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by vr46 2y ago
Opportunity to give Organic Maps a shout for being brilliant and wonderful.
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by vr46 2y ago
The Opsix looks very straightforward. I bought the Digitone Keys about three years ago and it's a lot of fun, along with having that sequencer and Elektron Interface. It does not appear to have been a successful product, and I do not t
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by vr46 2y ago
I was hoping to see a giant red line going from France directly into CERN, as Geneva (last I heard) was unable to supply them the power they needed.
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by vr46 2y ago
Did you run through Buyers Walk right inside the building, or do you mean Grand Ave, the short and often slippery vehicular road that cut the building in half? Either are cool, although I like the image of you running through the actual mar
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by vr46 2y ago
Super sad, have spent a long of time in the area from riding right through the middle of it and parking my motorbike under it, to wolfing Turkish lunches and drinking in the pubs (not on the same day, drink-driving mavens). It is a bit of a
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by vr46 2y ago
Android phone circa 2010 Every computer ever, I could have been a lumberjack and had a peaceful life
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by vr46 2y ago
What a lovely memory, and I think my first mac, a PB 180, was Irish, but if not, the accessories certainly were. And I wonder if the doorstop of a Powermac 8100 still at my childhood home was Irish too. A different world, though. You couldn
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by vr46 2y ago
My buddy has a wallpaper on his phone that says, in large letters, "Do I really to be picking up my phone right now?" Done and done.
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by vr46 2y ago
Photography has never been a cheap hobby, and there have always been a few manufacturers at the top end of engineering able to reach higher and higher. Regarding digital, Leica made several false starts - its M8 and M9 were excreble - and i
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by vr46 2y ago
I took a position at a prominent London university to teach one of their courses and I did it for the love of it, because it was less than two days contracting for an entire term of lecturing and marking. Forget that coming into college to
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by vr46 2y ago
At least you're accepting them. Half my FB feed was complaining about them as if they were the worst thing to be foist upon them and I sarcastically posted about how people want the world's problems to be fixed and the environment
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by vr46 2y ago
MinerU PDFQuery PyMuPDF (having more success with older versions, right now)
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by vr46 2y ago
I spend a lot of time scrolling past the same stories, HN is like Groundhog Day
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by vr46 2y ago
I’ll have to test this against my local Python pipeline which does all this without an LLM in attendance. There are a ton of existing Python libraries which have been doing this for a long time, so let’s take a look..
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by vr46 2y ago
A good season, with the front runners doing something really special at times. Conflicted fan of the sprints and so many races due to the pressure to squeeze money from the sport, but enjoying the extra racing.
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by vr46 2y ago
Oh, I still love it, just not in a rose-tinted goggles way, like I did when I was 18. I did work a few stints at a Japanese company in London and saw the slight clash of corporate cultures up close.
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by vr46 2y ago
Yeah, I think brown people are less welcome, although I still want to spend a month just wandering around record shops listening to Japanese jazz-funk and slurping noodles
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by vr46 2y ago
All this has gone a long way to make me feel better about not keeping up my Japanese language skills after university. My youthful deep reverence for Japan and its culture shifted into realpolitik as I learned more and more, and I think ano
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by vr46 2y ago
Yes, feedback loops? What feedback loops!
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by vr46 2y ago
One of my favourite books and authors, I gave my copy to my photojournalism tutor after I explained how this book helped open up my mind and related directly to the photojournalism concept of “creating order out of chaos”, which has since b
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by vr46 2y ago
That seems like an apt metaphor for TW, if the guards were the ones who got you into the mess in the first place, of course
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by vr46 2y ago
Ah, their fabled rear-view mirror again. A nicely-presented summary of various tech applications but I’m not sure we need a lighthouse anymore.
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by vr46 2y ago
At a distance works great, my friend (not deaf, but works in a school) taught her kids BSL (also not deaf) and recounted the story of how she was able to bollock the kids once in public across a hall. She also had no trouble ordering a drin
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by vr46 2y ago
Reinventing the wheel suggests they're not even paying attention to the past, let along learning from it...
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by vr46 2y ago
So here's the thing - the law isn't the problem - because you have no idea in advance how each individual piece of media, film, song, whatever, will be treated depending upon your own circumstances. And this actually changes from
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by vr46 2y ago
It very much is an Apple problem because I purchased my stuff from them and not from anyone else. The buck has to stop there. Secondly, I already bought the thing, I don’t care that the thing is no longer sold where I happen to be standing.
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by vr46 2y ago
Good, I hope they hammer Apple. I moved country and lost around 2/3rd of my TV and Film library, box sets partially complete, films disappeared, TV shows too. I was attempting to build a small collection of decent stuff and didn't
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by vr46 2y ago
I picked this up a few months ago while wandering around London and it is a delightful book, with a delightful tempo. Perhaps for those of us that lean more towards the Wong Kar-wei’s of the world than the peaks and tropes of airport bestse
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by vr46 2y ago
A great update to older articles on Ruby concurrency. I pored over some of my code from Ruby to Rust - nothing exciting, turns hundreds of Instagram posts into Markdown text with resized and watermarked images - but maxes out my cores. Usin
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by vr46 2y ago
I just spent two weeks wasting my time trying to code my pet project in various flavours of Next.js plus Prisma/Drizzle etc and gave up at having to constantly reinvent the wheel or work around some incomplete/naive implementation

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