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by fredley 5y ago
Probably because they're so small they're overlooked by the salespeople and lobbyists from the big corps. I imagine that helps a lot. In the UK there are plenty of smart people in Government who can and would build things in a sen
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by fredley 5y ago
I want an offline voice recognition speaker that can do timers and stream audio from my phone, although that's optional to be honest. I wonder how hard making such a thing is.
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by fredley 5y ago
I wonder if the 'Sweet Nothings' scent is even supposed to smell of anything. https://twitter.com/UndeniablyAlex/status/146855520298691789...
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by fredley 5y ago
Orthostatic tolerance, I think, means your ability to stand up without passing out. Basically drinking water means that markers of othostatic intolerance improve dramatically in healthy subjects. https://en.wikipedia.org/wik
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Tibetan woman holding flowers, only they're not, they're Bitcoin mining PSUs(old.reddit.com)
8 points by fredley 5y ago|0 comments
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Devon calls victory in 27-year war on termites(theguardian.com)
157 points by fredley 5y ago|57 comments
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by fredley 5y ago
How long before plastic rots/degrades like wood or other materials?
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by fredley 5y ago
The best example of what modern journalism can (should?) be is Ros Atkins's work on BBC Outside Source. https://twitter.com/BBCRosAtkins/status/1471755622651682816 Brutally factual and to the point.
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by fredley 5y ago
This is something I've pondered many times. It seems inevitable that at some point in the future, plastic will rot and decay as it is consumed by bacteria, the same way wood rots today. The implications of this are far reaching.
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by fredley 5y ago
Assuming life had a single origin—which is the accepted version of events—every organism on earth is your cousin. You have a common ancestor with every bacteria in your gut, and with the the animal, or vegetable, fish or fungus you just ate
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by fredley 5y ago
This is Web1, if anything.
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by fredley 5y ago
So ebooks then? What bad could possibly done by providing free access to public domain works, and access to library schemes?
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by fredley 5y ago
Nobody wanted a smart home. It does not solve any significant need in anybody's life except maybe those with reduced mobility or other impairments. Anything a smart home does beyond a very few things are gimmicks that people quickly ti
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by fredley 5y ago
Not another reverse proxy
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by fredley 5y ago
You can also see him on stage in the West End. Quite the talented chap. https://www.austentatiousimpro.com/cast/
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by fredley 5y ago
I don't know if there's such a thing as good taste, but there is definitely such a thing as bad taste.
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by fredley 5y ago
> They have been selected, by humans, to build flat sheets What? The flat sheets are nothing to do with selection. They are to do with leveraging 'bee space' in the design of hives. Man-made hives include sheets of scaffold at
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by fredley 5y ago
I wonder how long it will be before async lambdas are a thing, as in you can yield while awaiting a response - avoiding this issue.
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by fredley 5y ago
I have had a long-term phobia of needles. This is excacerbated by the fact that I'm usually in some sort of stressful situation at the point at which a needle is being put into me: be it a part of a diagnosis with thoughts racing about
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by fredley 5y ago
Factorio does a great job of modelling some failure modes of scaling systems. For example, your train bus smelting depot is fantastic until you suddenly realise you have train throughput issues and need to completely rethink your rail archi
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by fredley 5y ago
If you're looking for remote work (UK/EU) I can highly recommend my employer, Prolific. A business run with compassion as a fundamental. I've never enjoyed my work more. Drop me a message if you'd like to talk more.
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Raft Consensus Protocol(consul.io)
134 points by fredley 5y ago|51 comments
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by fredley 5y ago
An insider told me that their internal secret store became overloaded, which caused every other service to suddenly fail to have access to any credentials.
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by fredley 5y ago
It's tough to get, it doesn't just grow on trees.
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by fredley 5y ago
Someone at the facial recognition company persuaded someone at the school that it would help cut bullying as smart cards can be stolen, faces cannot (so easily).
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by fredley 5y ago
Do something different. I program web backends mostly, but something about fiddling with an Arduino is a totally different thing and I can enjoy it as a completely separate activity.
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by fredley 5y ago
I feel like there needs to be a way to control system volume made out of e.g. a webcam checkbox filter.
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by fredley 5y ago
Surely being a life hack is a property of a solution, not of a question? What on earth questions are they inviting here?
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Pakistan took YouTube offline–how to ensure it never happens again (2008)(cnet.com)
1 points by fredley 5y ago|0 comments
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by fredley 5y ago
I got a free Google Home puck with some purchase a while ago. The only thing I've used it for is setting timers in the kitchen, which it's quite well suited for as it's genuinely useful to be able to do this hands-free, and t

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