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by mikehall314 2y ago
I’m trying to find the source of the $300 claim. Mostly it’s appearing on Bitcoin websites, which say it’s an estimate from Noranett. At least one Bitcoin site is reporting the figure as $300 per year. The Noranett press release announcing
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by mikehall314 2y ago
The problem here seems to be that Noranett wants to keep the same revenues despite selling less electricity. I don’t think that a point in favour of Bitcoin, it’s a point against the idea of “revenue must grow at all costs”
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Hotels and houseplants: why we should doubt mind-over-matter miracles(skeptic.org.uk)
3 points by mikehall314 2y ago|0 comments
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by mikehall314 3y ago
The evidence on Hawthorne Effect is actually pretty poor https://www.mcgill.ca/oss/article/critical-thinking-history/...
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SPA view transitions land in Chrome 111(developer.chrome.com)
173 points by mikehall314 4y ago|127 comments
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by mikehall314 4y ago
I'm actually quite surprised at the initial response by the PHP Core to this vulnerability. At very least I would have thought a sensible approach would be to fail securely - so if supplied with a bad hash you return false, not true!
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by mikehall314 4y ago
Though he doesn't mention it in this video, I have seen Crockford promoting the 'Dailies' idea in talks before - and he does promote it as a replacement for code review and stand up. One hour, every morning, where the entire
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by mikehall314 4y ago
We tried this in a team a few years ago, and the problem we faced was developers literally falling asleep during readings. We found that the Team wasn't really engaging with the process and instead just tuned out until it was their tur
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Package-lock.json pins only first-order dependencies(twitter.com)
2 points by mikehall314 5y ago|1 comments
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by mikehall314 5y ago
I worked on a similar little project about 10 years ago. We called it 300 Lines. It was a shared public canvas which displayed only the last 300 lines drawn. We used socket.io to sync between the client and a NodeJS backend. (The whole thin
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by mikehall314 5y ago
I'm sorry - when you said "this isn't what was being proposed" I must have mis-understood what you meant.
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by mikehall314 5y ago
I don't think anything I've said contradicts that. Although Apple said they would only scan content which was uploaded to iCloud Photos, scanning still takes place locally on-device.
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by mikehall314 5y ago
Many people were upset or annoyed at the idea of their own device spying on them. I can understand that. However, the major issue for me is the database of "forbidden" neural hashes which you are not permitted to have on your phon
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The strangest bug I ever encountered(medium.com)
8 points by mikehall314 5y ago|0 comments
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by mikehall314 6y ago
Luke Wroblewski has long been a critic of the hamburger icon, citing both that hiding key components of your application behind a burger menu is bad for engagement [1] and that the meaning of that icon as "menu" is not as well und
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French Scientist Didier Raoult Given Rusty Razor Award For Pseudoscience(skeptic.org.uk)
55 points by mikehall314 6y ago|67 comments
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by mikehall314 6y ago
I was under the impression that they did not store IP addresses, though I could be incorrect. Their docs suggest as much https://docs.plausible.io/excluding/ "Most web analytics tools do this by excluding certain
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by mikehall314 6y ago
I love the "Wat" talk. I wrote a blog a few years ago where I attempted to dig into the JavaScript cases Gary's cites and figure out what is actually happening. https://medium.com/@mikehall314/wat-s-happe
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Wide colour displays break credit card payments in Chrome(bugs.chromium.org)
1 points by mikehall314 6y ago|0 comments
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Ring logs every doorbell press and app action(bbc.co.uk)
2 points by mikehall314 7y ago|0 comments
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by mikehall314 7y ago
I understand the point, but whether it actually is the way people want to consume content or not is irrelevant — that is the accusation being levelled at the BBC, and specifically that they risk being “Blockbuster in the age of Netflix”.
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by mikehall314 7y ago
That’s not entirely fair IMO. The BBC already had deals with ITV and Channel 4 to put their content on the new Project Kangaroo service before it was killed off.
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by mikehall314 7y ago
The wider context here is that ministers have been arguing that the BBC is behind the times, because Netflix-style on-demand services are the way people want to consume content now. Not only that, but an annual subscription to Netflix is ch
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by mikehall314 7y ago
I don't think I can substantively disagree with anything said here. Though I can think of a few places where iPad has revolutionised things; most notably point-of-sale. Especially for small businesses, I commonly see iPad and other tab
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by mikehall314 7y ago
May I ask - are you based in the US? You may be remembering the US syndicated version of “Resurrection of the Daleks” which mistakenly aired without music or sound effects. The story was completed with a full dub, however, and aired in the
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by mikehall314 7y ago
Can you recall any more specifics of the story you watched? I'm very familiar with the history of Doctor Who, but I'm not aware of any episode or story having aired without sound effects. Any details you have will help me narrow d
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by mikehall314 7y ago
Good spot!
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by mikehall314 7y ago
Silly trivia: the effect they’ve called “Martian Computer 1972” was used in Doctor Who in 1966, without some of the twinkly bits over the top and at a slightly slower speed. Presumably it was reworked for a production in 1972, and so is in
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by mikehall314 7y ago
I'm reminded of the version of this quote which appeared in the TV movie "Pirates of Silicon Valley", which features this exchange... Gates: Good artists copy, great artists steal. Ballmer: Oh yeah, who said that? Gates: shr
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by mikehall314 7y ago
From memory, it would do 1.5 frames per second.

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