octagonal

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by octagonal 2y ago
It's not easy coming up with a name that sounds at least somewhat OK in >24 languages.
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by octagonal 2y ago
I'm still waiting on my current, 60 hours of use a week, mid-2019 MacBook Pro to die or have any sort of malfunction so I can justify buying a new one. Its battery life has seen better days but that's basically it.
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by octagonal 3y ago
Linotype machines are marvellous and I'd highly recommend seeing them in action should you ever get the chance. They are the perfect intersection between a rube goldberg machine and a mechanical marvel to excite a part of my brain that
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by octagonal 3y ago
I won't resort to naming and shaming here but if you ever get contacted by a UK agency that 'resources vividly', immediately request a removal of your contact info per GDPR or you will get phoned daily for months on end.
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by octagonal 4y ago
Node-RED is much more focused on IoT as far as I can tell, although the UIs look comparable.
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by octagonal 4y ago
You might enjoy https://pypi.org/project/htmlq/
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by octagonal 4y ago
Yes. The first one is more like a user complaint than an actual reproducible bug report.
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by octagonal 4y ago
I don't think many phone OEMs will actually take the effort to muck around in the lock screen mechanisms.
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by octagonal 4y ago
Not true at all. I've done work for insurance companies in the past as well. While it's true most of them will not diverge from their standard contracts, some are very open to clients suggesting 'custom' insurance no mat
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by octagonal 4y ago
It acts as a "pre-emptive" tax shift. If more people pay taxes there's going to be less pressure on the government to set an ever higher tax rate, because now they receive more money while levying the same amount.
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by octagonal 4y ago
Why do you want to kill them?
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by octagonal 4y ago
Many providers in the EU will also gladly block connections based on IMEI if you can prove you're the owner of said IMEI.
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by octagonal 5y ago
Finder.app and Preview.app are surprisingly decent format conversion tools
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by octagonal 5y ago
Belgium is very similar in that regard. Our politicians are very talented in turning what should be straightforward processes into complex bureaucratic puzzles that require at the least an advanced degree in accounting to solve. So frustrat
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by octagonal 5y ago
Language can change and words can take up new meanings.
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by octagonal 5y ago
I was lucky enough to experience a 2 year long project in which everything that went wrong was blamed on the developers. Project managers breathing down your neck, feeling so pressured you barely dare take a bathroom break, the whole sheban
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Alcubierre Drive(en.wikipedia.org)
5 points by octagonal 6y ago|0 comments
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by octagonal 6y ago
The only safe way to drive an F1 car is with remote control.
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by octagonal 6y ago
Well, there does exist this standard by the Specialty Coffee Association specifically intended as a reference for testing: https://sca.coffee/research/coffee-standards It suggests that the 'cupping vessel' be
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by octagonal 7y ago
Coincidentally: it’s also the only programming language I know of where someone has written a lengthy blog post about how I’m in fact, not too dumb to comprehend it.
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by octagonal 10y ago
Correct. Which is strange, because both "intern" and "intra" mean as much as "internal". I never understood why "externational" isn't a word.
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by octagonal 10y ago
This reminds me of an idea I had in mind a while ago. It would've been similar to this (like some kind of "Startup Graveyard") but slightly more extensive: interviews with the founders and the lessons they learned from it, wh
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by octagonal 10y ago
33 people: 0.00000045810% of the earth's population 100 people: 0.00000134736% of the earth's population Seems fairly comparable to me.
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by octagonal 11y ago
Thank you for that link, super interesting! It made me interested in trying out Clojure and seeing what it's all about.
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by octagonal 11y ago
Linux support would be amazing! But disregarding my preference, what is your analytics showing in terms of OS usage?
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by octagonal 12y ago
You can use it while you're at the gym.
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by octagonal 12y ago
Congratulations, your comment is both unfunny and unfounded in reality.
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by octagonal 12y ago
I really hope this article doesn't make anyone actually try to get rid of these arachnids although I'm sure "hygiene" companies will be all over this in a few years. > Spiders are living on your FACE! Please buy our
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by octagonal 12y ago
Are DuckDuckGo instant answers being considered as well?
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by octagonal 12y ago
I'm wondering what kind of transport layer protocols are used to transmit data to and from vessels in space. It's hardly going to be plain TCP, right?

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