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by ljf 1y ago
Nice idea and nicely put together - you might be getting hugged to death right now, but the search never completed for me (and on chrome/android the searching text was overplayed strangely with the names of the places you were searchin
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by ljf 1y ago
As a side note, I bought an Aliexpress $25 'hanging arduino plotter' - I was never able to get good results from it sadly - though I felt a learnt a lot from it and scratched the plotter itch that I had. I'd also be very inte
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by ljf 1y ago
Interesting article, but would have benefited from some images or illustrations.
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by ljf 1y ago
Previous discussion https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44875109
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by ljf 1y ago
The sea in my part of the UK continues to be unseasonally warmer, all year around. This is already changing the catch of the local fishing industries - and we had a stinking 'bloom' on the sea recently. https://www.bbc.
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by ljf 1y ago
While it must be upsetting and destabilising to lose a resource like gold, the environmental damage from the processing sounds wild. I wonder if the clean up will ever be completed? And who will pay?
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Temperature records broken as extreme heat grips parts of Europe(theguardian.com)
11 points by ljf 1y ago|2 comments
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by ljf 1y ago
Meetings with clients then ended in 'booze' (British slang for alcohol/beer/spirts/wine).
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by ljf 1y ago
Nice - I tried libraries and also used friends club memberships - but I needed to do a lot of video calls, so a place I could talk freely was needed. A friend of mine seemed to manage to join nice clubs early on good terms (and low costs),
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by ljf 1y ago
Just looked up my email - and in 2012 I paid £10 4 hours in the Regus shared working space in central London - I think a 7 hour day might of been £12 but I don't have a full booking. From memory it was behind Bond Street - I was workin
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by ljf 1y ago
The 'problem' with those for remote workers is that you pay per minute/hour in a cybercafe - in a normal coffee shop you can just nurse one coffee for hours and pay a single low cost (and get a coffee). I can't remember
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by ljf 1y ago
After my kids fell in love Uno (in all it's versions) - I got them Monopoly Deal and Monopoly Bid - and I have to say they are both brilliant and fun games in their own right and very different to each other. We then got the Cludo card
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by ljf 1y ago
Previous discussion after the auction https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44609154
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Mars rock found in Niger sells for millions in NY, now the country wants answers(bbc.co.uk)
4 points by ljf 1y ago|2 comments
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by ljf 1y ago
Alternate view https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S18799...
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by ljf 1y ago
I'd be very happy with a happy/content society.
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by ljf 1y ago
Anyone down voting, can you provide proof that proves the opposite? I know wage theft is massive (world over).
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by ljf 1y ago
It really is wild for me to think that I'd be at risk from the police like this, in any of the UK - but then again I'm a dull white guy. I don't think the police have powers here to shake down anyone in this way (imprison ma
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by ljf 1y ago
That is wild - I'm not a 'defund the police' person, but at times like this, reading this story, that I fully understand the intent. It isn't about being unpoliced or lawless, it's about rejecting the system as it e
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Neanderthals were not 'hypercarnivores' and feasted on maggots(theguardian.com)
5 points by ljf 1y ago|0 comments
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by ljf 1y ago
I've been using Optimal Recognition Point (ORP) style apps (I use Balto Speed Reader) to comfortably read at 800wpm or more - for fact books and materials I can keep this up for quite some time - though for fiction I find it too fast
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by ljf 1y ago
Check out their submission history, I think dang or a mod reupped it - this is actually the submission from 3 days ago, sometimes the mods give posts a 2nd chance if they think they are or interest. I've had it happen to my submissions
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by ljf 1y ago
Tape on the posters name: about: Data for good. Co-Founder at Empirical Health ( https://empirical.health ). Before: Risk Engineering at Brex
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by ljf 1y ago
I signed up for Mastodon but at the time there weren't enough people I followed before there, and as I was looking to replace twitter, it was a but quiet for me. But for this reason alone I'll give it another go - really liking th
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Mercedes-Benz T80: a six-wheeled, 45 litre engined car(en.wikipedia.org)
5 points by ljf 1y ago|0 comments
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by ljf 1y ago
Wow you got reading about the successor to that car - the T80 with a 45 litre engine! https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercedes-Benz_T80
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by ljf 1y ago
This looks interesting, but care to explain a little about how you built it, why this niche and what you've learnt so far?
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by ljf 1y ago
Good luck, great to see this approach on solana - I think it has huge potential.
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by ljf 1y ago
For things like hip replacements, cancer treatment and other physical ailments the NHS is pretty awesome. Some stuff it fails at I am sure, but as you say that is in part down to the way that it prioritises care based on results.
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by ljf 1y ago
Yeah Scratch has a lot of limitations - but as an introduction to the concepts, it has been amazing. Watching him be able to build a game that he enjoyed on day one, then by maybe 6 lessons later to be using Python - has been great. I'

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