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by martyvis 5y ago
It's a Unicode trick https://lingojam.com/GlitchTextGenerator
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by martyvis 5y ago
From prospectus -" For many, Duolingo has become synonymous with language learning: for example, on Google, people search the term “Duolingo” nine times more often than “learn Spanish.” I would imagine the sum of "Learn <any la
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by martyvis 5y ago
No one has seemed to mention they were nearly shutdown in 2013 https://www.npr.org/sections/codeswitch/2014/02/27/283307892...
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by martyvis 5y ago
Yep. I literally had to solve this yesterday helping a friend setup a brand new laptop (with Window Home edition) That little link is gone now. I had to Google to find that you create the local account by turning on Airplane mode before ent
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by martyvis 5y ago
By definition "directly connected to the internet" means if a device can on its on accord, direct requests to an entity, ask it a question, and act upon it is true. From what I understand these WD boxes go to a management service
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by martyvis 5y ago
I found a Google One subscription is helpful for that. It's only a few dollars a month, which in fact I fund for free using Google Rewards dollars. You then get to speak to a real live person that actually respond properly, even with h
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by martyvis 5y ago
They are only adding 2GW of generation capacity, so I guess the 350GWh stored would take a week (175 hours) to be consumed by Snowy 2.0 that way.
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by martyvis 5y ago
But it was an interesting turnaround by the Aussies that they were the first country to mandate the flight data recorders.
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by martyvis 5y ago
While you can do it that way, for hiking I tend to create routes based off of a map and add useful waypoints. For instance track intersections, River crossings, summits, etc. This is how you would do it with map + compass old school. I load
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by martyvis 5y ago
This. I've been rediscovering trails in my local area and recording them with my GPS watch. A quick upload and edit into OSM and hopefully others can make use of it. None of this level of detail is available elsewhere.
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by martyvis 5y ago
Yep. https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-06-17/banks-experiencing-ou...
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by martyvis 5y ago
Or a tug-of-war like indicator showing the threshold. (Although not a sufferer, blue-green is a common colour blindness)
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by martyvis 5y ago
Perfectly in sync with hairstyle of the day - the mullet. (Business up the front - party at the back)
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by martyvis 5y ago
>the Australian government wants to put its northern boundary as the southern Australian coast (which reflects Australian cultural understandings of it.) That's probably why as 57 year old Aussie, I'm wondering why this idea of
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by martyvis 5y ago
Well this 145 second animated explainer by the Australian Federal Police covers it pretty well https://youtu.be/qq9wnMXvgOc
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by martyvis 5y ago
Oh wow, the Aussie feds even did a 2 minutes YouTube explainer https://youtu.be/qq9wnMXvgOc
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by martyvis 5y ago
Ah, such an Aussie thing :- Harking back to something mentioned earlier in the press conference and the AFP media release earlier today, the idea for the AN0M app was developed 'over a couple of beers' between Australia and US law
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by martyvis 5y ago
Main thing I find Lightroom is superior compared to Darktable is being able apply adjustments consistently across groups of photos. You might have say 6 photos all taken of the same subject in the same conditions. You adjust one the way you
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by martyvis 5y ago
As an Aussie, I was amazed to learn that most Americans had never heard of fortnight (or maybe knew exactly what length of time it is). I guess the funny thing is that it is a non-obvious contraction of "fourteen nights" - and not
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by martyvis 5y ago
> spinning rust As the storage medium in this new tech is graphene, do we call it "spinning coal"?
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by martyvis 5y ago
Totally agree. Their release seems to make it seem that dual core with multiple hundred K of RAM is unique. The elephant in the room is while it has nice GPIO interfaces for sensors, you want onboard wireless for backhaul. Espressif have ha
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by martyvis 5y ago
Or the Planiverse by A.K.Dewdney
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by martyvis 5y ago
I obviously don't talk to enough bikers. This is the first timeI have even heard the idea, I'm 57 and certainly have known a lot of books riders, that people like loud bikes because they think it makes them safer.
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by martyvis 5y ago
I have never felt anything holding 12V DC in my hands. Putting your tongue across 9V "transistor" battery terminals is another thing though.
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by martyvis 5y ago
And just another FYI, but you need to remember that an SVG is a structured document, where the structure may or not be obviously reflected in how it is rendered. I'm not sure which SVG you were playing with, but for instance if I grab
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by martyvis 5y ago
> Electric drills are used for an _average_ of 8 minutes over their lifetime. I did see that somewhere, and I think it was in the context that every home has an electric drill, but most might only get used for 1 or 2 projects a year. You
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by martyvis 5y ago
The Man Who Knew Infinity on the life of the mathematician Ramanujan is a fantastic movie.
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by martyvis 5y ago
As always, Juan Browne has great reporting and analysis of this incident https://youtu.be/_Ph7OR6C90w
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by martyvis 5y ago
Presumably the curators of the Svalbard Global Seed Vault [1] regularly test (or at least intend to as it is fairly new) the efficacy of their storage for different types of seeds? 1. https://www.regjeringen.no/en/topic
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by martyvis 5y ago
Surely in camera, it is just a matter of taking a shot, wait an interval, take another shot, then shift/rotate the two images until X number of bright spots line up and then form a new composite, rinse and repeat. If you have a motor

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