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by greggsy 4y ago
I use Siri for mundane things. Horses for courses. For music though, I prefer browsing through a playlist or artist discogs. Recalling a track from memory and requesting an assistant to play it isn’t very intuitive. Siri aside, I’m very muc
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by greggsy 4y ago
I like poking around with these sorts of sandboxes, but in order to gamify it, you might need some objectives, limitations and planning goals, eg: - you have a limited amount of some mineral or rock that erodes quicker or slower than others
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by greggsy 4y ago
Related, there’s an awesome tool [1] created for the SDR crowd for decoding captures of 433mhz signals, which really deserves an award for open source design and is a genuine public service. I’ve used this to identify and reverse engineer g
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by greggsy 4y ago
I have a lot of respect for Professor Tim Flannery - he’s a great science communicator and hosted a heap of shows in the early 2000’s. He fronted a parliamentary hearing on climate change some time around 2010, where a heroic Liberal minist
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by greggsy 4y ago
I put something like this together to collect transcripts for uni videos. It’s dumps all transcripts into a directory, with URL links, so I can just search the whole directory to find the keyword I need. Helped a lot with take home exams.
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by greggsy 4y ago
The threat exclusion is usually a very effective deterrent
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by greggsy 4y ago
Was the whole planet 4-4.5 degrees cooler, or on average?
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by greggsy 4y ago
I’ve read that sloths we’re responsible for spreading avocado seeds, but it makes me wonder whether those seeds were always that large?
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by greggsy 4y ago
Margaret Thatcher did this in the 80’s to help identify who was leaking cabinet documents to the press. I recall a story about Jobs tracking down leakers in his own executive suite by telling each of them a slightly different things in priv
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by greggsy 4y ago
Actually, it must have been Dark Reader. Heaving black / white flashing and reloads.
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by greggsy 4y ago
Major epilepsy warning on iOS Safari btw
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by greggsy 4y ago
It’s not practical to subscribe to security feeds for every OSS project. Keeping in touch with the tech community is a valid alternative, in combination with patching best practice.
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by greggsy 4y ago
It’s the main reason why I spend more time here than Reddit. You’re almost guaranteed to get some thoughtful responses instead of the usual memes or hilariously witty and clever quips.
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by greggsy 4y ago
Except the Tuna have are usually able to get away unharmed after showing their hand to the shark.
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by greggsy 4y ago
I have a couple of these hooked into an rpi zero to monitor soil moisture under my house. They work, but wireless would be much better.
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by greggsy 4y ago
Exactly - they’re not constrained by the same four-ish year terms held in most democratic countries, and are able to play out twenty- and even fifty-year scenarios without too much domestic uncertainty. That strategy manifests in that slow
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by greggsy 4y ago
18,000… wow. Did that actually materialise? http://minimsft.blogspot.com/2014/07/18000-microsoft-jobs-go...
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by greggsy 4y ago
File handling and structure is simple from a software design perspective, but Markdown is still infinitely more complicated than Word for most people. “Just type a hash in front of anything you want to be a heading”… wouldn’t fare well in t
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by greggsy 4y ago
I disagree that they’re low friction. When I open up Obsidian, I’m presented with a relatively cluttered interface, and need to select a location to place the note. In Notes, I just need to start a new note and type.
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by greggsy 4y ago
I saw some kind of apeal around this time last year and moved to Obsidian. I’ve been trying to move back to Notes recently. Obsidian become messy quickly: the temptation to try new ways of working just ended up doing my head in. Some people
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by greggsy 4y ago
I don’t think number 2 is at play here - the use of Indian hackers-for-hire has been topical in the cyber security industry recently.
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by greggsy 4y ago
Incidents and stories related to Indian hackers-for-hire have been rising in the past couple of years. A few companies have built a workable model out of it. It’s relevant context from the cyber security industry perspective, tangentially r
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by greggsy 4y ago
I‘m assuming the German government wouldn’t be able to compel them to turn over their private key, but they could certainly make it very clear that they would jeopardise any future contracts if they refused to cooperate.
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by greggsy 4y ago
Crown-of-thorns starfish, on the other hand, are a very serious problem in Australia
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by greggsy 4y ago
> Or if any human would be brave enough to drive one. From the perspective of being that close to being fried, or with respect to the acceleration? To be honest though, I still think it’s amazing that people casually handle extremely fla
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by greggsy 4y ago
> You can even check this yourself today. As much as I would love to be able to do this, I’m unsure where to start, and while I’m certain there would be a stackoverflow community for it, I wouldn’t even know what to ask. I know this soun
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by greggsy 4y ago
Did you speak directly with or survey users and landlords? Reddit doesn’t offer a great deal of confidence as research tool (it’s a start though).
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by greggsy 4y ago
Airbnb’s killer feature today is brand recognition, which helps renters and landlords recall the name of the marketplace. In many cities, you can get exactly the same room on other sites, and many are literally hotel rooms you might find on
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by greggsy 4y ago
No offence, but that sounds like lazy query design, poor architecture, or both.
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by greggsy 4y ago
Interesting - initially, I bought that the explosion might have been caused by the magnetic field, like an arc, not the other way around.

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