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How Anna Delvey Tricked New York's Party People(thecut.com)
4 points by fredley 8y ago|0 comments
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by fredley 8y ago
Induction is great for cooking, but the controls on every hob I've used drive me mad. Can anyone find/recommend an induction hob with zero touch controls?
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by fredley 8y ago
The amount of high level research-and cool new results-that continue to be found in GoL is amazing.
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by fredley 8y ago
I agree with this, and hope that it will cause innovation on both points. I know there are a lot of regulation-phobes on here, but good regulation is a driver of (good) innovation, as opposed to further innovation in fields like spying on c
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by fredley 8y ago
Flash was a wonderful era for the web. It's sad that nothing equivalent ever really came along to replace it.
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Mississippi River Basin Model(en.wikipedia.org)
57 points by fredley 8y ago|12 comments
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by fredley 8y ago
No, the Age Verification system (recently delayed[1]) is compulsory that porn sites must implement to be able to trade in the UK. It requires that they perform age verification on everyone accessing the site from the UK. This verification w
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by fredley 8y ago
> “VPNhub is free and unlimited, anonymous and easy to use, [...] a good number of [people] use [VPNs] to circumvent and bypass restrictions to access adult content. It only makes sense that they use Pornhub’s.” So wait, as a UK citizen
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by fredley 8y ago
The University of Cambridge has a Phillips machine that works, if you're lucky it's even possible to get a demonstration. Here's a video of a demo given in 2010: https://sms.cam.ac.uk/media/1094078 One i
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by fredley 8y ago
This is overcomplicating the underlying truth: in the US and other places we have representatives that are not representative.
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by fredley 8y ago
To counter this: that's exactly what someone with relatively little experience would say!
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by fredley 8y ago
To counter that argument: with age comes experience. People who are 65 have witnessed a huge amount more history than people who are 35. They have seen the cycles of the World turn more times, they have more understanding of human nature an
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by fredley 8y ago
Chiming in because this book saved me too. Step one (as prescribed in the book) is to get thoroughly medically checked out. If a physical cause cannot be found, try this. Doing the free course on the TMS wiki sorted out my problem within a
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by fredley 8y ago
Moof!
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by fredley 8y ago
Windows certainly has more undiscovered Windows/Driver exploits in it than Stuxnet ever had!
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by fredley 8y ago
I can imagine a few people couldn't get into their AirBnBs or whatever until the host schlepped across town, probably ruining their day. But yes, that's the risk of relying on a system as unreliable as the internet for such a task
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by fredley 8y ago
On the one hand, expecting your remote-controlled lock to work all the time (as in 100% uptime) is unfeasible, since it is impossible to achieve 100% uptime. Almost everyone buying a smart lock probably expected it to have 100% uptime tho
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by fredley 8y ago
Good products "for people with disabilities" are often just good products full stop. Take for example Good Grips[1], a brand of cookware and kitchen tools. Initially designed as specifically for the elderly and people who otherwis
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by fredley 8y ago
The difference is between creating a hammer, and creating a hammer specifically for the purpose of efficiently killing humans.
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by fredley 8y ago
A tip from me, based on a mistake I made yesterday: don't `source ~/.bash_history` instead of `~/.bash_profile`. (Luckily it entered vim relatively soon, from where I could kill the process).
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by fredley 8y ago
If you're scared by this robotic dog, don't start thinking about quad-copter style drones too hard!
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by fredley 8y ago
A custom layer built on top of Celery that allows for better monitoring and dependency management, amongst other things. Monitoring, particularly of failure is pretty ok in Celery anyway. The whole thing can generate its own graph by inspec
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by fredley 8y ago
They don't get 'disposed of'. Whenever there are large excavations it's a planning requirement to turn the site over to archaeologists first, who can find anything that's to be found before it's dug out. E.g.,
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by fredley 8y ago
There's a lot of history, but there's also a lot of low-mid rise cheap postwar developments (built on bomb sites) that are overdue for replacement.
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by fredley 8y ago
Most recently How Not to be a Boy , by Robert Webb (of Mitchell and Webb, Peep Show fame). An autobiography of his childhood and early career, but also observed through the lens of how masculinity's cultural demands damage men, and th
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by fredley 8y ago
Absolutely not. This is Facebook basically goading the EU by obviously flouting the rules.
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Facebook now denying access unless EU users opt-in to tracking(twitter.com)
284 points by fredley 8y ago|359 comments
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by fredley 8y ago
What fresh hell is this transition tool? It goes through a few weird, semi/non-styled authentication pages on a variety of domains (e.g. withgoogle.com). It uses non-standard animations that look broken. The whole things is a disaster
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by fredley 9y ago
I had no idea these were photography, I always assumed they were renders.
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by fredley 9y ago
Yup. I did a Sleepio course that had a good trick for this: Remember that you've got through every single day after a bad night's sleep before just fine. Even if you don't sleep a single moment, you'll get through the da

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