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here's a great way to unlock UK growth _and_ alleviate house price pressure:
high speed wi-fi that actually works on trains
not just intercity but basic 1 hour commuting too.
it would be so easy, just use Starlink . planes do it, why not trains
how about it @andyburnham?
it's only a Chinese honeypot if it's from honeypot province in china otherwise it's just sparkling industrial espionage
a million years ago deep in the Pleistocene, there on the Africa savannah under starlit skies, a gathering of proto-humans with bone flutes and rock drums, smashing out banging techno
What if a barber took 1/10th the time, same quality
Gut feeling I would pay 70% more and visit twice as often.
Cmon AI boffins get it done
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it confounds me that hill climbing and gradient descent are both optimizing algos
come on AI boffins, is GOOD = UP a valid conceptual metaphor or not, make your minds up
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Why does the dog sometimes walk like a human and sometimes walk like a dog? Is there an in-universe explanation? Can it talk only in one orientation or in both or is it mysteriously mute? It is clothed as an animal but standing as a human it is naked
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I didn’t run Alpine but I am feeling very validated in my decision to bunker down and remove my Linux boxes from the internet
*sshole is out
if you run sshd on alpine, openwrt or any musl box with password auth on: update now
official writeup: sshhole.com
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Remember, remember, the 5th of November,
The gunpowder treason and plot.
Here's why I love today's celebration of Guy Fawkes (2022):
interconnected.org/home/2022…
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This is such a petty UI detail but Apple should devote a whole macOS to making the Dock good
Like, it’s already this colourful, resizeable, real-estate-occupying element
Give it folders! Live activities! Glanceable dynamic tiles! Custom menus!
Anything to tidy up my menu bar
Silkscreen by @jkottke is a classic web font from 1999. only 5x5!
kottke.org/plus/type/silkscr…
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Vibe shifts in the Upper Anthropocene (2022)
interconnected.org/home/2022…
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ok so who put the "zeptoverse" press release on the wire this morning because genuinely WELL DONE, it is everywhere rn
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Atomic Kitten was an Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark psyop?? wtf
Andy McCluskey: “In the age of Britpop, we were perceived as... past our sell-by date. Radio 2 wouldn’t play the song and Woolworths wouldn’t stock it... My friend Karl Bartos of Kraftwerk said, ‘Why don’t you create a girl band as a vehicle for your songs?’” #TOTP
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If you have a Duo then I would love to see an irl photo (and hear whether the design works) 🤗
Yesterday 1.4 is now live on the App Store
apps.apple.com/app/yesterday…
Yesterday is going to look nice on the Duo. Seems like a lot of grass to bring the horizon up to the fold in "laptop" mode but I think it'll look pretty effective irl
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