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by lvturner 6y ago
It is - and sometimes I get called by middle name instead of either of the other names. In e-mails the failure rate for people getting my name in the right order is around 80% - sometimes even after I've corrected the sender three or f
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by lvturner 6y ago
Great concept, and not a criticism, but a bit of an anecdote For Chinese-English it suggested "Lee", which as far as I know (my Cantonese and Mandarin aren't that great) is typically the Cantonese anglicisation of 李 (Mandarin
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by lvturner 6y ago
I'm afraid not - it's nothing particularly exotic, mostly Home Assistant, Pi Hole and Bitwarden password manager. Next thing I want to add is a bookmark manager - then perhaps some kind of storage solution.
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by lvturner 6y ago
Agreed, my 'Small Web' is a couple of Raspberry Pi plugged in to my router exposing services that are useful to me - the more I use it and the more tech news I read, the more I want to expand both the robustness and diversity of m
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Reports: “4K” Nintendo Switch revision slated for 2021 launch(arstechnica.com)
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World’s first Covid reinfection case confirmed in University of Hong Kong study(scmp.com)
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by lvturner 6y ago
Genuine question for Stack overflow users with high points: Aside from the improvement in your own skills, do you find it opens any other doors for you?
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by lvturner 6y ago
I feel the risk from prions may put a swift end to any 'ethical cannibalism' ideas https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prion
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Flipper Zero – Tamagochi for Hackers(kickstarter.com)
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by lvturner 6y ago
People, presently seem much less willing to challenge what a computer says however. I'm wondering if Little Britain's "computer says no"[1] sketch is somewhat foreshadowing here. It's certainly a situation I've
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by lvturner 6y ago
Tried this on a few photos of my dog - one of her half asleep, lying on her back and clearly very relaxed. It said she was angry. To be fair, it mis-identified her, and she is also a mixed-breed Asian dog so I'm not entirely surprised.
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by lvturner 6y ago
Are there any FOSS alternatives for the operating systems on current smart tvs? I haven't heard of any, but it's certainly something I'd be interested in.
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by lvturner 6y ago
I don't get it
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Instagram wants suspected bot accounts to provide government IDs(thenextweb.com)
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by lvturner 6y ago
Mostly latency around WebSockets.
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by lvturner 6y ago
Not Epic, but this has actually happened. https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1991-03-29-fi-1120-s...
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by lvturner 6y ago
"Erwin has a dark chapter in its history. A group of its white citizens committed an extra-legal “banishment," a violent incident that took place in 1918 and involved the murder of a black man and the violent, forcible eviction of
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Putin says Russia has successfully tested coronavirus vaccine – The Japan Times(japantimes.co.jp)
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by lvturner 6y ago
I checked your bio and this is obviously an area you know a great deal about, and one I'm interested in. Do you happen to have any high-level resources on the differences, pros & cons of TENS/tVNS/tDCS/PEMF and why o
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by lvturner 6y ago
It seems similar devices are available on Amazon for considerably less - any idea why the significant hike in price?
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The fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989(youtube.com)
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Trump issues executive orders with effective bans of TikTok, WeChat(cnet.com)
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Executive Order on Addressing the Threat Posed by WeChat – The White House(whitehouse.gov)
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by lvturner 6y ago
I think another question is that why isn't there a viable alternative to excel for this particular use case? Is there, perhaps, a market for niche spreadsheet applications that serve one particular market?
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by lvturner 6y ago
I absolutely love my Flip and it's clamshell design (the Wikipedia seems to hint that the fold will be a clamshell design too) The battery life is terrible. The camera is a joke. I've broken the screen in three separate places bec
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by lvturner 6y ago
In China they have a separate app owned by ByteDance called Douyin - in fact iirc TikTok was an aquisition that they then modeled after Douyin
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by lvturner 6y ago
I mean, it depends, for a company of 2-10 people, it's astronomical, if I have over 1000 people at one location who are using it, it's waaaay to cheap.
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by lvturner 6y ago
I don't have a tactful way to say this - but perhaps you are exercising too hard? It might be wiser to take a progressive approach - i.e. start with a five minute walk, the next day/week/month increase it to a ten minute walk
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by lvturner 6y ago
If I recall correctly several medical conditions can be detected by retinal scans, which has historically made widespread use of the technology undesirable. EDIT: Sorry, it seems that it's more that medical conditions make it unreliabl
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by lvturner 6y ago
I think your information may be a bit out of date, in China you can own and operate as a WFOE https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wholly_foreign-owned_enterpr...

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