xelfer

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Sydney's ultra-rare Corpse Flower blooms after 15 years [video](youtube.com)
2 points by xelfer 2y ago|2 comments
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by xelfer 2y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skin_gambling I assume
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by xelfer 2y ago
My Garmin 965 lasts about a month, I can't believe it compared to my pixel watch which is flat in a day. Haven't touched it since.
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by xelfer 2y ago
I got it last week and it's great. My main concerns were the older (pixel 7 generation) camera and the battery life. Both have exceeded my expectations, the massive screen is great for browsing and someone even got debian on there ( ht
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Reddit DSP(old.reddit.com)
2 points by xelfer 3y ago|0 comments
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by xelfer 3y ago
I run my Christmas light show software ( https://github.com/FalconChristmas/fpp ) with a Pi: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vlxaA-ca6S0 :)
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by xelfer 5y ago
> This content is not available in your area. Really making good use of that global network we got goin' here, history.com. https://i.imgur.com/3bPAFQA.png
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by xelfer 6y ago
Mirror: https://i.imgur.com/Nvc70k1.png gmail2.png still wont load but he's circled it at least in the 2nd image.
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by xelfer 8y ago
I thought of Amazon Polly.. converts text to lifelike speech.
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When an experiment with existing technology does a “good enough” job(medium.com)
223 points by xelfer 9y ago|92 comments
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by xelfer 10y ago
> playing music where does the music come from when you ok google it? I don't have a sonos or whatever set up in my house, so I use my Echo for this (the speaker is excellent) and playing spotify, playing tunein radio, playing pand
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by xelfer 10y ago
Thanks for your detailed reply, i'll try to see as much as I can!
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by xelfer 10y ago
Thank you :) I'll try check it out. 4 hours is fine after flying there 14 hours.
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by xelfer 10y ago
I'm a little worried Yosemite might be closed in the first week of winter or something? does it get snowed in?
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by xelfer 10y ago
I have a week to explore areas near San Francisco in the first week of December (driving there from Vegas via LA) can you suggest anything for an Australian? all I've heard is "Big Sur"
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by xelfer 10y ago
Congrats to Ryan and the cloudguru team. I used http://acloud.guru for all my associate level AWS certifications and they were so great I ended up co-authoring the DevOps Engineer certification course with them.
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by xelfer 11y ago
It would be nice to not have to pay $50+ to get something to delivered to Australia.
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by xelfer 11y ago
This also recently started happening in Australia, I got a text message 3 weeks ago saying my blood was used in Liverpool hospital. It was pretty fun knowing where it helped someone.
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by xelfer 11y ago
Great article. One of the best video game trailers I've ever seen has come from Eve: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AdfFnTt2UT0
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Apple now rejecting apps with Pebble Smartwatch support(forums.getpebble.com)
8 points by xelfer 11y ago|1 comments
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Australian Gov plan to store phone and Internet metadata for 2 yrs will pass(smh.com.au)
2 points by xelfer 12y ago|0 comments
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by xelfer 12y ago
http://hnhiring.me/ does that, it's listed as number 5 in the job boards list.
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by xelfer 12y ago
With AWS and shell shock, it's an interesting time to have just started working for a managed hosting company, nothing like being thrown straight into the deep end of being on call!
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by xelfer 12y ago
They also bought Rare in 2002. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rare_Ltd .
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by xelfer 12y ago
I signed up, logged in from the front page and it directed me to https://geekli.st/micro/create which is 404'ing.
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by xelfer 12y ago
There's like half a pixel you can hover over to the left of Amazon which shows Facebook.
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by xelfer 12y ago
I agree here, my friends weren't affected by ops (we were all ops in our own channels) - they moved to MSN and gave up on IRC. Then MSN was dropped and they moved to facebook/google chat, and now it's almost like IRC was by u
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by xelfer 12y ago
I miss how massive IRC used to be. I've been on the same network since 1996. We're now at around 350 users down from the 6-8k we used to have back then. I've tried other networks and they all seem dead all the time.
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by xelfer 12y ago
Garmin connect can do this, as can runkeeper: http://runkeeper.com/search/routes . I'm sure mapmyrun and others allow it as well? you point and click along the route and it calculates the distance for you, garmin e
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by xelfer 13y ago
If you use Chrome, Hola is pretty good and doesn't require a signup: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/hola-better-intern...

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