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by rmccue 3y ago
It’s designed so that you can pair two together, or one with a controller; I think they talked about this motivation back when they announced it. https://blog.playstation.com/2023/01/04/introducing-project-...
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by rmccue 3y ago
They note that the controller has 4 “industry standard 3.5mm expansion ports” so sounds like they do have some sort of standard support.
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by rmccue 3y ago
As someone who runs an enterprise WordPress host, Facebook aren’t that surprising - loads of large organisations use WordPress either within their marketing department, or as their “second CMS” (AEM is very often the primary). We’re still s
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by rmccue 3y ago
They’re almost perfect, but from what I’ve observed, there are two variants: one where the button sticks out, and another where the button is surrounded by a lip. I absolutely detest the lip variant. It makes it impossible to slap the butto
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How a flawed idea is teaching kids to be poor readers (2019)(apmreports.org)
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by rmccue 3y ago
Very annoyingly, a lot of the Graviton processors are only available on larger sizes (minimum of a .medium, but often much larger), and they’re still not filtering down to the smaller sizes. Hopefully AWS will finally start making them avai
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by rmccue 3y ago
I'm not sure exactly what happened, but there's definitely some sort of bug - I entered what I was certain was the correct info and got the "incorrect" phrase. Rechecked about 100% times using all clues and still the sam
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by rmccue 3y ago
I got the chickenpox vaccine as a kid, but still managed to pick it up a couple of years ago - efficacy wanes as you age apparently, and it had been over a decade since I’d been vaccinated. So, there’s still the possibility :D
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by rmccue 3y ago
Interesting! From the cited paper itself: > The top 5 consumers in 2020 were China, Brazil, India, USA, and Australia But also: > In contrast, Australia now also appears among the top 5 –however, in the absence of any public report of
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by rmccue 3y ago
I don’t believe this is true in the Australian context though: > Australian animal industries are one of the lowest users of antimicrobials in the world https://www.amr.gov.au/about-amr/amr-australia/animal-heal
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by rmccue 3y ago
Genoa gave it to France to pay for their debt apparently: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treaty_of_Versailles_(1768)
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by rmccue 3y ago
There was some discussion and links on https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37708582 recently - tldr, Insomnia now requires a cloud account and can’t run purely locally. See also https://github.com/Kong&#x2F
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by rmccue 3y ago
> The plug-ins being a mixture of free and proprietary that can't be easily extended to add features This is not true - while there are paid (“premium”) plugins in the WordPress ecosystem, they are all open source, as they are class
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by rmccue 3y ago
The WordPress ecosystem spans the gamut from my-first-site through to massive enterprises, so you’d have to expect that many sites you see are in the long-tail. At the higher end, it’s no different to any professional software ecosystem. Th
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by rmccue 3y ago
No doubt they’d have been spending an equivalent amount across AWS and cloud engineer staffing; I also doubt that they’re on VIP’s entry plans, given the compliance, support, and traffic. (I work on a similarly-priced competitor to VIP.)
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by rmccue 3y ago
Enterprises tend to use a variety of CMSes. According to https://torchbox.com/blog/nasa-jpl-launches-on-wagtail/ only JPL was on Wagtail; I believe that’s now also on WordPress, albeit a separate install of it. (I
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by rmccue 3y ago
Aside from the famous case of Apple Corps as noted by jollofricepeas, there are multiple other trademarks for “Apple” as a single word in the US, including for tobacco, horseshoes, books, and travel.
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by rmccue 3y ago
The standard generally is whether the trademark would cause confusion to or deceive consumers. Naming a company after an existing brand which is an invented word (being a corruption of googol) would fall under the latter, and intent matters
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by rmccue 3y ago
“vespa” means wasp in Italian, and it seems unlikely that they’re in the same trademark categories.
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by rmccue 3y ago
> with exceptions, e.g., Newfoundland Also, notably for about 1.5 billion people in India: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_Standard_Time
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by rmccue 3y ago
You can preprogram that sort of stuff in, but if you set alarms to irregular times, you really want the integration rather than having to manually readjust daily. (I have a Lifx Day and Dusk in the bedroom lamp, not a Hue.)
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by rmccue 3y ago
Annoyingly, the alarm app I use (Sleep Cycle) only supports Hue for some of the advanced features (sunrise lights). Despite supporting HomeKit for some stuff, the ecosystem lock-in persists.
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by rmccue 3y ago
A more affordable alternative to this is the Inkplate series, which uses recycled e-ink screens from tablets: https://soldered.com/categories/inkplate/ The software runs on an ESP32 and is all open source: https:
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by rmccue 3y ago
> This is surprising --- I'd expect a DNS lookup failure to be much faster than a default connection timeout which comes after a successful DNS lookup. Unlike regular DNS where you're asking a single server at a single IP for a
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by rmccue 3y ago
It uses data about the current generation of the grid, and I guess they only added data sources for the US so far.
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by rmccue 3y ago
I don’t disagree, and I personally use it, but it’s a decent distance from teaching students the basics of git. I’d bundle it into a group of tools that are useful to know the existence of, and look up the docs when needed.
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by rmccue 3y ago
If you’re including rebasing, then I can believe this (rewriting history is nuanced and complex), but I’m not sure I’d be teaching that straight away. My recommendation is usually only to start using rebase once you’re already very familiar
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by rmccue 3y ago
> Is this a "fat Americans" joke? If it were 1 or 2 foot wide I could see calling it narrow, but 3 feet is plenty wide. The standard width for walkways per NFPA 130 is 3.75 ft, so 3 ft is definitely narrower than the US standar
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by rmccue 3y ago
Looks like it's only just been built? https://www.theguardian.com/business/2023/apr/11/worlds-deep...
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by rmccue 3y ago
I could see this being the case for regional balancing, but presumably a 1GW generation site has a 1GW-capable link to the grid, otherwise that seems like overbuilt capacity? (nb of course you might overprovision it to some degree on the pr

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