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by camtarn 4y ago
Good timing - the titan arum at the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh is about to flower! My partner manages the Twitter account (in the persona of the plant itself) and I've just been bribed with pizza to give him a lift back to work ton
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by camtarn 4y ago
I've submitted the Hackaday link rather than the original video, as I much prefer a text summary to a video, but by please feel free to replace with the original video link.
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High speed A/D conversion in 1965 with a vacuum tube(hackaday.com)
2 points by camtarn 4y ago|2 comments
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by camtarn 4y ago
Yes, that's probably true, but ... as somebody who actually put a button on the front page of Amazon.com (back in 2010-ish, I wrote the presentation code for an MP3 sample player for album recommendations) it was actually pretty low fr
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by camtarn 4y ago
Thank you! This single comment explained why Emacs had buffers much more concisely than the article did (although I still liked the article).
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by camtarn 4y ago
This is excellent. I love the classification of bands by the words most important to them, and the subsequent clustering by subject.
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The Wrong Type of Snow(en.wikipedia.org)
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Slippery Rail(en.wikipedia.org)
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Trackside Traction Gel Applicators(jsdrail.com)
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by camtarn 4y ago
Ooh, that's awesome! Thanks for the link.
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by camtarn 4y ago
The one thing that I don't see mentioned on Modvion's page is the glue/resin that's used to laminate the timber. Resins are usually made from hydrocarbon feedstock, as far as I can tell, and that must take a bunch of ene
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by camtarn 4y ago
I recently got really fed up with Windows calculator and bought a scientific calculator. I do a lot of conversions to/from hex during tasks where I have a lot of windows onscreen, so the thought of having effectively an extra screen, a
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by camtarn 4y ago
Yeah, I found the login requirement very confusing, and I definitely wasn't about to grant high-volume editing permission to an app I'd never heard of (WikiShootMe is the URL, but it's not mentioned on the page or in the HN a
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by camtarn 4y ago
Love the auxiliary screen/numpad/controls on the right hand side - very cool. I imagine the screen being used for an Uplink-style 'seconds until hack detected' counter ;)
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by camtarn 4y ago
You'd think so, yes. In Scotland we have a similar problem with motorcycle theft. And lots of motorbikes have trackers on them. Anecdotally * , though, even providing the address that a stolen tracker is reporting isn't enough for
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by camtarn 4y ago
...I've just realised that I got the < and >= backwards while trying to explain that they were backwards. facepalm > ... would imply reboots_per_day > 1 is bad and reboots_per_day <= 1 is good; is what I meant to say!
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by camtarn 4y ago
'at least once every 24 hours' would be valid. 'at most every 24 hours' would imply reboots_per_day < 1 is bad and reboots_per_day >= 1 is good; i.e. that the standard was focused on preventing unnecessary reboots,
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Heinz uses a fake number, 57, to keep its brand timeless(cnn.com)
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The greasy spoon chronicles: a day in the life of the Hope Workers Cafe(theguardian.com)
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Flâneur(en.wikipedia.org)
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Loiterers Resistance Movement(en.wikipedia.org)
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My Favorite Liar (2008)(overcomingbias.com)
189 points by camtarn 4y ago|76 comments
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Biller migration: how we changed our billing cycle(medium.com)
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by camtarn 4y ago
I remembered coming across an interactive bouldering game a while ago, which used a projector to light up holds to create a custom problem each time. I couldn't find it with a quick search, but I did find this list of bouldering wall g
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by camtarn 4y ago
Yeah, I spotted that. That's what I meant (and poorly explained): the only bits of this that are Agile-related are the text ... so if you edit them, you're left with just regular old meme templates.
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by camtarn 4y ago
Well ... more like a collection of Agile/Scrum captions (amusing ones, to be fair - I'm a fan of "...and then I said 'It's in the backlog'! ") over very normal meme templates. I feel like this is kinda mis
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by camtarn 4y ago
It's worth actually checking out this person's Insta account. Contrary to her claim of being centrist, she's gone into full-on attack mode on trans rights - sharing content equating support for them to child grooming, etc. Th
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by camtarn 4y ago
"The okayest" would have made for a much better article. I get what he means, but it's really not an argument for the worst thing, and I suspect that if pressed, even Moxie wouldn't deliberately e.g. buy a boat with a
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by camtarn 4y ago
Oh, nice, I didn't even realise street view existed! For anybody else who didn't realise - click on a circle to pop up a little preview of that subreddit, then click 'street view'. You can navigate in street view by clic
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by camtarn 4y ago
These things are not mutually exclusive. There are people who can speak articulately and campaign on Twitter some days, and have disabling meltdowns and total inability to manage life on other days. Like many things, the truth is probably s

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