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by sdfjkl 7y ago
Nonsense. The airport has no need of additional procedures because it is gatewayed by Norway (it's not an international airport). If you arrive there by boat, things look well different: > Visiting yachts must obtain a cruising perm
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by sdfjkl 7y ago
Unison efficiently and reliably syncs my website (static blog mostly) between OS X and FreeBSD. It's one of those extremely underrated pieces of software that just quietly does an excellent job, yet most people never heard of it and co
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by sdfjkl 7y ago
Nice writing, and very educational for someone who never had reason to take a lens apart. Explains part of why they're so expensive! :) I think it's a bit more glue than I like, but still reasonably serviceable for something with
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by sdfjkl 7y ago
Yay, Ada doesn't suck! :)
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by sdfjkl 7y ago
So I wasn't just paranoid when I used to shred all my papers at home before throwing them away. Related, when I moved out, I sold/freecycled most of my stuff, then invited some people to take what they want from the leftovers and
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The time has come for Ada (2017)(embedded.com)
7 points by sdfjkl 7y ago|0 comments
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by sdfjkl 7y ago
Heh, you have no idea how lousy Google Maps data really is until you go somewhere away from big cities and countries which Google cares about. In the remote corners of Greece for example, it's completely normal to find nothing in a spo
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by sdfjkl 7y ago
Been meaning to blog about it, but not got around to it yet. Essentially it's just a (bunch of) USB-serial converters and the Seatalk data is converted by a Raymarine E85001. If you have N2k, you need a different converter, e.g. Actise
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by sdfjkl 7y ago
It used to run kplex to bridge NMEA data (wind speed, depth soundings, boat speed, etc.) from our SeaTalk network to TCP/IP. Now a GL-AR300M does the job though, along with all the Wifi/GSM routing, saving one computer and power (
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Don't put your drowned phone into rice to dry it(ifixit.com)
26 points by sdfjkl 7y ago|29 comments
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by sdfjkl 7y ago
Go to "about:profiles" and make your old profile ("default" by default) the default profile again, then restart Firefox. This was indeed a fucking terrible way of doing this: "Hey, we've just hidden all your pr
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by sdfjkl 7y ago
> At what point in the past were our programs stable, robust and just worked? DOS was rock solid, at least around the era of DR-DOS. DESQView 386 was absolutely stable too. The BBS software I ran on them in those days was a wobbly piece
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by sdfjkl 7y ago
The lights and "buzzers" seem to be part of the problem, rather than a solution, according to the article: > The loud noise and dazzling illumination of the lights is thought to disorientate the birds, who are unable to escape
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by sdfjkl 7y ago
Considering the birds seem to come out more or less whole (alas none too healthy), it's probably trivial to sieve the olives from the much larger bird corpses.
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by sdfjkl 8y ago
Ubuntu 18.04: https://geoff.greer.fm/images/x210.jpg
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by sdfjkl 8y ago
Your car dashboard is broken. Instead of fixing it, you write an app that provides a lousy workaround. Is this meant to be a bad example?
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by sdfjkl 8y ago
Also DIN 1451: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DIN_1451
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by sdfjkl 8y ago
I've looked into touchscreen support on Linux and it was very disappointing. You can fiddle most things to a workable level eventually, but no matter which implementation, there does seem to be a lack of integration for the virtual key
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by sdfjkl 8y ago
Sounds a bit like a modern version of Scientology, or perhaps just an art project?
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by sdfjkl 8y ago
On Mac there's Omnigraffle, which is excellent, although $$$.
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by sdfjkl 8y ago
There's a few issues with the master password derived password system, including: What if you need to change your password for a site to a different one? What if the site changes its URL?
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by sdfjkl 8y ago
I found 720p quite sufficient for almost everything. I think I once selected 4k on a YouTube video that was showing how to do something technical and didn't zoom in close enough to really see what was going on. The extra pixels were he
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by sdfjkl 8y ago
I don't understand why searches can be done by private parties, with no police present. This seems extremely wrong to me. How can this be?
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by sdfjkl 8y ago
Cherry tomatoes (because they're smaller and lighter they don't require much support), chili peppers, maybe strawberries (mine ended up getting aphids though). I've written a bit about this back when I played with indoor gard
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by sdfjkl 8y ago
Because DDG doesn't bloody geolocate you and then shove some dreadful localized content in your face, in a language you do not understand. If you travel, you'll know what I'm talking about.
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The Escape of Bernd Boettger (2014)(hisutton.com)
56 points by sdfjkl 8y ago|5 comments
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by sdfjkl 9y ago
Nope, as part of the golden visa, he would've paid an immigration attorney to set up a Canadian company, shove some money into it and hire the minimum amount of employees. This is unrelated to the coffee business and doesn't have
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by sdfjkl 9y ago
Investor visas (aka Golden Visa) aren't really a loophole, they're quite intentionally designed to bring money into a country and provide employment for existing citizens.
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by sdfjkl 9y ago
numpy, Jupyter (formerly IPython Notebook) and probably Mathematica anyways.
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by sdfjkl 9y ago
FreeBSD. The quality of the code (and documentation!) is a notable step up from Linux.

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