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by craigds 9y ago
This might be an unpopular opinion here, but.. It doesn't bother me too much. I would rather pay 10% less than have a 10% bigger seat. This way the businessmen who care and want to pay for business class can fund the airline, so that I
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by craigds 9y ago
In NZ we definitely pronounce it "historic". But that doesn't stop the news anchors from saying "an historic". It sounds ridiculous
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by craigds 9y ago
Its like Paywave, but requires a charged smartphone battery. Sounds annoying to me.
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Physicists transmit data via Earth-to-space quantum entanglement(m.phys.org)
2 points by craigds 9y ago|0 comments
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by craigds 9y ago
Loads of these in NZ cities. They're easily the best type of intersection for urban centres. We have countdown timers on the crossings so pedestrians know how long they have (25 seconds), which makes them even more useful, and prevents
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by craigds 9y ago
wrong thread?
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by craigds 9y ago
NZ is on the chart
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by craigds 9y ago
For web map tiles (millions of tiny PNGs), everyone who's anyone stores their tiles in sqlite rather than on disk: https://www.mapbox.com/help/an-open-platform/#mbtiles
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by craigds 9y ago
> none of which is "UTF8" incidentally Why not? Shouldn't all printers made nowadays support UTF8? Probably by default?
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by craigds 9y ago
As a happily married person I'd like to say: please don't get married. Integrity is important. If you do not mean the words, dont say them. Getting married and not making every effort to stay that way cheapens the concept for thos
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by craigds 10y ago
Also, she was four.
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by craigds 10y ago
Australian internet is leagues behind NZ internet. NZ reliably has fibre in most places in the cities, and a plan to get fibre to 80% of the population by 2020 (FTTB). This is in contrast to the botched Australian plan (search for NBN) whic
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by craigds 10y ago
Auckland at least is making steady progress, depending on where your commute is. I cycle an hour each way to work, and there's only about 500m total where I have to join the car lanes. Rest of the way it's bus and cycle lanes.
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by craigds 10y ago
uBlock Origin in Firefox on Android still seems quite effective against ads on Facebook
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by craigds 10y ago
Crazy X axes on those graphs.
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by craigds 10y ago
I'd love to try this out, it looks amazing. But it's just not acceptable to send all the code to the cloud. I'd love to use a self-hosted version though.
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A robot than burns Trump's tweets(twitter.com)
3 points by craigds 10y ago|0 comments
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by craigds 10y ago
In the US, and on wired connection maybe. In NZ the largest mobile plan I can even find has 5GB. Another one with flat rate for data is $50 for 3GB (so $250 for this 14GB day). If I load a webpage on my mobile data that uses 10MB of data, I
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by craigds 10y ago
Initially hesitated to switch to 1Password since some of our team used Linux but eventually we all switched to Mac so that went away. Much happier with 1Password since we switched from Lastpass. Consistent UI, proper OS integration, multipl
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by craigds 10y ago
I have one 18month old kid. We average about 1.3 loads a day. Several sets of clothes, towels, nappies, sheets, bibs, ... It adds up very quickly
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by craigds 10y ago
Skims over rights for non US citizens. Does the US Constitution protect me at all in any regard, being a foreigner? The things the CBP can do with citizens is crazy enough, but from my understanding the things they can do with non-citizens
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by craigds 10y ago
This is a great background sound for working. I have the airport chatter at medium and the ambient music at low, and I listen to a busy airport that I can't understand at all (Santiago is a good one) so I don't engage my brain too
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Listen to the Clouds(listentothe.cloud)
189 points by craigds 10y ago|84 comments
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by craigds 10y ago
Was the word 'was' intended to suggest that OO has died off in some way? Last I checked, nearly everyone is doing OOP.
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by craigds 10y ago
Thats correct, it actually does. Somewhat counterintuitively. Some explanation at https://www.reddit.com/r/askscience/comments/40bi9z/why_is_t...
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by craigds 10y ago
You still can't turn it off in Inbox, unfortunately.
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by craigds 10y ago
Article seems a bit over the top. Many of us can and do have a rollback button. Sure, rolling back isn't trivial. If the code has side effects (e.g. database, disk or cache state), you need to account for those side effects when rollin
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by craigds 10y ago
If a third party could access my private Facebook posts then border patrol wouldn't require my phone in the first place.
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by craigds 10y ago
So you can run Windows only games on Linux? I do this. It works well.
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by craigds 10y ago
Well, yeah. I've never been a huge fan of the US but would have liked to visit it some day - several snowboarding destinations and Silicon Valley would be nice to see, at a minimum. However I have no desire to spend my tourism dollars

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