crashbunny

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by crashbunny 2mo ago
Interesting. I wonder if in 100 years time Stephenson's fountain pen writing will still be around. No doubt they are all scanned, but, maybe the originals will fade. I saw another video about someone's favourite pen and he gave th
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by crashbunny 2mo ago
I've always love stationery. Over the years I've looked up pen reviews and tried out many different types including fountain pens. I watched a video recently from someone, from memory the creator behind the youtube channel vsauce.
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by crashbunny 5mo ago
Kind of loosely related to the article. Many years ago someone uploaded to youtube an old video of Neil Young going into a record store and finding a bootleg vinyl of one of his concerts for sale. I think this is the video https:/&#x2
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by crashbunny 6mo ago
not the first instance. This was 2023 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lPUBXN2Fd_E&t=19s A dude in the usa was arrested in a casino by police because the casino's facial recognition software said he had been trespas
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by crashbunny 6mo ago
The neo might be the start of the end of traditional home PCs. You buy a thin client and a monthly subscription and all of your files and compute is in the cloud. Want to edit some raw video into a polished 20 minute video suitable for yout
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by crashbunny 9mo ago
Doesn't the word "coincidental" imply Vince Gilligan is OK with the anti AI take? He's not denying it's there, he's saying it's not intentional, it's coincidental. I agree with "art isn't a
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by crashbunny 9mo ago
In australia, big corp donate a few thousand and give cushy "advisory role" jobs to politicians after they leave office in exchange for contracts to build, own and run private toll roads. It has been proven many times it's ch
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by crashbunny 1y ago
i don't know if braking performance is the main reason for disk brakes. I suspect the biggest benefit is bike makers get to sell new bikes to people who don't need new bikes. For professional riders who don't buy their own bi
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by crashbunny 1y ago
I don't know if this is a big factor, but, kids for the last 10 years have had access to really good training techniques for free via youtube. Every kid has the opportunity to use the same training techniques as the professionals. By t
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by crashbunny 2y ago
This brings back memories of Regium. A kickstarter scam 5 years ago that used realistic 3d animation videos of an automated chessboard to trick people out of their cash. chess.com happily took regium's money to advertise their scam to
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by crashbunny 2y ago
> The only X factor here is the impact of the client lieing about its latency to the server, perhaps that could have an impact, not sure. on lichess it does have an impact. lichess has a thing they call lag compensation where the server
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by crashbunny 2y ago
I'm also not a lawyer, pleased to meet you. > I sort of directionally think that if WPE had a strong case here, their opening bid wouldn't be a C&D I believe, as a non lawyer, in some places to be able to sue for defamation
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by crashbunny 2y ago
years ago I did the same, I vaguely remember following a blog post to do it. I put the scripts on github and some people found it useful. There's a deb package now that does it called overlayroot.
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by crashbunny 3y ago
I've been playing on lichess for about 10-15 years, started playing when I was over 30. I probably average one 5+0 game a day. I don't play in tournaments. Usually one game for a break and then get back to work. My philosophy is s
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by crashbunny 3y ago
this works for me env -i DISPLAY=$DISPLAY DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS=$DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS firefox this doesn't, it gives me the "Firefox is already running, but is not responding." message env -i DISPLAY=$DISPLAY firefox
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by crashbunny 3y ago
It was in traffic control, there are different types of traffic control work, one type is lane closures which I did maybe 10% of the time. Another type is on large construction sites (not so much houses, more like large buildings), getting
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by crashbunny 3y ago
I like IT, but I needed a break from it, I needed to refresh, I was always planning on going back.
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by crashbunny 3y ago
I've had a few career breaks from IT. One time was a job in the construction industry for 6 months. It was the happiest I'd ever been. I went from struggling to get to sleep, struggling to wake up before midday in IT, to bouncing
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by crashbunny 4y ago
years ago when I left the building my doctor is in, in a street full of doctor's practices, google asked me to rate my doctor using his full name. the building has many floors and practices. knew my doctor by name. knew I was there to
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by crashbunny 4y ago
Blocking class action for arbitration is a double-edged sword for companies. I can't remember what article I read ages ago, not this one, but this one seems to say the same thing from skimming the top https://news.bloombergl
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by crashbunny 5y ago
cheers. I read somewhere warrant canaries had been outlawed and I just qwanted, it was in my country, australia. https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2015/03/australia_out... we have some really scary
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by crashbunny 5y ago
doesn't the usa have secret searches a company can't acknowledge? then canaries came about and I can't remember if they were outlawed in the usa. I assume everyone is watching. I'm very boring, though, but I still want s
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by crashbunny 5y ago
I've seen aussie birds seek out and reposition thrown out empty energy drinks to finish off the last few drops. Apparently they act just young teenagers in many ways.
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by crashbunny 5y ago
Where's your bin? "I's been on holidays" No, No. Where's your wheelie bin? "OK, OK, I's really been in gaol"
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by crashbunny 5y ago
I imagine the CEO's renumeration is partly based on profits and share price. If that's correct then there's no incentive to cut profits or do anything to cause the share price to go down, even if temporarily.
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by crashbunny 5y ago
My favourite tale is about how the kangaroo got its name. The story goes, way back when, the white settlers/invaders were going around with aborigines asking them what different plants and animals were called. The white fella pointed t
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by crashbunny 5y ago
bicycles? I read a really good blog series of articles about an american riding his touring bicycle from adelaide to darwin. He had to calculate his water and calories as towns were often over a days ride apart. Quite a few cars and trucks
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by crashbunny 5y ago
this jogged my memory of an episode of linux unplugged podcast many months ago. https://linuxunplugged.com/396 "Tim Canham, the Mars Helicopter Operations Lead, shares Linux’s origins at JPL and how it ended up running
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by crashbunny 5y ago
Paul Daniels (you can find him on youtube) has some software which I think is OSS (but don't quote me on that) which helps navigate the schematics and cad. His channel also has lots of videos of him fixing mac books. There's anoth
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by crashbunny 5y ago
That went down about as well as slashdot's april fools joke a few decades ago that started 2 weeks before april 1st. Slashdot said they were being sued. Complete with slashdot fans passing around a hat to take a collection for legal bi

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