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by frereubu 3y ago
Google Maps satellite view: https://maps.app.goo.gl/hfQpWZVQRj22Avsd6 You can really see the flatlands around them and why they'd be a refuge in times of flooding.
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Facebook Is Filled with AI-Generated Garbage–and Older Adults Are Being Tricked(thedailybeast.com)
31 points by frereubu 3y ago|11 comments
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by frereubu 3y ago
The funny thing that's been happening in the UK about Low Traffic Neighbourhoods (LTNs) is that there's been lots of press about them being unpopular, driven to a large extent by the current Conservative government who seem to be
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Failed American Startups: The Pony Express and Pets.com(3quarksdaily.com)
2 points by frereubu 3y ago|0 comments
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by frereubu 3y ago
The NHS in the UK recommends everyone takes vitamin D supplements in autumn and winter, but says "Do not take more than 100 micrograms (4,000 IU) of vitamin D a day as it could be harmful." and talks specifically about the risk of
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by frereubu 3y ago
I think the argument is more along the lines of "if you look after the pennies, the pounds look after themselves," not the slight straw man of "every single little accessibility improvement benefits every single user." I
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by frereubu 3y ago
I'm a Brit who can squat too, and I think it has quite a bit to do with not weather shoes at home and wearing "barefoot" shoes / zero-drop trainers outside. I have a hunch that it's lengthened my calf muscles and ac
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by frereubu 3y ago
Thanks for this. Funny that it's not on my Games page (I'm an NYT Games subscriber) unlike, I think, Connections, which was shown on that page with a "beta" flag.
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by frereubu 3y ago
I think the point would be if you could replace ~8 hours of sleep with ~1-2 hours of meditation. I very much doubt it's a like-for-like replacement, but it might go some way to reducing the need for full sleep, e.g. 2 hours meditating
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by frereubu 3y ago
Although GP's comment feels like needless semantic nickpicking, what you've said isn't true: "Censorship can be conducted by governments, private institutions, and other controlling bodies." https://en.wi
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Why Birds Are Smart(sciencedirect.com)
4 points by frereubu 3y ago|1 comments
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by frereubu 3y ago
There's a fantastic series of podcasts on great essays by David Runciman from the London Review of Books, which aren't always the ones you'd expect given the authors: Michel de Montaigne, "Essays": https:/&#x2
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by frereubu 3y ago
He's talking about this article: https://www.engadget.com/uk-government-wants-to-use-ai-to-cu...
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by frereubu 3y ago
Depends on your audience. One of the things that stuck in my mind from my sculpture degree was a tutor's contention that plenty of (visual) artists produce "things that look like art" but aren't worthy of the name. Subje
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by frereubu 3y ago
Thanks, will take a look.
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by frereubu 3y ago
Do you have a source for that? I'd be interested to read more, because there are similar statistics that only count the percentage collected, not the percentage actually recycled. e.g. there's quite a bit of "mixed" recy
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by frereubu 3y ago
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by frereubu 3y ago
My accountant directed me to https://moneyfactscompare.co.uk/savings-accounts/ which I've used quite a bit over the years. Haven't compared it to other comparison sites, but it seems to be pretty good for mos
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by frereubu 3y ago
The use of hamburger menus on desktop is one of my pet peeves. I get that it's simpler to manage across the vast number of properties that an organisation like Google has, but it's a really suboptimal use of space. Ditto the fact
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by frereubu 3y ago
Which password manager do you use? I use 1Password and the split username / password Google logins work fine for me, and from another sibling comment it sounds like Bitwarden does too.
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by frereubu 3y ago
Oh, thanks! I'll take a look at that.
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by frereubu 3y ago
I'm a republican, but this is an infinitesimally small drop in the ocean of public finances: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Government_spending_in_the_Uni...
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by frereubu 3y ago
Yeah, I think that's just because Elizabeth II reigned for such a long time. As they said in the post, hers was a change from the one her father used.
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by frereubu 3y ago
I don't see that option in Settings > Chats on my iPhone. What device are you using?
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by frereubu 3y ago
> The two main parties are virtually identical at this point Below is a counterpoint to this idea, which I think is captured well in the first line, "Petrified fucking terror. That's the first thing you think when you look at L
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by frereubu 3y ago
This guy is way ahead of you: https://www.wired.com/2012/02/headless-chicken-solution/ I imagine the meat would be pretty tasteless though.
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by frereubu 3y ago
As I said elsewhere in the comments here, I didn't like the xxx.xxx@fastmail.com format of masked emails because if you're using a custom domain and you have 200 logins using masked email addresses, then want to change your email
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by frereubu 3y ago
Thanks. I find Fastmail a little worse than Google in terms of spam, but that could just be fluctuations in the amount of spam in general after changing service. (I'm noticing more spam in my work email recently, which uses Google Work
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by frereubu 3y ago
I tried this, but the thing I didn't like about it was that it ties you into Fastmail. I like using a custom domain so it's relatively easy to change your email provider, but masked emails are in the format xxx.xxx@fastmail.com so
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by frereubu 3y ago
And did you find you got much spam to non-existent addresses? I used to use a catch-all setup, and got a large amount of spam, but that must have been 25ish years ago.

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