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It does in Chrome, but it's a little hidden away; https://www.howtogeek.com/423643/how-to-use-google-chromes-h...
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I have found myself using Firefox's Reader View for nearly every article I read these days. And if FF can't render a site or article in this way I usually skip it. It doesn't work on this article. The initial served HTML page
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FWIW, I use a minidlna instance on a Raspberry Pi to serve my media around the house and I have never had an issue with it discovering newly downloaded media. It currently serves around 3TB of video and audio files, and new files are added
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I have seen this happen before. In the 1990's I was an audio engineer for a radio station that had just spent millions on digital suites with hard drives that would crash regularly, destroying in-progress work. The station actually got
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I think the ones in the middle of Australia are large scale mining operations. There are no cities there and no forests either. The African ones probably are probably mines too.
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A quote from the article in my earlier comment; Some of the debris buried beneath the dome includes plutonium-239, a fissile isotope used in nuclear warheads which is one of the most toxic substances on earth. It has a rad
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ABC Australia visited this island in 2017, and created a photo essay with some very clear images of its current state and its precarious location. https://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-11-27/the-dome-runit-island...
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McDonalds in my country, Australia, has superb coffee. They have fresh-from-whole bean espresso machines in every store -- Often as part of a McCafe with a dedicated barista. It is seriously as good as coffee from nearly any anywhere else,
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I have been racing and sailing other peoples yachts for a similar time frame. I grew up in the Southern suburbs of Sydney. It is a place surrounded by waterways -- Botany Bay, Port Hacking and the Tasman sea. When I was young, during the 19
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I had a similar experience, though I still value skills I was forced to learn. Even things like cooking skills, that held little interest for me at the time. I often found that my interests were there, but misaligned. I may have been intens
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> "But when am I actually going to use this?" I was as guilty of this as anyone in my school days, and yet not a single teacher ever pointed out to me that I was at school to learn how to learn , so in a sense the subject matt
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Domino's in Australia has recently rolled out an in-store camera based monitoring system for pizza quality. It doesn't make the images available to customers as of yet, but they claim it will in the near future. https:/&#x2F
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What do you mean by modern humans? It is well-known that indigenous people have been using wild fire as a land management technique on the Australian continent for tens of thousands of years. Also, many of these tree species have very speci
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> Stop replanting eucalyptus trees. Eucalypt forests are not planted en-mass in Australia. They are more or less the default native vegetation, and part of an ancient ecology. The only place they are not found is Lord Howe Island, whic
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I suppose I have not really noticed this specific type of behavior here. My interest in HN comes mostly from the technical and historical articles that get posted, and the often illuminating discussion threads, rather than the entrepreneuri
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> It would be nice if apparently misogynistic assholes on HN gave half as much attention to an actual coding question from me as they do to BS excuses to behave shittily: https://twitter.com/doreen_michele/status&#x2
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Australia uses a highly proportional electoral process for its lower house. The constitution requires that electorates be apportioned among the states in proportion to their respective populations; provided that each original state has at l
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It is possible that SK PAP politicians are just damn good at their jobs -- The modern history of Singapore does seem to suggest this. But it's also possible that no viable oppositions are allowed to organize effectively enough to compe
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When the same party has won every single election since 1959, you have to wonder if they mean anything.
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There is great demonstration of this in action on a British game show with the players being in a prisoners dilemma situation; https://youtu.be/S0qjK3TWZE8?t=72
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The cameras are mounted above roadways on gantry's or overpasses, and they claim to be able to work in all lighting and weather conditions regardless of the vehicle's speed. My guess is that they aim to identify non-sanctioned act
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I think the intent is that, when not performing any actions such as changing gears or adjusting other driving-relevant controls, you should have your hands on the wheel.
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The law does not distinguish between automatic or manual transmissions. I am not sure about the cast/sling situation. But I imagine if it was considered a contributory factor in an accident, you would be culpable. https://ww
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I am not a lawyer, but I guess those things are allowed, assuming you put your hands back on the wheel again. I cannot recall ever hearing of anyone charged with such an offense, but I am sure you would not pass a driving test if you didn&#
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Australian law says you must keep both hands on the wheel at all times unless changing gears or indicating. And regarding phones; it is illegal for a driver to be distracted by an electronic device -- even if a passenger is the person using
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My city (Sydney, Aus) has recently been rolling out cameras specifically to catch drivers using phones and other devices. These are not speed or red-light cameras -- their only purpose is to determine if a driver has both hands on the wheel
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It's about 40 hours non-stop in a car.
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> Many people don't realise just how big the continent actually is, since they've only heard of Sydney I hosted European guests in Sydney a while back. They inquired about hiring a car for a weekend to go and see Perth/WA.
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> maybe this is one of the first to do it successfully in practice. Photogrammetry software has been commercially available for a while. I played around with Agisoft photoscan [0] some time ago, and while the results were impressive, it
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I found that idea to be fascinating also. He expressed the idea of editors being a two-way service. They not only curated your feeds, but also monitored the data you make available to others. Wealthy people could afford human editors to loo

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