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by ourcat 6y ago
Sadly, the pink sheets thrive on those kinds of "articles" about companies to 'pump' them up. Sure, some people will make money, but it's an absolute farce.
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by ourcat 6y ago
In quite a few places actually. Here's one https://techcrunch.com/2018/07/26/facebook-finally-hands-ove...
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by ourcat 6y ago
Indeed. And Cambridge Analytica turned that into a business model and 'weapons-grade' data.
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by ourcat 6y ago
I mostly get annoyed at blatant and demonstrable lies and innaccuracies that far too any people are unable to determine as such.
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by ourcat 6y ago
However feel people 'emotionally' about things like that, justified or not (ie racist/overly 'patriotic'), they failed to realise that we'd all be worse off. There is no upside. And yes, I'm saying lots
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by ourcat 6y ago
This is exactly how online political campaigning works these days. If you can "push someone's buttons" over something that provokes an emotional reaction, an opinion gets formed that's hard to shift, rationally , in the
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by ourcat 6y ago
Back in the day, setting up my own site was the best thing I did. And the skills I learned by doing so have evolved into a 25 year professional career. You're right about Social networks etc. They ate bloggers' lunch. Far too many
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by ourcat 6y ago
I hate to sound cynical, but it does keep investers happy.
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by ourcat 6y ago
Have you tried Cranberry juice/extract? I've often heard that it can help the body break down the Uric acid.
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by ourcat 6y ago
Indeed. 'Blinky' is the 'Hello World' of microcontroller programming ;)
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by ourcat 6y ago
Not so long ago I decided I wanted to learn some C++ and ended up getting some cheap micro controllers and starting with Arduinos and learning from the examples in various libraries. Now I'm having a lot of fun, still learning, while p
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by ourcat 6y ago
Well, their main issue is serving ads with the content. They don't want applications having the final .mp4 url to embed without them.
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by ourcat 6y ago
'Actively-maintained' is another way of saying 'We play Whack-a-Mole with YouTube every time they change how the ultimate .mp4 video file url is obtained via the private API'. ie: If you didn't update youtube-dl tha
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by ourcat 6y ago
A certain amount of 'reactogenicity' is expected with most vaccines. ie: "expected" adverse reactions.
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by ourcat 6y ago
I do this when I shiver in the cold. You'll stay warmer for longer.
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by ourcat 6y ago
Looks nice. Good documentation too. One thing I'd add though, is an example for HTTPS (eg: with certbot) in your Reverse Proxy section.
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by ourcat 6y ago
All depends how much energy or resources you have at hand to deal with them. In my experience, 'free' users can often be far more demanding (and draining) to deal with. While this is obviously some value to garnered from them, the
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by ourcat 6y ago
I know a couple of people who caught Covid-19 back before the summer, who both described the same symptoms after recovering (and testing negative). This was a while before all this talk of 'Long Covid' came about. Since we'r
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by ourcat 6y ago
I'd say the spec is fine. It's the implementations of it that's a mess. Mostly when it comes to the different voltages they can be set to provide. Here's a video I saw recently which explains all about USB-C 'PD&#x2
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by ourcat 6y ago
This reminds me of something I used to say: "I'd rather build something with 1000 paying customers instead of 1,000,000 free users" (... who I'd eventually have to try and monetise in uncomfortable ways)
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by ourcat 6y ago
Interesting. I'd never considered Google for my domains. Any idea if the '£10/year' is every year? Or does it go up after the first year? Also, I found it weird that they promote a .app and .dev TLD as 'More Secur
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by ourcat 6y ago
It's back now. But everything did indeed grind to a halt for a few minutes.
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by ourcat 6y ago
Very neat. I assume this would work work on a cheap Raspberry Pi3 or 4 too, via their Bluetooth and out via its audio jack. Now I think of it, I seem to remember seeing a project like this to make use of old wooden-box speakers (with a smal
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by ourcat 6y ago
That's true. I actually have a few cheap card-like gadgets. And they're certainly not fresnel lenses. ;)
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by ourcat 6y ago
Re: 'Headless CMS' in the article: Since the introduction of the JSON REST API, I've been using Wordpress as the back-end to various personal and professional projects, built on various web and native mobile frameworks. One o
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by ourcat 6y ago
There's an AliExpress link in the README of the Github repo. Though, I'd imagine you could use ones from cheaper 'phone-to-face' Google Cardboard-style ones.
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by ourcat 6y ago
It's great. But make sure you have a decent 5GHz router. I use a TP-Link AC1900 and Half-Life Alyx works great. VirtualDesktop completely revolutionises the Quest. It's an absolute must-have. I wouldn't be all surprised if it
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by ourcat 6y ago
If it supports 5GHz Wifi, something like this could eventually work well with VirtualDesktop (An incredibly useful app which makes the Oculus Quest truly wireless and capable of playing all SteamVR games from your PC). Keeping all the GPU
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by ourcat 6y ago
I did a similar thing to design a 3d printed mask. I used an iOS app called ScandyPro which gave me a mesh which I then imported into Fusion360 and modelled some lines/layers of the curves around my face. Then I performed a 'loft&
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by ourcat 6y ago
Back in the day IE always had an 'advantage' purely by the name: 'Internet Explorer'. When people 'got a computer' to 'get on the internet', seeing that icon on the desktop got them where the thought

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