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by nisse72 6y ago
Oliver Sacks wrote about a man who was born sighted but lost his sight due to cataracts at a very young age. 50 years later he had surgery and "regained" his sight, but found the world very difficult to navigate using vision, and
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by nisse72 6y ago
All that's lacking is augmenting the broadcast with a blue halo and a trail, and it's deja-vu all over again: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FoxTrax
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by nisse72 6y ago
My phone has also been my sole internet connection for the last 12 years. What I don't get is they are selling wireless broadband at the price I mention above, but if you buy what is essentially the same product as part of a phone plan
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by nisse72 6y ago
Sounds a bit high? Vodafone NZ offers 300 GB of 4G broadband for $73 at the moment.
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by nisse72 6y ago
- Chile 1973
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by nisse72 6y ago
Related, after telling us for years how dangerous it would be if people flew with more than 100 ml of liquid, it's now allowed (i.e. no longer dangerous?) to carry a larger quantity of hand sanitizer because of coronavirus: https:&#x2
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by nisse72 6y ago
haha yes I wish emacs could do that too but the thought of a redundant pass in every block would probably bother me more than the lack of auto-outdent. That colon that starts every indented block is like an unmatched opening brace though.
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by nisse72 6y ago
Send nothing and every recipient replies! It can't get any better.
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by nisse72 6y ago
Yes but ms gov cloud is unfortunately not supported.
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by nisse72 6y ago
Teams is utter shite. Especially if you're forced to use the web version (because linux). This goes for all of Office365.
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by nisse72 6y ago
"The average time in London is 5.53 pm"
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by nisse72 6y ago
There used to be a small IKEA on the high street in central Uppsala (Sweden) in the late 1980s, and a larger one outside the city. The small shop went away around 1990, no idea why since it's a university town where everyone gets aroun
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by nisse72 6y ago
And even if you are able to pay and choose to do so, do you think this means they stop collecting your data? I very much doubt it.
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by nisse72 6y ago
Actually it's been autumn here for 2 months.
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by nisse72 7y ago
Does paying for a service really mean that the company taking your money stops tracking you? Not only don't I believe that's ever the case, but when you sign up and pay, they can get some additional details from you that they were
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by nisse72 7y ago
I've never really understood the need some HN readers have, to insist on a date on anything that wasn't published relatively recently. Especially articles about things that do not change with time. Maybe every post should have the
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by nisse72 7y ago
Rather than "NIH" solutions, I think that such businesses commonly choose products that can be hosted on premise. There's also MS Government Cloud: https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/global-infrastructure&
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by nisse72 7y ago
They are free to study as much as they want. The curfew is on the business itself. As the quote in the third paragraph says: 'It's the hagwon that's in violation, not you.'
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by nisse72 7y ago
You remain employed during this time off, there is no re-hiring involved.
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by nisse72 7y ago
Historically, they would have used trigraphs to represent those characters. Today? Unsure. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digraphs_and_trigraphs
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by nisse72 7y ago
You might appreciate the work of this artist / mapmaker: https://www.antonthomasart.com/ I'm sure there are (a few) others like him, but I listened to an interview recently where he talked about completing his map
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by nisse72 7y ago
> you can’t just choose to not pay for things. > Want to have a child? If you can't afford to have a child, then you can (and probably should) choose to not have a child. If I need something for my occupation, then my emplo
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by nisse72 7y ago
For about $50 you can (still) get a Nokia 3310.
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by nisse72 7y ago
You argument applies to any secondary market. The creator has already made money from the first sale. Why should they continue to get a piece of every subsequent sale?
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by nisse72 7y ago
But Itchy and Scratchy does exist!
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by nisse72 7y ago
Nothing prevents you from presenting that same SSID as a honeypot.
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by nisse72 7y ago
I had (still have in a drawer) a 1st gen ipod, but used some gnu audio software (I forget what) to encode (encrypt?) and transfer music I had ripped from CD's I own. I never used itunes. I think it wasn't until later generations t
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by nisse72 7y ago
I also recommend his doco "The War on Democracy" http://johnpilger.com/videos/the-war-on-democracy
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by nisse72 7y ago
Aviat Networks flew me to Wellington for a whole day interview a few years ago. I was expected to prepare (in advance) a number of things including a technical presentation and detailed answers to a large number of questions, which took me
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by nisse72 7y ago
Clearly he's referring to the 1973 coup d'etat in Chile, the start of 2 decades of torture and disappearances in that country.

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