peter_retief

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by peter_retief 2y ago
Was it not wrong for the white house to put pressure on Zuckerberg? Are we not blaming the wrong people? In his defense, the FBI told him to. Most people would have believed the FBI.
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by peter_retief 2y ago
Not totally sure if it is needed, nice to have? RSS feeds are great but seen less and less.
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by peter_retief 2y ago
I don't do windows either.
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by peter_retief 2y ago
Thanks.
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by peter_retief 2y ago
Lichess is a great service to casual chess players like myself to get a quick game against another human. Never much of a wait. What I do want to know is how does one pronounce Lichess? Lie chess, Le chess?, League chess?
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by peter_retief 2y ago
Give it a try you may be surprised. It is about attitude rather than the actual task.
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by peter_retief 2y ago
I found the effects of low consumption significant.
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by peter_retief 2y ago
I think the positive effects for physical exercise in cognition and hypertension are fairly well known. There are other factors like alcohol consumption and stress have high correlation on the downside as well. I have a family history of al
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by peter_retief 2y ago
Maybe a bit off topic but who is paying to host these services?
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by peter_retief 2y ago
i do know people who write scripts in php, however, there are no libraries like pandas in php as far as I know https://pandas.pydata.org/
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by peter_retief 2y ago
I don't doubt that php will be with us for many years so any improvements are great. Personally prefer to use a language like python that has depth of libraries and also useful for non web based apps.
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by peter_retief 2y ago
I had brain fog with COVID but it does get better with time. Still sometimes struggle to find the right word. There is also Alzheimer's in my family so that is something additional to worry about
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by peter_retief 2y ago
Miles ahead in what race? Honestly cannot think of any application that I would willingly choose .NET for. I know people who love .NET but they seem to all work for large corporations, no one in startups or doing anything I find interesting
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by peter_retief 3y ago
They don't read what they right i guess :=)
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by peter_retief 3y ago
I have been playing around with various sensors on the skin, one that is interesting is IR absorption which can read glucose as well. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5772583/ I got some interesti
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by peter_retief 3y ago
Good idea thanks. Hopefully UPS will put a fire under them so not to lose business.
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by peter_retief 3y ago
I suspect they are blocking whole IP ranges? What is interesting for me is that a company like UPS that is so customer focused would risk reputational damage by using an incompetent vendor.
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Proofpoint Blocking Ups Clients
1 points by peter_retief 3y ago|4 comments
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by peter_retief 3y ago
I imagine that they can go sofa but no further. Probably get some hate for this silly comment, someone had to say it.
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by peter_retief 3y ago
I suspect the laws of energy have something to do with the creation of life, just my opinion.
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by peter_retief 3y ago
Life and the universe are mysterious, real intelligence is bound to life and we really have no idea how or why they exist.
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by peter_retief 3y ago
It is a law that cannot be broken like perpetual motion or the creation of life. You may also argue that the universe is a perpetual motion machine and you would be wrong.
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by peter_retief 3y ago
Life cannot be created even on the simplest form let alone a brain.
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by peter_retief 3y ago
We cannot create life on the simplest scale, there have been experiments with the creation of life in the Miller experiment have only produced so called building blocks, amino acids. However we are unable to create life in dead creatures th
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by peter_retief 3y ago
This is 4% of Desktop, Linux is most of installed systems if you include routers, servers and devices. I have used Linux Desktop for decades.
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by peter_retief 3y ago
ditto about being excited!
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by peter_retief 3y ago
Great concept, I have used KICAD to design in the past, some of the problems I have had as an amateur are: 1) Selecting the right components, are they available, standard size, surface mount or leaded? 2) Single or double side? Vias can be
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Ask HN: Voice only messaging, unable to read
1 points by peter_retief 3y ago|0 comments
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by peter_retief 3y ago
Is that possible? I really need to get into wasm, seems it might be the best development option for years.
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Active Measures(en.wikipedia.org)
2 points by peter_retief 3y ago|2 comments

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