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by spditner 3y ago
It is covered in Chip War, by Chris Miller. The book also details the loss of leadership by Nikon and Canon.
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by spditner 3y ago
Perhaps it could be restructured to separate out the howto from the explanation to serve the reader’s intended use at the time as described here: https://diataxis.fr
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by spditner 4y ago
The Da (Big) / Xiao (Small) prefixes are direct translations of family honorifics that in the simple case directly indicate the relative age of one family member to another. The more common use for family is with more layers of indirec
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by spditner 4y ago
I have found the lowest energy way to shovel snow is to stand with a bit of a bow stance and push the shovel front to back as if you were paddling a boat, pushing down on the end of the handle at the end to launch the snow. Very easy on the
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by spditner 5y ago
They're still available in newer forms[1]. Its manufacturer, GlobalScale, is more an ODM for plug computers and provides reference devices. There are also other smaller full package variants around. I used the Ionics PlugComputers for
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by spditner 6y ago
I am curious to know what the business case looked like to get "climate" added as a feature to the product roadmap in a for-profit company.
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by spditner 6y ago
There are a few of things to be aware of when deploying your own instance in jitsi-meet/config.js: Firefox simulcast is still experimental (edit: and disabled by default), so Firefox is only sending HD to the video-bridge and no LD str
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by spditner 7y ago
There's a large multi-tower project in Toronto that includes a heating and cooling system built by Enwave that incorporates a very large cistern / well, building on their prior success cooling the downtown core: https:/&#x2F
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by spditner 7y ago
Besides the physical activities, the number of interested parties that become involved when touching so many things drives up the bureaucracy with each party bringing their own engineering requirements and conditions for cooperation.
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by spditner 7y ago
Regarding the piercing beeps - I popped open the case on mine and put a piece of tape over the piezo buzzer speaker, which brought the volume down to just the right level.
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by spditner 8y ago
A long time ago now, a friend worked on a partial translation of "Where Women Have No Doctor" into Farsi with a grant from Hesperian -- and one of the dilemmas they had was whether including (they did in the end) the more graphic
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by spditner 8y ago
What has become fairly large in our school community is a group gift / group donation coordinated through the invitation services like Echoage. The kids could care less about all the gifts, they just want to spend time running around w
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by spditner 8y ago
I put it uncooked into the blender and use it as a flour replacement. Works well as a 1:1 replacement. You need to reduce fluids about 20%. It makes great pancakes -- it does stick more and is less binding, so be prepared if you put it in a
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by spditner 8y ago
I definitely prefer their product placements over traditional ads. Some of them are very jarring though, and you can feel the actors' pain reciting the lines -- like the KFC in season 2 of Stranger Things, in a dinner scene all the sho
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by spditner 8y ago
Indeed, I ran a large-ish asterisk user group for years in Toronto and know a number of people at Digium and Sangoma, and there was always a bit of animosity between them. Glad to see them finally coming together. Most of the talent I know
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by spditner 8y ago
Sangoma's doing a good job of consolidating the SMB Telephony market. They bought Schmooze Com Inc.[1] (owners of FreePBX, the largest Asterisk based Linux distro), Dialogic's hardware business, and VoIP Supply[3] (where most inde
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by spditner 8y ago
I believe they were using FreeSWITCH when they first built it out.
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by spditner 8y ago
The state you tend to store is in the application side, so it still backs onto things like SQL databases in the end. You'd put another service in front of your Asterisk instances like OpenSIPS or Kamailio to distribute load.
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by spditner 8y ago
I recall that Saturn went down a similar path ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FNrfqHaEeYg ), where they manufactured a lot of the components in house. I wonder how they managed to pull it off.
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by spditner 9y ago
Maybe think of it less as a one-time transfer from one singular place to another, and more a redistribution of a workload whose larger outcome is consciousness. After a migration period, that consciousness would find it's not using the
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by spditner 9y ago
Which headrest do you use? I'm only aware of aftermarket add-ons
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by spditner 9y ago
Do you still sit at a desk with a keyboard and mouse, or have you set it up differently to keep your shoulders from rolling forward out of the Burmese posture?
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by spditner 9y ago
Well, at least Sidewalk Labs is putting some money behind it. Mentioned in the linked article, and also in The Toronto Star: Doctoroff said his company will spend $50 million on a yearlong discussion, starting at a Nov. 1 public meeting, w
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by spditner 9y ago
The city and Waterfront Toronto have not abdicated anything, as reported by the CBC: "They have no permission to build anything," said Coun. Paula Fletcher, who has been heavily-involved in plans to redevelop the nearby Port Land
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by spditner 9y ago
There is a category of products to help address that called a "portable ashtray", they can often clip on your key ring.
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by spditner 9y ago
Jitsi also runs one that you can use without an account. From jitsi.org's "Try Jitsi" button: https://meet.jit.si You can also make up random links and jump straight into a room, like: https://meet.jit.
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by spditner 9y ago
There are a few reasons that I'm aware of that new projects typically bore larger tunnels versus a 12ft bore that would reduce construction and operational costs: - Logistically, it is difficult to get a cement truck into a small tunne
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by spditner 9y ago
Seems to only hook MacVim and it's companion console version, but not the system vim. Is there a .vimrc setting to ensure it's always activated?
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by spditner 10y ago
Past articles[1] have gone into detail about how bad the churn and cost of customer acquisition is with dating sites. At best if you succeed at bringing a couple together, you've lost two customers at once. [1] http://andrew
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The UBI already exists for the 1%(medium.com)
17 points by spditner 10y ago|13 comments

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