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by dflock 3y ago
This is a really great idea - wish I'd thought of it!
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by dflock 3y ago
https://duncanlock.net/ Mostly tech, with a bit of other stuff sprinkled in.
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by dflock 3y ago
This article is like a summary of the book, I guess? The book itself is very, very good and worth a read.
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by dflock 3y ago
Difficult to know, with the new Twitter, if this is intentional or they just screwed something up - although they've been driving their API to zero for ages, so probably intentional.
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by dflock 3y ago
It's MDF, which apparently releases a lot formaldehyde coated dust/microparticles when sawn or sanded, which are bad for you/give you lung cancer, etc..
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by dflock 3y ago
Not government run, charity/foundation, giving 30 people £1600 a month for 2 yrs, no strings attached on spending. Two groups of participants from Jarrow, on Tyneside, and from East Finchley in north London.
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by dflock 3y ago
Google has a resource curse from ad money, combined with internal incentives that cause launch-abandon-shutdown trajectories for a lot of their products. It's as much Google's weakness and total inability to execute on anything, a
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by dflock 3y ago
https://www.haiku-os.org/
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by dflock 3y ago
They say 8x power generation compared to the same panel on the ground, due to cloud etc... But they have to expend the energy to put this in orbit, then use the panel to convert sunlight to electricity, then convert that to microwaves, beam
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by dflock 3y ago
Apparently yes, so assuming that Reddit doesn't change its mind, those apps either become much more expensive, stop supporting Reddit (and Twitter) or go away.
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by dflock 3y ago
Depending on where and how they die, dead fish float briefly because of gas created by bacterial decay, but sink after a rupture, or a few days. Many dead fish will get eaten as they fall through the water column. Things that sink all that
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by dflock 3y ago
They either get eaten, or fall to the ocean floor, ~4,000m down.
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by dflock 3y ago
That's a very good point - I should add sharkdp to the title!
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by dflock 3y ago
Wow, very nice surprise to find this on the HN frontpage, posted by someone else no less! I guess I'm not the only person who reads my blog after all ;) Thanks chmaynard - and sharkdp!
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by dflock 3y ago
Lit looks like it's a fronted framework, an alternative to vuejs/react etc... but built on top of the more recent web standards support for web components.
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by dflock 3y ago
Sifting flour is to get the weevils out ;)
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by dflock 3y ago
ITAR says no, I would imagine.
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by dflock 3y ago
It's really trying to solve a problem they created by statlessly handing out tokens instead of keeping session state on the backend - they have no way to revoke a token once issued, so long lived tokens are a liability. Solution? More
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by dflock 3y ago
If only Sundar Pichai was a good at executing on product & strategy as he is at winning internal fights at Google.
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by dflock 3y ago
I'd just run a bundle of optical fibre cables over the horizon to the nearside and transmit to earth from there?
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by dflock 3y ago
Has anyone tried Kiota, specifically the Python support? How does it compare to https://github.com/openapi-generators/openapi-python-client ?
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by dflock 4y ago
The jart: the standard unit of developer. "I've got 20 yrs experience, and I think I'm about 150 milli jarts, maybe 200 on a good day."
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by dflock 4y ago
Ah, if only there were hundreds of millions of ents; sadly the forest is much diminished in this age of men.
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by dflock 4y ago
And every other environmental necessity - air, forest, wetlands, ocean, etc...
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by dflock 4y ago
Well, if the cow eats grass, then you aren't paying for that energy input.
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by dflock 4y ago
Just testing the viability of that one sentence would be a decade long research project for a large, well funded lab - and it would definitely not work as described. Cell culture is hard, immune systems are incredibly complex. Bone marrow c
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by dflock 4y ago
My eldest was a reluctant reader, so a rpi with retropie, with lots of old games - no voiceovers, all text on-screen. Pokemon Firered/Leafgreen Throwback was the one the really worked the best for us: https://www.pokecommuni
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by dflock 4y ago
Creeping existential dread, mostly? I have no idea what we could do, personally, or as societies, to usefully prepare. Even if there were things that could be done on a society level, I'm pretty sure that most societies wouldn't b
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by dflock 4y ago
The modern US republican party is tailor made by grifters, for grifters.
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by dflock 4y ago
Earthquakes don't kill people, buildings do.

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