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by troymc 6y ago
It looks like waterfalls, hence the name: cascatelli.
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by troymc 6y ago
Does axiom.ai respect robots.txt restrictions or something similar (i.e. something specific to axiom.ai)? The reason I ask is that Joe Arbitrage could sign up for one paid premium account with a SaaS provider, then use that account and axio
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by troymc 6y ago
I knew that LogMeIn had acquired LastPass, but I didn't know that private equity had gobbled up LogMeIn (which used to be publicly traded on the stock market). Apparently the private equity deal was only finalized in August of last yea
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by troymc 6y ago
Did you read the article? This is not the usual story of the Kickstarter that didn't deliver.
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by troymc 6y ago
If you put the s**bowl on top of an old cash register, it overflows into an actual register.
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by troymc 6y ago
There's a POSIX utility named "cat" and cats already know what it does, but if a man wants to know, he just types the following words into the terminal and then presses <Enter>: man cat
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by troymc 6y ago
Don't forget "The Herding of Cats"!
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by troymc 6y ago
Twitter says they did it "due to a violation of Twitter policies, in particular the Counterfeiting Policy." The precipitating event was a lawsuit in India and the subsequent reactions. This article gives more details: https:&#x2F
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by troymc 6y ago
It's not as niche as you might think. I think the problem is that there are already lots of other websites selling antique maps. For example: - https://www.raremaps.com/ - https://artsourceinternational.com&
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by troymc 6y ago
Could you say more about why you think the original mac apps "failed?" Small market? Lack of promotion? Cost too high? What?
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by troymc 6y ago
AirBnB has something like that called "Experiences." I'm not saying that to be critical; if anything it should be affirmation that you were onto something, i.e. there really is a market for such things. https://w
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by troymc 6y ago
“Begin at the beginning," the King said, very gravely, "and go on till you come to the end: then stop.” ― Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland
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by troymc 6y ago
That's helpful, thanks.
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by troymc 6y ago
I thought, these are some interesting thoughts, maybe I will subscribe to their RSS feed. But there doesn't seem to be one. I looked at the source of that web page and apparently all the HTML was generated by JavaScript... Sigh.
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by troymc 6y ago
Yes, and that was mentioned in the article. I guess you need a catalytic converter or similar before atmospheric release.
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by troymc 6y ago
I grew up on a farm in Canada and we would breathe ammonia when testing the ammonia nozzles on our air seeder. It didn't smell great, but we didn't die.
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by troymc 6y ago
Thankfully, birds sometimes come and help hedgehogs get off the road: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FIqFiQ2MwfA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GFK4wT9udFo
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by troymc 6y ago
"On Wikipedia, notability is a test used by editors to decide whether a given topic warrants its own article." From: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Notability Most altcoins are not notable by the
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by troymc 6y ago
I gather that the knowledge in Golden is more structured, making it more like a database than a wiki, i.e. more like Wikidata or Semantic MediaWiki than Wikipedia.
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by troymc 6y ago
I went to the "SHOP" page and it lists several things, including: - Logo sticker for $2.95 - Pre Order Now! for $40000.00 That "pre order" is for a 3D-printed house. I can't decide. They are so similar!
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by troymc 6y ago
I also cringe at that phrase, so you're not alone. It seems particularly prevalent among police officers. I guess it's just part of "police English." Every group has its own language and jargon, used to signal group memb
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by troymc 6y ago
One problem with "Element" is its potential for confusion with other, similarly-named tech products, such as: - Adobe Photoshop Elements - Adobe Premiere Elements - Elementor, one of the more popular WordPress plugins - Element UI
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by troymc 6y ago
I suspect that would be a short book.
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by troymc 6y ago
Brown dwarf stars can be relatively cool and can have atmospheres, so you could aerobrake around those.
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by troymc 6y ago
New Zealanders will be able to patronize their own tourist industry, as a start. Then there is talk of allowing travel between Australia and New Zealand, because Australia also has low case numbers. Other countries also are getting to low c
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by troymc 6y ago
I suspect they propose to detonate lots of small explosions at regular time intervals and at regular spacings on the surface of the patient, and then measure the responses using seismographs attached elsewhere to the patient, like what the
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by troymc 7y ago
The following is a simplification but should suffice. Airflow is for hooking together and managing a bunch of data sources, data-processing nodes, and data sinks. This project seems like a GUI for Scrapy, which is a web crawling framework,
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by troymc 7y ago
If you like learning about the history (and science) of the world's foods, check out the podcast Gastropod . https://gastropod.com/
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by troymc 7y ago
Planet Money (the podcast) did an episode on that: https://www.npr.org/2019/06/03/729396914/episode-651-the-sal...
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by troymc 7y ago
While it's tempting to criticize the authors of the papers for having lax ethics, this quote gave me pause: "[Paper mills] sell these papers to e.g. medical doctors in China who need to have a scientific paper published in an inte

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