martyvis

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by martyvis 4y ago
All the 15000 payphones in Australia are free and have WiFi. https://www.telstra.com.au/consumer-advice/payphones
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by martyvis 4y ago
I just bought two of their Cobra channel lock / water pump pliers, an electrician's plier and wire cutters. I decided at 59 I am tired of using rubbish tools - even for DIY duties. I got the trigger from here https://yo
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by martyvis 4y ago
It would be interesting to see how the CTO and CPO dealt with the blowout in delivery time. As they pretty much gave a made-up commitment to the customer, did they also create fiction when reporting to the CEO or the board in how their team
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by martyvis 4y ago
The issue is that capturing, storing and distributing potable water is very expensive and difficult in many regions. Famously much of Australia struggles often with not having sufficient fresh water during droughts. Yet we have it easy comp
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by martyvis 4y ago
EA got hammered by the Aussie government consumer organisation in 2015 https://www.accc.gov.au/media-release/electronic-arts-undert...
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by martyvis 4y ago
Google One is only a few bucks a month and gives human support. It certainly helped me in getting someone from Google confirm to me with written info that an issue I was having was caused by the phone manufacturer and not Google.
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by martyvis 4y ago
I imagine the algorithm that Google is using to send you to that route is simply that other users before you that have used that route have progressed quicker than others that used the "safe" one.
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by martyvis 4y ago
Maybe Tesla has quality issues, but what car market doesn't (at least their wheels don't fall off - and I love Subaru). Have you actually looked whether the other manufacturers don't have issues with working conditions?
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by martyvis 4y ago
I'd love to know which Toyota EV you are referring to? Ask a 100 people to name an EV, 80 would say Tesla, and 70 could point them out, and 40 name some model. Not so with Toyota
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Ways to get around ChatGPT's safeguards(twitter.com)
331 points by martyvis 4y ago|168 comments
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by martyvis 4y ago
That Polyform licence looks truly awful. Lack of mention of how I could use it while working.
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Ukraine is assembling an Army of Drones(u24.gov.ua)
8 points by martyvis 4y ago|1 comments
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by martyvis 4y ago
Is this different from any other learned behaviour? If a baby hangs around English speaking people they are going to learn to speak the language with the same accent. Then you see a group of kids where every sentence is peppered with the F-
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Ultrasonic Phased Array Levitation(old.reddit.com)
1 points by martyvis 4y ago|0 comments
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by martyvis 4y ago
Great para - "Persons of a suspicious or pugnacious turn of mind bought a rear-view mirror; but most Model T owners weren’t worried by what was coming from behind because they would soon enough see it out in front."
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by martyvis 4y ago
Surely that cable is single insulated, so low voltage application (less than 32V)?
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18-month $220k Powerwall solar energy installation nightmare(couriermail.com.au)
59 points by martyvis 4y ago|39 comments
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by martyvis 4y ago
The duty cycle is going to be 25% at most
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by martyvis 4y ago
That's one reason why "Hey Google" was added as a valid wake phrase (and is the one I use)
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by martyvis 4y ago
Google removed the need to pause after saying the wake word years ago. (Possibly you haven't disabled the acknowledgement beep)
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by martyvis 4y ago
Of course Matchbox cars predated these. I had a decent collection going from I guess when I was around 7 in 1969. But certainly the orange tracks and the hot rod style of Hot Wheels got pretty appealing, and I think had made sure Santa Clau
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by martyvis 4y ago
For most of us that are doing implementation engineering, a lab is simply a collection of the gear that can be put together in a simulation of the production environment without being constrained by formalities. For me it would be a bunch o
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by martyvis 4y ago
And that is the another "modern" problem. I live in a semi-rural village, with 5km to the nearest town. If a teenage child was walking in between them (say they're bike was broken down) and I drive past: 1. I'd think if
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by martyvis 4y ago
>If you have an iPhone 14 it’s supposed to just work if you’re calling 911. Did you mean to say "work AS if you're calling 911"? The emergency message via satellite function has to be explicitly used instead of just callin
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by martyvis 4y ago
So we should just let criminals do whatever they want to do, building up impenetrable layers of defence and operate with impunity?
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by martyvis 4y ago
"Picture texting" (next thing they'll be sending pictures in text, oh wait ... )
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by martyvis 4y ago
A bit flip at the most significant bit is a one cycle 22.05kHz pulse - so yes you almost certainly wouldn't hear it even if the speaker could reproduce it.
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by martyvis 4y ago
What is it with camera manufacturers and zero-indexing their model numbers? From the article the first Kodak Brownie model was the No.0 Brownie and Leica had the 0-Series. What other products did this?
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by martyvis 4y ago
The article says "Many of us know TomTom for its PNDs" - yet I am sure nobody would know what a PND is as that acronym. (I haven't looked it up, but from the context I am sure it is Personal Navigation Device - you know the t
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by martyvis 4y ago
Back in the day, 1984, when I was an electrical engineer trainee, I was seconded to the electronics repair shop for the summer at the steelworks where I worked. I got to choose a kit to build and I chose this one from local magazine based o

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