mk4p

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by mk4p 8y ago
I'd watch those videos if you care to share them
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by mk4p 8y ago
That presumes that technology is consciously adopted; I'd argue that we're also at the mercy of how our minds react to certain technologies. People aren't always glued to their smartphones by choice, or because they were less
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by mk4p 8y ago
> These modern, pretty tools are all communicating with the services they automate using APIs behind the scenes anyway, and accessing those is usually straightforward from just about any decent shell or programming language if you need
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by mk4p 8y ago
When you say "synthesize them into something useful", what do you mean? What's something useful that's resulted from this habit?
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by mk4p 9y ago
It sounds like you need to talk. If you'd like to, I'm at mk@<my username>.com
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by mk4p 10y ago
What about a crowdfunding campaign to purchase this data? I wonder if they'd have second thoughts.
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by mk4p 10y ago
Have you really done this?
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by mk4p 10y ago
If you hate junk mail, you'll LOVE this trick! If a piece of junk mail has a postage-paid return envelope included, take everything else, stuff it in there, and mail the whole thing back. Doesn't pay your utility bill, but feels o
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by mk4p 10y ago
Typo in the terminal screenshot: > http://api.keyvalue/xyz/c98ab8e0/myKey `api.keyvalue/xyz` vs. `api.keyvalue.xyz`
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by mk4p 10y ago
Advice such as?
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by mk4p 10y ago
Also, the message is customizable. I'm kind of surprised at how many commenters didn't assume it would be, so I'll need to think about how to change the presentation.
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by mk4p 10y ago
Interesting idea -- thanks for the suggestion
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by mk4p 10y ago
Wellll, you could set it to check every 1-30 days, so maybe set it to check less frequently? Wouldn't solve the changing-your-number thing, but I'm guessing you don't do that too often.
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by mk4p 10y ago
Haha -- thanks, Dave -- glad you like it :)
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by mk4p 10y ago
Indeed, as @axlee said, Semantic UI. Highly recommended.
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by mk4p 10y ago
Thanks! I'll try to get something together next week.
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by mk4p 10y ago
I have not!
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by mk4p 10y ago
Thanks so much :) As @jdale27 said, there's built-in functionality with AWS that lets you subscribe to various events, e.g. S3 uploads, CloudWatch logs, etc.
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by mk4p 10y ago
There's a scheduled Lambda that sends messages via Twilio.
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by mk4p 10y ago
Thanks! Much appreciated :)
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by mk4p 10y ago
You can set the message to whatever you want; the message in the screenshots is just in keeping with the overall tone of the site.
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by mk4p 10y ago
Right -- the message is customizable, and after you save your contacts, it prompts you with a message you can text them to let them know about the service.
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by mk4p 10y ago
Yeah, you customize your own message -- write whatever you'd want to send, e.g. the location of a spare key.
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by mk4p 10y ago
Oh, it's all customizable. You write whatever you want, like "I haven't checked in in a day -- please make sure I'm alright."
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by mk4p 10y ago
https://izuded.com (i.e., "iz u ded?") I made this because I adopted a puppy and realized that, if I got hit by a bus on a Friday, he could be stuck in his crate for days before anyone realized. Morbid, but useful. It
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by mk4p 10y ago
If you're on Chrome, you might like the "Tab Snooze" extension: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/tab-snooze/pdiebia...
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by mk4p 11y ago
Incorrect -- they requested an "instrument", which carries with it all sorts of legal requirements beyond creating an in-house tool. Source: http://www.zdziarski.com/blog/?p=5645
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by mk4p 11y ago
Re: Steam support in Linux, do you have any idea about VR support? I'm not a huge gamer and I'd consider ditching Windows over this incident, except that I want to play with my Vive when it gets here.
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by mk4p 11y ago
There's: - https://jasperproject.github.io/ and - https://mycroft.ai/projects/
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by mk4p 11y ago
How do you find yourself using it?

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