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by tweetle_beetle 2y ago
I agree, it feels like an advertorial trying to sell me products even when it isn't, which is a shame as the underlying content is detailed, original and long form. > I tracked the vocals in my apartment in the Mission, San Francisc
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by tweetle_beetle 2y ago
These aren't quite what you're looking for (an SSG theme that does fixed content layouts with pagination, etc with minimal styles by sounds of it), but inspired by similar ideas: - https://github.com/BafS/Gute
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by tweetle_beetle 2y ago
No need to apologise. It's not misleading at all.
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by tweetle_beetle 2y ago
Quoting Wikipedia's source, Forbes estimated her donations were $120 million to date in 2012. However, she co-founded her own charity in 2005, of which she is the president, and I suspect most of it has been donated in that direction.
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by tweetle_beetle 2y ago
> Carnot is targeting the hardest to abate sectors including [long haul] marine [transportation], heavy-duty vehicles and primary off grid power. Even if great advances were being made, these are not very interesting sectors to the vast
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by tweetle_beetle 2y ago
Elon Musk Promises Full Self-Driving 'Next Year' For The Ninth Year In A Row[1] - this article was published over 3 years ago. Are there many examples of a valuable company's stock being based on something which it has failed
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by tweetle_beetle 2y ago
That doesn't mean it's not easy - you found it straight away. It means that independent journalism and research cost money.
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by tweetle_beetle 2y ago
Don't all the XBMC/Kodi-likes suffer from having poor support for mainstream content providers. I've looked a few times over the years, and add-ons for Netflix, YouTube, iPlayer, etc. were slow and terrible for discovery. If
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by tweetle_beetle 2y ago
In my limited sample size, the new Roadrunner 3D cartoons get significantly fewer laughs than the hand drawn ones. The style is irrelevant to the humour, however there does seem to be a correlation between quantity of TNT and enjoyment - ne
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by tweetle_beetle 2y ago
Interestingly, the well respected head of the Home Office announced departure around the same time as this story breaking. There are always lots of juicy things going on in the big government departments, so connections could be made at alm
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by tweetle_beetle 2y ago
I think the point is that it builds on existing infrastructure that almost everyone already has in their life. Whether you self-host, use a niche provider, or a mainstream provider, email provides a pretty interoperable starting point which
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by tweetle_beetle 2y ago
Defensive weapon is something of an oxymoron, apart from technologies like missile defense [1]. Putting that to one side, rational deterrence theory[2] suggests that: (Probability of deterrer carrying out deterrent threat × Costs if threat
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by tweetle_beetle 2y ago
I can't comment on their impartiality, but a policy research organisation ran a detailed war gaming simulation of an amphibious invasion by China 24 times in 2023. > In most scenarios, the United States/Taiwan/Japan defeat
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by tweetle_beetle 2y ago
A company called MonkeyLectric did make a quality commercial product for displaying video, but it retailed for around $900 so I suspect they didn't sell too many and they seem to have shut down. There seems to be stuck off their cheape
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by tweetle_beetle 2y ago
I'm no expert on US politics, but I'm pretty sure yesterday's executive order is unprecedented in this regard: > Therefore, in order to improve the administration of the executive branch and to increase regulatory official
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by tweetle_beetle 2y ago
It's all of the above: hardware, software and e-commerce.
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by tweetle_beetle 2y ago
Perhaps, but, taking the example provided, Gov.uk deals with population scale products funded by taxpayers and which may be exclusively digital. Accessibility as an ideology makes sense in this context, and, I would argue, is morally correc
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by tweetle_beetle 2y ago
I'm not sure that's as true as it once was. All the major networks now have significant shop window space dedicated to SIM Only products for people keeping their existing phone. There is even a thriving ecosystem of SIM only netwo
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by tweetle_beetle 2y ago
> Cosmopolitan Libc makes C a build-anywhere run-anywhere language, like Java, except it doesn't need an interpreter or virtual machine. Instead, it reconfigures stock GCC and Clang to output a POSIX-approved polyglot format that ru
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by tweetle_beetle 2y ago
Everyone is paraphrasing what the judgement is. It's easy to find on pegi.info: > This game teaches - by way of images, information and gameplay - skills and knowledge that are used in poker. During gameplay, the player is rewarded
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by tweetle_beetle 2y ago
There are quite a few made in niche communities but often not very discoverable, as they aren't commercially viable and marketed. One notable exception is The Emissary[1] which had a successful retail release as For Northwood![2]. Kni5
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by tweetle_beetle 2y ago
Weren't (true) PS/2 keyboards exempt from all of that? Of course someone could always achieve the first one with enough effort, but it would be adding in lots of things from scratch rather than repurposing the existing hardware th
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by tweetle_beetle 2y ago
Traditionally Sherpas only make up a small percentage of "native" workers and they they tend to work in more mountaineering adjacent roles (fixing ropes, etc.) which come with more prestige, money and better equipment donations fr
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by tweetle_beetle 2y ago
Even worse is that you can't even follow any one top flight football team now without paying multiple suppliers in the UK. It works out at about 7-8 hours/month of minimum wage to pay the 3 providers required, using figures from l
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by tweetle_beetle 2y ago
I once did some work for a business that operated in this field. I'll never forget the owner. He had done very well over the years and drove a Ferrari - an extremely rare sight in the industrial area. He spent all day selling very high
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by tweetle_beetle 2y ago
Conversely, the system which has been described as the longest running computer system after Voyager is the UK's Police National Computer - turning 50 and still in use today. Most UK citizens will be on it in some way, shape or form. K
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by tweetle_beetle 2y ago
I wonder the tipping point for that status for the scythe occured historically. They are fairly difficult tools to manufacture, as far as hand tools go. And it wasn't that long ago, in the history of the tool, that a patent led to a si
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by tweetle_beetle 2y ago
They've been selling something which doesn't exist for years, as a fixed fee, or subscription. Most large companies end up walking a tightrope of getting away with as much as possible. But FSD can only be described as a lie, a eup
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by tweetle_beetle 2y ago
Upstarts! These days people only start sharing new fangled CSS frameworks 9 years in advance. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10974253
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by tweetle_beetle 2y ago
Interesting that they confidently assert that they are "safer for the community" than cars or trucks. This is backed by a link to a blog [1] which doesn't mention the words 'safe' or 'safety' at all, but,

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