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by rikroots 6y ago
I'm not going to get too excited about this. "Brain cells can harbor and spread HIV virus to the body" - https://www.nih.gov/news-events/news-releases/brain-cells-ca... (June 2020)
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by rikroots 6y ago
> Taking it down would leave us with w3schools I've long avoided w3schools, but a lot of comments on various HN threads suggest the site has improved a lot over the past few years. If true, this makes me less worried about the futur
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by rikroots 6y ago
I think this article is a useful overview of the risks associated with relying on 3rd party software loaded into a website, which in turn rely on their own 3rd party vendors to make their software work. The one thing that the article lacks
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by rikroots 6y ago
For situations like these, you really need to talk to a solicitor who deals with employment and contract work. There may be online legal-focussed forums you can reach out to? There's also the Citizens Advice Bureau who may be able to o
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by rikroots 6y ago
I am not a lawyer ... but is that clause even enforceable under UK law? I did my normal 2 minute Google search and found pages which suggests IP falls to the employer if created by the employee "as part of their normal duties"[1][
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by rikroots 6y ago
Previous thread on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21289832 I commented on that thread at the time, giving examples of how I had got documentation for my project[1] - badly - wrong over the years (note: all the lin
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by rikroots 6y ago
The woman in the article seems to have a pretty severe form of the condition. Most sufferers will work out coping strategies (in my case: voice, shape, gait - I have an advantage over most people when it comes to recognising people in the d
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Show HN: An (incomplete) map of the continent of Ewlah(rikweb.org.uk)
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by rikroots 6y ago
If people feel the need to use text inside their <canvas> elements, I've done some (not very rigorous) research on how JS engines interpret font size instructions in their canvasRenderingContext2d environments: - Absolute size ke
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by rikroots 6y ago
Agreed. But they did deprecate EC2-Classic. "The EC2-Classic platform was introduced in the original release of Amazon EC2. If you created your AWS account after 2013-12-04, it does not support EC2-Classic." https://doc
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by rikroots 6y ago
EC2 vs EC2-classic. I got badly burned (mentally) because I had to learn about creating EC2 instances using the company AWS account created before 2014, but then needed to create instances on a client account created in 2014. Also: classic
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by rikroots 6y ago
"When I said I couldn’t work as the sole developer of Sigil people went overboard and acted like the sky was falling. Kovid Goyal from calibre stepped in to create Sigil’s Spiritual Successor which is an EPUB editor as part of calibre.
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by rikroots 6y ago
I decided, 3 weeks into my first full-time job (as a lab technician) that I profoundly disagreed with the concept of the capitalist work ethic. The idea that a person's life had meaning only if they stayed in work - often boring, tedio
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by rikroots 6y ago
> Are there any good resources to read up on for making sure accessibility is good in <canvas> whatwg.org[1] is less than helpful when it comes to to describing how to make sure canvas elements are accessible; MDN[2] is a little mo
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by rikroots 6y ago
I build worlds: http://www.rikweb.co.uk/kalieda/index.php
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by rikroots 6y ago
The good thing about open source (and GitHub) is that I can walk away from it when I lose interest in the project. I did this in 2015, went back to scratch the itch in 2017 and only returned properly to it (to rewrite it from scratch) in
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by rikroots 6y ago
I have absolutely no idea why I still keep this site running on my domain. I pulled it together in a fit of jokefullness back in the very early 2000s. It has no relevance today and, on several occasions, I almost got round to taking it down
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by rikroots 6y ago
I can see your point. And my initial reaction to the whole ML-as-writer thing was hands-up horror. Like everything, I think this new tech is going to impact in both good, and bad, ways. In my scenario, I expect there will be a lot of books
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by rikroots 6y ago
I disagree, in part. As a (wannabe-science-fiction) writer, I think GPT-3 has potential to be useful. In my case, I have plenty of stories I want to write, lots of ideas that I want to play with. The thing I struggle with is writing the fir
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by rikroots 6y ago
This sounds interesting. My use case for a SAAS video editing product would be to do some video screen captures, then edit them together, then add voiceover, subtitles etc (are interactive hotspots on your roadmap?) to get a half-decent fin
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by rikroots 6y ago
Thank you, Adam, for developing Tailwind CSS. I've been using it exclusively for my side projects since the start of the year. The thought of going back to a less utility-based CSS system (and/or SASS/LESS) leaves me cold.
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by rikroots 6y ago
I'm excited by the prospect of OffscreenCanvas, and yet at the same time I'm not convinced that it's going to be massively useful for my canvas library[1]. The one area where it could have a big impact (I think) would be to r
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by rikroots 6y ago
> The solution is to borrow ideas from those who have done it before. I've tried that. Open various libraries, go through the code, work out how/where they perform the collision response calculations, trace back the vars passed
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by rikroots 6y ago
I have huge admiration for anyone who manages to implement a physics engine. I've tried to do this twice now (to integrate with my 2D canvas library) and both times I've not been able to solve the collision response part of the sy
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by rikroots 6y ago
Ah. So Mr West is following a more impatient version of the My Bloody Valentine model, yes?
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by rikroots 6y ago
All I get is a page telling me to sign in with Facebook, Google, etc. That's not gonna happen. Maybe that's the entire point of the page, and the HN post?
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by rikroots 6y ago
If we're going for some armchair philosophy (with added tinfoil hat) - I agree with all your points. I'll also claim that language developed from vocalisations because humans are excellent at mimicking the sounds they hear around
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by rikroots 6y ago
> People do not casually write open source to make money (unless sponsored by a company). They do it for the recognition and for vanity. 1. I would like to make a little bit of money from my open source projects. I like money. But if no
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by rikroots 6y ago
I am in this camp. I created a GitHub account and started a project because a recruiter told me I needed to demonstrate my coding skills if I wanted anyone to take me seriously as a junior engineer prospect. Trying to get your first gig as
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by rikroots 6y ago
In the UK, this job is handled by the British Library. They have a legal duty to collect annual snapshots of all websites using the .uk TLD https://www.bl.uk/collection-guides/uk-web-archive

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