mryall

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by mryall 1mo ago
Quite ironic that a link shortener which went offline for a decade or so is now posting about other sites not staying online. 0.mk, you had one job…
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by mryall 6mo ago
The linked BBC article above says the Starlink terminals are made in Texas.
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Virgin and Qantas to ban use of portable power banks after string of fires(abc.net.au)
66 points by mryall 10mo ago|74 comments
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by mryall 1y ago
It’s an Australian charity group that does a lot of cancer prevention and education activities. One part of it is having stores and lines of sun protection products like hats, swimming shirts and sunscreen. https://www.cancercoun
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by mryall 1y ago
Starlink connects you to the internet via a ground station in the country where you are registered, and the antenna will also only operate in an approved zone (depending on your country and account type). You cannot use it in China.
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by mryall 1y ago
TLDR: the program prints a pseudorandom sequence of characters 205 and 206, which on Commodore 64 are graphics characters similar to / and \. When repeated across multiple lines, it looks like an intricate random maze. But it is actual
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by mryall 1y ago
The future is now with Microsoft Excel Web Services, which is part of SharePoint. https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/sharepoint/dev/general-dev...
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by mryall 1y ago
No, Rust functions have to declare their return types. They cannot be inferred.
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by mryall 1y ago
Looks like a great start. Using Rust and TOML configuration are good choices. With a project like this where there are many (many) existing attempts to solve it, I think it helps to take a hard look at what exists today and design your solu
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by mryall 1y ago
> As a reader, I don't want page authors to start hard coding sizes into these elements … They mean h1 elements without a font-size specified in CSS (or style attribute) will be flagged as a warning. User agent styles can still over
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by mryall 2y ago
This article has a good summary: https://www.apogeerockets.com/Peak-of-Flight/Newsletter533 The key challenges called out are a) fuel, b) robust airframe, c) active guidance to handle varying conditions, d) funding for
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by mryall 2y ago
NYT was right and AP has now corrected theirs. Reload and check errata at the bottom.
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by mryall 2y ago
The interview mentions the word "protocol" 26 times, but sadly no detail on what a successful social media protocol might look like, or how it could get adopted given where we are today. What I believe we've witnessed, with t
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An Interview with Jack Dorsey(piratewires.com)
5 points by mryall 2y ago|2 comments
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by mryall 3y ago
> In a statement to 404 Media, the Times said: > > The Times has no issue with individuals creating similar word games that do not infringe The Times’s “Wordle” trademarks or copyrighted gameplay. Can you really copyright “gameplay
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New York Times is targeting Wordle clones with DMCA takedowns(theverge.com)
170 points by mryall 3y ago|107 comments
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by mryall 3y ago
He did pay himself a salary in 2023. See the P&L included in TFA.
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by mryall 3y ago
In most English-speaking countries, “Swiss” cheese means cheese like Emmenthal - yellow, medium hard, with holes in it. I imagine this is what the calculator means too.
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by mryall 3y ago
Discussion on CNBC article here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38893909
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by mryall 3y ago
> Focus is about saying “no”. Always loved this advice from Steve Jobs, but it can be hard to put into practice in a startup. From my own experience, I’ve found there is a strong temptation (and also external advice) to try many differen
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The case for proportional programming fonts (2020)(storck.io)
3 points by mryall 3y ago|0 comments
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by mryall 3y ago
What a fascinating trip back in time. I had almost forgotten all the time I spent typing up code listings from the back of Usborne computer books as a kid in the late 80s. It was really a great way to learn programming, although I remember
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by mryall 3y ago
Not sure if you read TFA, but it was about games whose code you “type in” from a book or magazine. I did it a lot back in the 80s when I first started programming. The Sierra games took typed commands, but you got the games on diskettes. Th
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by mryall 3y ago
The Chandrayaan-2 mission had an orbiter, which is still operational, as well as the lander which crashed.
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Locking in WebKit (2016)(webkit.org)
1 points by mryall 4y ago|0 comments
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by mryall 5y ago
Yes. Nerve signals travel at about 50-60 m/s through the limbs, so it takes about 20-30ms for a signal to travel from brain to the hand muscles. Source: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nerve_conduction_velocity
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by mryall 6y ago
Lucky guys. Surprising they didn’t have an EPIRB (emergency beacon). Most seagoing vessels have one as a standard safety feature.
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Derailing illusions that kill: misperceptions at railway crossings (2003)(latimes.com)
53 points by mryall 6y ago|112 comments
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by mryall 8y ago
If mosquito populations are kept down, and African people benefit from decreased disease and famine, might it not be worth it? You seem to imply that there's something intrinsically bad in GMO crops, insecticides or making a profit.
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by mryall 8y ago
Atlassian PM here - we're working on improving Opsgenie's UI. And also the speed of Jira Cloud. You'll see some significant improvements this year.

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