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by haser_au 7y ago
It's an add-on you can choose for cars, if you want to. A lot of service vehicles in Australia have 2 batteries for this reason. 1 for the vehicle, the second for chargers (USB, DC, etc), routers, fridges, cameras, etc.
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by haser_au 7y ago
Haha, gold.
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by haser_au 7y ago
An overwhelming number of options or choices can actually be a source of anxiety, rather than giving you freedom to choose. Imagine walking into a foreign supermarket, and having 100 different brands of peanut butter, none of which you reco
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by haser_au 7y ago
This may work against you, especially if Bloomsbury Publishing issues an infringement notice to Facebook. In that scenario, Facebook need to place your account on 'legal hold', retaining the account and history indefinitely while
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by haser_au 7y ago
I still remember trying to clean my mouse ball between rounds. The dread you feel being in CT spawn, with your ball in your hand and a T coming around the corner...
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by haser_au 7y ago
From my very vague memory, Reader Rabbit was one such game that was unplayable at a higher CPU frequency.
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by haser_au 8y ago
Shell has a legal obligation to make money for shareholders. Shareholders are divesting from fossil fuel companies because (a) they're too high risk, and (b) shareholders want a greener future. That's all it comes down to. https:
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by haser_au 8y ago
Security through obscurity should be long dead by now. If the only thing stopping people from damaging these assets is their 'secret' location, we have a big problem.
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by haser_au 8y ago
The 'Peel Smart Remote' app came pre-installed on my old Samsung S6, and it did the same thing. Lock screen ads and everything. https://fossbytes.com/peel-remote-use-remove-smart-remote/ https://ww
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by haser_au 8y ago
Get your mind in the gutter
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by haser_au 8y ago
A guess would be more movie meta data than you can think of; - show me movies with Swiss Alps settings - show me movies with the quote "I'll be back" - tell me which part of Back to the Future shows me where they have hoverb
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Australian Senate passes encryption bypass laws(mobile.abc.net.au)
6 points by haser_au 8y ago|1 comments
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by haser_au 8y ago
A school system, where this level of potential and passion goes unnoticed and unharnessed for good, is a broken system. The full extent of their exploits remain unclear, due to ongoing legal action, but it should have been detected well and
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by haser_au 8y ago
She's also ex-Juniper and Sun Microsystems. Source: https://au.linkedin.com/in/robyn-denholm-a807795
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by haser_au 8y ago
Great story. I still think the sharing of photos with collocated friends needs solving, or have I missed a Google photos feature release?
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by haser_au 8y ago
http://www.seacoastonline.com/article/20110107/NEWS/10107033...
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by haser_au 8y ago
[Spoiler] He got his account back, and a specific phone number he can call if he has problems again.
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by haser_au 8y ago
- Load times for the case studies are loooong. - Took a bit of getting used to the scroll thing. Didn't know if I was at the top/bottom, so just had to guess - Text is small. Can't zoom/enlarge text on https:/&#x2F
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by haser_au 8y ago
I think this story does an injustice by calling him an 'engineer'. He cofounded Speedera Networks, which was acquired for $130m by Akamai after a 3-year patent battle, a battle he was on the front-line of and learnt a lot about pa
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by haser_au 8y ago
HN Title and article title are wrong. It was Facebook, not YouTube. Source: https://twitter.com/JRhodesPianist/status/103696020877651968...
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by haser_au 8y ago
Ditto. I bought the Mipad 3 from gearbest, and haven't looked back. Awesome little device for plane rides and keeping our little fella occupied during long car trips.
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by haser_au 8y ago
Generally, I'd agree. Contracts in big business aren't typically enforced by the letter. You sign a 5-year contract, with +1 year extensions up to 5 years, you aren't going to start enforcing things that don't really mat
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by haser_au 8y ago
Homework questions from the article (feel free to offer corrections): Q: Estimate how much it would cost to run this for a day (pick a price for electricity in dollars per kilowatt * hr). Usage: 3.39 million Watts Cost of electricity in Aus
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Physics: What does it take to put a waterfall on a skyscraper?(wired.com)
2 points by haser_au 8y ago|2 comments
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by haser_au 8y ago
The same has been said about Pi (3.14). If you can compute, store and search enough the digits of Pi, you can reference anything by just providing the 'start' and 'finish' locations. Unfortunately, with enough digits of
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by haser_au 8y ago
For the benefit of those who are off Facebook (each to their own), here's how I use it; - my mixed sport team has a group page, where we discuss the next game time, who can make it, etc. We don't need to Friend each other, or sign
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by haser_au 8y ago
The ones that only appear when your mouse tracks towards the tab close button are impressive, but also super annoying.
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by haser_au 8y ago
https://www.amazon.com/Sevylor-Colossus-2-Person-Inflatable-... Weight: 9.5 pounds each. They're not for long term use, but it would have kept people out of the water until proper rescue boats arrived. Obviously these
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by haser_au 8y ago
> The driver of the vehicle, Heather Lommatzsch, 29, told police she thought the vehicle’s automatic emergency braking system would detect traffic and stop before the car hit another vehicle. > Police say car data show Lommatzsch did
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by haser_au 8y ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17038710

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