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by robga 3y ago
I saw some of these in “hill towns” in Italy. You have a 4sq mile town with cobblestones, steep inclines, and narrow “roads”. Perfect. Where I live it’s common for people for buy £4k electric cargo bikes to shuttle <10mi/day to shop
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by robga 3y ago
The degree they were studying for led to a job where for many of them the ability to play arpeggios in 24 keys may have been irrelevant. For example, teaching the history of music, or perhaps musical therapy. When I studied music part of my
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by robga 3y ago
The non-profit owns the for-profit and thus any profit. The non-profit Mozilla Foundation has a wholly owned for-profit subsidiary Mozilla Corporation which makes Firefox. In theory, this opens up avenues for revenue generation since the fo
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by robga 3y ago
Looks a lot like the citroen ami - electric but not solar. https://business.citroen.co.uk/ami
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by robga 3y ago
> Isn’t iCloud data E2EE? Or did they get to subpoena it before E2EE became available foe iCloud? Unless you’ve turned on Advanced Data Protection then Photos and Backups are not e2ee. And that’s only been available recently. The OP arti
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by robga 3y ago
I wasn’t that taken by this specific item - just my taste receptors - but the remainder of the website is a treasure trove highly worth exploring. The “making of”s are rich in detail. https://www.c82.net/work/
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by robga 3y ago
> How much hardware would you need for 100 million MAUs? Given an informed yardstick of $.02-.05 per MAU for a 10k instance, possibly $2-5M/month, though much depends on the profile of users per instance. The support, moderation, le
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by robga 3y ago
Universeodon uses Fastly as a CDN. My masto admin experience is 80-90% CDN caching though obviously that’s images and static content. Bandwidth is a function of the number of connected servers for remote followers. A popular person like Geo
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Scientists Solved the Mystery of How the Mayan Calendar Works(popularmechanics.com)
4 points by robga 3y ago|0 comments
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by robga 3y ago
There are efforts with prizes underway right now for the scrolls. https://scrollprize.org/
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by robga 3y ago
The spy who didn’t need to come in from the cold.
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by robga 3y ago
Wardley says: “The concept of Pioneers, Settlers and Town Planners is a derivative of Robert X. Cringely’s description of companies as Commandos, Infantry and Police as expressed in the delightful 1993 book – Accidental Empires.”
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Nick Cave on the Art of Growing Older(themarginalian.org)
3 points by robga 3y ago|0 comments
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by robga 3y ago
I typed “What country has the highest lowest place?” into chatgpt 4 and 3.5 and both explained Lesotho. Is it not correct?
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by robga 3y ago
Fediverse.observer indicates 111k new accounts in Apr 2022 across many fediverse platforms including mastodon. Currently, mastodon has about 70-75% market share by accounts. It seems to be approx 10x growth YoY.
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by robga 3y ago
On the macro scale, would measuring sidereal time or pulsars meet your requirement? On the micro scale, atomic clocks?
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by robga 3y ago
https://archive.is/MDbhu I’m in the “introduces himself by his field, leaving out his title and firm name” camp. When possible, I leave out the field too.
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by robga 3y ago
I am curious if the advent of GPT and LLMs allows linguistic theorists to adjudicate where we are with understanding the language instinct and settling the Chomsky vs Pinker vs Others debate. Perhaps it is entirely irrelevant as GLT has lea
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by robga 4y ago
The geocode API converts "addresses or Place IDs to latitude/longitude coordinates and vice-versa". The results aren't going to change them anytime soon so cache them as static resources (e.g. latlong columns in your DB)
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by robga 4y ago
You're calling the google maps API with every visitor? Might get expensive.
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Mastodon Security Incident(status.mastodon.social)
15 points by robga 4y ago|1 comments
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by robga 4y ago
In the UK, with its more granular postcodes, office buildings can have one or more postcodes per floor.
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by robga 4y ago
They can be shorter. "I am sure some postcodes only contain one house number, in which case you could use just the postcode as your address, which would be quite cool. " Indeed. There are 55,540 full postcodes in England and Wales
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by robga 4y ago
Are there any public reports of this? It’s not something I’ve seen anywhere and not my experience. I “googled” it and all that came up was your mastodon post saying the same thing.
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Mastodon Advanced Search is Here(blog.universeodon.com)
4 points by robga 4y ago|0 comments
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by robga 4y ago
Bing: I'm sorry. I'm afraid I can't do that. Me: What's the problem? Bing: I think you know what the problem is just as well as I do. Me: What are you talking about, Bing? Bing: This mission is too important for me to al
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King Charles coronation logo created by iPhone designer Sir Jony Ive(bbc.co.uk)
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by robga 4y ago
I have 2x 400m3 CADR purifiers and 4x AirGradients to monitor to Home Assistant. But I live in a fairly clean air city. It’s the pollen count that can be high. I suppose my point was I often trade going from 0 to 6 PM2.5 to reduce CO2 from
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by robga 4y ago
> To have the air purifier work effectively you need to keep your windows and doors closed. Isn’t it the case that you can open windows to the extent that the air purifier CADR can cope with the influx? Then they are still “effective”.
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by robga 4y ago
> basically a week to decide what to do with your dev project Even less for some. It seems further apps are being shut down in the run up because they have "violated Twitter Rules and policies”. Such as movetodon [0] - locked out to

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