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by franky47 7y ago
I found my favourite style for coding without thinking [1] is progressive rock/metal. My favourite bands of the moment are Haken, Devin Townsend, Liquid Tension Experiment, Steven Wilson (et al). Also aptly named is French band The Alg
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See also Framasoft [1] which has a collection of self-hostable free software services to replace most of Google (and other walled garden companies) products. [1] https://framasoft.org/en/
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your* ?
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I agree that the technical requirements for transmission are very different than in a professional audio context. What I meant is that, once the signal has been acquired, there could be some additional processing to make it "sound bett
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Are there companies/projects that are working on cleaning up radio signals like that in real-time with digital signal processing ? I used to work in the music industry, where there are many other real-time processing tools that can be
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by franky47 7y ago
LinkedIn. Edit: for those of you who read French, I recommend the "Disruptive Humans of LinkedIn" Twitter account [1], where OP's bullshit detector would shine like a beacon. [1] https://twitter.com/Disruptive
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I've been using Mapbox for client and personal projects, and so far it's been great but I'd like to give Leaflet a try (for the sake of less dependence on commercial companies for personal non-profit projects), anybody here w
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> EU is good at keeping peace the last few decades The Bosnians would beg to differ on this point [1]. It was not so long ago, and yet it all started on very similar terms as Brexit: the breaking of Yugoslavia into multiple parts who wan
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by franky47 7y ago
Some quick links: - Repository: https://github.com/hankchizljaw/modern-css-reset#readme - NPM: https://www.npmjs.com/package/modern-css-reset - Article on DEV: https://dev.to/hankc
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A Modern CSS Reset(hankchizljaw.com)
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The fact that Facebook is behind it reminds me of Nolan Sorrento's desire to increase advertising space in the Oasis [1]. [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KpPE85Jogjw
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by franky47 7y ago
> I'd expect the bar to preserve any specific content to be a lot lower than what we had in the past. At the moment, I agree. However, as older civilizations rose and fell, their knowledge lived on in physical support, directly acce
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by franky47 7y ago
One major difference between reading on the web though is the mutability of the support. Content can change without notice, or simply disappear (though this has parallels with physical books). I find the point of durability interesting, on
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by franky47 7y ago
Zero Downtime is a paying option provided by PACE (makers of the iLok and the copy protection software) for extended support if one loses their licenses. It covers a broken/lost/stolen iLok, not sure how it would fit in this case.
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by franky47 7y ago
Neat ! If you are looking for ways to monetize the idea, take a look at what dweet [1] did: you pay to get exclusive R/W rights over a "box". [1] https://dweet.io/locks
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by franky47 7y ago
Finding out that Russia is just as wide as Africa is tall was a nice surprise as well.
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Picture of the complete galactic plane (2018)(apod.nasa.gov)
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No it's located in a mountain near Konjic, between Mostar and Sarajevo. It now serves as a modern art gallery and a museum to the cold war. The place is very well preserved, as the bunker's HVAC unit has been running since the 60&
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by franky47 7y ago
The sad reality is that they probably are able to buy their way of of this. I was visiting Tito's bunker in Bosnia last week, and to think it was ok to build a multi-billion dollar facility to hold only 350 politicians and VIPs in case
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by franky47 7y ago
I wish they made it more clear what part of the API usage policy has been abused by Relive, for other who depend on the Strava API (like me) to learn from the experience.
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Strava ends integration with Relive due to API terms violation(support.strava.com)
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No amount of security features can rival a small piece of black tape over the camera. It also makes crypto-phishing (you've been recorded doing X, pay Y BTC) much harder to fall for. Where software could (and eventually will) be compro
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by franky47 7y ago
I can relate. However these days I have found a new life for those abandoned Pis: I install Pi-Hole [1] on them and set them up for family and close friends. [1] https://pi-hole.net/
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But then a lucrative business of selling upvotes would be created for people willing to pay (usually businesses) to promote their content. And that's SEO all over again. I initially believed the "O" in SEO was misleading, as
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If they start with a shebang like `#!/usr/bin/env bash` indicating which shell they are written in, it should be fine.
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Ignoring the topic will not make the problem go away. As for cows, the biggest source of methane emission in livestock comes from belching rather than farts. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Environmental_impact_of_meat_p.
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> Even doing it on a CLI doesn't help since the server might deliver something else to the browser. That is indeed one of the hurdles I encountered, ideally the browser itself should be in charge of verifying these claims (resource
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> The issue with client-side, in-browser encryption is that you cannot audit or trust the software. I agree. A few months ago I experimented on ways [1] to automate side-channel verification of JS bundles (and other built assets) while l
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by franky47 7y ago
While the technical side of the news is interesting, the organisational repercussions worry me. Microsoft (who owns GitHub) is already one of the largest tech companies, and I would not be surprised if this move was intended to weaken NPM a
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by franky47 7y ago
The fact that delivery requires moving a couple of tons of vehicle to deliver at most 50kg of packages is where the problem lies. Larger delivery vehicles will obviously be required for remote locations and logistics, but for edge delivery

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