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by fredley 7y ago
[UK] Not me but my partner—classical music. Almost everyone is freelance, and everyone has had all their gigs cancelled for the next few months, leaving a lot of people for whom strings were tight to begin with in complete limbo. Performers
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by fredley 7y ago
This is the only reason I can think of for still using this interview technique.
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by fredley 7y ago
This is extremely dismissive. You don't want to live in a world where none of the people building things have CS degrees.
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Coronavirus – What we’re doing and how you can help in simple terms(foldingathome.org)
26 points by fredley 7y ago|7 comments
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Coronavirus in HK: High Risk Areas(wars.vote4.hk)
2 points by fredley 7y ago|0 comments
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by fredley 7y ago
I recently switched to Aegis, it's so much better, and open source[0]. Crucially it has biometric encryption, and import/export so switching to a new device isn't a horrific ordeal. It also has some great QoL features like cu
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by fredley 7y ago
Short answer: if you bought it in the UK, it contains flame retardants. By law all soft furnishing must be treated with flame retardant chemicals in order to be eligible for sale.
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BBC Micro Bot – Runs your tweet on an 8-bit computer emulator(twitter.com)
5 points by fredley 7y ago|1 comments
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by fredley 7y ago
Yes! This has been done for beetles with similar artwork: https://www.cunicode.com/works/confusing-coleopterists
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by fredley 7y ago
Got to the Namespace portion and couldn't help thinking "Namespaces are one honking great idea—let's do more of those!"
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by fredley 7y ago
This is an annoying downside of dark mode, which I tend to have enabled on everything all the time: Favicons often don't look good (github, circleci...). Also many slack emoji don't show up. I don't know if there's a goo
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by fredley 7y ago
From everything I've read 99% of wildlife photography is waiting.
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by fredley 7y ago
I wonder if, or when computing will be superceded as the main driver of innovation. In 1950 computers existed but you couldn't have guessed that computation and the innovations derived from it would eat the World. What exists today tha
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by fredley 7y ago
Lings Cars is a stone cold classic. I love introducing it to product designers for the first time. She's been running a successful business since 2004 with this site.
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by fredley 7y ago
Dinner for One: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dinner_for_One
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by fredley 7y ago
The illustrator could have made more of a point about quite how exponentially wider each lower layer of the pyramid is compared to the layers above.
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by fredley 7y ago
The Manager Tools podcast is a good guide to learn management skills.
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by fredley 7y ago
Find hot fires in your area
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by fredley 7y ago
Can you explain in more detail? captcha.nsa.goving for more information didn't return anything.
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by fredley 7y ago
That's actually a really viable theory, especially given the "can't search for traceroute" thing - that spits out what seems to be a time-based error string.
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by fredley 7y ago
Can someone explain what's going on? Is this a domain hack to get Google's captcha working under an nsa.gov hostname, presumably so that it's usable on whitelist firewalls? I'm surprised Google serves a homepage to the d
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by fredley 7y ago
For me the worst impact on sleep came from warring packs of stray dogs.
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by fredley 7y ago
It's you against a whole bunch of bright, motivated, and very smart people trying to keep you commenting, clicking, and getting involved. It's not that easy.
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by fredley 7y ago
Part of the problem is that social platforms online are built around heavily optimising for engagement. Content that gets engagement must be better, so it gets promoted more heavily, and algorithms show you personally the content it thinks
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by fredley 7y ago
I agree with you that the job that Yglu is trying to do would be much better done (and a hell of a lot more readable) as Python code.
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by fredley 7y ago
What is this for? YAML in my experience is used for writing and maintaining config at some supposed sweet-spot between human-readable and machine-readable structure. In my experience also, YAML is already too feature-laden for it's own
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by fredley 7y ago
There's a living wall by Old Street roundabout (on a WeWork no less!) that's survived the first year ok. https://goo.gl/maps/X5h4qrwHQZcmFAxa7 It's grown in a bit since the Streetview was taken, and is s
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by fredley 7y ago
> Fully open to the public Probably end up like the top floor of the walkie talkie. It's free to visit, but you need to book a ticket for a specific time well in advance (if you're visiting London it's a better visit than
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by fredley 7y ago
Make open APIs, not scrapers.
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by fredley 7y ago
Can someone ELI5 how these numbers fit together? It costs me $3/hr to 51% DeepOnion, which has a market cap of $1.95M. In practical terms, what does that mean?

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