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informationisbeautiful.net 3mo ago

Codebases – Million Lines of Code

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support.apple.com 5mo ago

What's the difference between a "disc" and a "disk"? (2023)

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www.mac-history.net 6mo ago

Blue Box – Why Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak Hacked the Phone Network (2013)

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news.ycombinator.com 6mo ago

Ask HN: Clone a (Musical) Sound

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news.ycombinator.com 6mo ago

Ask HN: What do you consider fun?

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news.ycombinator.com 7mo ago

Ask HN: Will Kagi's subscription cost reduce with enough subscribers?

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www.bbc.co.uk 8mo ago

Ask HD: How should the UK Post Office problem be solved?

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www.elysia.com 8mo ago

The Invention of the Transient Designer

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www.engadget.com 9mo ago

The GPL, the App Store, and You

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www.bbc.co.uk 1y ago

No News Is Good News

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shapesounds.com 1y ago

The Accelerando Illusion

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www.andrewt.net 1y ago

Fun with the Mercator Projection

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github.com 1y ago

Generating snowflakes using cellular automata

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www.bsia.co.uk 1y ago

Ethical use and deployment of facial recognition technology

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www.scientificamerican.com 1y ago

Cargo Cults of Melanesia

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news.ycombinator.com 1y ago

Ask HN: What macOS apps/programs do you not recommend? And why

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www.axios.com 1y ago

Earth likely just had its hottest two days in thousands of years

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www.theguardian.com 1y ago

Why scientific support for alcohol's health benefits is fading

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www.bbvaopenmind.com 2y ago

Thus Was Born the Zero

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www.secretservice.gov 2y ago

U.S. Secret Service Radio Following the Reagan Assassination Attempt (2011)

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www3.nhk.or.jp 2y ago

Japan wrestles with dangers of 'smartphone-walking'

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www.acornelectron.co.uk 2y ago

Wonderful World of the Computer 01 by Bernard Nergfergler

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news.ycombinator.com 2y ago

Ask HN: Is PocketEarth Abandonware?

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500songs.com 2y ago

An Alert: Someone Plagiarising Me

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www.bbc.co.uk 2y ago

Norfolk County Council beats Apple in £385M iPhone row

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www.theguardian.com 2y ago

Frank Hester, computer programmer who made fortune from public sector contracts

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www.bbc.co.uk 2y ago

The Rise and Rise of the Microchip

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www.youtube.com 2y ago

Oasis song, 7 modes [video]

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vimeo.com 2y ago

Staying smart In A Smart World (Video interview)

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www.csmonitor.com 2y ago

Cellphone at 50: Its inventor reflects on mobile advances and risks

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Concluded is "...dose-response and thresholds in individuals with hypertension and other cardiovascular diseases. Because there is already substantial evidence of heterogeneous effects within individuals...". Sensitivity to caffeine is one of the most accurate and valuable results you can get from a DNA test. We all know people that drink it all day and sleep all night, and the reverse.

...won't go in the more detail...various reasons...

I wish you had said that in your opening comment. Would've helped me consider where you were coming from.

I'm just making an overall remark, wondering what you're inferring, and more widely still digesting this entire post.

Thank you. I cannot see the connection between the nerf analogy and being banned from Claude for looking up publicly available information via a non straightforward route.

Are Claude and the Claude user the Nerfer and Nerfee? Or visa versa?

If you want to spell it out I'd be happy to read it but I'm also ok not knowing and fine to park it and move on. Cheers.

Wild guess, but even if those creating the filters would agree with you, it doesn’t mean they know how to nerf the system only for the cases they want to actively wipeout.

Thank you. I don't understand your comment. I don't know 'nerf' (as in Star Wars?) in this context, and the system to wipeout is what? Are you referring to Assisted Suicide?

...it was a detailed conversation...

Thank you for these post exchanges, I wondered for more detail, this helps.

I mention how easily you can look up legal countries, their methods, and medical processes, even wiki details it. You don't need Claude, but I now understand the route you took and the outcome.

researching Nordic assisted death and asking which drug exactly they administered (and what quantity).

Odd ban. The countries with legally passed instances use similar drugs/processes — you could research about those, wiki, google, actual websites, dignitas et al. No ban needed. Was the ban reason spelt out? Was it your wording?

Organic Maps 16 days ago

CoMaps is better targeted to the needs of most people.

Thank you. Both use OSM. The similarities are so slight I'd be inclined to recommend a region specific map, as is our friend with norgeskart.no for those particular cases.

I admit I haven't reloaded OsmAND this year, but I do every year, and delete it every year. Moreover, for me, using OSM is partly to get away from trackers, and facebook at all costs.

Pint in England 17 days ago

Thank you. You've articulated a common flaw in almost the entire comment-based internet. I'm an idiot and come here to learn, from a genuine curiosity standpoint - that doesn't stop experts behaving childishly though. It's simply far too easy to chide or downvote whilst 'hiding' behind account names, pseudonyms, and by the same token a flood of mob-rule can decimate curiosity in a matter of seconds. It's worse for kids. The best of the best is out there too, the well meaning, the guilty, the innocent, all at once.

Organic Maps 17 days ago

I ditched osmand because the interface is so convoluted. Ridiculously so. Plus theres a facebook pixel in there somewhere, at least there was when I dropped it 10 years ago.

CoMaps seem sincere.

For Nordic/outdoors, outcomes using either osmand/comaps/etc in practice are going to be very similar.

A thought experiment. Cameras everywhere, zero privacy, some murders. No cameras anywhere, total privacy, probably more murders. If cameras everywhere meant zero crime, would you be for it? Can cameras everywhere ever equate to no crime ever; I don't think so. There's some serious pre-crime notions here too.

Sidenote, on bkurtz.io, tapping the burger menu opens 4 choices, one of which is light/dark look. Both looks are typical, the site is black/white (more or less). With dark the background to the 4 choices is black, with white letters. But on light, the background blurs with white letters. The light looks is hard to see, blurred isnt blurred enough, and font is small/skinny. Is that what everyone else sees?

It was my intention to add some background detail, for anyone not aware, or wanting a side dive, about how BMI stands 'these days'. As such, it can be said the variables may be considered wider than they may appear at first (in the article conclusions). Which is a roundabout way of saying we all 3 are agreeing.

Je n’ai fait celle-ci plus longue que parce que je n’ai pas eu le loisir de la faire plus courte.

I like his vision. Can you recommend a pod? The UK based Solid Community ones (and others, apparently) are 'experimental'.

"To use this system, you must understand that we cannot make any guarantees regarding the security and privacy of data that you may store in a solidcommunity.net Solid pod, or concerning the system's functionality and availability."

The article is decent, but the headline is saying something demonstrably false - evidenced by the article itself.

Not one of the symbols can possibly be understood as to its intended meaning without learning what the symbol represents - that is to say, simply by looking at any of them in no way whatsoever suggests, hints, or shows their meaning in the appropriate context.

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Apologies to HN if this is verboten, linking to a previous askHN, as it closed before it got juicy but started this important conversation.

I would love more discussion on this topic. There MUST be UK Sole Traders here, with experience, who to avoid, who to try. Privacy being a key aspect to many of my peers. And of course buyer beware - UK GOV aren't using that term in their blurb.

Currently exploring this option - anyone used them? https://www.taxheaven.app/about

And little on the context

https://makingtaxdigital.campaign.gov.uk/

"You’ll need to... Use recognised software such as an app on your phone or laptop

to record income and expenses

Send quarterly updates to HMRC from this software

Submit your tax return by 31 January each year"