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by nicholassmith 3y ago
> Realistically you could comfortably put one down on a motorway service station carpark I'm sure the exceptionally canny operators of motorway service stations would find a way to make some extra money off them then. Come for a cof
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by nicholassmith 3y ago
It's a small audio streamer that allows you to use some common audio streaming protocols (Airplay for iOS devices, Spotify Connect for Spotify users etc) with audio line out for speakers & headphones. It looks like an open source v
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by nicholassmith 3y ago
If anyone looks at this page and wants a bit more then I'd recommend The Devil's Cup by Stewart Lee Allen, it's a travelogue as he explores the origins and cultural impact of coffee across the world.
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by nicholassmith 3y ago
I think the Gemini ( https://store.planetcom.co.uk/collections/gemini-pda ) is probably a little closer to the Jornada that I remember. I've been trying to find a justification other than "ooh, shiny" for
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by nicholassmith 4y ago
I imagine there's a lot of former OGame & Planetarion players who still dread hearing an IRC tone in the night knowing it'll be someone either waking you up to say "you've got incoming!" or "send your fleet
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by nicholassmith 5y ago
It's the year of linux on your face. This looks like a really neat project, I think not having pictures of the headset front & centre makes it feel very vapourware though, even if it's a hacked together development unit we sti
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by nicholassmith 5y ago
The downside of the flip buttons was they seemed quite fragile on the two Kindles I had with them, but I much preferred that over the touchscreen tap.
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by nicholassmith 5y ago
I suspected I was wrong but I didn't have my copies to hand, thank you for catching it!
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by nicholassmith 5y ago
There's a plot point in Zero History by William Gibson where one of the characters does viral marketing by engaging people in conversation in bars and promoting various things, I always thought it was reasonably neat because we tend to
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by nicholassmith 5y ago
Don't worry, when Amazon has fully rolled out Sidewalk it'll be able to prompt you through an Amazon Alexa somewhere nearby that you need another coffee, and would you like to have some delivered.
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by nicholassmith 5y ago
If you like Slam then Reclaim Your City ( https://soundcloud.com/reclaim-your-city ) is a good one to go with it.
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by nicholassmith 6y ago
This is what happens in a meeting when someone says "there are no bad ideas". This is the sort of three beer spitballing that normally you come up with as a gag and yet they're committing to it, and whilst it's US only t
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by nicholassmith 6y ago
As someone who used to do a lot of Qt and iOS development work it was always very apparent that people cared about the docs at Qt way more than Apple. There was definite areas that weren't quite as well covered, but overall the consist
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by nicholassmith 6y ago
> "Fabien is raising $135 million" (which, TBH, seems quite a conservative estimate for this project on the one hand, and on the other is a pretty huge investment for something that doesn't have any ROI projections attache
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by nicholassmith 6y ago
That's a great question! I think over time RSS would have ended up where it is anyway because of what it is, you're very intentionally opting out of spending time on site to consume the content elsewhere which for the web of today
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by nicholassmith 6y ago
The way I end up thinking of it now is: I use my DSLR when I want to do photography, I use my phone when I want to take a photo. The end of goal of both is the same, to create an image, but it's how each one gets there that makes it in
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by nicholassmith 6y ago
> but keeping the scheme means productivity won't recover as people able to work productively are sat at home doing nothing. Productivity will recover when businesses can use resources productively. It's either keep the scheme
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by nicholassmith 7y ago
That's a terrible argument isn't it? There's a finite number of musical notes, a finite structure to them and a finite number of effects. We're guaranteed to end up with doppelgänger choruses and melodies sooner rather t
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by nicholassmith 7y ago
Thank you so much for this recommendation!
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by nicholassmith 7y ago
If anyone is looking for an interesting exploration of coffees history across the globe the book The Devil's Cup by Stewart Allen is a light hearted travelogue that digs into its history and impact on cultures across the centuries.
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by nicholassmith 7y ago
Delayed, it was my takeaway from unfortunately having read far too many announcements in similar language. I could be entirely wrong, it might have been a sudden health condition.
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by nicholassmith 7y ago
> That email seems very human Does it? If a human composed and made the decision to send an email to a student who's roommate had recently taken their own life and said "we've detected a vacancy" there would be some s
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by nicholassmith 7y ago
Smack a large "in my opinion" on there. I don't think anyone has done the statistical modelling for it yet.
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by nicholassmith 7y ago
As someone that grew up in an area where there are many families that have at least two generations of non-working family units I'm actually thrilled by UBI. It won't encourage that any more than the current social welfare system
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by nicholassmith 7y ago
I like Daunt, he genuinely seems to like selling books and he's reasonably ruthless about achieving the goals to get a business to health. His approach definitely seemed like a shock to the system for the business and the staff but it&
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by nicholassmith 7y ago
> It’s doubly tricky, because most companies pay lip service to passion. But like a chef that cares a bit too much about which cookware you use, it sometimes hinders the goal of serving 100 customers at noon. Chefs that care deeply about
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by nicholassmith 7y ago
The bits I wish I'd known: It's okay to make mistakes. Really, you're going to make loads of them, and your team is going to make loads of them and you're going to own those mistakes. It's now going to be more about
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by nicholassmith 9y ago
That's interesting to me as I've been looking at Mongo aggregations for a solution to a problem but couldn't find any research on the performance of them.
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by nicholassmith 9y ago
The Martini is the tabs-versus-spaces debate of drinking culture. (But there is only one right way for that as well)
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by nicholassmith 9y ago
Caveat: I am not a scientist, just a humble lover of a dram. I don't generally go for peaty whiskies, much preferring the Speyside flavour profile and some of them benefit from a couple of drops of water. It differs from whisky to whis

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