tekstar

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   by tekstar 7y ago

   Also.. what freedoms are now at risk in an attempt to prevent the next pandemic?
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   by tekstar 7y ago

   And if you want messages access just use mbasic.facebook.com
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   by tekstar 7y ago

   Original SID chips are often semi-broken as well. I had a few when they were cheaper and I was building a midibox SID. Most had weird VCA issues or oscillators leaking to the output always. Stuff like that. If you end up with a half dec
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   by tekstar 7y ago

   She released the designs years ago and her influence on the scene has been growing for years. Having a well engineered production example makes all the difference for people learning how to make electronic music devices
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   by tekstar 7y ago

   They are also at the core of Spectrum Synthesizer bundle for iOS, which is a free set of AUv3 instruments. https://apps.apple.com/ca/app/spectrum-synthesizer-bundle/id... (I am the creator of Spectrum)
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   by tekstar 7y ago

   The new plate colour happens to be the colour of the conservative political party who voted it in
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   by tekstar 7y ago

   I have a friend in the domain regulation industry. His take on the .org sale, was that everyone's worries about what a private equity firm might do to a TLD has already happened under ICANN.
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   by tekstar 7y ago

   The sad thing is, all* their tier 1 mobile apps are still ios/android native and are not going to be rewritten, so they still need native devs. But after this blog post native devs will be a lot harder for them to find and hire. * exc
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   by tekstar 7y ago

   Since this is oddly on the front page I want to shout out the OPL for being a great place for everybody. I love libraries. There are so few places you can go with no expectation that you will purchase something. OPL also has a $100k maker
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    by tekstar 7y ago

    If you haven't played this game I strongly recommend it. It's on GOG. It's on old emulators too but the graphics and input handling can be pretty rough and unforgiving.
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    by tekstar 7y ago

    considering these companies are spying on you with every available sensor to estimate your every thought and desire to then interrupt your thought process with an advertisement perhaps the notion of "digital privacy" has some meri
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    by tekstar 7y ago

    I think that's par for the course. I think of the book as a journey where different parts may be meaningful to different people. But yeah I drifted through a number of the monologues with a determination to make it through to the end,
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    by tekstar 7y ago

    ITT: people who read the first chapter of the book commenting on how it s about motorcycle repair vs people who read the whole book telling them that it's not. (It took me three tries to get past the first tangental monologue chapter,
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    by tekstar 7y ago

    What changed? As in, what made you think they were okay and then realize they were not?
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    by tekstar 7y ago

    I would like to bring another concept to this discussion, which is the cost of externalities. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Externality How much corporate growth is directly the result of taking from the environment?
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    by tekstar 7y ago

    Autocorrect got me :(
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    by tekstar 7y ago

    I recently bought an LG OLED as well. I never connected it to my network and never will. It was a dark pattern during setup. The options were to connect via LAN or WIFI, and only by scrolling into "nothing" did a skip option
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    by tekstar 7y ago

    I believe this type of project is referred to as geo-engineering, which is a bit more controversial as it's typically assumed that the side effects are somewhat unknown.
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    by tekstar 7y ago

    Shopify always runs CI on branches before merging to master. Everything this article describes is in addition to that, in order to deal with the problems the article talks about at "merge to master" time, like 2 merged PRs failin
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    by tekstar 7y ago

    Except these heat exchangers have two filters that need cleaning very 3 months and most people never do it, so they don't really function properly.
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    by tekstar 7y ago

    I guess then the risk is whether or not the VOIP provider is more secure than my phone provider? I need to think that one through. With the second scenario I was just thinking that, if I personally didn't receive the text on a given m
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    by tekstar 7y ago

    Ok, so, how does a paranoid individual protect themselves from this attack? Aside from "don't link your phone to these accounts" which isn't always possible as many banks in Canada only recently added SMS based 2FA. Some
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    by tekstar 7y ago

    I am so happy I (mostly) stopped using Gmail a few years ago. I still have an email account there but it just forwards my old mail to my new fast mail address. I never log in.
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    by tekstar 7y ago

    You seem to know what you are talking about based on your comment history, however this statement needs some backup to be accepted at face value: > All those huge dams you see everywhere with their giant lakes you can see from space that
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    by tekstar 7y ago

    Utility-scale power storage can use other technologies, such as pumped-storage hydroelectric generation. Basically they pump water uphill as a means of storing energy. https://www.cer-rec.gc.ca/nrg/ntgrtd/mrkt&#x2
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    by tekstar 7y ago

    I don't have the time at the moment to source both points I want to make, but I read them both recently while reading about nuclear power. 1 - to your point about nuclear being the most environmentally friendly, I don't see how th
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    by tekstar 7y ago

    Pretty sure in overage situations the water runs over the dam and nothing is stored in Niagara but I may be mistaken.
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    by tekstar 7y ago

    Ontario power is mostly from renewable sources already, but yes it is highly mismanaged. You can see the hourly Ontario energy use by source here: http://www.ieso.ca/power-data One of the worst inefficiencies of the Ontario
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    by tekstar 7y ago

    Okay article, terrible headline. No single action in isolation will save the world from climate collapse. The problem stems from countless actions taking place today that do not pay for the external cost of emitting carbon into the atmosph
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    by tekstar 7y ago

    If you want to talk about actual dollars in tax reductions or subsidies for fossil fuels in Canada perhaps this link would be of better use: https://www.iisd.org/faq/unpacking-canadas-fossil-fuel-subsi...