softgrow

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by softgrow 1mo ago
The economics of bookstores in Japan favours the shop owner much more than other places. Books are sold on consignment, you order books and pay the wholesaler once sold. Book doesn't sell, not your problem, return it to wholesaler. Pub
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by softgrow 3mo ago
At school studying typing there was a class of 66 all manual typewriters except for the two electrics. If you were good and had some spare time, you were given printed instructions to type particular characters and returns. Sometimes shift
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by softgrow 4mo ago
There is a similar trap in walking the Thames path through London. Some is privately owned and you are made to not feel welcome, odd rules, buttons to press etc. Guardian has a 2015 piece https://www.theguardian.com/cities&#
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by softgrow 4mo ago
Maybe we are solving the wrong problem? Should it be, where at the economies of scale in "building places for people to live in". I'd be interested to hear from others about relative costs for high rise, multi-family dwelling
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by softgrow 4mo ago
I had a taste of OReilly books through ACM/IEEE. A few years pass and I'm working on some obscure legacy code and a book saved me. Needed it in a hurry so signed up for OReilly books for a year even though only needed it for four
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by softgrow 5mo ago
Reading the translation of the talk, public transport vehicles have a persistent MAC but for private cars the MAC address changes every 15 minutes.
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by softgrow 6mo ago
To understand speeding you need to understand the concept of "speed choice". Everyone chooses how fast to drive, only those who choose above the speed limit are speeding. If your environment gets you to choose a speed below the sp
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by softgrow 6mo ago
If you ring for the ambulance, (Australian context), you will be told what to do! The telephony scripts have first aid baked in. The paramedic will come (not necessarily with an ambulance) and start appropriate definitive treatment as good
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by softgrow 8mo ago
I'd really like a rejection physical letter back saying thankyou for application but no thanks signed by a human. I put some effort in to applying, they could at least exert some effort coming back, rather than simply ghosting. A reaso
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by softgrow 9mo ago
I hope the students can choose to use their own wifi at home if they have it, much better service for them. Depending on how it's setup, the cellular contract may be not be that crippling. When enterprises buy thousands of services the
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by softgrow 9mo ago
As documented at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Google_Easter_eggs google search for "times new roman font" and the results are returned in that font. ( https://www.google.com/search?q=T
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by softgrow 10mo ago
I don't think my taxes/insurance costs/donations to charity are high enough. London (donation funded) has a helicopter service that attends 6 serious trauma cases a day. Denmark, Germany and others has a Helicopter Emergency
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by softgrow 10mo ago
Sounds like Hatzolah Melbourne, https://hatzolah.org.au since 1994 Since 1998, in Melbourne for anything that might need a defibrillator a fire engine is sent at the same time as the ambulance (EMR Emergency Medical Response Pr
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by softgrow 10mo ago
Worse still, I loathe screenshots of text on a website. Please make text is text so it works with a screen reader, can cut and paste etc. Less of it about now but used for multilingual websites for the secondary language, particularly if no
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by softgrow 11mo ago
I watched the film and was surprised when it moved on from gambling and scams. Initially thought it was aimed at avoiding being scammed of your hard earned cash by shysters. I wonder if there is a film produced at the time about that?
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by softgrow 1y ago
At least it has a steering wheel. Wait until that disappears to be replaced by a joystick or worse still a USB port, bring your own mouse.
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by softgrow 1y ago
Fire and rescue appliances are a bit of a problematic thing to buy as they never go very far and are retired with low mileages. In my Australian State, South Australia, this a huge contrast with police who buy new from the manufacturer, get
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by softgrow 1y ago
It's in Table 1, of the paper. The "safe" night-time level for the bottom 50% of the population is surprising low, 0-1.21 lux. I've been sleeping for years with 10-20 lux (inner city, blinds open so I can enjoy the city
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by softgrow 1y ago
I'm glad that Shanghai has moved to the next level in public transportation in meeting customer demand. Most cities don't have the funds to buy smallish buses and labour available as drivers. They don't have the money or will
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by softgrow 1y ago
https://kakaku.com (A shopping comparison and review site) has menus not as long as McMaster-Car (down the left side), then more menus in the body and tabs thrown in to boot when you reach a product. Each product page is jam pac
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by softgrow 1y ago
It is better, has underground, overground and is womble free. Also has planes and current weather effect (raining).
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by softgrow 1y ago
I built a very bright light source using a lamp stand from Ikea and the brightest, narrowest beam LED reflector I could find from my big box hardware store. The project works and gave about 10,000 lux but had a few drawbacks. After reading
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by softgrow 1y ago
Surprisingly or not, isn't a very new idea https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perovskite_light-emitting_diod... Note that extending the lifetime is key to taking advantage of their lower base material cost. Lot of work
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by softgrow 2y ago
Correction QLD publishes, NSW has bits and pieces due to FOI requests.
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by softgrow 2y ago
Ditto NSW in Australia (but not all states).
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by softgrow 2y ago
Strictly speaking there is a strong suggestion backed by forensic geneology as to who it is, but the Police haven't confirmed it. But for most people it's Carl Webb and not a spy or something more exotic and the ID is enough.
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by softgrow 2y ago
And once it is released you'll know and the mystery will be gone. I (Australian) was very enthused when the "Somerton man" was resolved. But it took away mystery and wonder from me which actually gave me joy. https:/&#x
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by softgrow 2y ago
Years ago at uni, one group chose as their control systems term project to take a known bad speaker (2 inch from transistor radio), measure its response, then build an inverse function to make it perfect using an analog computer. Don't
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by softgrow 2y ago
Hi fm2606, I left ambulances in 1991. Probably was 1986 when we got Lifepack 5 (the first one that came in under $12000 AUD and totally manual, the lifepack 3 was in limited use from I think 1983 but way too expensive to have more than two
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by softgrow 2y ago
The article is about internal defibrillators. External ones are still the same as (good grief) 35 years ago (well maybe down from 300J to 200J). The only change I've noticed is moving from a gel for the pads to a gel pad (which feel li

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