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811.
by detritus 6y ago
I dearly wish I could have a Speech Recognition aspect to the 'creative' and CAD-like software I use - I think it would be fantastic to be able to do two or three operations 'at the same time' - eg. click an object with
812.
by detritus 6y ago
I upvoted here 50% because I found it interesting, 50% because I wanted to hear criticism from people knowledgable on the matter and 50% because I'm actually too stupid to fully comprehend it and hope for an ELI5 (as you may tell, I&#
813.
by detritus 6y ago
Seeing these attempts at model-scale, I'm minded of Elon Musk's assertion that 'things get easier to control the larger you go'. If that's the case - and intuitively it certainly seems so - the future looks fairly b
814.
by detritus 6y ago
Perhaps it's more about creating at whatever cost and then having a chance to review and appreciate what works and what doesn't, then learn from that and adapt? If you don't try, you can't know.
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by detritus 6y ago
I'm not sure that Joe Rogan can claim much credit here - I just Googled to check when 'Joe Rogan' mentioned Vitamin D and it seemed to be mid May - by then us lot in Europe had already stripped the shelves of Vitamin D for a
816.
by detritus 6y ago
I'd happily pay at least £5 a month for Firefox, if I could. If I were richer, I'd pay more, and I totally understand the millions of people who don't want to pay a penny. From having read lots of posts over the years - here
817.
by detritus 6y ago
Ah, thanks for making me dig around - apparently Mozilla's offering does cover a few more countries than just the States, as it did prior - mine own included. So, I can finally give Firefox 50p a month! (Or whatever their share of the
818.
by detritus 6y ago
Ok, I've updated to see for myself. The 'advert' is in the start up page we see upon every update. It's as much of an imposition upon my browser experience as a welcome page in any application, and because my hand is alr
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by detritus 6y ago
Hence my using single quotes around 'their'.
820.
by detritus 6y ago
Why? It's 'their' product and fits within Mozilla's ambitions for the product, namely making the user central to the online privacy debate. If I paid for Firefox, I'd perhaps be a little irked, but given I've n
821.
by detritus 6y ago
Good point, although Shopify does solve a very specific problem that's beyond the realm of basic front-end HTML sites. Although Shopify does allow you to export your webite too - it just won't be able to do very much used elsewher
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by detritus 6y ago
No, it does not.
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by detritus 6y ago
From https://www.makeswift.com/early-access : > Can I host a Makeswift site elsewhere? > Makeswift code can't be exported. Every page created in Makeswift is securely hosted and served via Google Cloud. I'm s
824.
by detritus 6y ago
Firstly, I also highly doubt it. Secondly, I also think the Great Silence is down to something entirely mundane like our perhaps being the first out there. That said - My point being - even if there is a tenth of a tenth of a tenth of a ch
825.
by detritus 6y ago
Laterally, I've often wondered if our increasing reliance on digital devices to observe and transmit data from probes and telescopes simplifies the effort required by alien actors concerned with limiting our development. If they can in
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by detritus 6y ago
Aye - 'flechettes' were used in WWI - basically arrow heads dropped from the barest of planes able to be described as such. It's incredibly old 'tech'. - ed - oops! I see that's right there in your link.
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by detritus 6y ago
Idiot-level question here: Could a denser inter-stellar medium account for dark matter, if only partially? - ed ignore this, I actually RTFA - it's talking about plasma, not itty-bitty matter!
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by detritus 6y ago
Sure, but who would procure a permit for a one-time use terrorist device built from off the shelf parts? Also, you only care about getting the thing into position and then dropping its payload - it doesn't much matter what happens to i
829.
by detritus 6y ago
Presumably the mere fact it can communicate and thus have its position and/or speed derived is itself of value.
830.
by detritus 6y ago
Well, my happy thought doesn't require explosives, just a bit of altitude!
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by detritus 6y ago
Ha, I'm just back from a walk down the street where a thought popped into mind, upon seeing a group of people, how 'easy' it would be to drop a load of simple flechettes from a drone and cause havoc all for an impressively lo
832.
by detritus 6y ago
It's amusing to me that I saw this about 5 minutes after I received a pop up notice from Adobe advising me to uninstall Flash as it'll be EoL'd in a few months. I appreciate they're entirely different beasts, but the Mon
833.
by detritus 6y ago
Yeah, I bought some gallium years ago after seeing videos of its effect on Aluminium. I wanted to get a sense for its 'potential' during dark post 9/11 days of terrorist threats and such, adding another mental concern - &quot
834.
by detritus 6y ago
Thanks, both - it sounded to me too like something to do with new hires, but that didn't make a lot of sense to me in terms of a newsletter.
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by detritus 6y ago
Perhaps I'm showing my age here, but what the heck is 'onboarding'?
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by detritus 6y ago
Can you expand on this? I've been on/off making websites since '99 and I think have a moderate understanding of the landscapes past and present - I don't see what should be complicated in spitting out HTML onto a webpage
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by detritus 6y ago
No disrespect assumed! :) tbh, when I see people using things like Hugo, i tend to assume they're on a part of the web dev spectrum that is equal-to or further-along than mine. This my failing. I made assumptions about your situation.
838.
by detritus 6y ago
All this has happened before, and will happen again. The reason should be that developers develop along as simple and as standardised a means as they can, so that what they're working on will be consumable by as many people now, and
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by detritus 6y ago
tbh, i didn't bother opening up the console and checking as I was a bit busy at the time and, bluntly - why should I? But I did get in touch to let them know there was an issue. Ultimately - it was a list of entries from a database. Th
840.
by detritus 6y ago
I dunno - I hit a site a week that doesn't work in Firefox. The latest being a list of shows on https://www.bfi.org.uk/ that didn't … well, list. Turns out it did fine enough in Chrome. I accept that sites can be

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