amatix

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by amatix 2y ago
There's a similar UK initiative which has spread to a number of other countries. Nurdles are everywhere... https://www.nurdlehunt.org.uk/nurdle-finds.html
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by amatix 3y ago
https://archive.is/uxPdY
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by amatix 3y ago
> A number of New Zealand petrol pumps stopped working on Thursday due to a "leap year glitch" in payment software, fuel stations and the payment service provider said. https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pa
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The software says my student cheated using AI. They say they're innocent(theguardian.com)
10 points by amatix 3y ago|2 comments
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by amatix 3y ago
Even today the LEGO-compatible knock-offs are complete junk, my kids occasionally end up picking up a loose bag for £1 from the local charity shop. Pieces don't stick together properly (with each other, let alone LEGO pieces); legs, ar
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by amatix 3y ago
> Spotify reported that it had 9,400 employees at the end of the third quarter of 2023. It had already cut back employee numbers by 6% in January and by a further 2% in June.
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by amatix 3y ago
There's a company working to build a 3600km long cable between solar + wind farms in Morocco, and the UK. 3.6GW cable, 10GW of generation, 20GW of battery storage, and the cable should run at full load for 20h a day. https:/&#x2F
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by amatix 3y ago
Good questions > Are the raw files in the working repository GeoPackages? The working copy for a vector/table dataset can be in a GeoPackage or a SQL database like PostGIS. For rasters/point-clouds they're flat files. >
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by amatix 4y ago
https://kagi.com ?
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by amatix 4y ago
The BluMartin FreshAir 100 and the Fresh-R series are both MVHR units that fit into existing walls: there’s a Fresh-R model that goes into a window frame too.
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by amatix 4y ago
Different brands vary, but IME this is only correct for a few weeks at best. Otherwise you'll get a lot of residue, and if it's been outside exposed to UV you'll get even more. And duck tape is worse.
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by amatix 5y ago
Air Chathams has a DC3 in their fleet, there’s a great Allplane podcast episode (incl transcript) on some of the other old planes they fly and how their operation has evolved. https://allplane.tv/podcast/2020/6&#x2
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by amatix 5y ago
And at the same time, the UK government is looking at reversing the GDPR review right for automated decisions: Article 22 guarantees that people can seek a human review of an algorithmic decision, such as an online decision to award a loan
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by amatix 5y ago
I'd argue the official spec is now https://commonmark.org/ - it was partially reversed from the actual implementations in use and their behaviours, and is very highly specific compared to the original guide.
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by amatix 5y ago
TripMode ( https://tripmode.ch/ ) for filtering application Internet access when you're running on mobile data uses a kernel extension.
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by amatix 6y ago
The tool sounds interesting — can you share any more details?
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by amatix 6y ago
https://davidallengreen.com/2021/01/can-a-presidential-pardo... discusses — in 1869 one got rescinded because the original was never delivered (but according to the post that isn't binding).
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by amatix 6y ago
Only if the notarization signature hasn’t been stapled to the binary.
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by amatix 6y ago
Tesco and ASDA have both been delivering to anyone throughout, and Sainsbury’s has opened out to anyone in the last week or so.
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Rackspace ends free OSS hosting without notice and sends invoices(twitter.com)
3 points by amatix 7y ago|1 comments
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by amatix 7y ago
Depends on the VAT system. In New Zealand you can almost count the VAT (GST) exceptions on one hand (most land/property, bank charges, and goods/services that are exported), everything else supplied domestically has one flat rate
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by amatix 7y ago
Authy’s iOS app still doesn’t have an actions/app helper, so every time you need to switch to the home screen, find & launch it, search for the site, close the keyboard (the copy button is obscured by it), hit copy, then switch bac
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by amatix 7y ago
FYI, any non-British citizens living in the UK (excepting EU for now) are being forced towards getting Biometric Residence Permits with any visas/renewals... a plastic card containing photos/biometrics and a big ID number on it. A
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SendGrid: Group Unsubscribes exposed to search engines(markdownshare.com)
1 points by amatix 8y ago|0 comments
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by amatix 8y ago
Onyx Boox series run Android (some old, some new), and go up to 13” in size.
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by amatix 8y ago
Instapaper sends weekly digests of new articles direct to my Kindle.
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by amatix 9y ago
I have a small prototype I need to get from a schematic stage (needs additional checking & decoupling caps, etc added) to a few PCBs - I was thinking of hiring someone to do the PCB layout. forum.eevblog.com was mentioned above, there a
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by amatix 9y ago
Seems to be using the `Server-Timing` header — are there docs somewhere on what this expects & what features it supports? Are other browsers likely to follow it?
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by amatix 9y ago
Received an email too: Dear customer, As you are surely aware, the browser makers distrusted StartCom around a year ago and therefore all the end entity certificates newly issued by StartCom are not trusted by default in browsers. The brow
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Termination of StartCom business(startcomca.com)
19 points by amatix 9y ago|5 comments

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