davecanderson

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   by davecanderson 3y ago

   Nature is such a good source of inspiration, the "perturb" approach reminded me of [fixational eye movement][1] but maybe that's only a clear link in retrospect. [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fixatio
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   by davecanderson 4y ago

   I just finished reading A Deepness in The Sky by Vernor Vinge which I totally enjoyed and as I read it reminded me of the scale and depth of Banks' Culture novels.
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   by davecanderson 4y ago

   Love the sight of the Oz Harvest[1] bright yellow trucks combating food waste here in Australia. 1. https://www.ozharvest.org/fight-food-waste/
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   by davecanderson 5y ago

   A much shorter article covering the same map: https://knowablemagazine.org/article/society/2021/reading-pa...
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   by davecanderson 5y ago

   [ServiceStack OrmLite][1] does just that, all our development is done locally using SQLite but then deployments use MySQL. We do fall into the 'program is simple enough' category though. [1]: https://github.com/Ser
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   by davecanderson 6y ago

   The second guess was "Is it Grandma?" but that was definately a bit of a joke. Just not many other candidates they could come up with for lady of prominence that would make it on a coin.
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   by davecanderson 6y ago

   My seven year old was looking at some (commonwealth) coins and asked who the lady (queen elizabeth II) was on the back. I asked who they thought it was, first guess was "Is it Siri?"