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by trog 4y ago
I think this is still true but worth noting more recent data shows inventory climbing[1]. I don't think it's drastic yet - just a reflection of the economy contracting. Price drops are keeping them moving but at the cost of their
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by trog 4y ago
> So prohibit bikes then? I think government is more concerned about scooters competing with paid for transportation and hence reduction of revenue If you read the article you'll see this is based on a decision by the city's r
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by trog 4y ago
> If nuclear power was invented today, it would have been considered a breakthrough capable of changing the course of climate change dramatically. This is pretty funny because we can look at 'AI' which is being called exactly t
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by trog 4y ago
You seem to have accidentally inserted the word "overall" into what you thought the above poster said and gotten angry about it
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by trog 4y ago
They should go old school and call it Clippy. That would be amazing.
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by trog 4y ago
So how do you know they are funded by the Greens?
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by trog 4y ago
Coles brand has never worked for me. Try the Aldi tablets. They are very cheap and Choice scores them as the best.
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by trog 4y ago
Noone seems to have mentioned extensions yet so I'll jump in - extensions! Like Firefox, Thunderbird can be, uh, extended with additional functionality which can really boost productivity. (I know there are Gmail addons that can do sim
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by trog 4y ago
I have thought for years Netflix (for me, at least) would benefit massively from a "never show me this show again" button. I continually see the same bunch of shows when browsing that I will never, ever watch. They take up space a
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by trog 4y ago
> These notes can already be flagged and reported. This action generates another note of a specific type. A nostr client could use this data and hide notes from users before they ever see them. This is just crowdsourced moderation then?
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by trog 4y ago
You clearly have not met any Australians
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by trog 4y ago
I think that's a bit unfair - I think they're taking a very dry, boring subject and trying to make it engaging and interesting to a wider audience. They are sometimes going to err on the side of too generic, but most of the actual
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by trog 4y ago
I was like this until I found the NPR Planet Money podcast. I am not 100% sure why I found this so engaging but here are my guesses: 1. They cover a subject I was interested in (economics), but knew basically nothing about. This made it eas
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by trog 4y ago
Just had a quick look at Luigi Auriemma's website[1] to see if he had any CVEs listed - he found a ton of interesting bugs in video games - I used to follow his work closely when I was running game servers as they often could end up im
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by trog 4y ago
Would love to hear your story of your simple easy decentralised cryptoasset money sending as most people I know who do this end up telling me a story that is not exactly a user experience delight but more like a nightmare of key management,
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by trog 4y ago
Just the default Google Workspace one for the moment. Only a small handful of users at the moment & didn't need anything fancy. We are probably going to be looking at a redo of our whole auth at some point in the next 6-12 months a
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by trog 4y ago
> Or because SaaS is easier to use and requires little or no maintenance. YUP We recently deployed Tailscale in our organisation; I had looked at Wireguard very closely but decided that the ease of use of Tailscale meant we could get up
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by trog 4y ago
Nice summary! In Australia our RTGS is called RITS (Reserve Bank Information and Transfer System) and settlement is generally instant[1]. It's relatively new (2018) but it is pretty amazing. Even before this our system wasn't too
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by trog 4y ago
> This exercise will likely make Tether fail Insolvent companies usually fail anyway. It's better to catch them early before they can make things even worse for their customers and investors.
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by trog 4y ago
This is neat. Would love to know how to make things like this offline apps where the knowledge base is relatively static - this kind of thing would be fun to deploy as a little webapp or client application for kids where you don't have
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by trog 4y ago
> You have zero visibility into the operations of traditional private businesses. If you need visibility into a private business for commercial reasons before doing business with them, there are ways to do it, including using auditors in
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by trog 4y ago
Sure, but - Binance will successfully be able to clear their liabilities right up until the first person tries to withdraw a single dollar and it fails because they don't have any left. At which point it will probably go to zero in an
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by trog 4y ago
This. Been doing this for almost two decades. 99.9 percent of the time nobody will notice. You almost have to draw attention to it deliberately before anyone notices. Any nobody ever cares - the sort of person who would you probably wouldn&
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by trog 4y ago
> and if we just made it so that our vehicles could plug into electricity at all points of their journey, then EVs are basically solved. One thing I have often wondered is how often they'd need access to electricity if they had a s
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by trog 4y ago
Why not just start a company competing with Apple, Microsoft and Google, you're saying?
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by trog 4y ago
My conspiracy theory of choice is that all these big front end frameworks have been developed and heavily funded & pushed by (primarily) Google and Facebook specifically to make it so people are forced to run client-side JavaScript to g
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by trog 4y ago
> It's a worse experience for the user but it's not bad enough to be a major barrier to adoption in most cases. One thing I don't quite get is why giant companies with zillions of dollars of recurring revenue just keep usi
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by trog 4y ago
One of Firefox's most annoying interface changes,to me at least. I used this thing all the time. Maybe there was more to it (I'm sure I could dig up the Bugzilla) but I used this feature all the time & can't imagine it wa
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by trog 4y ago
FWIW, until a few months ago, my next car was absolutely going to be a Tesla. I can't bring myself to buy one now. I'm still committed to getting an electric car as my next purchase and am slightly disappointed to take the Model 3
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by trog 4y ago
Judging serial liars on their opinions seems like a waste of time to me. Looking at their actions and the results is probably safer given they both do very public things that impact large numbers of people with generally visible results.

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