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by flir 2y ago
Surely one of the big use-cases for a VPN is that the network you're connected to is untrusted?
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by flir 2y ago
That sounds a lot more fun than Gemini, tbh.
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by flir 2y ago
Inverted pyramid structure is a useful tool. Sometimes it's inappropriate, and ultimately the author is the best judge of this. If you view text composition as a UX problem, it will help you figure out when to use the tool and when not
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by flir 3y ago
What I really want to know: where is it now?
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by flir 3y ago
There's use of meteoric iron from pre-iron-age societies, too (most famously https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tutankhamun%27s_meteoric_iron_... and see "Bronze Age" on this page https://en.wikipe
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by flir 3y ago
My use-case was easier than yours (OCRing scans of microfiche of typewritten pages) but I found this https://github.com/Stirling-Tools/Stirling-PDF incredibly handy. I still had to write a bit of Python, mostly for lev
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by flir 3y ago
looks at 230kg wood lathe mutters darkly My wife practically forced me to get the damn thing. She's not the one that has to get it into the back of the van.
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by flir 3y ago
Lack of a warning is "glorifying" (odd word choice, I'd maybe go with "foregrounding"?) the culture that doesn't need the warning.
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by flir 3y ago
BTW, kudos for presenting your point of view in a hostile forum and holding your own. I should have said that up front.
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by flir 3y ago
No, I think that's fair. Unsympathetic framing, but not inaccurate. It's that whole "information wants to be free" thing.
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by flir 3y ago
Nice.
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by flir 3y ago
Yeah, it's as unsympathetic framing of my position as I can offer. But it's basically the same question as adblockers: Can I do what I want with the 1's and 0's on my own machine? I'm not going to accept that I owe
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by flir 3y ago
I'm not sure how to phrase it except in terms of competing rights, but I take your point. At the point where I'm scraping, the data's on my computer though.
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by flir 3y ago
There's a lot of local history locked up in facebook's nostalgia groups. I want to archive it in an open format. I want to grab new rental listings and put them in an RSS feed, so I only look at each one once. That's my uses
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by flir 3y ago
Speaking for me personally, I've always felt "search my history" should be implemented in the browser, not as an external tool. "Search and save blog posts" seems like a subset of the real problem.
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by flir 3y ago
You could do secants rather than diameters. Just image the surface layers. Although even just the 5km or so to the horizon sounds like a scary amount of energy. How about neutrino imaging? (I thought I was joking, but... https://
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by flir 3y ago
I think I'm going to leave it there.
888.
by flir 3y ago
Why the limit on physical violence? Why's that the universal line in the sand that society should enforce?
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by flir 3y ago
Why do you think they don't?
890.
by flir 3y ago
Bearing in mind we're talking about bullying here, which interventions are going to trample your fundamental civil rights? Unless we're going with a reductio ad absurdum panopticon solution, I can't think of any way in which
891.
by flir 3y ago
50% turnout last time around.
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by flir 3y ago
Desert solar and lax environmental protections? (Just a thought).
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by flir 3y ago
https://www.science.org/content/article/aboriginal-tale-anci... Notable because it's so old, but it gives you an upper bound.
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by flir 3y ago
Reminds me a little of Sir Clive Sinclair's early products - someone who could see what gadgets the future wanted, but didn't quite have the technology to create them (eg the portable "flat-screen" TV with the side-mou
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by flir 3y ago
I see.... t-shirts. Many many t-shirts. Seriously, very cool link.
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by flir 3y ago
In a lot of companies, web sits under marketing...
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by flir 3y ago
Would you like some toast?
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by flir 3y ago
Ignorance is an excuse. But once I'm aware? It seems to me that's the point where I am complicit. Because I could just not eat prawns. "They enslave their children's children, who make compromise with sin" I think a
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by flir 3y ago
No UK supermarket will guarantee their supply chain for prawns (shrimp) is slavery-free. This in no way mitigates anybody else's issues, but that's an issue that I, personally, wish we could solve (and when we're done with th
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by flir 3y ago
I'm reminded of the scene in Lord of War when an arms shipment lands on a dirt road. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kipeOTbUqvk

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