mabcat

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by mabcat 7y ago
Many thanks!
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by mabcat 7y ago
Can I pile on too? Cheers!
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by mabcat 7y ago
One that I like is commonly branded TTGO, a search for "esp32 ttgo" or "esp32 oled battery" will turn up some options. This is a link to the exact one I bought since you asked: https://www.ebay.com.au/itm
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by mabcat 8y ago
I have no inside information on the following... but an effective explosive trace detection screen would go like this. First, it would be random, with no profiling. Profiling gets defeated by shaving, change of clothing, etc. Random selecti
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by mabcat 8y ago
This is something I'm trying to solve, starting with Australia.[0] I'm building the service that I wish existed when I needed a mental health professional, something I can send friends and colleagues to. It does a lot of what you
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by mabcat 8y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BASIC_Computer_Games That's the book I learned to program from, a compilation of games in BASIC published in 1973. I don't know the truth of the GP's claim but reportedly th
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by mabcat 8y ago
Some tactical googling about the orange chicken says Pei Wei. Not from around there, never heard of them, but it’s clear from their menu PDF.
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by mabcat 8y ago
Harris's point is that there are only speech centres on one side of the brain. Both hemispheres have sensory and motor cortices and control of half the body, so the sense in which the right hemisphere is silenced/held prisoner is
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by mabcat 9y ago
A relative of mine just got PR in Slovakia and the "money in the bank" requirement is 2400 EUR. While there's a bit more to it and he'll have to meet some visa conditions over the next 5 years if he wants to stay on, the
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by mabcat 9y ago
I have a "Kill Sticky" bookmarklet to do that job, as the first thing on my bookmarks toolbar. I'm clicking that thing all the time, it works great. So long stupid sliding navbars, enter-your-email popups, fixed video autopla
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by mabcat 9y ago
When your pricing page says "10 checks per URL" etc what does it mean? I assume it means that more things are checked as you move up the tiers but I couldn't find any table of what things were checked at what pricepoints. Edi
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by mabcat 9y ago
While my car is in the shop getting unsmashed I've had the pleasure of four different cars and four different sound systems in as many weeks. That's how I know the workaround won't get it done on a Peugeot 308. "Spotify&
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by mabcat 9y ago
I've been using this Kill Sticky bookmarklet, and it's turned out to be one of life's simple pleasures. Gets rid of menu bars and popovers. It's the most-used thing on my bookmarks toolbar by a factor of about eleventy b
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by mabcat 9y ago
Briefly and maybe not 100% truthy: the state of South Australia produces a lot of its electricity from a wind farm. It brings in extra power from another state over a giant cable (the interconnect). A while ago a storm damaged the interconn
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by mabcat 9y ago
There's a sweet spot for bicycle travel: journeys between 2km and 5km are too far for most people to walk, doable on a bike in most climates/terrains without breaking a sweat, and faster on a bike than a car when you account for p
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by mabcat 9y ago
You might like to look into Parnis. The brand is used by a group of Chinese makers producing watches with decent, if budget, internals and styling inspired by famous brands. Some people find it's a good way to see what style of watch w
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by mabcat 9y ago
What's "Golden Eleven" in reference to?
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by mabcat 9y ago
The other "simplest" way is to run the cron job on the web workers, and put something in the job to abort unless this host is the first web-worker instance. (Otherwise your jobs would run multiply on each instance.) That's wh
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by mabcat 9y ago
It's not always the user doing the blocking. A lot of sites broke for me when I was in China because they were trying to fetch resources from Google's CDN, which is/was blocked there.
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by mabcat 9y ago
My riding school was big on checklisting the bike before every ride: indicators front and back, low beam, high beam, brake light by the lever and the footbrake, horn. Not thrilling either but it's how I found out about my busted horn a
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by mabcat 9y ago
Digging up and selling our coal has a range of horrible environmental effects both short and long term. Short term includes: massive use of water that we need for agriculture and environmental flows, destruction of marine environment from d
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by mabcat 9y ago
> Marco Arment recently changed Overcast to make features more visible because it seems many people, including power users, weren't even aware that gesture existed. So that's what that was all about. I noticed the changes becau
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by mabcat 9y ago
Is there a good place or pattern for service methods in Django? I've got some very fat models right now, and it's a DRY improvement over having the fat in the views, but like you say it takes a lot of effort to trace what's g
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by mabcat 9y ago
I haven't seen the signs used in Sydney for anything except clearways, as pictured in the article. The contrast isn't great but you don't really need high-vis for no-stopping-or-we-tow-you signs. Judging by their posts on thi
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by mabcat 10y ago
Note that negative reinforcement is reinforcement. It reinforces (i.e. encourages) a behaviour by stopping something unpleasant. e.g. your kid asks you nicely to turn off that dad music, you flip the stereo off, your kid feels better and le
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by mabcat 10y ago
I think the screenshot tells a much more accurate story than the text. 120,000 listings for drugs, 1,900 for weapons, no main category for child porn. Based on the listings, the kinds of activity that actually go on would seem to be in reve
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by mabcat 10y ago
Now how did I not know about `make_random_password`? Solid tip, thanks!
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by mabcat 10y ago
To a first approximation, nobody recovers from obesity. Less than 1% of obese people regain a normal weight through any kind of lifestyle change. What works, kind of, is bariatric surgery. https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_rele
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by mabcat 10y ago
The 200ms default reaction time in the simulation is wildly optimistic. I remember 1500ms from rider training and http://www.visualexpert.com/Resources/reactiontime.html seems to bear that out.
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by mabcat 10y ago
This got discussed in motorbike school. Even if you rode slowly enough to peer into every car you passed, children in the back seat are too short to see. Just don't ride anything in the door zone under any circumstances, it's craz

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