scanny

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   by scanny 4y ago

   Long time listener and patron, love your work Stephane! You’re work is a blessing
2. 62.▲
   by scanny 4y ago

   I have thought about this for a while too, I think this has pushed me over the line to sit down with him over whatsapp and do it before it's too late. Thank you for sharing
3. 63.▲
   by scanny 4y ago

   Nancy Pelosi is about to land in Taiwan on that flight, China has been threatening some sort of action (military/economic/angry words) if it were to happen.
4. 64.▲
   by scanny 4y ago

   fair points, is there a way we could make this fairer to people in terms of their time? Scrapping it or just making it expected and defining it?
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   by scanny 4y ago

   Been an interviewer and interviewee recently, so being on both sides of the track has given me some perspective. This is the current process that I think is fair and holistic: 1. meeting with the candidate, our manager, and some devs talkin
6. 66.▲
   by scanny 4y ago

   Cool to see a München based startup popup here! Nice going neighbour :)
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   by scanny 4y ago

   Genuine Q: Is that their purpose as opposed to returning profits to shareholders ?
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   by scanny 5y ago

   Wouldn’t the same apply to scenarios in the Second World War? Edit: Writing this I just thought maybe not since I can’t think of any that focus on running a PoW / Gulag / Concentration camp, whereas this focus on the slave catchin
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   by scanny 5y ago

   I wonder how something like this would hold up in a court case though, surely it would be torn to shreds?
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    by scanny 5y ago

    Here in Germany they have metal shutters that vertically descend and black out all light and sound. It’s common on most windows. They are permeated with little holes that allows light and sound in if they have not fully descended. If they h
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    by scanny 5y ago

    Seems to be a running trend in Germany to move toward open software. Tangentially related to this: The city of Munich has flip-flopped between their own version of linux and windows [0]. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki&#x2
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    by scanny 5y ago

    Played around with it, quite cool but I am having issues with the tables. They don't seem to have distinguishable borders and are acting strange (cannot tell whether I am adding columns, issues deleting them, and a few other things). I
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    by scanny 5y ago

    They have come a long way from their flying Zumba-ball days [0,1] [0] https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/2b/E-volo_e... [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volocopter
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    by scanny 5y ago

    > Modern fission plants are totally safe. Nuclear waste is basically a non-problem Just removing that as part of the rhetoric around the tech makes fusion invaluable.
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    by scanny 5y ago

    Ublock Origin, Google Translate, Dark Reader, Picture in Picture, and Refined Hacker News are my favourites that I use most regularly. But I have a soft spot for the Google Arts and Culture plugin: https://chrome.google.com/
16. 76.▲
    by scanny 5y ago

    More speed = more difficult to both intercept and detect (less response time). Not sure what the commercial applications would be though.
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    200+ Soundscapes Handcrafted by an Audio Engineer(mynoise.net)

    55 points by scanny 5y ago|4 comments
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    by scanny 5y ago

    I am a little dissapointed was hoping for a bit more in terms of an aggregation of all the disparate geospatial agency's datasets! It would be great to have a centralised place instead of having to go through the Irish geoportal, then
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    by scanny 5y ago

    The French government has a selective memory when it comes to intergovernmental trust... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sinking_of_the_Rainbow_Warrior
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    by scanny 5y ago

    Had to do it (removing shoes) yesterday going from Amsterdam to Edinburgh. Seems less common but it happens still.
21. 81.▲
    by scanny 5y ago

    Should the main chute be tangled and you want to deploy a reserve probably
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    by scanny 5y ago

    Google seems to be doing a decent job with whatever they are using [0], it would be nice to see it used elsewhere because like you said it's usually much lower quality. [0] https://artsandculture.google.com/asset/t
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    by scanny 5y ago

    A Canadian journalist and youtuber covered this same topic recently in a decent amount of depth, I found it a decent watch: Title: "The Impossible Challenge of Names" subtext: "Foreign names are the biggest challenge of langu
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    by scanny 5y ago

    Looks like CannonJS [0] and CreateJS [1] are being used according to the Chrome dev tools "sources" section. If you look under "hplogo-complex" on the page it seems there a bunch of sprite sheets loaded. Still not sure h
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    by scanny 5y ago

    I have been beginning myself, what apps/sites/methods would you reccomend?
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    by scanny 5y ago

    Mark Felton produces fantastic work, anyone interested in WW2 history should take a look at the channel in the parents link.
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    by scanny 5y ago

    Giggled like a schoolboy, what an unfortunate design.
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    by scanny 5y ago

    Australia Politics, an independant and thoughtful analysis but an journalist: https://johnmenadue.com/ South East Asian Affairs, a collation of a scholars own writings and compliaiton of others that they find interesting:
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    by scanny 5y ago

    Thanks for the pointer, and what I read here: https://www.reddit.com/r/BaldAndBaldrDossier/comments/judnlm... from a child comment. Won't be watching anything out of that channel again.
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    by scanny 5y ago

    should be able to, but you do have to be a us citizen / resident I believe