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by m-i-l 2y ago
Those are the good bots, which say who they are, probably respect robots.txt, and appear on various known bot lists. They are easy to deal with if you really want. But in my experience it is the bad bots you're more likely to want to d
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by m-i-l 2y ago
I used to work in an office which briefly had a commercially available 4KW microwave in the coffee area. I used to like it because it was fast. Unfortunately several other people failed to appreciate that you had to take the 800W timings an
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by m-i-l 2y ago
This matches my experience. I ran one of my side-projects on AWS for a couple of years before switching to Hetzner - AWS was around £35 a month while Hetzner was around £7 a month, so Hetzner was around 80% cheaper for an equivalent service
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How does WhatsApp make money?(bbc.co.uk)
4 points by m-i-l 2y ago|1 comments
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by m-i-l 2y ago
> Who here thinks twitter is a platform for rational discourse? That's the elephant in the room here. The site formerly known as Twitter is optimised to maximise engagement, and conflict typically generates much more engagement th
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by m-i-l 2y ago
> " Postman even mentioned the fact in his 1995 book "The end of education" " Quote from Postman according to wikipedia[0]: "the level of sensibility required to appreciate the music of Roger Waters is both diffe
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by m-i-l 2y ago
If some people are offended by phone use, and no people are offended by non-phone use, then I'd have thought the default (assuming you don't want to check or to offend) would simply be non-phone use.
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by m-i-l 2y ago
I'm originally from Shetland, but moved to the Scottish Borders when I was young, and do remember people had a very hard time understanding my Shetland dialect (which I had to lose pretty quickly to communicate locally). And to the ori
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by m-i-l 2y ago
> Scotland and Ireland are intimately linked by a common language (Gaelic) Just on parts of the west coast of Scotland - much of mainland Scotland spoke the Scots language, with the (now dead) Norn language spoken in the northern areas
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by m-i-l 2y ago
There's another use case towards the end: "Transparent displays could have a place on the desktop—not so you can see through them, but so that a camera can sit behind the display, capturing your image while you’re looking directly
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by m-i-l 2y ago
> "50k windows-based endpoints or so. All down." I'm a dev rather than infra guy, but I'm pretty sure everywhere I've worked which has a large server estate has always done rolling patch updates, i.e. over mult
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by m-i-l 2y ago
> "We’ll soon have near-AGI intelligences (GPT-5)" Does anyone technical believe GPT-5 will be even remotely close to anything which has even a vague resemblance to AGI?
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by m-i-l 2y ago
Surprised to see people talking about spudguns firing whole potatoes! I didn't even know that was a thing. The spudgun I had when I was young just fired small parts of a potato, with a whole potato enough to last for ages. I think it w
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by m-i-l 2y ago
> "Price. By far." In the UK, the Atari ST was originally £299 while the Amiga was £499, so it's not really fair to compare the two. I was able to save up for an ST with various weekend and school holiday jobs, but there
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by m-i-l 2y ago
Throughout the video I was wondering what possible practical applications there could be. I got it at the end: "we use this effect to engage people who are otherwise not so interested in science".
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by m-i-l 2y ago
In 1991 or 1992 I used POV-Ray on my Atari ST to create some title screens for some home videos. Completely gratuitous marble text infront of a glass ball on top of water type of stuff, which took all night to render, but it was fun, and cr
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by m-i-l 2y ago
Location: London, UK Remote: Yes, but pref hybrid or onsite Willing to relocate: No Technologies: Languages: Python (esp Flask), JavaScript (vanilla, some React and Vue), Java. AI/ML: PyTorch, LangChain, Tensorflow. Platforms: Linux, D
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The England museums averaging fewer than one visitor a day(bbc.co.uk)
56 points by m-i-l 2y ago|7 comments
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by m-i-l 2y ago
Also the Abbey Road crossing webcam at https://www.abbeyroad.com/crossing . Not so busy at night, but plenty of people trying to take their photos during the day.
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by m-i-l 3y ago
As much as I like "digital gardens" and think that they are a step in the right direction, rewilding requires much more than cultivating lots of isolated patches of ground - the article even mentions a nature reserve which was &qu
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by m-i-l 3y ago
> "I have some SACDs but can't actually play them, even though my dac can do the audio. Is there some way to put the tracks on a computer?" As per the other comments, it is technically possible, but not exactly straightf
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A new generation of music-making algorithms is here(economist.com)
5 points by m-i-l 3y ago|0 comments
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by m-i-l 3y ago
There are pictures and locations of many at https://www.redwoodworld.co.uk/ . See also HN discussion of redwoodworld.co.uk at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28047458 . (Not affiliated, but I did submi
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by m-i-l 3y ago
Was hoping the article might shed some light on the ambiguity of some of the prohibition signs in the UK and parts of Europe, e.g. the "no motor vehicles" sign[0]. Given that the ones with the red circle but without the red slash
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by m-i-l 3y ago
Another fun fact - it had a rotating restaurant on the 34th floor called The Top of the Tower, which was operated by Butlins, and made one revolution every 23 minutes, but was closed in 1971 following a bombing[0]. Apparently there was talk
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by m-i-l 3y ago
Library at http://darwin-online.org.uk/Complete_Library_of_Charles_Darw... . Use control-F to search:-) A search for "Mendel" returns the following: Focke, Wilhelm Olbers. 1881. Die Pflanzen-Mischlinge: ein Beitra
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by m-i-l 3y ago
This risks making your blog invisible to search engines, unless their crawler goes to the significant additional expense of either executing JavaScript or developing a custom spider to identify and load the JSON directly.
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by m-i-l 3y ago
As per many other comments, it sounds like a static site generator like Hugo ( https://gohugo.io/ ) or Jekyll ( https://jekyllrb.com/ ), hosted on GitHub Pages ( https://pages.github.com/ ) or Gi
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by m-i-l 3y ago
That's right. Living in the UK and taking an interest in popular science during the "mad cow disease crisis"[0], I had been aware that prion diseases can be transmitted in humans if (for example) you eat (infected) brains of
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by m-i-l 3y ago
Slightly more clickbaity title than the BBC's "Medicine stopped in 1980s linked to rare Alzheimer's cases"[0] which also says "The findings do not mean Alzheimer's is infectious - you cannot catch it from conta

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