akpa1

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by akpa1 4mo ago
That sounds like a dream. My (also UK-based) university has been working on a new student records management project for years that's been incredibly ill-fated. It's destined to replace all their current systems and the first modu
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by akpa1 4mo ago
My feed reader works by running once a day, at roughly the same time every day, and sending me an email of all of the things it's not seen before. Because of this I've not actually been able to get any output from the Youtube feed
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by akpa1 5mo ago
I do find it a little bit funny that there's a quote in the article that says "A Kindle is a text device! There is no need for updates." and yet it runs an entire Linux installation.
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Amazon to end support for older Kindles(bbc.co.uk)
10 points by akpa1 5mo ago|7 comments
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by akpa1 6mo ago
I got my ADHD diagnosis privately (mostly because of the length of the NHS waiting lists, and I'm currently waiting on a NHS RTC provider to transfer my care there) and I pay the trade price plus pharmacy markup (so ~£40/mo) for m
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by akpa1 7mo ago
There is the fundamental thing of skeletal structure and build though - people naturally are entirely different shapes, regardless of fat or excess weight, wich is what the comment is mostly referring to in my eyes. I'm built very tall
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by akpa1 7mo ago
Later sections of the article detail how there are multiple different safety features integrated to guard against various different failures triggering the magnetron with the door open.
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by akpa1 7mo ago
Duplicate thread of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46972610
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by akpa1 7mo ago
I've been getting some of these these to my wildcard domain - I've had sign-up messages sent to diddy@<domain> and epstein@<domain>, which is... odd. And no, I can't say I've ever used those addresses.
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by akpa1 8mo ago
If one can fit :P
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by akpa1 8mo ago
Medicated, diagnosed ADHD-haver speaking. Unmanaged ADHD is dangerous, and incredibly detrimental to people's lives, but the level of such may not be entirely apparent to somebody until after they receive treatment. I think the attitud
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by akpa1 8mo ago
I really don't like this sentiment: > "Because I can get an answer from an LLM (which does need to be verified) in less than a minute versus the hours or days I would have to wait to get a toxic and potentially useless reply on
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by akpa1 8mo ago
Yeah, mine is also a little bit ridiculous. I think Spotify encourages a certain overconsumption of music; for me, the things on my liked list are not necessarily things that I value equally. I buy things that I either already know or have
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by akpa1 8mo ago
I do enjoy the Spotify Wrapped stuff, but after moving partially to selfhosting Navidrome for a growing collection of rips and DRM-free purchases, I've been scrobbling everything (including Spotify) to Last.fm, which has a similar end-
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by akpa1 9mo ago
For that to work, we would first need to make those blue collar jobs into ones that actually pay well enough for people to thrive instead of merely survive
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by akpa1 9mo ago
I love that it's possible to boot a raw Linux kernel this way; I only learned about it very recently when working on a university project. It makes me want to fiddle around with it more and really understand the nuts and bolts of a mod
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by akpa1 10mo ago
Both can be a laughable failure at once!
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by akpa1 11mo ago
Older versions historically haven’t worked very well, but I’ve not tried with newer copies.
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by akpa1 1y ago
190,813,414 and a bit times round the equator if you place them long edge to long edge
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by akpa1 1y ago
These saw use in my secondary school for SEND kids as late as 2019. I did not realise just how old they were.
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by akpa1 1y ago
I see the contradiction there! The bit about the "aims of the module" comes from its aims to get people thinking in a certain way about security, something I definitely already had. But that doesn't mean it had nothing to tea
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by akpa1 1y ago
The professor did take this very well, as it happened - he asked me to come along to one of his office hours to discuss how I did it and what I might do to prevent it, among other things. The quote "if you can exploit it like this, you
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by akpa1 1y ago
Ha, thanks for the heads up
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by akpa1 1y ago
Author here - yep! It is, that was a typo in the article.
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by akpa1 1y ago
There's a pretty clear line between "this inheritance is enough to make you comfortable and sort you out for life" and "this inheritance will make you rich beyond your own comprehension" - there's a certain amo
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Apple's encryption row with UK should not be secret, court rules(bbc.co.uk)
7 points by akpa1 1y ago|0 comments
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by akpa1 1y ago
Interesting to see V mentioned here. Is it still the chaotic mess of a language that'll never be like it was a few years ago?
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by akpa1 2y ago
This makes me think of a system that just got replaced where I work - multiple hundreds of temporary workers being tracked through their setup and onboarding processes through one massive Excel spreadsheet, saved on a shared Teams group tha
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by akpa1 2y ago
Ohhhh, this felt so familiar. Listening to music while mindlessly scrolling and waiting for... something. Yikes. I really don't think I like technology any more.
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Schools to trial social media blackout scheme(bbc.com)
1 points by akpa1 2y ago|0 comments

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