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Scientists studying why gamers invert their controls(theguardian.com)
12 points by bloat 6y ago|10 comments
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by bloat 6y ago
Carbon fibre bikes are very common in my circles, i.e. very amateur middle aged club cyclists. Nothing to do with professionals, semi or otherwise. Also see plenty of them when commuting in London.
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by bloat 6y ago
For new and/or adventurous music: The Wire - https://www.thewire.co.uk/
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by bloat 6y ago
Google takeout has some options. I've downloaded my Google Music collection by manually and laboriously clicking through the large list of zips it provided. I think there are better ways (which I haven't tried yet) where you get i
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Silk Road Bitcoins worth $1B transferred after seven years(theguardian.com)
310 points by bloat 6y ago|250 comments
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by bloat 6y ago
I assume most user manuals would be at least somewhat dishonest. No one is going to write "I'm touchy and thin-skinned, make sure to sound at least a little complimentary when giving me feedback."
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by bloat 6y ago
In my experience this is a pendulum. Traders hire a few desk developers who are paid by the business, and who work directly with the traders in the same physical area. They crank out code under a lot of pressure for fast turn around, and ev
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by bloat 6y ago
Sonos speakers are DLNA sinks. Once they are set up you can stream music using something like https://github.com/masmu/pulseaudio-dlna , without using the Sonos app on your phone or computer.
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by bloat 6y ago
Baarle-Nassau - The town is the site of a complicated borderline between Belgium and Netherlands, with numerous small exclaves of Belgium, of which some contain counter-exclaves of the Netherlands. https://en.wikipedia.org&#x2F
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“FCM Messages Test Notification” – Security Issue?(support.google.com)
1 points by bloat 6y ago|0 comments
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by bloat 6y ago
If you are interested in classical music - here's a couple of good books on the 20th century. "The Rest Is Noise" by Alex Ross "Modern Times, Modern Places" by Peter Conrad The first is just music, the seco
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by bloat 6y ago
Do you have these standards with all companies you pay for services? Seems like it might limit you somewhat...
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Apple and Google remove Fortnite video game from app stores(theguardian.com)
1 points by bloat 6y ago|0 comments
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by bloat 6y ago
LSP in Emacs or in any editor, is only as good as the language server - in some (many?) cases the language server is effectively a headless IDE.
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What a mass of rotting reindeer carcasses taught scientists(theguardian.com)
9 points by bloat 6y ago|0 comments
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Blow for UK organised crime as 'command and control' network is hit(theguardian.com)
18 points by bloat 6y ago|0 comments
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by bloat 7y ago
Here's a similar literate program I wrote some years back in (then very new language) ClojureScript. http://git.slothrop.net/automata/
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by bloat 7y ago
Absolutely! Radio for me has always been the primary way I discover new music, whether that's back in the day listening to John Peel or Patrick Forge, or nowadays lots of WFMU.org (a decades old New Jersey free-form station) and NTS ra
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by bloat 7y ago
This is kind of what you are after... But it is 6502 not Z80. https://www.c64-wiki.com/wiki/Commander_X16
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by bloat 7y ago
Book printing has long involved printing pages out of order and in different orientations, so that pages are in the right order when the sheets (called signatures) are bound into the book. See an example here: https://www.formaxp
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by bloat 7y ago
In all the places I've worked over the last decade Dave would have many, many incident reports against his name, and all the root cause investigations would not look good for him either.
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by bloat 7y ago
It isn't really used to mean 'figuratively' though is it? When someone says "I was so cross I literally exploded!" they are not explicitly pointing out that they didn't really explode, they're just using t
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by bloat 7y ago
"keep what I've already paid for, but never charge me again" == "cancel now" This is the same on every subscription service I've cancelled recently, they let you carry on reading / watching / whateve
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by bloat 7y ago
For me its worth reading just for entertainment. Personally I skim a lot of the maths, and I think most of the exercises are for people with maths degrees. I don't have a hope of doing them. Regardless, its a good read - very well writ
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Richer Sounds founder hands over control of hi-fi and TV firm to staff(theguardian.com)
2 points by bloat 7y ago|0 comments
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by bloat 7y ago
He says he has the password for the key wallet. But the wallet is empty.
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The world's watersheds, mapped in detail(bigthink.com)
2 points by bloat 8y ago|0 comments
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by bloat 8y ago
Not, not forced, but then I did say it was an absurd example. Slightly different qualitatively from my hypothetical: there are plenty of examples of unwanted speech appearing in places, and while they are not forced to actually read it, the
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by bloat 8y ago
To use reductio ad absurdum on your argument for a minute: Everyone in the world has an earpiece which they must wear at all times. Everyone has a microphone which automatically broadcasts everything they say to everyone's earpiece. Yo
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Cryptocurrency investors locked out of $190m after exchange founder dies(theguardian.com)
7 points by bloat 8y ago|0 comments

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