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by kitd 8d ago
Good article. One of the great things about having an open platform like the Xteink is that it should uncover loads of novel and unsatisfied use cases. Eg, this could be paired with a mobile phone to act as a secondary display much better s
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by kitd 8d ago
Absolute number of downloads inevitably goes up. Weekly downloads number doesn't.
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by kitd 10d ago
> Google and Facebook fucked up the internet. I'd say advertising has fucked up the Internet. Everything they (and plenty of others) have done has been to collect and sell personal data to advertising brokers.
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by kitd 12d ago
A lot of IBM customers have moved to RH Openshift and running their java there.
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by kitd 16d ago
Fun fact: I searched for Kobo Clara on Amazon, and the algorithm has labelled it "Amazon's choice". A subtle agreement with you maybe :)
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by kitd 16d ago
Apache is just an umbrella organisation for managing open source software projects. There's nothing that links those projects otherwise.
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by kitd 20d ago
Isn't that just "the World Wide Web"? The reason these sites require login is because they also want to control the resulting conversations, whether for moderation (generous) or selling your data (more likely). Announcements&
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by kitd 24d ago
Eckel also did "Thinking in C++" https://amzn.eu/d/03uSE3im
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by kitd 28d ago
Love it! But shouldn't that be "high results/complexity ratio"?
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by kitd 1mo ago
As depicted by Norman Rockwell: https://prints.nrm.org/detail/518488/rockwell-the-new-tavern...
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by kitd 1mo ago
No Linux support is a shame. Fortunately there's Lazarus and FreePascal as an alternative.
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by kitd 1mo ago
For me, Smalltalk's "wow" moment was the concept of a persistently running image, with the developer's job being to mould and manipulate it into the shape s/he wants.
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by kitd 2mo ago
That's helped by errors.Unwrap() and errors.Is(), though you do need to build and structure your errors appropriately.
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by kitd 2mo ago
It looks more reasonable (literally lol) with syntax highlighting though.
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by kitd 2mo ago
I have a Garmin Vivoactive 3. Fantastic watch but I find the HRM underwhelming. Not very accurate and drains battery. I pair a chest band with it instead for much better quality monitoring.
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by kitd 2mo ago
Why?
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GrapheneOS duress PIN could land a man in prison(androidauthority.com)
20 points by kitd 2mo ago|10 comments
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by kitd 2mo ago
I mean if you squint hard enough, it's the same idea as a cathode ray tube. Each hole scans across the "screen" for the desired width, then the next hole down takes over, which does the same. Back in the day, you'd get a
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by kitd 2mo ago
Not exactly apples to oranges though, is it?
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by kitd 2mo ago
Yup. And using it a lot recently ... !
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by kitd 2mo ago
Yeah, you're probably right. Looking back at news reports, it looks like the Haslemere case may have been the first person infected within the UK, ie they hadn't been abroad.
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by kitd 2mo ago
Yeah, just watching the first few minutes of the program, it's astonishing how prophetic it was.
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by kitd 2mo ago
Well deserved. Her most memorable program for me was her 2018 program "Contagion" which modelled a virus outbreak among volunteers in the town of Haslemere, UK, using an app measuring Bluetooth proximity. Guess which town contain
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by kitd 2mo ago
I tried running my own but it turned out to be more complex than I was expecting (and desiring). I ended up paying a bit for a hosted server at ShockByte.
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by kitd 2mo ago
The idea of using a subset of an existing popular language is very wise IMHO. We can (and apparently are) debating the merits of the language runtime, but what a subset gives you is immediate access to a large pile of existing tooling tha
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by kitd 2mo ago
You may well know this already, but the 2002 "Shackleton" miniseries starring Kenneth Branagh is a pretty faithful dramatisation of Alfred Lansing's book. Well worth a watch if you can get hold of it.
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by kitd 2mo ago
With Polyglot Maven, you don't even need it in Maven either! https://github.com/takari/polyglot-maven
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by kitd 2mo ago
Indeed, Stonehenge is not much older. But given that, in human history, Egypt has always been an island of fertile land in a sea of desert, it's not so surprising that the area has persisted as a separate political, social and cultural
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by kitd 3mo ago
"Gin" is also an abbreviation for "engine", as applied to various machines during the industrial revolution. Eg, cotton gin. In that sense, it's quite a good name.
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by kitd 3mo ago
That's fair. Got stung by that a couple of years ago. Fortunately there are plenty of models without that.

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