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by jpindar 7y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Good_Samaritan_law
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by jpindar 7y ago
Calibre can download metadata and covers from a number of sources, mine lists: Amazon, Big Book Search, Edelweiss, Google, Google Images, OZON.ru, Open Library, and Overdrive. Of course I'm only searching for one book at a time.
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by jpindar 7y ago
San Francisco just declared the NRA to be a terrorist organisation, thereby instantly creating millions of terrorists - many of whom joined the organization not for poltical reasons but because you have to in order to shoot at certain range
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by jpindar 7y ago
There is a Kindle reader for the PC, you could try that.
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by jpindar 7y ago
You need to download the files from "Manage Your Content and Devices","Actions", "Download & transfer via USB". This gives you a different format, and DeDRM can unlock these.
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by jpindar 7y ago
It works for me. What you do is download the Kindle file format from "Manage Your Content and Devices","Actions", "Download & transfer via USB". This gives you a different format than the files sent direct
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by jpindar 7y ago
Can you tell me exactly where you saw that? I don't see it.
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by jpindar 7y ago
That would include many electronics manufacturers, since nowadays most electronics contain firmware and sometimes are controlled by apps. But they are apparently not considered tech companies. (Note that I prefer the old meaning of the wor
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by jpindar 7y ago
Apparently they are different words now, at least in this context, and bear no relationship to each other besides etymology. Language evolves, I guess. I dislike this change, since it excludes all the radar systems, jet fighters, lasers and
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Progressive Face Super-Resolution(iforcedabot.com)
2 points by jpindar 7y ago|0 comments
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by jpindar 7y ago
> I suspect they resent the site's status as a kind of reference to be accessed through search engine results And yet this is what the creators of the site explicitly wanted it to become.
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by jpindar 7y ago
So burn the houses and make everyone homeless.
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by jpindar 7y ago
Frozen fruit pieces are amazing, I swear they taste sweeter than than they did before freezing. Especially bananas and grapes. Could the freezing be converting starches to sugar?
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by jpindar 7y ago
>I use my bank's online bill pay to generate a check which has your account information on it (I do the same thing, though.)
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by jpindar 7y ago
No. NYC is a special case.
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by jpindar 7y ago
How much does it cost to flip a sprite so the light in a scene is all coming from the same direction?
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by jpindar 7y ago
>I think the problem here is that you're portraying it as if cities or states are the agents making decisions, rather than individuals Well yeah. There's a reason why it's called the United STATES.
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YouTube has removed videos of robots fighting, citing “animal cruelty”(technologyreview.com)
22 points by jpindar 7y ago|13 comments
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by jpindar 7y ago
I was sad when I realized that the companies I've worked for, who make things like avionics and fiber optics and sattelite communications equipment were no longer considered "tech". Oh well, language changes.
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by jpindar 7y ago
Looks like the last release was in May 2017.
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by jpindar 7y ago
And they didn't lose whatever was in the freezers.
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by jpindar 7y ago
In NH, landowners get a significant discount on their property tax if they allow hiking, fishing etc. on their unimproved land.
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by jpindar 7y ago
Are they against universal healthcare, or against the politicians that happen to support it? Big difference.
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by jpindar 7y ago
Huh, so it can. I never knew that.
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by jpindar 7y ago
Google maps allows you to save maps for offline use, but I'm sure there are other similar services, or you could just download some images. The emergency alerts on broadcast TV and radio wouldn't reach most people today, so it&#x2
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by jpindar 7y ago
If pressing a widget on your phone is a hassle I don't know how you managed to post here.
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by jpindar 7y ago
It is the most common format for clubs in virtual worlds, and I've found a lot of new music that way. One of my favorites is the saturday afternoon show in Utopia Skye, which is simulcast on Discord, allowing people who aren't in
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by jpindar 7y ago
I agree with you about the tree-like conversations. It would be great if there were a site or a an app that could display them AS trees.
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by jpindar 7y ago
So when something of interest (to someone) happens on Twitter it should what? Be ignored? Be summarized without including a link? You are not required to read every post on HN, and you can see on the front page which ones go to sites you do
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by jpindar 7y ago
Yeah, it looks to be easy enough; much like making a an actual IoT device, you don't have to write a complete Twitter app. When I think of something funny enough I might try it.

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