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by mvdwoord 5y ago
Interesting bit in "The Corporation" iirc about a phony research on how to make kids nag more efficiently which was presented as neutral research for parents about raising kids. https://www.imdb.com/title/tt03
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by mvdwoord 5y ago
Zoning issue/loophole really. These shops truly deteriorate the look and feel of downtown areas, and the staff lingering in front with their bicycles are out of place. It would be fine to allow this new type of delivery, but it is also
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by mvdwoord 5y ago
In the beginning of time (well, maybe not that far back), there was TV, TV had ads in them. Then there was bittorrent, and life was good.
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by mvdwoord 5y ago
Doing better than Argentina... https://tradingeconomics.com/argentina/inflation-cpi
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Venture capitalist Marc Andreessen explains the world with Sturgeon’s law(wsj.com)
3 points by mvdwoord 5y ago|0 comments
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by mvdwoord 5y ago
The company I currently do contract work for, decided it would be best to have one large team in Azure DevOps and subdivide all teams in repositories etc with prefixes and homegrown "Governer" scripts, which are enforced in all pi
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Drones may be used to help protect vulnerable women(telegraph.co.uk)
1 points by mvdwoord 5y ago|1 comments
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Goldfish can learn to navigate a small robotic vehicle on land(twitter.com)
2 points by mvdwoord 5y ago|1 comments
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Covid pandemic distorts perception of time(axios.com)
1 points by mvdwoord 5y ago|0 comments
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by mvdwoord 5y ago
Very entertaining.. I follow https://twitter.com/EmojiMashupPlus for some time now and it also has very funny combinations.
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Static robots.txt file causing Safari to run at 86% CPU(twitter.com)
2 points by mvdwoord 5y ago|0 comments
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by mvdwoord 5y ago
My current employer (long term contract work) and many other company policies simply require e.g. ms authenticator... Can't find any alternative to that. Is there a way to use company issued ms 2fa without a mobile phone (Android/
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by mvdwoord 5y ago
Interesting phone. Have considered for quite some time to move to a dumbish phone, or at least something more minimal. Would like to ditch the mindless and low friction browsing etc.. but OTOH I would miss Signal/Telegram as it is too
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by mvdwoord 5y ago
idealo.de tweakers.net/pricewatch .. in my corner of this earth. There were / are plenty. Google's idea of being the only game in town is mostly marketing for almost all of their products.
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by mvdwoord 5y ago
This is genius.
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by mvdwoord 5y ago
I think at this point we can safely state this is definitely not what happened in Wuhan. Being transparent that is.
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by mvdwoord 5y ago
I have also played TIS-100 and can also heartily recommend!! I should revisit that game and finish the last levels. :D
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by mvdwoord 5y ago
I have started playing it this weekend and it is tons of fun! Still in beta, but the author(s) seem to update regularly fixing bugs and extending the game. https://steamcommunity.com/app/1444480
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Turing Complete is a game about computer science(turingcomplete.game)
148 points by mvdwoord 5y ago|30 comments
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by mvdwoord 5y ago
I am looking at some work of a dutch artist for my house. Beautiful drawings in this style, of iconic dutch architecture. http://www.veerkamp.nl/paginas/gemeentemuseum.html
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by mvdwoord 5y ago
If anyone has a chance, I can heartily recommend a visit to the Arithmeum in Bonn. It is a museum of calulation/calculators not only situated in a beautiful building, but also home to many fine and sometimes interactive manual / m
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by mvdwoord 5y ago
Ran into this last week with a throwaway. Bummer.
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by mvdwoord 5y ago
Why is this redirecting to https:// guce.advertising.com /collectIdentifiers?sessionId=3_cc-session_a5a373d5-c78.. etc All techcrunch links seem to do this . Even if I Google or go to their domain directly. Blocked by nextd
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by mvdwoord 5y ago
Struggled with this in the past as well, and usually run into issues with my clients doing their best to make it hard to export this kind of data from their network. Once installed a tool that synced corporate Notes calendar to private goog
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by mvdwoord 5y ago
How worrisome is this? And what can a normal person do while maintaining normal communications (to a degree) with people they love but who do not (seem to) care about this stuff?
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by mvdwoord 5y ago
Same here, I abuse the notification system as some sort of unified inbox. Probably still dip into the actual apps most of the time.
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by mvdwoord 6y ago
Translated excerpt: The private details and passwords of millions of Dutch people are on the street after a hack at the popular webshop Allekabels [All Cables]. According to experts, this is the largest data breach with passwords in the Net
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Dutch retailer hacked, private data of millions sold. [Dutch](rtlnieuws.nl)
4 points by mvdwoord 6y ago|1 comments
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by mvdwoord 6y ago
Seconded, to a degree. It seems most people's workspaces are just very dimly lit. Of course, modern hypersensitive sensors from DSLRs are immune to this. I use a relatively simple and old Logitech (C720 I believe) as webcam, and when I
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by mvdwoord 6y ago
I really appreciate this take on complexity... thanks. Can you recommend some more reading on this line of thinking?

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