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by smileypete 6y ago
Another well known UK conman/forgery 'mastermind', was John Drewe, who met and manipulated a struggling artist, John Myatt: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Drewe https://www.youtube.com&#x2
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by smileypete 6y ago
Just posted a topic about another channel that got deleted, 'CraigTube': https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23781180
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by smileypete 6y ago
Channel stats for the terminated channels: https://socialblade.com/youtube/user/craigtube https://socialblade.com/youtube/channel/UC40wiRfP8u2DrVvUm_V... Videos from other youtubers comp
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YouTube terminates 'CraigTube' – 14yo channel, 621 videos lost(youtube.com)
3 points by smileypete 6y ago|5 comments
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by smileypete 6y ago
Thanks for the update, I haven't looked at it for a while, these were my bookmarked sources from that time: https://www.taiwannews.com.tw/en/news/3904054 https://news.yahoo.com/taiwan-accuses-
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by smileypete 6y ago
'Health officials in Taipei said they alerted the WHO at the end of December about the risk of human-to-human transmission of the new virus but said its concerns were not passed on to other countries.' https://www.ft.co
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by smileypete 6y ago
Also please have a look at Craig Tube/Vinyl TV, his channels have returned under a slightly different new name, but all the previous content has been lost from the old ones: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC40wiRf
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by smileypete 6y ago
Also please have a look at Craig Tube/Vinyl TV, his channels have returned under a slightly different new name, but all the previous content has been lost from the old ones: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC40wiRf
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by smileypete 6y ago
>In San Jose we have birds that imitate car alarms. I don't like them at all. There's also the 'mower bird' (male ruffled grouse) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q0obByQW23k
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by smileypete 6y ago
>I recently opened a case of 32 2 TB drives shelved since 2010 or so. These are Hitachi Ultrastar drives, the more reliable drives by a large margin. However, 3 of these were dead. HDDs can get contaminated by siloxanes or hydrocarbon va
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by smileypete 6y ago
USB-C has the spring contacts inside the easily replaced cable, whereas lightning has the spring contacts inside the not-so-easily fixed phone. So all else equal, USB-C is objectively the better design.
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by smileypete 6y ago
Lustral got 'appropriated' for the name of a British trance music production duo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qi3vOcrTQ44 A mate did the lighting on a Lustral conference, they were giving out 'square smil
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by smileypete 6y ago
Reminds me of this DOS PoS freeware that's been around for a while: http://keyhut.com/pos.htm http://keyhut.com/posphoto.htm If it's run on straight DOS then there's no need for OS updates, n
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by smileypete 6y ago
The BBC didn't even mention it, at least not initially. The Guardian article mentioned Russia 5 or 6 times (why?), the rest of the article didn't have any useful info. The NYT article mentioned Russia 4 times IIRC, and had two hal
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by smileypete 6y ago
Craig E. Johnson (PhD, University of Denver) is emeritus professor of leadership studies at George Fox University, Newberg, Oregon, where he taught undergraduate and graduate courses in leadership, ethics, management and communication.
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The Rise and Fall of Carly Fiorina: An Ethical Case Study (2008) [pdf](digitalcommons.georgefox.edu)
1 points by smileypete 6y ago|1 comments
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by smileypete 6y ago
Diamine inks are worth a look a look too, there's also converters for using bottled ink in cartridge pens. That said if the pen is gunked up inside that won't help, either flush it through or some pens like the Lamy Safari come ap
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by smileypete 6y ago
Of course they 'work' Covid is spread mainly by respiratory droplets, masks act to catch those droplets at source, it's simple logic. Whilst only a properly fitted P3/N99 mask gives absolute protection from infection via
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by smileypete 6y ago
These might help: https://superuser.com/questions/453446/how-can-i-stop-window... https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/windows_10... Particularly st99's answer on
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by smileypete 6y ago
Wonder if the Apple Google plan involved keeping the data within UK borders at all time? Trouble is, as soon as the data leaves these shores, it falls under the usual Five Eyes spying loopholes. I had one of those Youtube surveys 'Do y
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by smileypete 7y ago
Many of the experts in Asia with first hand experience of dealing with SARS (eg professors Gabriel Leung, Yuen Kwok Yung etc [0][1]) were calling for masks to be worn in late January, or earlier even. Their simple advice has been right on
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by smileypete 7y ago
Probably better off on the street in the open air, than a 'shelter' full of asymptomatic COVID cases...
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by smileypete 7y ago
>No one has done a controlled study on this, so no one really knows. It ranges from zero to many. Can't remember seeing any controlled studies on the efficacy of social distancing either. Many of the healthcare professionals in the
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by smileypete 7y ago
There's a good quote in this FT interview with Peter Piot, who co-discovered Ebola: http://archive.is/N6fAF “The absence of bad luck in life is the most important thing.”
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by smileypete 7y ago
If you like old soviet tech then this channel might appeal: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jvvFI9XEW1w Lengthy reviews of soviet consumer electronics, in one of the most ASMR sounding voices I've heard (subs available
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by smileypete 7y ago
Solder will wick up the wire and create a 'hard spot' where it breaks upon the wire flexing. Try using a blob of hot melt/sugru(sp?) around the wire in this area, to create strain relief. Another tip is to use plumbers flux a
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by smileypete 7y ago
Reminds me of the advance fee frauds that people fall for, or compulsive gambling. Once people really believe that first conspiracy theory and then a few others, they get totally emotionally invested. After that they can't easily deny
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by smileypete 7y ago
Also have a look at videos about Robert Hart, who passed away in 2000: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IBQCKK4sLhg https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=robert+hart+for... He possibly was the pioneer
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by smileypete 7y ago
>Thanks for the kind words. I just don’t know if I can ship code anymore. The endless sprints for years, retrospectives that never end, performance reviews. I just can’t anymore. Maybe just burned out by Agile???
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by smileypete 7y ago
>The WD part of the name was descriptive for what the coating did to Water, which was Displace it, and it took the company 40 tries to get it right. I bet you can figure it out from there Smells like marketing to me, it just doesn't

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