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by pidg 6y ago
I believe there is evidence that the action of writing by hand forms memories more strongly. Since all my meetings are video calls now, I've reverted to writing notes, simply because I can't feign concentration on the call and typ
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by pidg 6y ago
In my experience (marketing at a small tech company), you can get results even for reasonably competitive terms. The difference is in giving a quality answer to the query. Many (most?) tech companies fill their sites with low-quality, jar
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by pidg 6y ago
Yeah, the one thing I took away from this timely endorsement of using two screens(?) is that Zoom has a special two-screen mode.
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by pidg 6y ago
If you want something similar that you can self-host, try Yellow by Datenstrom: https://datenstrom.se/yellow/
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by pidg 6y ago
The project, including source code: https://opensafely.org/ Press release: https://opensafely.org/press-releases/2020/05/covid-risk-fac... Paper (not yet peer-reviewed): https://ww
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Unprecedented study across 17m UK health records reveals Covid risk factors(twitter.com)
2 points by pidg 6y ago|1 comments
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by pidg 6y ago
I wish there was a way to do this but with popular/classic board and card games instead. My friends are, for the most part, not board game nerds. They want to play commercially successful games like Trivial Pursuit, Balderdash, Uno, et
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by pidg 7y ago
The author of the article (and, presumably, most businesses) are living in the past. I work in an open-plan office in a place that makes heavy use of the latest collaboration software, and it works great. There is virtually no use of email
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by pidg 7y ago
Everything is ass-covering. The "trust" tech marketing builds is to say "I trust these guys won't lose me my job", not "I trust their software works exactly as advertised".
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by pidg 7y ago
It's also famously ethically dubious: https://gigaom.com/2014/06/30/the-dark-side-of-io-how-the-u-...
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by pidg 7y ago
As the former holder of yahoo.org.uk, I can also confirm that ordinary people don't understand the difference between .org.uk and .co.uk.
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by pidg 7y ago
Br[ü|u][x][s]sel[le]s?
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by pidg 7y ago
It seems to be focused now on tech topics - is this going to remain the case?
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by pidg 7y ago
Chrome.
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by pidg 7y ago
I gave desktop Firefox multiple chances over the course of 15 years, until that day in May when every extension stopped working.[1] That said, the mobile version seems really robust. [1] https://techcrunch.com/2019/05&#
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by pidg 7y ago
I think I picked up my first Sansa Clip+ new for £15, and my second one (just after they were discontinued) for about £35. I imagine it's gone up again since then!
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by pidg 7y ago
Yes - I have Rockbox running on a Sansa Clip+ and it's superb. The only music player apart from Winamp that has a built-in out-of-phase stereo option! (aka 'vocal remover', though the effect is highly variable)
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by pidg 7y ago
https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2019/03/why-bother-with-what-three-...
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by pidg 7y ago
How does your mail get delivered? Mine still gets delivered by a human.
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by pidg 7y ago
I thought this too, it felt more and more inevitable the nearer I got to the end of the article. what3words is so problematic and really isn't the solution to this problem.
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by pidg 7y ago
Top tip - if you find yourself with a Scottish note in England, use it in a self-checkout machine.
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by pidg 7y ago
They're all very different colours, for a start, so you can know what you're holding quickly/intuitively (so long as you're not colour-blind).
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by pidg 7y ago
You're kind of demonstrating why the £ design is superior to the $ though
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by pidg 7y ago
I believe LineageOS used to be called Cyanogenmod, and it's a fully free/open source implementation of Android. openGapps is Google Apps (like Maps) that you can install without having the Play Store. Using LineageOS lets you do m
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by pidg 7y ago
As someone who is fully drunk on Monzo kool-aid, well done to them on (a) identifying the problem and (b) immediately telling customers what to do. Imagine how long this would have been an issue if it had happened at Barclays or TSB.
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by pidg 7y ago
The monthly fee for Photoshop is around 1/100th of the old retail price. That works out at about 8 years of use before you have to 'buy' the software again. Seems fair to me. And for those who don't like paying for Photo
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by pidg 7y ago
As an Ecotricity customer I do wonder about this. My bills seem to go up every 6 months and are already pretty high. Then again, I used to be with Eon and their customer service is outrageously abysmal - dropped calls, 30+ minute hold times
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by pidg 7y ago
As a non-iOS user, can someone explain what is happening in this image?: https://techcrunch.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/2019060317... Does the 'X' mean "selected" or "don&#x27
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by pidg 7y ago
"Introvert" still doesn't mean "shy" or "socially awkward", however much shy and socially awkward people want to redefine it as such. As a confident introvert who doesn't flounder in social settings,
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by pidg 7y ago
Ooh, Inter is very nice. Thanks!

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