julianz

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by julianz 6y ago
I always enjoyed that bit of Romeo and Juliet in high school... If love be blind, love cannot hit the mark. Now will he sit under a medlar tree And wish his mistress were that kind of fruit As maids call medlars when they laugh al
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by julianz 6y ago
Wasabi's not bad. $5.99 a month per TB, plenty of ways to get your data in and out. I'm nothing to do with them but I back up a TB or so and it works well.
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by julianz 6y ago
My favourite is Brewfather, a homebrewing planner and brew timer/tracker app. It's cross platform and extremely well done. Revenue is via subscription, not ads. https://brewfather.app/
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by julianz 6y ago
A friend had someone sign up for Instagram using her Gmail address by mistake. There's no way to unsubscribe and no way to contact Insta without logging in (and it was in another language). In the end she changed the password and took
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by julianz 6y ago
I have a 5-6m high grapefruit tree, and they... do not survive the fall. This material sounds cool but I hope it's better than my grapefruit.
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by julianz 6y ago
But it's only going to make stale coffee, which tastes horrible. Count me out.
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by julianz 6y ago
Just went to my local Digikey site. Shipping is $20 USD or $26 NZD.
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by julianz 6y ago
Nice. Is there a reason that the up-down arrows don't work to scroll the page on Deepnote? PgUp/PgDown work but the arrow keys are blocked for some reason (Chrome, Windows 10)
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by julianz 6y ago
Once Vista became stable it was a really nice OS. I installed it for a parent at some point because that's what we had a license for, and was really surprised how fast and clean it was compared to Windows 8.
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by julianz 6y ago
I loved old-school Macs but come one, you couldn't even resize a window by dragging an edge. I think we've moved on from that.
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by julianz 6y ago
I think so! I've got an "Aloha" branded mahogany parlour guitar that dates from somewhere around then, it's tricky to narrow down any further than that though. Still sounds fantastic.
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by julianz 6y ago
The Precisions can power from either the barrel plug or USB-C, I just plug in a C connector in the office and it's got power, ethernet and monitors. Tasty.
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by julianz 7y ago
I think there was an article the other day about people who supposedly predicted COVID-19 in books, etc. Pretty sure they included her and also pointed out all the other things she got way wrong. But that probably explains a lot of the clic
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by julianz 7y ago
Also worth looking out for the Great Map Mystery - 4 eps where Jones retraces the path of the first road atlas and wonders why it would have been drawn at all, comes up with some very interesting history along the way. Looks like it might b
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by julianz 7y ago
Yup. I built a networked invoice database with FileMaker Pro (2.1??) on Macs at a university in the 90's. It was still there when I went back a few years later, running on an ancient Mac server with an external hard disk duct taped to
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by julianz 7y ago
Nah I think the tweet is gone, I can't see it from a browser. (edit, weirdly I tried again and it worked. Definitely errored with a strange error the first time)
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by julianz 7y ago
This is bad, but most "paper" tea bags still include plastic in their manufacture as part of the heat sealing. English article about which brands do and don't here, note that it's all the mass market brands that include
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by julianz 7y ago
Pocket Casts. End of story. It has speed settings and silence trimming, playlists, syncs across devices, and you pay for it so there's no ads.
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by julianz 7y ago
The Palm/Treo app market was quite strong, I had several good and useful apps on my Treo 650 that integrated nicely with a desktop and made it a properly useful device. The app installation method was a bit primitive but there was abso
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by julianz 7y ago
Pretty horrible typo from the NY Times there. "Tressa" should be "Teresa".
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by julianz 7y ago
It is geofenced in countries where someone holds the rights to broadcast F1 (like New Zealand). No F1TV for us.
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by julianz 7y ago
It's a powerful service, but the requirement to let AWS keep your documents is a powerful disincentive for many companies, no matter what the rest of the privacy policy says. The Azure text recognition container can be hosted locally a
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by julianz 7y ago
Nope. Dropbox never. ever. shuts up about me being out of space, emails me constantlyand displays Windows alerts whenever I log on. I have over a GB of space left on my account. Dropbox support says that's just how their system works s
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by julianz 7y ago
Terry Gilliam, most likely.
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by julianz 8y ago
Many studies show that's not really true, it takes you longer to read and process the number than an analog dial. You don't notice the time it takes though.
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by julianz 8y ago
Wow, some serious quality astroturfing there. Who knew that every single Saudi man suddenly wanted to write exactly five lines of effusive praise about their government's app on the same day!
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by julianz 8y ago
This is an excellent idea. All of those Gab types can go and shout at each other over there, and the rest of the world can ignore them. Everybody wins.
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by julianz 8y ago
Wow, that seems to have got closer, thank you. Spreadsheets are now created with Australian locale, although they have now lost their default timezone completely. I'm interested whether this change will affect other Google products, in
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by julianz 8y ago
Great. Can we automate changing every single goddamn spreadsheet to not be in US date format? And while we're in there, how about adding a locale for New Zealand?
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by julianz 8y ago
That's a fantastic story. At my grandfather's funeral (he was an electronic and medical researcher who developed early foetal pulse monitors as well as the respirators now used to treat sleep apnoea) it gradually became apparent t

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