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by satori99 5y ago
I use Notepad++ like this too. But I try to use its split pane feature to keep all my scratch txt files out of the way of whatever project files I need open.
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by satori99 5y ago
I'd say 'very good' is almost an understatement for this Morricone soundtrack. I never get tired of it.
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by satori99 5y ago
Several state governments in Australia recently had to enact special legislation to stop law enforcement from using covid tracking data to find witnesses and suspects. All state governments had initially ensured the public that the data was
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by satori99 5y ago
I think this is likely the reason it was done too. The snide remarks from the documentary maker; “We can have a documentary-ethics panel about it later.” make it seem like he is trying to get a fire burning around this.
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by satori99 5y ago
My city is in covid lockdown right now so I have been passing some of the time playing with these notebooks. It is oddly addictive. https://photos.app.goo.gl/t41uLs3Wogmrgn887
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by satori99 5y ago
It was "An octopus walking down a street"
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by satori99 5y ago
I just spent an hour or so playing with the notebooks at the end of the article, and it's pretty much all nightmare fuel https://imgur.com/a/kUDgbsH
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by satori99 5y ago
Yeah that is my recollection too. As a child, I could never afford one -- but I did learn all the peeks and pokes to make the 410 tape drive play regular audio from cassettes in my basic programs!
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by satori99 5y ago
I figure that this scenario is all but inevitable at this point. Most people just don't care -- and those that do can go live in Faraday cages like weirdos.
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by satori99 5y ago
If Amazon Kindles can do it, it's probably not too hard for the likes of LG, Samsung, or Sony either.
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by satori99 5y ago
There is nothing stopping TV manufacturers from putting a 3/4G modem in their products. The billing is likely insignificant compared to the value of the data they can exfiltrate.
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by satori99 6y ago
From my recollection, this sort of thing is conveyed in Banks' novels. The minds (expecially ones attached to warships or General Systems Vehicles) can see the entire state of the local universe around them. It's as if we were loo
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by satori99 6y ago
It is worth noting that the Minds are not perfect. They have God-like faculties but are still flawed beings. The Culture can create perfect Minds, but they tend to be born, look around, and instantly sublime away to some other, perhaps mo
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by satori99 6y ago
France straight up committed acts of international terrorism and murder against a western ally in response to criticism of its nuclear testing program in 1985. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sinking_of_the_Rainbow_Warrio
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by satori99 6y ago
From the headline, I was certain this article was going to be about Jon Muir. TIL about Aidan de Brune. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alone_Across_Australia https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jon_Mu
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by satori99 6y ago
If I was alive in 1909 and someone made the claim that man would be walking on the moon in 60 years, I'd have called bullshit too.
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by satori99 6y ago
While they look similar, Turbo sails are not Flettner rotors. Turbo sails use an internal fan to draw air into the tubes, and vents are used to control where the air pressure drops. They do not rotate at all.
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by satori99 6y ago
The electoral roll is simply made up of legal names and addresses in each electorate. Your name must be on the roll, or you can't vote. So fake names wont work. Nor will a name without the correct address. If you turn up and your name&
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by satori99 6y ago
As an Australian, I need no ID to vote in any elections. I can just turn up at any polling place, tell them my name & address, and they hand me the forms and mark me as having voted. There is nothing stopping me doing this again at a di
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by satori99 6y ago
I think boredom is a key ingredient for initiating creative activities. It is simply less likely to happen when you have a smartphone.
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by satori99 6y ago
I can't even remember the last time I used var when writing JavaScript. Scoped const/let are just easier to reason with. This seems bad.
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by satori99 6y ago
Made this cool video? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u_gggKHvfGw
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by satori99 6y ago
About a century ago on the south coast of New South Wales, A patriarch Orca named Old Tom teamed his pod up with human whalers to decimate the local baleen whale population. He co-operated with 3 generations of a human whaling family before
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by satori99 6y ago
I have wondered about this too, after reading about other interesting experiments with vibrating oil droplets a few years ago. https://www.sciencealert.com/these-bouncing-droplets-behave-...
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by satori99 6y ago
Node.js uses libuv for async file operations -- And libuv has its own internal thread pool to make file ops appear fully async to a node program. From the libuv docs [0]: Unlike network I/O, there are no platform-specific file I&
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by satori99 6y ago
I have noticed this in others too -- I never recommend trying pot to other people mainly for this reason. But it does not affect me in this way. The code I write when stoned compiles just as well as sober code, and I remember everything I r
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by satori99 6y ago
I am a regular pot smoker in my mid-40s. I have been using marijuana regularly since I was 16 and have participated in several studies of this nature since I was in my early 20s. I have volunteered for these because I have always felt that
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by satori99 6y ago
Indeed
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by satori99 6y ago
A cousin of mine has been doing this the other way around. She is riding a bicycle home to Australia from London. She made it across Europe and Russia, all the way to the Chinese border before Covid-19 hit and the Chinese wouldn't perm
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by satori99 6y ago
It had no engines. The sun-side tracks thermal expansion provided the energy to keep pushing the city into the night-side.

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