dredwerker

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by dredwerker 3y ago
I loved Fravias pages and searchlores. Is there anything else like it?
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by dredwerker 7y ago
That's funny but no, like this: https://www.the-odin.com/diy-crispr-kit/ not satire :)
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by dredwerker 10y ago
Thanks for these. I have realised that I am perfectly average at recognising faces getting 79% on the bbk test and 10 out of 14 on greenwich, however I don't recognise people that well. I hadn't realised there is a difference. Any
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by dredwerker 10y ago
Possibly because it was a sysadmin that leaked it. It has to be decrypted at some point for people to see it.
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by dredwerker 11y ago
I was at a junction in Spain and I had no idea what to do. It was the most hectic thing in the world, you just sort of went and hoped. I guess its simialr to some roundabouts in London. I have no idea how an AV would handle that(unless the
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by dredwerker 11y ago
Yeah my Hisense smarttv is android 4.2 and it will never get upgraded. I am pi$$ed - mainly because it didnt occur to me, I had it in my head that I could upgrade it or their might be a community scene but not for something this obscure.
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by dredwerker 11y ago
Obviously I do too. That was funny :). I am not in the states and I can't get most of the services. I wish they would at least do regional podcasting advertising. A startup opportunity :)
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by dredwerker 11y ago
Masters is for when Bunnings is too busy.
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by dredwerker 11y ago
How about balloon boy? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Balloon_boy_hoax I am a parent and I wouldn't do this but it doesn't mean others wouldn't.
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by dredwerker 11y ago
Is it dark intentions when the nature of a company is to make as much money as possible? The banks want house/land prices to go up so that they can charge one as much in interest as they can get from one's income, whilst making mo
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by dredwerker 11y ago
Abstruse - Big in the early 1800s according to the Google Ngram Viewer. https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?year_start=1800&year_e...
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by dredwerker 11y ago
The potential for having a go in someone elses professional/semi pro space sounds wonderful. I can imagine 3d printers,photo and video editing, well tooled workshops etc..
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Ask HN: What are your favourite Management and Time Management techniques?
2 points by dredwerker 11y ago|1 comments
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by dredwerker 11y ago
You have to read the island http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Island_%28Huxley_novel%29 The utopian version.
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by dredwerker 11y ago
". And it's really hard to find good hired workers to help out, because nowadays no one wants to do strenuous physical labor for relatively low pay" I wonder why :)
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by dredwerker 12y ago
There was a professor who lost weight on the twinkie diet http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twinkie#Twinkie_diet . He just ate less calories than he needed.
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Was Jack the Ripper – Aaron Kosminski? (DNA)(nbcnews.com)
2 points by dredwerker 12y ago|0 comments
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by dredwerker 12y ago
Apparently we know who Jack the ripper is now. http://www.nbcnews.com/science/science-news/was-it-aaron-kos... He is Aaron Kosminski according to DNA probably.
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by dredwerker 12y ago
I believe all you need is several mini coopers.
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by dredwerker 12y ago
Calibre converts mobi to epub for nothing. http://calibre-ebook.com/ Disclaimer: I love calibre :)
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by dredwerker 12y ago
I don't think it will necessarily work because some cracker has just probably added that to their personal dictionary(if they didn't before). It might work if you add 3.14159627 to it or a number/symbol set of your choice. I
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by dredwerker 12y ago
What is Provigil? (I am in Australia) Is it like dexedrine or something?
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by dredwerker 12y ago
how sad - he handed me my degree when I graduated. A friend of mine felt his beard on stage :)
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by dredwerker 12y ago
give me your pocket money ;)
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by dredwerker 12y ago
Not in my experience with Melbourne. Glen Waverley, Box Hill, Springvale and then the spillover. I can't get a look in. One house went for $200k over the asking price. Glen Waverley has supposedly ~25% Chinese but its a lot more in pra
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by dredwerker 12y ago
I am not a number I am a free man.
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by dredwerker 12y ago
Wow - I never expected to find Freemasons on HN. Don't know why but i thought it was a) dying out and b)it was for old people. Well older than my 43 years of age :)
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by dredwerker 12y ago
Its not just your intuiton the bell curve tops outs squarely in the middle of the two not with two nice peaks. I found this out looking in to Myers briggs(I think its very qustionable). People can never work out whether I am introvert or e
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by dredwerker 12y ago
Is this is a US only offering? I don't want to register if it is. Also it failed at the first hurdle for me. I don't rent or own. (I am deposit saving with in-laws)
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by dredwerker 12y ago
Would be nice if someone could make an arduino/pi one :) off to hackaday to have a look. $495 is a bit steep for me.

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