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by nzgrover 8mo ago
You might want to read this then: https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/top/585370/ai-on-australian-trave...
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by nzgrover 10mo ago
Farthest Frontier is a recently released game in the same vein: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1044720/Farthest_Frontier...
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by nzgrover 1y ago
In my experience, the sharp edges are browser compatibility issues, and I've been gratefully avoiding them for years by using jQuery.
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by nzgrover 2y ago
It's marketing drivel, and marketing loves the "rule of three".
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by nzgrover 2y ago
Since noone else has posted it, I will: https://docs.google.com/document/u/0/d/1iL0fYmMmariFoSvLd9U5... The OSI Deprogrammer
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by nzgrover 2y ago
Quoting _khhm who posted here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25850091 > On iOS there are no web browsers other than Safari, per the app store rules. "Chrome" / "Firefox" / etc on iOS
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by nzgrover 2y ago
One of my favourite lines is from Three men in a Boat: "George has a cousin, who is usually described in the charge-sheet as a medical student, so that he naturally has a somewhat family-physician way of putting things".
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by nzgrover 2y ago
yes, see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019_Whakaari_/_White_Island_e...
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by nzgrover 2y ago
Doesn't pass the sniff test ;-)
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by nzgrover 3y ago
You might enjoy Grace Hopper's leacture which includes this snippet: https://youtu.be/ZR0ujwlvbkQ?si=vjEQHIGmffjqfHBN&t=2706
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by nzgrover 3y ago
beer => whiskey wine => brandy
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by nzgrover 3y ago
Heh, in New Zealand, the card alone is $3500NZD
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by nzgrover 3y ago
This is a fantastic book if you have difficulty sleeping! I had no idea such an interesting topic, the fundamentals of the operation of computers, could be rendered so lifeless and dull or that it would take so many words to do so. I'm
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by nzgrover 3y ago
The Path of Exile wiki moved off fandom to https://www.poewiki.net and has been very successful. If I google "path of exile wiki" it's the top result for me (in an anonymous window). The creators of PoE even agree
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by nzgrover 3y ago
Is that what they mean by "used as the primary key in a database while ensuring good locality"/"database locality"? That read/write access will hit fewer disk pages?
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by nzgrover 3y ago
Also, New Zealand. https://www.doc.govt.nz/parks-and-recreation/things-to-do/hu...
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by nzgrover 4y ago
Traffic. Traffic, Traffic, Traffic. Please.
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by nzgrover 4y ago
It’s not DNS There’s no way it’s DNS It was DNS Credit: https://www.cyberciti.biz/humour/a-haiku-about-dns/
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by nzgrover 4y ago
When are we going to accept that we are just a life support system for a bacterial colony?
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by nzgrover 4y ago
re PIA, have you seen this? https://restoreprivacy.com/kape-technologies-owns-expressvpn...
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by nzgrover 5y ago
Nowhere does it say what an "IC" is. Is it so hard to provided the Full Name(FN) and the abbrevation the first time you use it?
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by nzgrover 5y ago
I did this literately yesterday following this guide: https://blogs.oracle.com/developers/post/how-to-set-up-and-r... Kids played for a couple of hours last night without issue.
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by nzgrover 5y ago
This one did: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tamahere_coolstore_fire
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by nzgrover 5y ago
This was a bit of a shock this morning for sure. Leaves a bad taste in the mouth. Maybe it's time to commit to neovim after all.
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by nzgrover 5y ago
Why is Wire never mentioned in these discussions on HN, is there something I'm missing? Seems like the most secure option to me: https://wire.com/en/security/
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by nzgrover 6y ago
Probably when they were on the verge of bankruptcy in 1996/97. edit: link: https://www.news.com.au/technology/gadgets/the-forgotten-mic...
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by nzgrover 6y ago
Likewise for Firefox: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/old-reddit-re...
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by nzgrover 6y ago
"And some things that should not have been forgotten were lost. History became legend. Legend became myth. And for two and a half thousand years, the ring passed out of all knowledge." - Tolkien
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by nzgrover 6y ago
What's happening in NZ explained here: https://covid19.govt.nz/ And what the "State of National Emergency" means: https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/412583/covid-19-state-of...
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by nzgrover 7y ago
Not associated with gitlab or employment law in any way, but employers in my country may not ask if you intend to have kids. The reasoning is that will be less likely to hire people that will be absent on parental leave, have more sick days

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