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by marci 4y ago
I accidently discovered earlier today that the Fairphone 3 works without it's (easily swappable) battery. So maybe other brands still build them like this. Since we're talking about an Android phone for self hosting, if the phone
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by marci 4y ago
This TLDR would be apt if the question was "What is expensive ang huge" rather than "Why are they expesensive and huge"
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by marci 4y ago
I think they meant for the past x years, they've been spending half of it in Sweden, the other half in JApan, in chunks of 6 months. edit: and you can be fluent in one or more languages without knowing how to read/write them.
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by marci 4y ago
I like the idea of coupling sound to the page/slide. Would be even better if the audio was generated so that the transition was seamless. To whom it may be of interest: https://impress.js.org (visually similar to this proje
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by marci 4y ago
What do you mean by efficiency of land usage? The only thing I could think of is surface area and, compared to "a large number of reasonably sized ones", this obviously would be more efficient. I see them as skyscrappers in landsc
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by marci 4y ago
Ah... the internets... Read the first line, thought "How could they be so wrong?". Then read the second line, thought "Oh... you got me, that was a funny joke". And now thinking "Oh... maybe they're serious, wh
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by marci 4y ago
Unfortunately, there are some places where the whole city is delusional, like in Finland https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uhx-26GfCBU /s
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by marci 4y ago
For a more Lo-fi experience, theres's the excellent https://nanoloop.com/ Works on: - iOS - Android - Game Boy - Game Boy Advance
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by marci 4y ago
I think I'm getting your point. I don't know if it's in an interview or in the book itself that she compares her experience to the like of a solo navigator (so I may be wrong, I had never heard of her before today), but since
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by marci 4y ago
It had the same effect on me. Made me want to read the article, and now that I read just a tiny bit about her, I'm even more curious. GP mentionned so nonchalantly that she wrote about having an abotion that I would have never thought
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by marci 4y ago
> I always assumed that sign language was taught after reading and writing. Basically, you're saying "I always assumed that speaking was taught after reading and writing." (which can happen, but is far from being the norm)
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by marci 4y ago
At those distances I would never go buy groceries by foot either.
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by marci 4y ago
A walkable city means groceries stores at a walkable distance, which means while walking home from wherever you were, you just buy a couple of things missing for tonight's diner. You're at home, no more sugar for a cake? just a 5
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by marci 4y ago
And then, Andy Whalol came around and took seashell media by storm by spamming GIFs of his version of NFTs (No Fungicide Tuna, tuna can with organic tomato sauce).
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by marci 4y ago
Based on the URL, I thought it was going to be the same thing that I had built. It was a simple web app for the people who lend and/or borrowed a book or a CD or something from a friend, but after too long don't remember which one
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by marci 4y ago
Fruit flies and wireless activation of targeted brain circuits. Feels like we are in a Westworld season 4 timeline.
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by marci 4y ago
For those who want to avoid youtube: https://media.ccc.de/v/gpn20-41-why-i-wrote-my-own-rsync
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by marci 4y ago
Let me enhance the wiki definition https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LhF_56SxrGk
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by marci 4y ago
Did I stumble upon a cylon hive?
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by marci 4y ago
> sir, madame, or they Neither, I think it's a cylon.
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by marci 4y ago
This comment reminds me of this part of a speech[0] from a nigerian writer: I must say that before I went to the U.S., I didn't consciously identify as African. But in the U.S., whenever Africa came up, people turned to me. Never mind
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by marci 5y ago
Maybe they went heavy on the green for subsequent releases, but according to "The Matrix Revisited", the green tone was an integral part of the filmmaking process (for those interested, it's around the 20min10sec mark).
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by marci 5y ago
And to continue on that story, even though I gave them the location: "lack of ressources, we can't dispatch anyone at the moment". They never did anything afterwards.
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by marci 5y ago
Personal experience of explaining to a police officer how I was able to track down a friend's stolen smartphone. Edit: it was in Paris, France.
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by marci 5y ago
That is, if you're lucky and they understand what you're talking about. You'll probably have to spend some time explaining how it works, why it is a serious issue, and then probably be dismissed.
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by marci 5y ago
And even if algerian leaders where not a problem, they would still need to stay clear from all the area where France had nuclear tests, especially places where the rate of thyroid and pulmonary cancer is higher than average. Not sure the lo
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by marci 5y ago
Are you in the EU or the UK?
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by marci 5y ago
"Facebook is bad at moderating the Latin alphabet. For the Arabic script, it’s a disaster."
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by marci 5y ago
Fairphone 2 is on it’s 6th year of support. Can't yet talk for the 3.
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by marci 5y ago
(Not parent) maybe losely related to: https://gleam.run/news/v0.16-gleam-compiles-to-javascript/

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