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by slyall 5y ago
Audiobooks and podcast while walking and rowing. Chess. Pre-pandemic I was doing an evening a week at the club plus a weekend tournament every month or so. Plus study etc every day/ I have an interest in Transport policy, discuss onlin
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Chrome's new Permissions Request Chip UI. A replacement for permission pop-ups(developer.chrome.com)
8 points by slyall 5y ago|3 comments
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We Almost Forgot About the Moon Trees, whose seeds travelled on Apollo 14(theatlantic.com)
3 points by slyall 5y ago|0 comments
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by slyall 5y ago
Announcement from Wordle creator: https://twitter.com/powerlanguish/status/1488263944309731329 Announcement from NYT: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/01/31/business/media/new-
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by slyall 5y ago
Blog post from Joel Spolsky introducing this. https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2022/01/27/making-the-web-bet...
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by slyall 5y ago
It means the stereotypical commenters are 20-30 year old, white, male, single, programmers, living in the Bay Area and making $400,000 per year. Which is good if you want to know the latest Google gossip or many tech questions. But not as g
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by slyall 5y ago
Note that the definition of a household includes "or two or more people who live together and share facilities (such as for cooking) in a private dwelling". Many of these would prefer to live in their own home. You also ignore tha
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by slyall 5y ago
Definitely broken for me. Running Andriod 12 on a Pixel 4a. I get the same for fooco.nz , foonet.nz, foodmil.nz and foogov.nz . But not the more obscure foogen.nz and fooiwi.nz. .nz only did 3lds for a long time. 2LDs are only about 5 years
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Primel: The “fun” “game” where you guess a 5 digit prime number.(converged.yt)
4 points by slyall 5y ago|1 comments
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Who Runs the Internet? Furries(thespinoff.co.nz)
3 points by slyall 5y ago|0 comments
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You don't have to invent a new framework. You just need enough for one application. Think of the simple MVP that every framework is on their first release.
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Northerner terrifies Londoners by saying "Hello": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PT0ay9u1gg4
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by slyall 5y ago
A big problem is this sort of design makes it hard to walk between places. All travel involves going to the main road, going some distance down that and then following a new branch. Queue route map that requires 10 minute drive to get to th
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by slyall 5y ago
I guess you are one of those people who goes to bed at 7pm in time to get up with the Sun at 4am.
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Rodney Brooks: Predictions Scorecard, 2022 January 01(rodneybrooks.com)
5 points by slyall 5y ago|0 comments
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by slyall 5y ago
True but thats 10 minutes per day. Facebook needs everybody to spend hours on them each day.
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As a software developer, you may be called upon to perform some of these tasks(twitter.com)
17 points by slyall 5y ago|9 comments
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>We have never eradicated a coronavirus in man nor beast No cases of SARS-CoV-1 have been reported worldwide since 2004
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by slyall 5y ago
Where I live (New Zealand) $US 100k/year is a top salary.
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by slyall 5y ago
See the FAQ. All of it is copyright and Scientology are a aggressive at defending that. https://sacred-texts.com/faq.htm " Funny story actually.... I was actually contacted by a very testy lawyer from the Scientologist
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by slyall 5y ago
A vote in favour of Authy. Works well and easy to transfer to a new phone ( I even did it when my phone died while overseas ). It even has a desktop version (which I use on Linux ).
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by slyall 5y ago
Well not everyone. There are people who treat it like Facebook and start sharing the funny links and random stuff and in some cases their political opinions and conspiracy theories. The boring fake alternatives of everyone else are much bet
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by slyall 5y ago
Many Cinemas/Multiplexes will have a a room full of video games (and previously some pinball machines). These will be mostly played by novices who are playing a game while they wait for their movie. Since these novices are not very goo
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by slyall 5y ago
"Later designs would allow the threshold to rise quickly to combat the wizard-goes-to-the-cinema problem. The WGTTC problem is where a machine has adjusted down to a low replay score because it is mostly played by novices. "
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Colorado pay-disclosure law shows what Big Companies are paying(wsj.com)
5 points by slyall 5y ago|1 comments
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From yesterday https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29434740 - 130 comments
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The companies might night be deleting slack messages automatically. They might just be on the free plan which only shows the most recent 10,000 messages.
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https://archive.ph/BhUqn
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by slyall 5y ago
Previous discussions of Tiny: 2 months ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28806500 18 months ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23739381 4 years ago: https://news.ycombinator.com&#x
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by slyall 5y ago
Trust isn't the reason that criminals use blockchains. They would happily transfer money the same way normal businesses do. They use blockchain cause they are locked out of the normal banking infrastructure. For the same reason normal

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