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by shrikant 5y ago
...and he's a "vaccines cause autism" crank as well. https://www.forbes.com/sites/stevensalzberg/2012/05/27/nobel... Looks like he'd gone that route well before any of the COVID-
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Tips to Remember People's Names(wired.com)
2 points by shrikant 5y ago|0 comments
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by shrikant 5y ago
This looks great! I'm a sucker for trying out these front-ends to local collection served up via my Raspberry Pi. So far my favourite has been zmusic-ng, by the creator of WireGuard: https://git.zx2c4.com/zmusic-ng&#x2F
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by shrikant 5y ago
I just went through the entire list of brands on that page and realised I'd been boycotting Nestle as well this last year or so, only without my knowledge. (I'm peripherally aware that they're considered "evil", but
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by shrikant 5y ago
Absolutely this. Just a couple of days back, something had been bothering me about some new-ish commenters I'd encountered on Reddit, so I did an unscientific check. I realised that about a year or so back, Reddit quietly made it so th
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by shrikant 5y ago
> It's the fact that opening up human rights to "new" rights sets a precedent. Does this mean no new human right can ever be established? And by extension, that the set of human rights currently in the UDHR are "compl
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by shrikant 5y ago
People keep saying this. But the app is actually one of the best I've encountered in terms of permissions -- it asks you for pretty much nothing up front, so if you use the app to only watch fun stuff and aren't too invested in it
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by shrikant 5y ago
Huh wow, you weren't kidding! I remember going on the front page of Imgur once a couple of years back and it seemed less entertaining and more rage-baity than now -- think I'll revisit that decision...
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by shrikant 5y ago
Saves on the e-waste caused by throwing away the old cables...
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by shrikant 5y ago
Keep the cables, and buy Lightning-to-USB-C dongles that will inevitably show up in the market?
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by shrikant 5y ago
No. I flinched hard at this, because this only works until it doesn't. I've done the exact same thing: give a user a location to upload an Excel set up just the way we'd want to parse it. Good luck dealing with the absolute m
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by shrikant 5y ago
Social media on the blockchain, hmmm...
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by shrikant 5y ago
Maybe they were using an Oracle database, where (shockingly) empty strings are treated as equivalent to NULLs. Edited to add: A "famous" wtf-worthy explainer from Oracle: https://asktom.oracle.com/pls/apex&#x2
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‘You bloody fool’: Australian talking duck proves birds can imitate speech(theguardian.com)
12 points by shrikant 5y ago|10 comments
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by shrikant 5y ago
Pedantically, not really -- it shows Bangladesh as #1 on that list, and Bangladesh is the "most polluted". Pakistan is #2 and the "second most polluted" -- so extending that, USA is 84th on that list and hence the "
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by shrikant 5y ago
Well, OK then, the claim changes to "parts of the USA have better air quality than parts of Europe because reasons", and I can't argue with Internet strangers making such uncontroversial claims, can I? :-)
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by shrikant 5y ago
> To this day, no country has better air than the US. Not to detract from your wider point, but this just isn't true. Here's at least one link that counters with data: https://www.iqair.com/world-most-polluted-c
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by shrikant 5y ago
No, this has never been the case. For example, you can buy a subscription to the Downdog app through thir website where it's SIGNIFICANTLY cheaper than via their iOS app. After this, you can continue using their iOS app as a fully paid
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by shrikant 5y ago
Indeed I am :) DM/email to talk further?
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by shrikant 5y ago
It sounded rubbish, so I looked it up and it's a thing! :-O https://www.dw.com/en/why-denmark-is-clamping-down-on-non-we...
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by shrikant 5y ago
It's fascinating to me that you've used "crypto" as synecdoche for both cryptography and cryptocurrency in successive parts of the same sentence!
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by shrikant 5y ago
Giggling at the irony of telling someone "your stupid".
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by shrikant 5y ago
A favourite around these parts is Fabrice Bellard: https://bellard.org/ Take a look at the JSLinux project -- so effin' cool!
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by shrikant 5y ago
This may sound like I'm nitpicking, but if anyone reading this wants to save some money and pay devs more: Google/Apple absolutely do NOT prohibit taking payments through any other channel. I know plenty of apps where one can bu
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by shrikant 5y ago
I did this at the Las Vegas McCarran airport once in 2016 when my headphones broke and I really didn't fancy doing the flight all the way back to London using the terrible earphones they hand out in-flight. Surprisingly got a GREAT dea
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by shrikant 5y ago
Non-paywall / Europe-friendly (?) coverage: https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2021/07/lawsuit-ebay-tri...
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by shrikant 5y ago
Well, YAGNI does have both yin and yang in it...
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by shrikant 5y ago
> In 2003, AMD launched their 64-bit, but Pentium-compatible, Opteron CPU. Everyone stopped buying Intel CPUs for a while. [...] almost everyone immediately embraced AMD's instruction set and no one but HP wanted anything to do with
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by shrikant 5y ago
Interesting that their competitor Sage is having almost exactly the same outage, which started at roughly the same time: https://status.sage.com/ Although, I prefer Xero's status update to Sage's at this point: I
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by shrikant 5y ago
> But if people have a negative opinion of the Haiku community based on how Haiku enthusiasts have treated handelaar, that's Haiku's problem. Absolutely a fair point.

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