firmgently

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The Royal Mail is trialling these electric trucks in London(wired.co.uk)
2 points by firmgently 9y ago|0 comments
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by firmgently 9y ago
I'm creative/handy but have been through a minimising process (ongoing) to move into a tiny home. I've treated it more like 'cut away the fat' than 'trim it to the bone'. If I used something less than abou
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by firmgently 9y ago
From the article: "Previously we used to rely on humans to flag content, now we're using machine learning to flag content which goes through to a team of trained policy specialists all around the world which will then make decisio
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by firmgently 9y ago
I don't understand how Godwin's rule is useful. Its only effect on arguments is that on top of the inevitable "Hitler" comment you now also get an inevitable "Godwin" follow-up, usually delivered with the air o
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by firmgently 9y ago
I've used a media query in the past to make the menu horizontal along the top in a narrow window and vertical on the left in a wide one.
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by firmgently 9y ago
I think you'd want to combine it with canvas to replicate Flash's cacheAsBitmap. As others have mentioned here though the decisions on where to use it (raster vs vector) and where not to use it need to be made carefully as your ma
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by firmgently 9y ago
If they're designing in Illustrator as most are they're usually working with vectors and have to use export to create their PNG/JPEG; SVG is right there as an export option. In my experience there's heavy inertia in the
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by firmgently 9y ago
Going against GP's point but Root in Person of Interest was a great geek character IMO. Tough, sharp, ninja coder and the complete opposite of uncool (so I guess that would be 'cool'). Swerved all of the cliches.
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by firmgently 9y ago
I love that open source exists and am very grateful that people have given their time to make stuff that I get so much pleasure out of using for free. I feel like the article suggests that programmers are the only people who ever produce wo
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by firmgently 9y ago
Verbal sarcasm being marked by its delivery as per Homer is a very US thing, in the UK (or at least in my life experience) sarcasm is supposed to be subtle, otherwise what's the point? To put a special voice on to denote sarcasm would
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by firmgently 9y ago
I heard someone explaining how the phone hacking worked the other day (Steve Coogan in a great chat with Adam Buxton on YT for anyone who likes them). Two journalists would phone the target at the same time. One kept them talking, the other
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by firmgently 9y ago
Maybe your .swfs need to be embedded in an HTML page to work? If they use external assets referenced by relative URLs the path is relative to the embedding HTML page (this used to cause some confusion). If you really want to get them workin
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by firmgently 9y ago
To play a .swf you can use the standalone Flash Player. A projector is a different thing, it's a special .exe version of the .swf with the Flash Player bundled at compile time . So the concept of using the latest projector to view an
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by firmgently 9y ago
So that means "if the artwork is public domain, a faithful reproduction/photo of it is also public domain". But if the original artwork is not PD it's not covered by that statement. I can imagine a situation where an art
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by firmgently 9y ago
I gave up my flat and moved into a caravan. It's about 75 sq ft and less than 6ft high. Within that is a kitchen (I cook all my own meals, bake bread etc. despite only having gas burners and grill) and a tiny wetroom/bathroom whic
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by firmgently 9y ago
"we'll offer storage plans of 100 GB for $11.99 and 1 TB for $59.99, up to 30 TB for an additional $59.99 per TB"..."At the end of their existing subscription, customers with auto-renew turned on and 1TB or less of data
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by firmgently 9y ago
Projectors don't need to be as high-res as screens, the pixels spread out in the same way as a torch-beam does so you don't get blockiness (and extremely fine resolutions would be lost), and with the applications this would be use
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by firmgently 9y ago
Pretty sure users doing 3D modelling or storm calculations are the smaller group, far more people use office apps and a browser.. one producer serves multiple consumers. Your bubble may be skewed (easily done in Photoshop).
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Infinity doesn't exist(theorangeduck.com)
12 points by firmgently 9y ago|5 comments
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by firmgently 10y ago
"my book, How America Lost Its Secrets: Snowden, the Man and the Theft.".. well that sounds balanced
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by firmgently 10y ago
It's been like this in the UK for ages, now people have to google 'pirate proxy' instead, it's at least 3 extra clicks - when will this horror end...
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by firmgently 10y ago
Do you have other rubber caps to experiment with? In my experience they affect how much force is needed to move the pointer around (my favourite is the concave with the rim as you pull the rim rather than push the side of the dome...I'
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by firmgently 10y ago
It sounds like you're calculating the likelihood of a human evolving in an instant though? Which doesn't need to happen and isn't presumed to have happened here on earth. Intelligent life doesn't have to be like us at a
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by firmgently 10y ago
If you want your client/user/customer to be aware of something you put it on your front page or packaging in plain language and a large, legible font. T&Cs/TOS is where you obfuscate information that you're legally o
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How 'Minority Report' Trapped Us in a World of Bad Interfaces(theawl.com)
138 points by firmgently 10y ago|102 comments
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autoplaying video (warning for those of us with a limited data allowance)
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by firmgently 10y ago
autoplaying video (for those of us on limited data allowances)