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by ourcat 6y ago
Agreed. That interface could be so much easier to navigate. Might be easier on a touch interface. Even some simple ordering by recency of activity would be a vast improvement. Or some 'momentum' to the scrolling of the tree.
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by ourcat 6y ago
System Prefs. > General > Show scroll bars.
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by ourcat 6y ago
I'm constantly impressed by the ESP32 and have dabbled in a few project ideas. You could even use them to talk to other ESP32 devices (in other dresses!) using WiFi/UDP, Bluetooth LE or Espressif's own 'ESP-Now' mes
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by ourcat 6y ago
Curious lack of any mention of Jacques Cousteau's first son (and father of Fabien) Jean-Michel, who I met about a decade ago while doing some work for his Ocean Futures Society.
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by ourcat 6y ago
The Google Chrome app on a Mac can also still have previous versions inside it. Right-click on it and go to Show Package Contents. Then navigate to Contents > Frameworks > Google Chrome Framework.framework > Versions You'll al
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by ourcat 6y ago
Naturally. I'm just saying that I would have thought it had something to do with that first, before the captive portal clue. I assume React Native doesn't require CORS, like the web version does?
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by ourcat 6y ago
If relationships with China go further south, I've been wondering/worrying if that might eventually (and sadly) affect the supply of cheap components to young, developing 'makers', many of whom ultimatately tend to end u
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by ourcat 6y ago
Re: the 'disturbing' Google chatter/endpoint, a 204 HTTP status reponse is also the expected code for a pre-flight OPTIONS request to support CORS.
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by ourcat 6y ago
Thanks for this. Now I have a much better picture of what it is you do. 'The Elevator Pitch' is what I was after. It really was a bit hard to gauge from the info out there. If the product is great, then I think you're on to t
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by ourcat 6y ago
Epic legal battle aside, this is also somewhat interesting, given Unity's recently-announced IPO.
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by ourcat 6y ago
Having only just installed Unity over the weekend and starting to go through tutorials and starting to understand how I can build AR/VR/XR 'things', I've started to see the light and wished I'd started on this
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by ourcat 6y ago
Got it. Thanks. More useable too, I'd hope.
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by ourcat 6y ago
Yes, Epstein. There's a few trustworthy articles out there which share a quote that he 'hoped to seed the human race with his DNA'. He had allegedly confided with quite a few people about it.
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by ourcat 6y ago
His views on eugenics were particularly creepy, even from an academic perspective.
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by ourcat 6y ago
What do they actually do (for 1m+ people)? I'm looking around their site and blog (and the S-1) and read a lot of 'marketing-speak', but no simple one-liner about what they actually do and what value they bring. Am I missing
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by ourcat 6y ago
I wonder if the 'news' is the 7.4.0 change that allows for configuration for multiple concurrent requests, by spinning-up numbers of workers as needed?
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by ourcat 6y ago
Not forgetting NNTP Usenet binaries and the evolution from UUEncoded files to YEnc-oded files. Truly magical days.
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by ourcat 6y ago
Worth pointing out that it was discovered that this blog entry was edited during the Covid-19 pandemic, between April 8th - 15th, 2020. Prior to this, his blog had made no mention of coronaviruses. https://fullfact.org/healt
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by ourcat 6y ago
An absolute inspiration. To anyone who hasn't heard of him, look him up on Youtube for many wonderfully insightful and inspirational talks about creativity and education. RIP.
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by ourcat 6y ago
Don't they both require handing over a mobile phone number to use them? This is what has always confused me (and turned me off) about these privacy-focussed messaging apps.
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by ourcat 6y ago
Your father made Ka-Radio? It's an incredibly impressive project, that one. Please pass on my thanks.
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by ourcat 6y ago
Indeed. And I've got too used to the dual-core on the ESP32. Having the ability to pin tasks to one core for 'heavy-lifting' while running main task logic on the other, avoiding interrupts, has been a huge relief. (Though, ha
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by ourcat 6y ago
USB-OTG on a small microcontroller like the ESP32S also presents significant opportunities for malicious 'anti-security' devices pretending to be other devices, while up to no good. (See 'Malduino') With its single-cor
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by ourcat 6y ago
Since getting (back) into electronics and writing firmware for microcontrollers a few years ago, and having been through various projects with the 8266 (which blew my mind at the time), I now use the ESP32 for most ideas and project that I
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by ourcat 6y ago
While sliding it from 0% to 100%, the 'thumb cursor' reaches 100% before the mouse pointer does, after some strange animation 'jumps' which have no bearing on the step value setting. Also, clicking anywhere on the bar do
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by ourcat 6y ago
Very, very nicely done indeed. That's a LOT of work. It takes me back to the days when I built a web-based editor for SMIL and 'HTML+TIME' nearly 20 years ago (!!). ("smibase")
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by ourcat 6y ago
The only reason the Daily Mail (a demonstrably racist publisher of right-leaning lies and propaganda) would publish this is to create anger from those who regularly read it. Since there's are a lot of people wouldn't agree with th
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by ourcat 6y ago
It certainly drove the development and adoption of "micropayments" at the time. There was also confusion around copyright issues, with some characters seemingly thinking that "under 30 seconds" of copyrighted music was f
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by ourcat 6y ago
I remember when this sort of functionality arrived in Second Life. It enabled a lot of easy 'shared experiences'. eg: Watching a live video stream of an event with people, or group presentations etc.
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by ourcat 6y ago
Very nice. It reminds me a little bit of the early stages of the game 'Spore'.

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