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by gaelian 3y ago
I have a side project where, for some years now, I've supported an app built using F# with Xamarin.Forms and the Fabulous MVU framework. Before .NET 6, things were generally pretty great, and I thought this was an impressive achievemen
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by gaelian 6y ago
> I've seen people report that they have reduced spam to near nothing already with just a honeypot, but of course I can't verify those claims. Can verify from personal experience. I once implemented a simple honeypot approach o
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by gaelian 8y ago
I remember watching that segment and thought it was a great illustration of the problem of people not truly caring about their privacy unless given a highly visceral and easy to understand explanation. The thing is though, even this kind of
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by gaelian 8y ago
It's not the touchpad that annoys me, it's the fact that I generally seem to have to enter the address in the most non-intuitive order for it to find anything, e.g. first postcode, then street name, then street number. First world
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by gaelian 9y ago
Yeah true. Seems like the more feature complete assistance systems are making their way down to even some of the more low-end brands these days. Level 1 autonomy is getting pretty old hat now I guess.
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by gaelian 9y ago
My car absolutely uses the break when required to maintain the set cruise control speed, I've watched it happen. The car I owned before my current car didn't use the break to keep to the set cruise control speed though, so I get w
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by gaelian 9y ago
> turns out when you crush the competition with the world's best logistics technology you end up with a whole bunch of systems from the 70s/80s that are hard to update. I hear Walmart makes much use of AS2. A means of transmiss
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by gaelian 9y ago
Any rough idea when you might have C# support?
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by gaelian 9y ago
Same. Massive reason why I watched the show. I remember watching the first few episodes and Elliot is doing one of his monologues about the technology he uses and his hacking activities and I was like hold on! That all mostly made sense! Wh
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by gaelian 9y ago
> but then upload speeds slowly rip at your soul I know the feeling. I'm relatively lucky in that I live somewhere that has had VDSL for some time and my download speed is adequate, if not ideal. But my upload speed is atrocious, in
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by gaelian 9y ago
Windows 10 and so on. Yeah I know, I get it and it's not OK. They're obviously not alone in the exploitation of their user's data, however. I say that not as some kind of equivalence-based excuse but because it's a probl
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by gaelian 9y ago
It's not that cut and dry for me. I do see objective differences in the Microsoft of today. * Visual Studio Community is now free. * Visual Studio Code is free and surprisingly awesome, IMO. It's now my default text editor, having
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by gaelian 10y ago
I have a new MacBook Pro, got two new LG 5K monitors with it and ran into this issue: http://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/271120/connect-2-lg... I haven't had any issues so far with crashing/instabi
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by gaelian 10y ago
Perhaps "resupply" would have been a better word.
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by gaelian 11y ago
"While these companies have said they would comply, when legally obliged to, with handing over information on their users, they say they believe that creating technological back doors to their digital systems can lead to potential abu
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by gaelian 11y ago
Sounds like a commandeered/re-jigged version of a quote attributed to Râshid bin Sa`îd Âl Makṫûm[1]: "My grandfather rode a camel, my father rode a camel, I drive a Mercedes, my son drives a Land Rover, his son will drive a Land R
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Fixed vs. Growth: The Two Basic Mindsets That Shape Our Lives(brainpickings.org)
1 points by gaelian 11y ago|0 comments
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by gaelian 11y ago
A bit of data feedback for you, getting to this page on your app: https://askizzy.org.au/category/have-your-say/in/2601-Austra... Suggests that the Commonwealth Ombudsman does not have an office in Canberra.
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A ‘ReactJS’ionary response to yet another framework stack(medium.com)
3 points by gaelian 11y ago|0 comments
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The Mind-Bending Photoshop Creations of Photographer Caras Ionut(medium.com)
1 points by gaelian 11y ago|0 comments
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Soon the yuan will pass the dollar as the 'supreme currency'(businessinsider.com)
5 points by gaelian 11y ago|2 comments
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by gaelian 11y ago
India is on the verge of finally becoming an internet-connected country. There’s already millions of Indians on the internet, obviously, but it’s still a tiny proportion of the population. They have 950 million phones–almost a billion phon
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by gaelian 11y ago
It is however, quite hypocritical that Indonesia has lobbied for their own citizens to be taken off death row in other countries[1] yet they refuse the same for foreigners in Indonesia. I don't disagree with you that the Australians mu
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by gaelian 12y ago
Earlier this month, FBI Director James Comey gave a speech arguing that the "post-Snowden pendulum has swung too far," There's a post-Snowden pendulum? And it's swung too far? In my country at least, the pendulum'
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by gaelian 12y ago
Maybe it's a generational or geographical thing within our country? Because I'm also Australian and I've never heard "lush" used in conversation around me, with this meaning. Although this thread has just explained
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by gaelian 12y ago
LOAD * ,8,1 ... The only C64 command I remember now. Which if I am remembering correctly, meant load the first program (usually a game in my case) off the terribly unreliable, usually at least partially corrupted 5 1/4" disk.
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by gaelian 12y ago
I remember reading a blog post[1] by a person whose tech/startup related business had them travelling in/out of the US on a semi-regular basis. They were stopped and questioned by immigration officials during one such trip. Here&#
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by gaelian 12y ago
Another happy 1Password user here. I've been using it for probably about 18 months now and I can never go back to manual account management. It took a bit of upfront time investment to migrate all my existing accounts into the tool but
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by gaelian 12y ago
Certainly. But if we're viewing the scope of the spectrum under discussion as covering the skill levels of the people who play in the NBA - which was pretty clearly my intent in that instance - then they are the two extremes. I'm
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by gaelian 12y ago
> On the other hand, I think that we underestimate childrens ability to get up again after failure or isolated stray word of discouragement. Telling children they sux one too many times will lower their self-esteem, sure. However, most o

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