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by grumblepeet 5y ago
My partner’s great uncle Perce was on that expedition, he was a stowaway and eventually became carpenter and cook. He adopted the ships cat who was called ‘Mrs Chippy’ because it followed him everywhere (chippy being slang for carpenter).
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by grumblepeet 5y ago
I did a deep dive analysis on the article 'On Having Enough Socks' ( https://www.gwern.net/Socks ) which on the surface is a great tale anyway and a recommended read but when I broke it apart and re-wrote and put it
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by grumblepeet 5y ago
I've tried it. One crucial bit of this software is the ability to make chains of cards/items easily so as to link ideas together. They are called 'note sequences' in the app and they can be viewed in the Outliner. There
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by grumblepeet 5y ago
Can definitely recommend Tiddlywiki. Ive just spent several weeks implementing a mini ZettelKasten using Tiddlywiki. It is created in 'exploded' mode in NodeJS and then a script runs to re-assemble it into a single html file (with
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by grumblepeet 5y ago
I work for an edtech organisation in the UK and I was poached internally by the cloud team. I was in an internal facing role running the team that looked after M365 and the Power Platform stuff, and the customer facing cloud team poached me
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by grumblepeet 5y ago
I did not know that you could make polls on HN and I’m also 5 karma points short of being able to make them. Besides that, I don’t think that I would make polls here, I value the good story links posted and the insightful replies, and often
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by grumblepeet 5y ago
Did you know that Flickr actually started out as an online multiplayer game, with file sharing as one if its features. The game flopped, but the file sharing bit was redeveloped into Flickr. Some of the files used to have .GNE in their url&
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by grumblepeet 5y ago
Yes just checked earlier when I saw activity here. Ive actually been getting reports for a few days about accounts being in a breach from iOS and Google and I have diligently changed my passwords. Then looked at the old Evernote account and
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by grumblepeet 5y ago
I might be overreacting but if it’s true then it’s bad. Ive Been getting reports from my devices that all my accounts had been leaked in a data breach and I was thinking whaaa? What all of them? Wait a minute! Some of which I had generated
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by grumblepeet 5y ago
It's a shame the article didn't even mention the UK's National Quantum Computing Centre. Not a very well researched article tbh. https://www.nqcc.ac.uk Edit: I should mention that this place is at Harwell. I work
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The next giant leap: why Boris Johnson wants to ‘go big’ on quantum computing(theguardian.com)
1 points by grumblepeet 5y ago|1 comments
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by grumblepeet 5y ago
More details in the linked PDF of the software used. https://webinfo.uk/webdocssl/irse-kbase/ref-viewer.aspx?refn...
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by grumblepeet 5y ago
When I started reading this I thought it looked familiar. I remembered reading this years, ago, and sure enough the article is from 2012, so needs a (2012) after the title.
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by grumblepeet 5y ago
There is a mobile client that works excellently called Quine 2. Ive been using it for a couple of years with a mobile accessed Tiddlywiki personal wiki and it works pretty good. I keep the file on iCloud and can open it from desktop and mob
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by grumblepeet 5y ago
Not a business ~ we’re in Edtech but we produce apps, micro apps really, mostly served up embedded in Microsoft Teams for such tasks as desk and room bookings for example, created Using Microsoft PowerApps. We also use their AI builder tool
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by grumblepeet 5y ago
Surprised that nobody has noticed that the “a” - with a tiny riser - is used in Roman version of many typefaces and the other “a” is used in the italic version of the font. See this article for more information on that https://cr
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by grumblepeet 5y ago
I had (still have!) two Zenit E’s. Both were given to me for free - as is the way with Zenits - one in 1976 by a friend, and the other in 2004 by my father. Both of them still work and under the right conditions take great photos. The lense
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by grumblepeet 6y ago
Max Miller on YouTube’s Tasting History channel did a recipe with modern replacements. It was allegedly an aphrodisiac so could be popular if a specimen could be found... https://youtu.be/D-QHd4_1geE
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by grumblepeet 6y ago
This is what happens when you don’t dispose of your records correctly.
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by grumblepeet 6y ago
Agreed. I used to drop my son up to Hereford from Bristol and often took this scenic route. It’s an absolutely beautiful road with great scenery. When you come around the corner and get hit by the sight and sheer size of the ruined church e
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by grumblepeet 6y ago
I was telling a friend what a treasure Irving Finkel is, and she turned around and said “He’s my uncle”. England can be a small country sometimes.
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by grumblepeet 6y ago
I recommend checking out TiddlyWiki Desktop as a mechanism for managing lots of wikis. I save my files to iCloud and sync that way between devices. I us Quine2 on the iPhone to open the files there. Also worth checking out Anne-Laure Le Cun
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by grumblepeet 6y ago
There is also Richard Browning in the UK: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EAJM5L9hhBs
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by grumblepeet 6y ago
I once bought a doughnut (raspberry Jam filling) that stayed on top of my PC at work for ~15 years or so. It shrank a tiny bit and went rock solid, but otherwise remained unchanged from the day it was “born” until I left UWE. Apparently the
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by grumblepeet 6y ago
Microsoft's announcement here: https://powerapps.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/introducing-micro... is a rebranding of their Common Data Service.
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Microsoft Dataflex Pro launched despite existing trademark owned by DAW(support.dataaccess.com)
3 points by grumblepeet 6y ago|2 comments
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by grumblepeet 7y ago
And all email into Office 365. Gets pulled into a sandboxed environment where items such as pdfs, in fact all attachments, are ‘exploded’ and all the links investigated ie executed and checked for malicious end points or payloads. I was in
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by grumblepeet 7y ago
Same here. Loss of estradiol makes me feel like I'm falling off a cliff. There was a shortage of estradiol here in the UK lately (due to Brexit mostly) and I ran out for a few days and went into a panic. The last time I ran out previou
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by grumblepeet 7y ago
I could have used this today. I was travelling up a single track road near Glastonbury in Somerset when I came across a very large camper van stuck blocking the entire road. There was nothing else for it but for me to reverse for 1/4 m
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by grumblepeet 7y ago
Looks like a good game, all you need are some dice and a couple of counters.

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