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Met Office Library: Interpreting Weather Charts [pdf](metoffice.gov.uk)
2 points by ksangeelee 8y ago|0 comments
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Secret document reveals (UK) police 'blacklisting'(bbc.co.uk)
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by ksangeelee 8y ago
It is curious. The company website for Gopher Protocol Inc. says very little in a lot of words. It reads like they want to impress investors with buzzwords and acronyms, in the hope that they're daft enough fall for it. Such gems as: &
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by ksangeelee 8y ago
The article states only that sugar was ubiquitous among the dishes of those who could afford it, not that it was generally ubiquitous.
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by ksangeelee 8y ago
Domain Name: THISWEBSITEDOESNOTEXIST.COM Creation Date: 2005-08-26-T19:04:47Z Updated Date: 2018-08-23-T01:12:14Z Registrar Registration Expiration Date: 2019-08-26 And I'm pleased to say that (as I write this, at least)
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by ksangeelee 8y ago
I agree, it never deserved to be taken seriously. When my wife deleted her account, I found it quite bizarre that people were asking questions like 'how are you coping?'. To me, it's just a website - I wondered how absurd tha
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by ksangeelee 8y ago
The advice comes from Stallman's article 'If you feel your organization needs a "presence" in Facebook' https://stallman.org/facebook-presence.html It was linked to in his article 'Reasons not
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by ksangeelee 8y ago
Here is an arrangement by guitarist Davey Graham of She Moves Through The Fair. As someone who heard similarities between Scottish/Irish folk and Indian music, his take on the tune is really quite original. https://www.youtu
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by ksangeelee 8y ago
I made an attempt to do something a bit like this this by a) seeding from HN links and, b) passing all links through uBlock Origin via Puppeteer. My assumption is that more uBlock hits correlates with lower quality (a crude metric, I know,
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by ksangeelee 8y ago
You seem to think that I'm against spam protection mechanisms, which I'm not. I am concerned that this will be used to 'protect' GET requests rather than POST requests, so to speak.
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by ksangeelee 8y ago
Clearly you're satirising. The very basis of the HTTP protocol, and the idea of the World Wide Web, is one of easy access to, and discovery of, information on openly accessible servers. It provides numerous mechanisms for protecting da
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by ksangeelee 8y ago
The language used seems alarmist, particularly given the extent to which Google use bots themselves. For example, "the new way to stop bots", "alert you of suspicious traffic", "identify the pattern of attackers&quo
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by ksangeelee 8y ago
Tomcat made sense because I'd be running a JVM for Lucene in any case, and I'm trying to minimise resource requirements as far as is practical. I intend to add an option to return a JSON response with the top 100 results. You may
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Show HN: Search the pages that HN links to(kakapo.susa.net)
1 points by ksangeelee 8y ago|2 comments
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by ksangeelee 8y ago
The abstract for the study (which is behind a paywall) states of Thomas's work "While respectable for its time". The article doesn't feel like it reflects this sentiment. The title also seems unfairly overstated, claimin
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by ksangeelee 8y ago
I searched for microphones with an integrated low power DSP, and the first hit [1], from 2016, described a device for always-listening voice activation using an EEPROM configured DSP that claims to consume 0.4mW at 1.8V (0.22mA). That seems
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by ksangeelee 9y ago
I think it was deliberate, because when they did include advertising in search results, they innovated with text-only ads (and on an unobtrusive part of the page). I recall that I grew to appreciate these ads - they were often relevant to w
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by ksangeelee 9y ago
When I first saw Google I'd been using AltaVista almost exclusively because it allowed phrase searching and keyword exclusion. Google seemed primitive by comparison. However, it was light and fast at a time when most of my access was v
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by ksangeelee 9y ago
This infuriates me. My son would move his focus to something else, and would subsequently be distracted by noises and flashing lights. It reminds me of 'attract mode' used in slot machines and arcades games, though I at least see
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by ksangeelee 9y ago
Thanks - that post had been on my readar, but got forgotten. The paragraph you quote pretty much sums up my feelings, though I'm not particularly concerned with finding old school sites. Google used to do a good job of answering techni
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by ksangeelee 9y ago
It's been on my mind for a while that I could use a search engine that's seeded only with sites that contain little or no advertising or tracking. A starting point could even be the corpus of HN articles and comments, perhaps augm
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by ksangeelee 9y ago
Or simply install the Tor browser - additionally (and ironically) giving them access to a wide variety of extreme material.
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by ksangeelee 9y ago
I can't think of any other way to address this problem. I increasingly lose control of what my children see as they get older and more independent. The crux of the problem is the "Check this out!" scenario with the kids who h
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by ksangeelee 9y ago
No, saving lives from disease is removing obstacles to their survival.
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by ksangeelee 9y ago
I was as unlucky as you - my board was from the initial release batch that crashed intermittently. Ultimately I took up the refund they were offering to anyone with a faulty board. It was an unfortunately evasive and insidious bug - the boa
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by ksangeelee 9y ago
I think Imagination made a decent attempt to bring a MIPS based board to market. The I/O specs seemed well thought out for makers, and the datasheets were comprehensive. It lacked any sizeable community, but there were enough skilled p
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by ksangeelee 10y ago
In my opinion, there is no ethical question to answer regarding general content I receive via an HTTP request. There's no expectation on my part other than the server provide me a valid response, which I will make use of as I choose (w
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Medical Equipment made easy to understand(howequipmentworks.com)
2 points by ksangeelee 10y ago|0 comments
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by ksangeelee 11y ago
Far more likely that the experience will be a distraction to his learning and creativity, and will beg uncomfortable questions, the answers to which will affect his self-esteem.