jbl0ndie

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by jbl0ndie 8d ago
I agree. I enjoy creative play and learning how to emulate what the masters can do in film, music, art, engineering and computer science. When it's so easy to take so much for granted, I find it an excellent if somewhat time-consuming
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by jbl0ndie 1mo ago
When I worked in commercial lighting design, we were fairly certain that fluorescent lamp manufacturers were mixing their phosphors to score higher on the CRI test.
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by jbl0ndie 1mo ago
I love this. Just cancelled a trip to Austria. At least I can drive the K pass now. Going off road, rolling and then carrying on is a really nice touch. It has RV There Yet vibes.
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by jbl0ndie 1mo ago
So that's either Hotel California by The Eagles, or that time when I tried Second Life and got stuck between the wall and the spiral staircase in the training level. I'm probably still there. Strange indeed.
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by jbl0ndie 2mo ago
There's a search function hidden near the help menu. That was handy whenever I lost a menu item, which was frequently. I do like it now it's set up and it accurately reports the battery level, unlike the Kobo reader which says 40%
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by jbl0ndie 2mo ago
I love this. I hope you don't get cease and desisted by MS for mentioning PowerPoint.
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by jbl0ndie 2mo ago
I bought a subsidised Windows EeePC 901 and stuck Ubuntu Netbook Remix on it. Much more useable. Windows was laughably bad. It limited the number of open applications! There was also a EeePC specific https://en.wikipedia.org&#x2F
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by jbl0ndie 2mo ago
The city that never plays itself, a classic episode
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by jbl0ndie 5mo ago
And Scotch eggs
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by jbl0ndie 6mo ago
Possibly not. Buying yourself out of employment and commercial rental contracts can give rise to costs. In the UK, statutory redundancy pay, after 2 years of service, is 1 week of pay per year of service and 1.5 weeks if you're over 41
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by jbl0ndie 6mo ago
You could also blame the constant negative press covfefe
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by jbl0ndie 7mo ago
Could you adjust the refresh frequency based on your usage patterns? So refreshing less frequently outside your main transit times. An extension of your current pause at night.
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by jbl0ndie 7mo ago
Impressive seeing as last week we heard that AI had killed SAAS.
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by jbl0ndie 7mo ago
Sounds like you're describing the uncanny valley https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uncanny_valley
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by jbl0ndie 7mo ago
I'd argue it's more malleable than a skyscraper. How rapidly has business software changed since COVID? Yet how many skyscrapers remain partially unoccupied in big cities like London, because of the recent arrival of widespread hy
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by jbl0ndie 8mo ago
Twilio's Flex isn't far off this concept. For building simple voice and text message applications, it does quite a lot out of the box. It's their full telephony stack but presented at a much higher level of abstraction.
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by jbl0ndie 8mo ago
That looks significantly more like a long-term energy strategy than grabbing oil from Venezuela and Greenland.
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by jbl0ndie 8mo ago
Only there is no forever when you're talking about a finite resource, like fossil fuels.
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by jbl0ndie 8mo ago
That's brilliant insight, thank you. I enjoyed reading Steve's extensive read me. Also I'm planning a trip to Cambridge so I've bookmarked one of the pubs for a visit.
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by jbl0ndie 8mo ago
Excellent. Found me three other stars and one to that I knew from before but hadn't started. Nice!
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by jbl0ndie 8mo ago
I'd like more tries to pick out the notes when pecking at the on-screen keyboard. I don't need to hear the pattern again, I need to learn where the note pitches are on the keyboard.
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by jbl0ndie 8mo ago
Not quite true. This pub's changed hands now but it was possible to pay in bitcoin for several years. https://www.wired.com/story/london-bitcoin-pub/
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by jbl0ndie 8mo ago
I can't see how half of the icon choices made in the article would pass internal testing, let alone actual user testing. Maybe stakeholders were calling the shots and everyone was like, "Fine. If you want us to reuse the same icon
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by jbl0ndie 10mo ago
Lovely project and a really great idea. Have you come across soft tooling for injection moulding? It's a lower cost, short run approach using much less durable moulds from various materials.
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by jbl0ndie 10mo ago
Ahh, I get it now. Maybe you can improve the wording around this to make it less suggestive that your value proposition is I can change one cell when it fails. That's not safe. The value prop is I can change for a new set of cells chea
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by jbl0ndie 10mo ago
I'm confused why your value proposition is that you can replace individual cells but your website also says it's recommended to replace all cells at once. Isn't that the same as the current situation where we have to buy a ne
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by jbl0ndie 1y ago
We're a Ruby shop and we have pretty much zero commented code. Ruby's intended to be readable enough not to need them and when we do need them, it's a sure sign we need some refactoring.
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by jbl0ndie 1y ago
> Double texting: Most coding agents don’t support accepting new requests or feedback while they’re running. This caught my eye too. Given they say 'most', what other tools that support this?
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by jbl0ndie 1y ago
Every detail of the Barbican is a joy. Even the skirting board where the wall meets the flooring is gently curved, making it a easy to clean. Another fun Barbican fact is their Garchey System for waste disposal. The wet food waste is collec
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by jbl0ndie 1y ago
In the UK, our national mapping service has built a tool for hosting vernacular place names to help first responders. https://www.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/news/new-national-vernacula...

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