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by paulhart 3y ago
Pity about Van Moof though - and the owners if the cloud service disappears and they can’t ride their bikes any more. https://electrek.co/2023/07/12/dutch-e-bike-company-vanmoof-... [German]: https:/&#x
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by paulhart 3y ago
Available here: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLJsVF3gZDcuTxcdH5FmQR...
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by paulhart 3y ago
Appear to be available here: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLJsVF3gZDcuTxcdH5FmQR...
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by paulhart 3y ago
There’s a joke about “an LLB having an LLM” in here somewhere.
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by paulhart 4y ago
Given a fixed amount of land to distribute, it makes sense that mega farms are a minority, no? :)
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by paulhart 4y ago
Reminds me of this successful Kickstarter that failed to deliver (I was a backer): https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/andromium/the-superbook...
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by paulhart 4y ago
They’re just audio integrated glasses, rather than something with AR, sadly.
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by paulhart 4y ago
enshittification? also see: https://pluralistic.net/2023/01/21/potemkin-ai/#hey-guys
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by paulhart 4y ago
Good times. Recently I received several emails from Amazon offering me $15 if I would start using their Photos service. Never read the fine print, but that sounds skeezy - like they're trawling for more raw material to train ML systems
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by paulhart 4y ago
It’s very popular here: https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=constructionphysics.s...
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by paulhart 4y ago
And yet, for the men who go to (the right) universities, and choose to join a fraternity: https://slate.com/human-interest/2022/10/sex-ratio-college-c...
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by paulhart 4y ago
Apparently Tim hasn't seen publications like Wallpaper[0] and Monocle[1] (both created by Tyler Brûlé). Ironically, those kinds of aspirational/luxury magazines are printed on heavy stock, and therefore lack a few of the traits th
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by paulhart 4y ago
Internet Archive version: https://web.archive.org/web/20220809073511/https://festi.inf... Github.io: https://florianfesti.github.io/boxes/html/generators.html Also see the Hack
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by paulhart 4y ago
Canada’s tallest free-standing structure, the CN Tower, is 1,815.3 ft tall. 1250 ft is impressive. Two World Trade Center was only 110ft taller than this chimney.
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by paulhart 4y ago
Java is the new(?) COBOL. In my niche, a COTS application that was written in COBOL has been migrating to Java for the last few years (happens to be an Oracle product through acquisition, but that's probably not relevant). As of now, t
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Futel – Free Payphone Service (art/social justice)(futel.net)
3 points by paulhart 4y ago|1 comments
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by paulhart 4y ago
The recent posting of the SparkFun "970-HA-JOKES" project reminded me of this service, which is part art project, part social justice service. The founder of Futel also spoke at a conference a few years ago about the project and i
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by paulhart 4y ago
Apparently it does - with another Rogers connection.
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by paulhart 4y ago
I'd suggest giving the CRTC a call with your thoughts... but their phone system is down :) https://twitter.com/CRTCeng/status/1545421218534359041
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by paulhart 4y ago
Yeah, my dad is into stamps... These days he only collects items that are no longer produced (i.e. from Newfoundland), and keeps them highly organized. No idea if they're actually worth anything, but it gives him pleasure.
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by paulhart 4y ago
You also don't get aliases with O365 Personal - you need to subscribe to a business plan for that.
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by paulhart 5y ago
Fellow Hamiltonian here... Council wasn't for intensification until they got the results of the poll back (and even then, the likes of Ferguson continue to be aghast at the idea of not being in the pockets of suburban developers). We c
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by paulhart 5y ago
Maciej is a member here - https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=idlewords - maybe he can help you out?
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by paulhart 5y ago
Much easier to read: https://blog.zulip.com/2022/02/25/zulip-cloud-invitation-vul...
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by paulhart 5y ago
(For me at least...) The client.boot file is returning a 429 (too many requests).
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by paulhart 5y ago
A lawyer friend who has colleagues working in Family Law says they (the family lawyers) describe their practice as "Feelings Court". The law itself is a guideline, adherence to the rules for e.g. contents of filings is on a meh-ef
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by paulhart 5y ago
There have been many instances where PDFs have been "redacted" by painting black rectangles over the text, but keeping the text intact. I can't think of anyone who has been prosecuted for unredacting those documents - the peo
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by paulhart 5y ago
there's a working Android version for the device - the work is in building a FLOSS set of drivers for the display etc.
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by paulhart 5y ago
I registered for the pre-order and was accepted into the developer batch. AFAIK we're all waiting on the devices. Kernel development is actively occurring on the Quartz64 board (same CPU), and some people with pre-release devices are w
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by paulhart 5y ago
He also talks about things he can't pick - here's a video on the Bowley where he almost immediately admits he can't pick it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qV8QKZNFxLw There are a couple of (old) videos on M

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