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by thomasfl 4y ago
Ian Fleming described James Bond’s breakfast with egg and bacon in the hotel, in a way that it makes you feel you are there. I am proud to have Flemming as my last name.
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ChatGPT will probably save the planet. Within a year I predict large number of individuals will have typed sentences like "how do I get laid" or "how do I become famous" in ChatGPT. Since the advice will tell people how
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Thank you Tiger Lily for your insight into the world of apples.
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Norway has an airport and a tax free shop in Antartica. The commercial airliners from Boeing and Airbus lands on the ice. Many nations has stopped using the Russian airport in Antarctica. This has increased the traffic in Norway’s Troll air
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It has been mentioned numerous times here, but hypercard could have been what the web is today. Thirty years ago the hypercard alternative supercard opened a whole new world for many developers. Supercard made it possible to make standalone
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...and it is destroying our planet fast. GDP was never ment to be used as tool for measuring anything other than how fast the British economy grew after the recession. A lot has happened since then, almost 100 years ago. GDP has unfortunate
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Here is a good one; Office friends by Gavin Ewart Eve is madly in love with Hugh And Hugh is keen on Jim. Charles is in love with very few And few are in love with him. Myra sits typing notes of love With romantic pianist’s fingers. Dick tu
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IKEA uses dark patterns of warehouse design. In the book "The truth about IKEA", a former IKEA executive describes how they purposely creates mazes in their warehouses.
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This would be impossible to play on Spotify, without several Spotify accounts. It might explain why these tracks has been mixed together on Spotify.
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Shameless plug for my own take on file watchers. The filewatcher command line utility is available as a ruby gem. It exports shell variables, so you can print name of files that changes this way: $ filewatcher *.js 'echo $FILENAME&#x27
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This is basically a really good compact keyboard, with a web browser. This could be an awesome product if the edges around the screen were smaller, and the whole thing was a bit thinner. It would be even more awesome if the keyboard came in
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Does this mean that in just a few years, about 10 people would actually own most of the world?
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Companies needs people. It is the most important resource. Cities not hospitable for humans, are bad for business. Local authorities in Vienna,Austria, still has control over 25% of the real estate. This ensures that the city will be afford
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The Netherlands has really nice bike lanes! http://randomstreetview.com/#uxdmk_2n6ql_6r_a_5
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I sometimes wish Hacker News had emoticons, so I could add a sad face instead of just an upvote.
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Always nice to read a nice fairytale with the wonderful drawings by Theodor Kittelsen. The norwegian artist is famous for his depictions of trolls, and also illustrated the old icelandic book Snorre saga with depictions of vikings.
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Excel turns out to be a great user interface for making music. Use the interface you probably allready know.
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The Prolog programming language implementation is just 139 lines of Lisp code. Never the less, Prolog is a really powerful tool.
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Absolutely! And rim brakes with new break pads can work better than disc brakes. Besides you don’t need to refill brake fluid in rim brakes.
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A bicycle is in my opinion one of mans greatest inventions. It empowers almost everybody to transport themselves five times more energy efficiently than walking. For two hundred years the bicycle has been improved by countless ingenious inv
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The Apple M1 processor should be used as a benchmark. Not other Intel processors.
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Norway is 61 degrees north, and has a subarctic climate. Many Norwegians are sort of happy to welcome global warmth. It makes it possible to grow wines, and the water becomes warmer during summer. Too bad most of the snow has disappeared in
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Wine from Norwegian fjords thanks to global warming(nrk.no)
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Great read. Friends is the best way to achieve just about anything. One day I hope to be able to meet a friend from Moscow. Even if Russia shares a border with my home country Norway, it is impossible for us to meet in person at the moment.
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The problem with New Zealand seems to be that if you have an education, it is often no where else to use that education than Auckland or Wellington. I have never been to New Zealand, but the problem seems to be very similar to the housing p
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Average home prices in New Zealand reaches 8.8 times average household income(businessdesk.co.nz)
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This is a good example of the first principle, made famous recently by Elon Musk. If you identify the problem and common assumptions, you will probably ask yourself if a few vibrating loudspeakers is simply what everybody is doing. Lots of
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The biggest change to Adobe Photoshop since version 3.5, seems to be the retail price.
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That's how you do it!
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SC-IM is a terminal based spreadsheet. It is the modern version of visicalc. https://github.com/andmarti1424/sc-im

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