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by emptybits 4y ago
> "This investigation sends a strong message to organizations..." Canadian here. Sorry, sending a sternly worded message to law breakers isn't enough. > " The good news in this case is that Tim Hortons has agreed t
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They all starred in ‘Godspell’ (1972) and then became comedy legends(washingtonpost.com)
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by emptybits 4y ago
Gorgeous gear and photography to match. I laughed and winced at this delicious travesty: https://www.lovehulten.com/apple1.html (If you lived the Warring Eight Bit Period, you'll understand.)
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by emptybits 4y ago
I have loved this word since I first heard it. I assumed it evolved out of the common expressions: "get your head out of your ass" or "he's got his head up his ass". To me, this evokes an image of wearing one's
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by emptybits 4y ago
Hey, thank you and thanks for using it!
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by emptybits 4y ago
Appreciate that. In theory, a company's offering should improve over two decades and hundreds of millions of user interactions. (If it's paying attention.) I have moved on so credit now goes to a large and apparently excellent t
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by emptybits 4y ago
> if you don’t do anything and just park and leave, you get a bill in the mail for the time your car was parked, based on license plate recognition. No signups, no parking tickets, just park and leave I like this. It's civilized. As
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by emptybits 4y ago
Nope. IVR (voice & touch tones) has always been an option. i.e. "Enter the location number on the sign. Enter how many minutes you wish to park for." We invested a lot to ensure dumbphone compatibility. Some say it's fast
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by emptybits 4y ago
About 22 years ago, we began doing our best to obsolete those things. To the degree you want to pay for parking, lol, the preferred device has long been in your pocket IMO!† Cofounder, PayByPhone here. As someone pointed out, the engineer
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by emptybits 4y ago
Thanks for sharing! So the article stretched with "device that communicates".
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by emptybits 4y ago
> “Then I insert a rod — we call it a nail or a rod — that goes inside the bone. The rod is magnetic and it has gears. Then there’s an external device that communicates with the nail. And over time, little by little, it lengthens out the
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by emptybits 4y ago
"8 IR illuminators per eye" Honest question: is there any reason to be concerned about such near and constant IR illumination directed at one's eyes?
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Sonos buys Dutch speaker maker Mayht for $100M(techcrunch.com)
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by emptybits 4y ago
> that's a pretty big correction Well only geographically. It's still Russian military radio traffic discussing murders of civilians, is it not? Just maybe not in Bucha.
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Efforts to ban books jumped an unprecedented four-fold in 2021(npr.org)
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"a mosaic of 25 individual images is needed to cover the entire Sun. Taken one after the other, the full image was captured over a period of more than four hours because each tile takes about 10 minutes" I would love to hear a bit
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by emptybits 4y ago
Yup. ARTIST_ID does not have a 1:1 relationship with ARTIST_NAME over time. Another example... from 1976 to present day: Johnny Cougar → John Cougar → John Cougar Mellencamp → John Mellencamp. Close enough for library software to store&#x2F
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Chess broadcast to include players’ heart rates determined by AI(en.chessbase.com)
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As Far as China Is Concerned, Keanu Reeves No Longer Exists(pcmag.com)
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China Rover Captures Photos of Glass Orbs on Far Side of the Moon(petapixel.com)
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Photography Is Dead. Long Live the Photographer(petapixel.com)
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Ericsson admits it may have paid off ISIS terrorists(theregister.com)
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Original 'Fight Club' Ending Restored in China After Censorship Backlash(hollywoodreporter.com)
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Thousands have swallowed a tiny camera instead of having colonoscopies(metro.co.uk)
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by emptybits 5y ago
Seems plausible. Similarly, a computer scientist may be bad at writing computer programs. (And this may also surprise someone outside the field.)
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Historic Glass Plate Photos Sold as NFTs, Buyer Told to Smash Originals(petapixel.com)
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A King Who Became a Pirate(narratively.com)
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by emptybits 5y ago
I'm interested. So defer is one of the handful of achievable goals I find Zig interesting and hold some hope for it. Easy to call C from Zig or Zig from C. And Zig can also compile C and target cross-platform easily. const spri
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by emptybits 5y ago
"There's not an English word for that" comes up when discussing the flavours and smells of regional cuisines. Makes sense. Examples: "the fifth taste" ( umami in Japanese or xiān in Mandarin, which sort of maps t
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by emptybits 5y ago
> Rational people quickly become emotional about parking ... Thinking about parking seems to take place in the reptilian cortex, the most primitive part of the brain responsible for snap judgments about urgent fight-or-flight issues, suc

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