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by dafoex 5y ago
The bit about road names borrowing from other places is true in the UK, but it has a function: London Road will, eventually, lead to London, as will most any road with another city for it's name. I imagine this couldn't be possib
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by dafoex 5y ago
Context: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-53666222
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by dafoex 5y ago
I didn't build it, Tesla did, and I personally think the company that signed off on "touch screen controlled window wipers" is the one with the most liability in autopilot failures.
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by dafoex 5y ago
It becomes even more confusing when you realise actual olives aren't even that colour. Olives are just _green_ green (or very dark brown to blue/black).
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by dafoex 5y ago
I guess I'll just add to the growing pile of "this is to stop humans getting decapitated in robot-only zones when retrieving broken robots" shall I? I hate amazon as much as the next guy, but this is sensationalist beyond bel
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by dafoex 5y ago
I think the problem lies, as usual, with america. These lamp clusters were designed in a European environment where we have brake lights and turn indicators. By the time the design was nearing production it was probably too late to cancel
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by dafoex 5y ago
Honestly I don't like that everyone is so concerned about electric sports cars. I don't agree with a lot of things Elon does, but one thing that got me really excited was the electric lorries - finally someone is trying to make e
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by dafoex 5y ago
I do too. I know that's not what this post is about, but its refreshing to see someone not on the minimalist bandwagon.
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by dafoex 5y ago
With that information I can: • Say with a lot of confidence that billy69420@cbt.eu is owned by one person, called William. • Infer that, since the e-mail says Billy, but the name says William, the latter is probably what appears on any offi
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by dafoex 5y ago
I actually like systemd now, thanks to antix
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by dafoex 5y ago
Art feels like the wrong word here. Art, to my mind, is impressive but ultimately gathers dust on a shelf. DF on the other hand is a complex machine that simulates whole worlds, and produces a different result each time you run it, and va
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by dafoex 5y ago
This is really fun! I'm not sure of the practicality (particularly with the QR demo, my boxes don't turn bright blue like yours apparently do, so its pretty invisible to a scanner) but if it looks cool then that's reason eno
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by dafoex 5y ago
In all brutal honesty I would have read "v." as versus, whereas just "v" as in "v 4.2.0" would be version.
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by dafoex 5y ago
Honestly, it sounds a lot like Google Glass but with none of the actually useful stuff like heads up navigation, AR translation, heads up documentation, etc. But given how everyone seems to have forgotten about privacy and invited always on
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by dafoex 6y ago
In what appears to be contrast with a lot of people here, I actually support fighting against libelous and untrue claims. The law firm here is entirely in the right to not want to be called scam solicitors when they are not scam solicitors
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by dafoex 6y ago
I had the polar opposite of this problem in my school, to the point that I joke that I got a BTEC in Excel, not ICT. All the competent teachers either left the school or didn't last, and left behind only the fresh out of uni teachers
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by dafoex 6y ago
It not just the yunguns, either. I'm from just the very end of the generation you describe, and have some memory of the limitations of computers at the time (I remember dialup and not being able to use the phone, having to change the
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by dafoex 6y ago
What was that Tom Scott thing about the Helvetica Logo Company?
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by dafoex 6y ago
Do you have a source for that colour code leak? I don't disbelieve you, I'd just like to be able to read (and reference) the source.
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by dafoex 6y ago
I've had strangely a lot of experience with stickers and sticky tape, and the material the sticker is made of can aid removal even if the glue is sturdy: paper stickers tear, but thicker plastic stickers will hold together as you force
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by dafoex 6y ago
If you have a somewhat modern Android device (2012 flagship and onwards) you might be able to read the tag, as long as its not Mifare classic.
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by dafoex 6y ago
I read a rendition of that Evil Genius How To and never understood that point until now: as someone evil, I want my minions to be faceless and threatening, and above all I don't want their targets to see the fear behind the mask and ge
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by dafoex 6y ago
This is like the invasion stripes of aircraft I mentioned in another comment. Interesting to know that it is an actual thing.
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by dafoex 6y ago
I guessed this before clicking, but its still interesting to know it exists. My next question is are they like invasion stripes on an aeroplane - i.e. they are changed before an operation so the enemy can't copy them - or are they cod
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by dafoex 6y ago
My evidence is mainly from an infosec perspective: you aren't going to get your front desk to report suspicious activity if they have no incentive, or if they feel like they are fobbed off every time they try to report a potential issu
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by dafoex 6y ago
Hmm, fair point. I think "forced" is very loaded in this situation, however.
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by dafoex 6y ago
For what its worth, I think all of them were in the wrong. Whether you're armed with Molotov cocktails or conventional firearms, you're armed and a threat. The blm/antifa riots were just as much riots as what happened today
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by dafoex 6y ago
What a good idea, let's all have Big Media that doesn't have to provide a source for the information in their publications /s We live in the information age, why is it so hard for a newspaper to add "example.com/new
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by dafoex 6y ago
Mastodon for the potus? Now there's an idea.
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by dafoex 6y ago
Honestly, yes. What if there was a fire? I understand that you intend that to read as "do you think people should be allowed to yell 'fire!' in a crowded room in which there is no fire", but for every false positive pun

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