fredley

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by fredley 8y ago
I created a room, but I wasn't asked to set a name on creation, nor can I change it (seems broken). Also I have no idea how to actually invite anyone else to chat with me... https://groupchat.kenforthewin.com/t/b00
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by fredley 8y ago
> look how much effort my slaves are putting in to keeping you comfortable This attitude is pervasive still, in many areas of modern life - not just amongst the billionaire class where it's very much unchanged from the post: extrava
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by fredley 8y ago
According to The Meaning of Liff , I have always thought of this as "Woking". http://tmoliff.blogspot.com/2012/06/woking-participial-vb.ht...
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by fredley 8y ago
The reason github's mascot is Octocat is because of octopus merges! http://cameronmcefee.com/work/the-octocat/
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by fredley 8y ago
I assume you'd expose it to gradually increasing air pressure on launch somehow.
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by fredley 8y ago
You can for a lot less than $1bn/mile. Crossrail was ~£200m/mile. Even the Channel Tunnel, under the sea, was £300m/mile. Those prices are all inclusive , so that includes building stations, rolling stock etc. Also unlike ol
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by fredley 8y ago
Anecdata: I was shopping for a birthday card recently, and Frida Kahlo is everywhere at the moment. Her image has been fully commoditised, so you'll find stylised pictures of it on almost anything. Her image is becoming as ubiquitous
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by fredley 8y ago
If your depression is serious, and it's preventing you from living your life, or if you're feeling suicidal, see a doctor or call a hotline. Now. If you have mild depression, or want to not get depressed in the first place, I&#x27
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by fredley 8y ago
Isn't this just PO Boxes? I don't know if they exist elsewhere, but they're very much a thing in the UK: https://www.royalmail.com/business/services/receiving/safety...
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by fredley 8y ago
I agree entirely. It's the achilles heel of an otherwise brilliant product. Sugru is something I would occasionally need and benefit from, however keeping some on hand is not possible.
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by fredley 8y ago
This is what bummed me out about it most when I tried it. I had to buy a pack of 6 (maybe smaller sizes are available now), when I wanted to use half of one. The rest was all waste.
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by fredley 8y ago
I'm ~750 hours deep, doing a SeaBlock run. I've never found a game with quite so much depth as Factorio.
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by fredley 8y ago
I had never heard of Octopus merges, and wondered if they're the reason why the GitHub mascot is Octocat. Turns out they are! http://cameronmcefee.com/work/the-octocat/
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by fredley 8y ago
Taking paracetamol won't cure my flu, it just alleviates the symptoms. Doesn't mean I'm not going to take it.
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by fredley 8y ago
This is good. Old wood should die off, so new growth can replace it.
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by fredley 8y ago
AFAIK the limit is on AirBnB's site directly. Your account is limited until you provide documents from the council. I don't know to what extent people are forging these documents though.
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by fredley 8y ago
This is the approach taken in London: Anyone can AirBnB their property, but only for 90 days a year, unless you have special permission. This prevents people buying up/renting flats just to let them out on AirBnB and putting pressure o
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Adobe Flash Zero-Day Leveraged for Targeted Attack in Middle East(icebrg.io)
1 points by fredley 8y ago|0 comments
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New Daily Mail Editor to be Pro-Remain Geordie Greig(theguardian.com)
1 points by fredley 8y ago|0 comments
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by fredley 8y ago
Can you really build an AI that can identify bad guys? What if it's a good guy in the wrong uniform?
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by fredley 8y ago
The DLR is GoA 4. It wasn't exactly smooth sailing at first: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mwruoagYq0U
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by fredley 8y ago
We have this system on a few lines in London now. The only job now for the train 'drivers' is to open and close the doors and the platform. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automation_of_the_London_Under...
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by fredley 8y ago
Really? I'd suspect not. Call me a skeptic, but I suspect we'll get some token admissions/actions until the heat's off, then they'll be back to their old ways. The attitude to data is thoroughly baked into the whole
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by fredley 8y ago
Jukedeck[1] can produce some interesting results that are a little more harmonically interesting than a lot of simpler systems. 1: https://www.jukedeck.com/
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by fredley 8y ago
And men. Although cancer is usually referred to by its location, this is actually much less relevant to its treatment than the type of cancer it is. Although men only get breast cancer rarely, this treatment method will be applicable to man
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by fredley 8y ago
Microsoft has been setting a very (almost unthinkably) different course since Ballmer departed. Bash on Windows, Visual Studio Code, as well as other seemingly genuine commitments to open source. It's wonderful that competitors like Gi
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by fredley 8y ago
Why does the Tor Browser Bundle ship with HTTPS Everywhere? Surely if you're connected through a Tor circuit, HTTPS provides no extra security?
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Yore Computer(twitter.com)
2 points by fredley 8y ago|0 comments
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by fredley 8y ago
I had no idea the disparity between the US and Russian economies was so huge!
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by fredley 8y ago
Seems like there's a gap in the market for an 'ad-free unless I sell out for $1m' image hosting site.

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