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by dddddaviddddd 2y ago
About $100: dynamo-powered light setup for my bicycle. Never forget lights, and they’re always bright.
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by dddddaviddddd 2y ago
Nice to see in-kernel webcam support coming in. Bad webcam conferencing support (along with slow WiFi) was a big factor in moving away from FreeBSD on my laptop a couple years ago.
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by dddddaviddddd 2y ago
> As pennies are gradually withdrawn from circulation, price rounding on cash transactions will be required. This will have no impact on cheque payments or electronic payments, such as credit and debit cards, only cash transactions will
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by dddddaviddddd 2y ago
If this reduces vehicle-vehicle collisions, that will be an improvement. However, much more needs to be done to prevent pedestrian-vehicle and cyclist-vehicle collisions, and installing transceivers in pedestrians is not a realistic option.
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by dddddaviddddd 2y ago
Cities aren't going anywhere. Building and maintaining roads and cars is expensive. Essentially you can either pay for endless freeways, or pay for a subway system. People need to get around.
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by dddddaviddddd 2y ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40534868
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by dddddaviddddd 2y ago
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40366204
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by dddddaviddddd 3y ago
If an individual had somehow done this, I expect that the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act would be used against them. With Meta, we'll see.
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by dddddaviddddd 3y ago
> The Phase III trial has just read out, and Relyvrio shows no hint of actually working.... It did have a very good safety profile, fortunately, so it seems unlikely that anyone was physically harmed. Phase II trials are more about safet
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by dddddaviddddd 3y ago
I've known several people who, when they got signed out, couldn't remember their password and access their email, and so made a new account. I'm sure Facebook will see a spike of this.
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by dddddaviddddd 3y ago
Same in Canada, though, if I understand correctly, you have to visit a customs checkpoint in person to make a declaration: https://goingawesomeplaces.com/how-to-avoid-paying-ups-broke...
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by dddddaviddddd 3y ago
Apple's software won't let you do that, you'll need something third-party. If you're lucky, the device will be old enough to jailbreak to get full access to the file system.
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by dddddaviddddd 3y ago
https://betterdwelling.com/vancouver-laundering-model-that-i...
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by dddddaviddddd 3y ago
> I think the Canadian mortgages linked to Chinese accounts will likely all be paid. If Canadian banks agree with this risk assessment, they have little incentive to actually verify income in these cases.
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by dddddaviddddd 3y ago
I used to like auto-synching with accounts, but I found this encouraged a pattern where I would only look at my budget periodically, long after the information would have been useful (e.g. in the moment of asking whether I should make a pur
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by dddddaviddddd 3y ago
I opened up Super Mario World today, and it just has one intro slide before going into the first levels.
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FreeBSD 14.0-Release Now Available(lists.freebsd.org)
40 points by dddddaviddddd 3y ago|1 comments
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by dddddaviddddd 3y ago
I'm using syncthing: https://syncthing.net/ It requires that at least two machines be up for syncing to happen, but if you have a home server that isn't a problem.
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Finding Your Happiness(ethanmick.com)
1 points by dddddaviddddd 3y ago|0 comments
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by dddddaviddddd 3y ago
I'm impressed by the ingenuity of people who keep old software running just a bit longer! When Catalina first came out, I used Retroactive for iTunes. This let me get one last update out for my track joiner ( https://www.davi
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by dddddaviddddd 3y ago
Most of the theatres I've been to in my city (Montreal, Canada) have boxes on the side, e.g. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b5b4d25af2096...
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by dddddaviddddd 3y ago
Settings -> General -> Software Update, then Command-R if you still don't see it.
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by dddddaviddddd 3y ago
You can just read the machine's manual: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37658844
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by dddddaviddddd 3y ago
I love that they have the Bach Partita -- I used to listed to this piece on repeat https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vuPr9m98XQQ Knowing the melody makes it a lot easier to 'play' in this app.
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by dddddaviddddd 3y ago
They're not arachnids, but they do look like spiders: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sea_spider
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Windows feature that resets system clocks based on random data is wreaking havoc(arstechnica.com)
274 points by dddddaviddddd 3y ago|162 comments
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Fix HomePod Mini Connectivity with the Bell Giga Hub(davidschlachter.com)
1 points by dddddaviddddd 3y ago|0 comments
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by dddddaviddddd 3y ago
This site was invaluable for maintaining my early '70s Peugeot bike. It always had the right measurements, and great practical ideas for solving problems. For example, because my frame spacing was too narrow for modern wheels, I decide
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by dddddaviddddd 3y ago
I find it overwhelms any kind of image search.
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by dddddaviddddd 3y ago
Beautiful. I did something similar recently with the Google Maps Distance Matrix API, but I like that this doesn't require an external API for every calculation.

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