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by philshem 7y ago
I don’t know. Any package name that contains the string py makes me assume it’s python.
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Eating giant crab legs for YouTube has made her a millionaire, she says(nytimes.com)
3 points by philshem 7y ago|0 comments
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by philshem 7y ago
PowerBI has no Mac client.
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by philshem 7y ago
As seen in this article: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20138961
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by philshem 7y ago
Lots of grey text in these comments.
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by philshem 7y ago
> The two reactors at Hunterston B nuclear power plant near Ardrossan are 43 years old - the oldest in Europe. AFAIK, Beznau 1 in Switzerland is the oldest operating. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_nuclear_rea
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by philshem 7y ago
Yes, indeed. Lot's of connectors to non-GMP stuff: https://datastudio.google.com/data
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by philshem 7y ago
This will be a great addition into GCP. Data Studio is decent but can't compete with Tableau, Qlik, etc.
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by philshem 7y ago
On using zip codes, and nearly masking the Flint water crisis: http://theconversation.com/how-zip-codes-nearly-masked-the-l...
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by philshem 7y ago
I once attended a banquet dinner and shared a table with a female FBI agent and her husband. The entire table was enthralled by her fascinating stories of the field. Someone finally asked the husband what he did. He said “IT”. The conversat
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by philshem 7y ago
Data visualization and storytelling.
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by philshem 7y ago
Nice concept. As a suggestion, I think a single page with #bookmarks would be more easily read than individual pages selected from the menu bar. But I’d be curious to hear the pros of the current design choice. Visited on safari / iPho
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by philshem 7y ago
BWaaS (blog writing as a service)
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by philshem 7y ago
Yeah, off to a bad start, and made me stop reading.
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by philshem 7y ago
Yes, the idea was to keep the display off. I didn’t think about the graphics card.
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by philshem 7y ago
Wouldn’t an old Android phone make pretty efficient web server? (24+ hours battery life, WiFi and cellular data, DC charging, low-power built-in display) Here’s a http server: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/6329468
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by philshem 7y ago
There are all sort of statistical outliers when looking at cancer rates around the rest of Europe. See, for example, testicular cancer in Swiss men in 1987/1988: https://twitter.com/philshem/status/11316358378
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by philshem 7y ago
They’d also need to support you for a work visa, which is not needed for any of the 400 million people inside the Schengen zone.
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by philshem 7y ago
I got a “senior” job once with no experience just so the company could bill me at a higher rate.
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by philshem 7y ago
Also do some fun projects that are related to what you know (teeth) or another hobby. Often online tutorials have coding assignments that are in in no way interesting or relevant.
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by philshem 7y ago
Because it’s PiHole, you can black/whitelist custom domains, temporarily disable, see traffic, etc
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by philshem 7y ago
Maybe the mods can fix the link
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by philshem 7y ago
This is a beautiful side of the US.
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by philshem 7y ago
'You aren't stuck in traffic. You are traffic.'
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by philshem 7y ago
Article also links my Ask HN post from yesterday, which explains why the thread keeps getting random comments... https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19980955
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Spotify resets some account passwords citing ‘suspicious activity’(techcrunch.com)
2 points by philshem 7y ago|2 comments
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by philshem 7y ago
Netflix has a great service of showing where the account was logged-in from. Spotify would benefit from the same.
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by philshem 7y ago
My email for spotify login is unique, and of the form *+spotify@gmail.com
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by philshem 7y ago
Yes. And my login is specific to spotify, eg. *+spotify@gmail.com
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by philshem 7y ago
Interesting. A couple months ago I did have some weird thing where some song I never heard of kept playing and starting again when I chose my own song. My account is a free one, and limited to one concurrent player, so I see no need to “sha

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