Corvus

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by Corvus 2mo ago
dupe https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48798536
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by Corvus 10mo ago
Google Pixel watch. I had a Garmin fitness tracker and a Pixel phone, and had difficulty transferring my fitness metrics to Sheets. So why not combine the two? I'll tell you why; the Pixel watch manages to combine all the disadvantages
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by Corvus 1y ago
correct URL: https://www.wsj.com/business/airlines/boeing-has-started-wor...
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by Corvus 1y ago
Lost Lagoon in Vancouver, Canada, is so choked with algae it looks like a lawn https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/stanley-park...
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by Corvus 1y ago
TL;DR: the current Sudanese civil war https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sudanese_civil_war_(2023%E2%80...
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by Corvus 1y ago
https://archive.ph/u210O
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by Corvus 2y ago
“More commonly, people who had incurred the displeasure of the Party simply disappeared and were never heard of again. One never had the smallest clue as to what had happened to them.”
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by Corvus 2y ago
spoiler: it's about the WGN-TV signal hijack in 1987 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max_Headroom_signal_hijacking
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by Corvus 2y ago
The Australian cartoonist Stuart McMillen wrote a good cartoon called Rat Park about this experiment; https://www.stuartmcmillen.com/comic/rat-park/
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by Corvus 2y ago
Xcrete
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by Corvus 3y ago
TLDR: Paul Erdős https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Erd%C5%91s
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by Corvus 3y ago
CBC Radio had a documentary on Fanon, including archive interviews with people who knew him. https://www.cbc.ca/radio/ideas/decolonizing-the-mind-the-lif...
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by Corvus 3y ago
For over a year there was a fake trail that went through a mountain in Google Maps from a ski hill to a waterfall. Local SAR would regularly have to rescue people trying to take the trail; I think at least one person was killed there. Peopl
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by Corvus 3y ago
“Dream about running races, not about crossing the finish line.” – Benjamin P. Hardy
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Canadian government reaches deal with Google on Online News Act(cbc.ca)
71 points by Corvus 3y ago|202 comments
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by Corvus 3y ago
“The agreement would see Canadian news continue to be shared on Google's platforms in return for the company making annual payments to news companies in the range of $100 million, a source with knowledge of the negotiations told CBC Ne
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Google Digital Garage is closing(learndigital.withgoogle.com)
2 points by Corvus 3y ago|1 comments
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by Corvus 3y ago
Google Digital Garage is an online learning platform for Google software such as Docs, Sheets, GMail, Workspaces, and others. Google will be transitioning their courses to Skillshop at https://skillshop.withgoogle.com/
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by Corvus 3y ago
Requiring passwords to follow strict rules makes them less secure, not more: https://blog.codinghorror.com/password-rules-are-bullshit/
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by Corvus 4y ago
Note that “Memory Stick” is a trademark of Sony corporation for their proprietary non-USB portable flash RAM. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memory_Stick
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by Corvus 4y ago
A much-better “Kitchen of the Future” article was posted on TreeHugger in 2021. Decrying kitchen designs by people who don't cook, the article referred to a lesson by the USDA about applying experience from the US Army to home kitchens
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Internal review calls Sweden’s Covid strategy “fundamentally correct” [pdf](s3.documentcloud.org)
10 points by Corvus 5y ago|1 comments
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by Corvus 5y ago
This is the behavior of the Unicode Right-to-Left Override character U+202E. Meant to embed Hebrew or Arabic text, it is most used by hackers to change their exploittxt.exe attachment to read exploitexe.txt
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by Corvus 5y ago
We had a situation like that once because of circular dependencies; services that needed another service to start. “How is that possible?” you ask. Code reviews; “take that code out and get the data from an existing service.” We hard-coded
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by Corvus 6y ago
Herbie was also in several movies titled The Love Bug e.g. https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0064603/
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by Corvus 6y ago
I am reminded of a problem faced by geometers in antiquity of building straightedges; how do you draw a straight line when you have no existing straight line to copy from? The book “How Round Is Your Circle?” includes some interesting solut
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by Corvus 6y ago
There is a rather obscure book titled "If Hemingway Wrote Javascript" by Angus Croll https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/21487480-if-hemingway-wr... that contains literary reviews and source code in a va
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by Corvus 8y ago
There was a discussion about this a while back at a Tetra Society meeting; http://www.tetrasociety.org/ . One idea I thought promising was audio games and household assistance delivered through devices like Google Home and A
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by Corvus 8y ago
“draw an arbitrary triangle” means this works with any triangle.
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by Corvus 9y ago
“If men learn this ... they will cease to exercise memory because they rely on that which is written” - Plato on literacy, ca. 350 BCE.

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