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by ysr23 6y ago
There is a nice video 'in praise of retrofuturism' on the BBC Ideas page: https://www.bbc.co.uk/ideas/videos/in-praise-of-retrofuturis...
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by ysr23 6y ago
> Thinkpads There is a much better option than the trackpad mac or otherwise built in ;-)
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by ysr23 7y ago
brexit means brexit /s In seriousness, wasn't Storm Ciara named by Met Éireann ? that was certainly my impression, given that most people in the UK struggled to pronounce it. So there is some unification between The Met offices o
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by ysr23 7y ago
yup lots of love for visidata, a nice quick way to eyeball data and then munge: https://visidata.org/docs/join/ before proper carpentry with pandas.
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by ysr23 7y ago
Boomers? Did you mean millennials?
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by ysr23 7y ago
i used to be a heavy excel user, when i worked on windows, it was great for eyeballing data quickly, now, in a different job, i use a mac, i would really do anything i can to avoid using excel - visidata FTW http://visidata.org&#
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by ysr23 7y ago
>> for all intensive purposes I've never actually seen that written down, i have _suspected_ people have been saying it, rather than: "for all intents and purposes" but was never sure, so i googled and its fairly common
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by ysr23 7y ago
i agree wholeheartedly with you but just to point out it does look like this is from 2003
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by ysr23 7y ago
footpath
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by ysr23 7y ago
not sure where you live but atm, in the UK, the range of non-alcoholic beers is superb. Off the top of my head: * Brew-dog Nanny State * Erdinger blue * big drop pale ale * big drop stout * Franziskaner 0.5 * adnams ghost ship are all avail
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by ysr23 7y ago
I've also read it, for anyone thinking about buying it, i think it can be completely summarised by: 'checklists are very very good. You should really use checklists' Now if you require further info on why they are good, by a
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by ysr23 8y ago
Yeah, except this was never their orginal plan. There _is_ a $5 computer (i think the zero still costs that in microcenters). But that was never the original plan
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by ysr23 8y ago
"Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the truth." is that the actual quote? Maybe not enough coffee on my part but i am having difficulty with it. By eliminating impossible, which
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by ysr23 8y ago
[european here] I can't read this article as there is no way to opt-out of the tracking - isn't this in breach of GDPR?
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by ysr23 8y ago
just seen this tool (outline) on another HN post - works well: https://www.outline.com/9eSGhG (i can't think of anyway to write a post recommending something that doesn't look like a spam link!)
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by ysr23 9y ago
<sighs> the man practically defined the 'dead cat strategy': https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dead_cat_strategy thats all this is, thats all he ever does.
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by ysr23 9y ago
not read it, but i'm guessing her tedx is a tl;dr? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xh8el8m9mLM
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by ysr23 9y ago
I've been reading interviews with Lanier since the 90s and i have come to the conclusion that one of us is really dumb, but i'm still not sure which of us it is.
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by ysr23 9y ago
Like that a lot, is that under-pinned chyronhego data by any chance?
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by ysr23 10y ago
Yes. I had a lot of problems. In my late 30s, I worked at a large multinational for 10 years doing... some kind of middlemanagement sharepoint stuff that makes my brain fall asleep just thinking about it. For about the last 4 years i kn
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by ysr23 10y ago
Great? Angela Merkel, Maragaret Thatcher, Frauke Petry. Whatever your political persuasion there is, i'm sure at least one of those you would not describe as 'great'
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by ysr23 10y ago
My 2008 mbp has represented the best VFM of any machine i have owned, I only stopped using it last year. For an x220 that i got off ebay. But my point is that mbps did represent fantastic vfm
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by ysr23 11y ago
it was you!! - sleep with one eye open, timthorn
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by ysr23 11y ago
Why the query string? http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-35233951
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by ysr23 11y ago
"Conclusion: Don’t buy chinese crap, prefer a RPi2." From: http://www.lakka.tv/doc/Hardware-support/ This shit rips my knitting
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by ysr23 11y ago
assuming you are referring to the license fee: GBP145.50 is closer to $225 is it not?
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by ysr23 11y ago
@jamesbaxter: "Under the BBC’s existing commissioning quota system, 50% of corporation’s output must be made in-house and 25% by indies, while both compete for the remaining 25%, which is known as the WoCC." Source: http:/&
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by ysr23 11y ago
No, they state they are testing and expect it to work on chrome under linux. Also, you don't need a licence if you are watching catch-up tv
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by ysr23 11y ago
oops, i borked it: http://durat.io/?q=0%2F0