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by veb 4y ago
Oh, I probably should've posted here rather than doing a review on the extension. Sorry! When I click sign in with Google or whatever it's called, it then redirects me to https://localhost:3002/api/blah blah
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by veb 4y ago
If it has a radar, then it should have something to do with the sky... hmm, what would be a good name?
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by veb 4y ago
I should really re-read Prey by Michael Crichton. Loved the grey goo in that one.
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by veb 4y ago
Get this, if you use Edge, with bing as search by default and join the waitlist, then another button appears "get access faster" or something, which then takes you to a page to make sure you've defaulted everything to Microso
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by veb 4y ago
I have a cochlear implant so I'm already half cyborg! Still - I am surprised people aren't building on top of CI research/engineering to do _more_. When my processor is upgraded and I get bluetooth which I'd be able to n
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by veb 4y ago
they do, they just might be... in a non-talkative mood ;-)
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by veb 4y ago
This was a fun read, never knew so much about ATMs until now.
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by veb 4y ago
hard agree. then all the choices of cloud servers, learning those, getting up to speed and actually being productive. it's good there's DevOps, but... yeah good luck explaining to pretty much any business without one that they nee
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by veb 4y ago
As someone who IS deaf, but has a cochlear implant I have been telling companies for years that it's not only people like me who get use from it, it's people that can read English, but may find oral/listening harder. It allow
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by veb 4y ago
Here in NZ, when the Christchurch Mosque shootings happened, the Police just rammed the offender off the road and cuffed him... without firing a single shot. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christchurch_mosque_shootings
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by veb 4y ago
There's a New Zealand Journalist, David Farrier ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Farrier ) and I actually subscribe and pay a monthly fee to be able to view what he writes. I think he's really awesome (som
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by veb 4y ago
oh mate I so agree and as a deaf person this would be a godsend. way too much shit is in videos or podcasts. please just let me read...
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by veb 4y ago
what I find annoying is that (other than HN) most places won't let you claim your username if the person has signed up, yet never posted over years (or even logged in) and places where an account was deleted. when I signed up to HN, I
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by veb 4y ago
> Modern push mowers are junk They really really are in NZ at least. I saw some at Mitre10 the other day and they were pretty much all plastic, wtf? Someone local to me as well buys second hand mowers and fixes em up, puts a better motor
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by veb 4y ago
my first thought was the movie. but if you think about it, they're talking about killing billing problems so I'd say that's where the name comes from. (if you check out their website). a name that makes people go "hmm th
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by veb 4y ago
For me personally I need people's cameras on as I find hearing a bit difficult (I wear a cochlear implant) so I utilise lip-reading to fill in the gaps.
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by veb 4y ago
on another topic - do you find that the people you ban actually do email to contest it or do the majority just make a new account and start the same ol' shit all over again?
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by veb 4y ago
There is no HN without dang! You're so right, dang is the glue that binds the community and stops it going down the whirlpool of ... crap that so many other communities eventually spin towards!
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by veb 4y ago
Good on you for making the effort. The daughter would've been beside herself!
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by veb 4y ago
GitHub was working fine for me in NZ. So was Twitter. Very interesting outage.
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by veb 4y ago
A lot of my Australian colleagues were saying a lot of things were down, including all of our websites however me being in NZ, I was able to visit them. So I do think Cloudflare actually is a bit more decentralised than we give them credit
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by veb 4y ago
Yeah the NZ ones just came back online, https://veb.co.nz/ was returning a 500 nginx error which confused the shit out of me until I visited HN Seems our DNS was working over time because a lot of the websites that were dow
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by veb 4y ago
I was a regular in #startups on Freenode (now on Libera.Chat) - which was always the unofficial home for HN (I think). I made friends, acquaintances and so on. When a job came up at someone's work, I was asked if I wanted to apply as I
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by veb 4y ago
I found my current role on IRC :-) A real company in Australia so I work remotely. Super fun place to work at, and the fact that they listened to my urging for improving a11y (which is a passion of mine) is the icing on the cake! Jobs, I&#x
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by veb 4y ago
You weren't wrong! Reminds me a lot of Gwern's website ( https://gwern.net/ )
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by veb 4y ago
This is such a cool experiment. Anything that involves sound like this is extremely interesting to me (I have a cochlear implant). Maybe I can hack it so I know when people are making payments :D
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by veb 4y ago
Is a real word apparently: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/toosh
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by veb 4y ago
Teams also has the BEST accessibility (at least for live captioning). I have not used Google Meet or anything, but I'm constantly surprised by the level of sophistication from Teams live captioning and transcripts. You can be watching
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by veb 4y ago
at least we have super good fibre now. I'm on a 2GBps plan! I hear Chorus is even testing 10Gbps... If I'm honest, hyperfibre isn't really that much more useful than just normal 1Gbps. what NZ did well with their fibre roll o
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by veb 4y ago
I was so against Macs when I was younger. I'd only used Windows and FreeBSD for most of my teen years. So when I was 19, and went to Singapore to work... they used iMacs. I'm all like "ew" but my boss told me once I got

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