noelrock

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by noelrock 9d ago
A refreshing read. While not in the same lane as the author re maths/physics/SWE, I empathise. I think on one hand, things are simply less novel as we get older and more expert in a given lane. That’s age old. But the dopamine hit
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by noelrock 7mo ago
A project, ZerryBit, are working to do something similar - albeit on a far smaller scale physically than what you’ve done here. Might be of interest to OP or others though - further info at https://zerrybit.com/en-us (I hav
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by noelrock 9mo ago
I very much enjoy Eric's commitment to new and novel and imaginative hardware. Bought and am loving my Pebble 2 Duo etc - still yet to charge it once in fact! This device doesn't quite hit the mark for me, but I love the commitmen
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by noelrock 1y ago
So odd - was listening to an account of this in an Audiobook just yesterday - "Why Nothing Works" by Marc Dunkelman. Was essentially making the point that this sort of thing would be several magnitudes of difficulty harder to pull
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by noelrock 1y ago
Just a brief note to say: loved original Pebble, always a regret that my younger poorer self didn't buy one way back when, so bit the bullet straight away yesterday and am signed up for the first batch of the black Core 2 Duo in July.
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by noelrock 2y ago
Yeah, I weighed up the possibility that people would perceive it that way. That also speaks to the negative perception of politics/politicians too of course...
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by noelrock 2y ago
As a former politician, I really don't love this. It's already difficult enough to get people of the capacities that most of us want to see (good, smart, could be employed elsewhere, empathetic) involved in politics as it's s
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by noelrock 3y ago
Too many people seem to be confusing prior product critical commentary being invalid with all product critical commentary being invalid. Apple Vision Pro won't do much as a product - it'll struggle for even minimal adaption and wi
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by noelrock 3y ago
Irish company Manna have been doing this in two Irish suburbs for a number of years now. They're worth checking out - their CEO Bobby Healy often tweets interesting stuff around payloads, journeys per day, route maps etc. I've wor
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by noelrock 3y ago
One thing that’s bothering me - the story text says it’s 32 bn kilometres from earth but looking it up it appears to be about 19 bn kilometres. Which is it?
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by noelrock 3y ago
I can definitely see a gap in the market for this now. The present Twitter alternatives (Mastodon, Bluesky, Spoutible) are just too hobbyist or finicky. Meta will presumably bring an ease-of-use to this service and, crucially, scale from mi
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by noelrock 3y ago
Spurious enough comparison given there were phones , a developed phone market which was 150m+ globally even at that stage, and demonstrated clear use cases for an iphone (an ipod, a phone and an internet browser combined). Yep it iterate
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by noelrock 4y ago
Ha, both the original post and the parent comment made me think of Harry Potter - I wonder if I knew either of you! The world is very small.
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by noelrock 4y ago
Was going to reply along these lines. I was fortunate to live with someone who was working on the James Webb and telling me excitedly about it — back in 2006! Surely even with the various upgrades/spec changes/delays, things have
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by noelrock 4y ago
Completely agree - if the projection from Q2 wasn't also so negative, I would say the market has overreacted a little bit.
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by noelrock 4y ago
On the one hand: Has badly lost its way on content. Can understand why other providers are stripping out legacy content (e.g. old BBC shows), but equally Netflix's own content has been very much expensive quantity over quality. They&#x
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by noelrock 5y ago
Not at all the same issue but vaguely relevant — I like the idea of ambiently joining some Twitter spaces without feeling obliged to contribute. Would strike me as a decent trade off that non contributors should be able to join anonymously.
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by noelrock 5y ago
This is wonderful how this has ended up on the front page of Hacker News. It's one of my favourite pieces I've read in the last few years - I bought the book arising from it - I don't even like Bailey's! It's just a
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by noelrock 6y ago
Just to +1 this - a major reason we picked the car we picked last year was because it had AA. Now, you can upgrade most any system to it, but given we were buying a new vehicle anyway? It's just.... superior to any in-car system, and I
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by noelrock 6y ago
Many thanks. Was there a change in perhaps the hours they could be used, or was it floated perhaps at one stage? I’m nearly certain I read it more than once maybe 3-4 years ago. Edit: I found a link about it - https://www.theloca
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by noelrock 6y ago
Norway has been leading the pack in this regard for quite some time. A few Government incentives, both financial and for instance the ability to use dedicated bus lanes (now discontinued in Oslo I think?) majorly helped. One of the large is
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by noelrock 6y ago
Very interesting. An idea that has long held interest (har) for me. I note from your comments the socially-laudable aim of attempting to help people in financially vulnerable populations. I wonder if emulating more elements of a lottery-lik
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by noelrock 6y ago
I realise I’m probably not in a majority here on this one but: I’m not offended or too bothered by being targeted by ads on Facebook. What I am offended by however is how poor the targeted ads are on Facebook. I don’t think I’ve ever bought
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by noelrock 7y ago
I note the opening says: "(Municipal elections today, May 26, will provide a crucial test for the plan.)" Does anybody with familiarity with the area have a sense of how that test panned out? I can look up the basic results but wo
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by noelrock 8y ago
I’ve worked on ticket touting legislation for my own Parliament for two years now. It’s surprisingly complex and naturally has an unsurprisingly monied lobby funding opposition. I find the parallels here very interesting and the suggestion
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by noelrock 9y ago
They literally have no parliament, Government or decision making capacity right now. Both days of closures in NI were clear copy and paste efforts within an hour of the rest of Ireland announcing same. Not a great way to make decisions !
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by noelrock 9y ago
Get real. Political campaigns, outside of the States, are very much bootstrapped. And IT folks very much not minded to volunteer their time. Citation: I'm a member of a European Parliament on his third term in politics. Of my 200+ volu
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by noelrock 10y ago
So, this happens to me all the time also - from the month I got the phone (Nov/Dec 2015) in fact. It seems to die with battery as high as 60%, though it only happens in cold weather conditions, and then immediately switch back on if pl
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by noelrock 10y ago
Fitting that the link to the Wired story about Asheron's Call 2 in this is pointing to a page on Wired that no longer exists.
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by noelrock 13y ago
We had a whole spate of these in Ireland recently. A large % of mobile users on a particular network woke up to missed calls: http://www.thejournal.ie/mobile-phone-scam-slovenian-number-...

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