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bdsa··on Microsoft Comic Chat is now open source
That's the article author Robert Standefer, I don't think he created Comic Chat, that was David Kurlander...
bdsa··on The Last Surviving Japanese Porsche 912 Police Car
British influence?

I'm not sure the correlation holds up in Japan's case though

bdsa··on Show HN: Unusual Wikipedia
Wikipedia has: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Unusual_articles

I think this is just an interface to that.

bdsa··on Show HN: Tiao, A two-player turn-based board game
Magic Maze

Bananagrams

probably others from my shelves

bdsa··on Why is Singapore no longer "cool"?
Kuala Lumpur, Bangkok, Ho Chi Minh City, Jakarta

jb?

e: oh, Johor Bahru, interesting

bdsa··on Fallout 4 – The Mushroom Case
Great article. Nicely didactic without being overly verbose. I wonder what an article on the same/a similar subject written today would look like, and whether I'd still be able to follow it.
bdsa··on We will ban you and ridicule you in public if you waste our time on crap reports
Probably because they find it uncomfortable to be pressed and the net result is a less productive relationship.
bdsa··on The QNX Operating System
My Passport was my favourite phone ever, I think if apps like WhatsApp hadn't stopped supporting it I might still be using it.
bdsa··on Peasant Railgun
I'm going to be that that guy and say "plank length" is probably constant for a given plank. Planck length, on the other hand... :)
bdsa··on Telephone Exchanges in the UK
My dad (who worked for BT in various positions) claims he was involved with the decision to move the exchange in our/their village from one end to the other. Coincidentally, closer to the end in which we lived, which I gather would have a non-trivial impact on our internet speed.

I think this probably coincides with the time period we got ISDN, very early, and I was amazed by the concept of _always connected_ internet. I can still vividly remember watching GoZilla download a game demo at 7kb/s, stunned and excited.

bdsa··on English Multinyms
I also would have said "Sikh" and "seek" are homonyms until recently when I found out that Sikhs' preferred pronunciation is generally to sound closer to "sick" (aspirate the H if you like)
bdsa··on Show HN: I built an app to stop me doomscrolling by touching grass
More people use their phones outside than use their desktop computers outside, though
bdsa··on Docker limits unauthenticated pulls to 10/HR/IP from Docker Hub, from March 1
You could have a look at Harbor: https://goharbor.io/
bdsa··on OpenAI is good at unminifying code
More common in the UK
bdsa··on RuneLite – open-source RuneScape Client
They've just released a version as it existed some time in 2005: https://www.habbo.com/community/article/34151/launching-tomo...

Like OSRS but for Habbo

bdsa··on A knight's tale
Of the Cornish variety, the singular is pasty.
bdsa··on Tai chi reduces blood pressure better than aerobic exercise
Isn't the expression usually "blow a gasket"? Meaning to blow a seal in a pressurised system
bdsa··on Largest EV range test: Tesla dethroned by automaker you may not know yet
It's the "HiPhi Z":

> Despite having a 74 km less advertised range than the favored Tesla Model 3, The HiPhi Z bested the world’s best-selling electric sedan by a whopping 81 km (50.3 miles) in real-world winter testing.

bdsa··on [dead]
Specifically, the Sovereign Military Order of Malta[0], not just Malta the country.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sovereign_Military_Order_of_Ma...

bdsa··on Macaroons Escalated Quickly
It's French for starter, even
bdsa··on Weaveworks Seems to Be Disintegrating
The Reddit link I think you meant to post: https://www.reddit.com/r/GitOps/comments/19f4los/weaveworks_...
bdsa··on Waterway Map
The "sidewalks" are towpaths - horses and/or people would walk along those to pull boats along.
bdsa··on The humble brilliance of Italy's moka coffee pot (2018)
I like to put an Aeropress filter between the coffee and the integrated metal filter above, I've found it makes the coffee much smoother.
bdsa··on One-Pedal Driving Explained
In my experience the threshold is high enough that it only helps you distinguish between "incredibly sudden but non-emergency stop" and "full-on emergency stop"
bdsa··on You Don't Batch Cook When You're Suicidal (2020)
Sister
bdsa··on Thermoelectric heating stands at the brink of commercialization
Octopus have a tariff with dynamic electricity pricing: https://octopus.energy/smart/agile/

There's a (third-party?) dashboard of the data here: https://agile.octopushome.net/dashboard

bdsa··on Okta says hackers stole data for all customer support users
Lock your computer when you go to the bathroom
bdsa··on GM's big bet on driverless cars turns sour
How many people were involved in engineering in the Apollo program?
bdsa··on OpenAI's misalignment and Microsoft's gain
It's not humans going extinct
bdsa··on Pseudoprose
Wikipedia is also very vague (and I don't have access to the references) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duodecimal#Origin
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