippage 4y ago
I like Gemini, and I am increasing my use of it. Its killer feature is that it's great at writing technical documentation, in my view. Gopher is more finicky, so Gemini is the way to go. If I'm permitted a little plug: gemini:&#x2
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by blippage 4y ago
"Censorship is the abnormal activity ensuring that people in power approve of the information on your platform, regardless of what your customers want. If the sender wants to send a message and the receiver wants to receive it, but som
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by blippage 4y ago
Categorising information into taxonomies is like trying to hammer a square peg into a round hole; sometimes a necessary but undecidable problem. As someone once said: a book (article, webpage, whatever) is rarely about one thing. This is a
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by blippage 4y ago
You're welcome. I did a write-up from some time ago: https://mcturra2000.wordpress.com/2019/09/03/brown-noise-sle... AFAIK the schematic is accurate. Use the bottom one because I do like the filtering. W
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by blippage 4y ago
I made a nice brown(ish) noise generator for my bedroom. I use it at night and sometimes during the day when I want to meditate, or something. It uses an ATtiny85 to generate white noise, which I filter through a resistor-capacitor. I put
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by blippage 4y ago
I said that Musk would never own Twitter, and that it seemed like a drunken bar bet to me. His later actions seemed to signal that he was trying to weasel out of the deal. I concede that I was wrong. However, it still seems like and act of
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by blippage 4y ago
My view is that hydro and fission are proven tech, so I am in favour of them. I am sceptical about solar and especially wind, which I suspect are feelgood solutions that are easy sells politically, ignore economics, and may consequently be
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by blippage 4y ago
> Obviously hydroelectricity is massively damaging to ecosystems. The whole of the human race is massively damaging to ecosystems. That bit isn't in doubt. The question is as to whether the benefits outweigh the costs. And naturally
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by blippage 4y ago
I adamantly refuse to register for accounts that require my phone number unless it's for commercial or official purposes. The likes of Google, Facebook and Microsoft can go take a long walk off a short plank. We give too much informati
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by blippage 4y ago
That link isn't working right now. Instead, customers in Singapore can enjoy an immersive data breach experience ... https://www.zdnet.com/article/starbucks-singapore-says-some-...
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by blippage 4y ago
Great Fire of London 2.0
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by blippage 4y ago
The article is behind a paywall, so I'm just going to just say the experiences I have heard from other people. I have never been on a dating app. The problem seems to stem from an imbalance of the sexes. Men have found it a soul-crushi
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by blippage 4y ago
> Kodak, Sears, K-Mart, etc. etc Yeah, those kinds of names I had in mind. Skimming through some of the other comments on this thread I'd put it in the "lost cause" category. These things can "kinda" turn around,
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by blippage 4y ago
SCP-173 "The Sculpture" is the one about the neck-snapper. The pic that accompanies it does add to the atmosphere of the story. The official site seems to be: https://the-scp.foundation/object/scp-173 It&#x27
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by blippage 4y ago
You guys probably know about it, but here goes anyway ... Anyone interested in Creepypastas might also enjoy SCP (no, not "secure copy", bu "Secure. Contain. Protect). They write up fictional anomolies. Two favourites of mine
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by blippage 4y ago
Brit here, so I'm observing from outside. If they're cutting workforces and raising debt, I'd reckon this is the beginning of the end. Frankly, I think it's throwing good money after bad. I've taken a casual interes
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by blippage 4y ago
The article is behind a paywall, so I couldn't read it. So I'll add my own curmudgeony observations ... Back in the day, Japan had 100 year mortgages. It was a sign that something was wrong. If lenders are desperate to lend money,
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by blippage 4y ago
> Here, there's a conflict between the lexical scope of the function (main) and the macro (SWAP). It might interest to some to know that GCC has a macro called __COUNTER__ (apparently also implemented by clang and MS), which auto-in
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by blippage 4y ago
“The one moral CEO in America.” That's up there with Ken Lay's proclamation that Enron set the bar for corporate ethics (I can't find the exact quote, and obviously before the collapse). 'The louder he talked of his hono
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by blippage 4y ago
Glad you found it useful. You don't have to use unicode if you don't want to, of course. Spartan uses the same gemtext format that Gemini does. A big appeal to me is that it's easier to write gemtext files that gophermaps. Go
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by blippage 4y ago
I have a lot of respect for Dillo. It uses the FLTK, and is the very definition of "non-bloat". The real problem is that nearly all website render terribly. It just can't keep up with the complexity that it the modern web. It
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by blippage 4y ago
Brit here. It seems a little different than US. I didn't take any exams (except viva at the end). I was given some reports by PhD students/researchers working in a similar field in the same department as background reading. I thou
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by blippage 4y ago
I tried playing it a few years ago, along with a similar offering. I couldn't really figure out how to get started, and what buttons to press. So I lost interest quickly.
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by blippage 4y ago
When the Japanese cock something up, they don't mess around. A large proportion of the world's oldest companies are Japanese ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_oldest_companies ), so you'd there&#x27
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by blippage 4y ago
Surprised no-one has mentioned Ben Eater: https://www.youtube.com/c/BenEater He has a series on building your own computer. His "World's Worst Video Card" is also instructive. Ben's brain must be wi
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by blippage 4y ago
I had always assumed that a bullet to the head was the usual outcome for dictators who had lost their grip on the levers of power.
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by blippage 4y ago
I visited Pompeii a few years ago. I love the feel of ruined cities for some reason. The roads were quite interesting, and were basically an open sewage system. There are stepping stones to cross the street. The stones are strategically pla
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by blippage 4y ago
I'm from UK, so it's the first I've heard of this. It seems that their solution to curbing inflation is by spending money. Hmmm. The concept that you can battle inflation by passing laws strikes my as deluded in the extreme.
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by blippage 4y ago
Two words: gig economy. Or put another way: shite.
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by blippage 4y ago
Michael Jackson goes up to Elton John: "I'll swap you a ten for two fives."

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