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by sleavey 7y ago
This is exciting. About 5 years ago I tried to set up a home-made Sonos clone by using two Raspberry Pis to stream synchronised audio across my network. I did get it to work, but it was a huge hassle finding the particular combination of Pu
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by sleavey 7y ago
Agreed. The core code is actually pretty well written considering the concrete backwards compatibility standards enforced by the devs, but most plugins are a total mess (and I'm saying that as a plugin author). I guess it is mainly due
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by sleavey 7y ago
In the grand scheme of things it's a minor gripe, but I really dislike APIs that encourage chaining of calls like `alt.Chart(data).mark_circle(size=200).encode(...)` from the article. This is found in many other libraries, especially J
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by sleavey 7y ago
This is the web that I like. Hobbyists and volunteers running low-fi websites for common interests. I'm not against commercial sites like Netflix but don't think every last blog should be monetised.
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by sleavey 7y ago
My mistake indeed, thanks for clearing that up.
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by sleavey 7y ago
I'm not sure that's ever been true. You need a licence to watch any broadcast TV because it also pays for the infrastructure the other channels use.
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by sleavey 7y ago
> makes revenues from tv licenses even if you dont own a tv This is just plain wrong. You can own a TV (e.g. for a console) but not pay for a TV licence if you say you don't watch broadcasts. You can even have the software installed
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Ask HN: Default h5 and h6 fonts are smaller than normal text in HTML/CSS – why?
7 points by sleavey 7y ago|2 comments
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First gravitational wave yesterday to be automatically circulated to astronomers(gracedb.ligo.org)
2 points by sleavey 8y ago|0 comments
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by sleavey 8y ago
There is a caveat to the Air France 447 crash, that the pilots apparently relied too heavily on the autopilot. When the alarms came on mid-flight, neither pilot was familiar with the current state of the plane and found it more difficult to
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by sleavey 8y ago
Don't blame the victim. While it's true they could have been smarter with the reality of crime in the modern world, this crime is still 100% the fault of the robber.
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by sleavey 8y ago
Agree. One way to fix it would be to allow you to define the typing in a completely separate file. Right now you can define some of it in a separate file but not all of it. I keep the horrendous typing syntax out of my code by not using it.
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by sleavey 8y ago
And he runs the electronics podcast "The Amp Hour" [1] with Dave Jones from the EEVBlog [2]. [1] https://theamphour.com/ [2] http://eevblog.com/
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by sleavey 8y ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19115460
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by sleavey 8y ago
I've blocked ads ever since ad blockers were a thing. Facebook have finally managed to consistently get past uBlock Origin, and seeing ads in my news feed for the first time is really, really annoying me. They look similar enough to re
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by sleavey 8y ago
I think the main point the article was eluding to was that if you use wind power to first generate electricity then convert this into heat, you have two conversion steps with loss: wind to electricity, and then electricity to heat. The over
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by sleavey 8y ago
If I get these redirect popups (not just popups over the content, which I can remove with Nuke Anything [1] or use Firefox's distraction free mode), I either just don't visit the site if I don't care that much about its conte
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by sleavey 8y ago
This doesn't always work for me. When it doesn't, I open a private window and try again, since some sites set a cookie, but even then it sometimes doesn't work.
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by sleavey 8y ago
Seems like an invasion of privacy. I'd be surprised if someone hadn't used this sort of script for this already. Perhaps browsers or ad blockers will block this feature in the future.
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by sleavey 8y ago
I think they might have began quoting the LED lifetime on boxes, which is still true, but in reality something else in the bulb usually breaks before the LEDs themselves. I guess manufacturers have either taken it upon themselves or have be
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by sleavey 8y ago
I find if they are mounted at the right height they can be fine. But some are mounted to optimally spray your face with the water from both your own and previous users' hands... disgusting. At least the taps with the built-in Dyson dry
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by sleavey 8y ago
There are a couple of YouTube videos from AvE (he takes a bit of getting used to, but he knows a fair bit about electronics) about a Dyson vacuum cleaner [1] and hair dryer [2]. Lots of moulded plastic and glue, little substance. On the oth
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by sleavey 8y ago
Interesting - I've not spoken to anyone who is both pro-Brexit and pro-Scottish independence. A lot of my pro-Scottish independence friends are in favour of it as a means of getting closer ties to the EU (a la Republic of Ireland). Ind
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by sleavey 8y ago
This is in the back of my mind when I think about one day working in the Bay Area. Given that the cost of living has increased to match the high salaries, there is little to draw me there other than cool problems to work on, which Silicon V
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by sleavey 8y ago
Indeed, FreeCAD uses OpenCASCADE as its kernel.
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by sleavey 8y ago
I like your attitude. If you were stuck fixing the mess the software engineer had to fix, you'd appreciate a random stranger making your life easier when they didn't need to. Maybe they'll pay it forward. Think of the money y
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by sleavey 8y ago
That's true, but I'm not so sure all of that is still really necessary with the way science dissemination is chaging. In computing science for example the de-facto standard is to self-publish papers on arXiv where there is no peer
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by sleavey 8y ago
In many cases the library service of these institutions can still obtain copies of journal articles via inter-library lending or individual purchases. Yes, researchers will probably bypass this and use Sci-Hub simply because it's quick
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by sleavey 8y ago
I agree with the sentiment but I do think the service journals provide was once worthwhile, before the web, as disseminaters of academic knowledge. Universities paid a subscription fee for physical copies of journals, allowing their employe
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by sleavey 8y ago
"1967: Separating Text Content from Format" - funny how that innovation is still frequently ignored!

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