fredley

It's tough to get, it doesn't just grow on trees.

Someone at the facial recognition company persuaded someone at the school that it would help cut bullying as smart cards can be stolen, faces cannot (so easily).

Do something different. I program web backends mostly, but something about fiddling with an Arduino is a totally different thing and I can enjoy it as a completely separate activity.

I feel like there needs to be a way to control system volume made out of e.g. a webcam checkbox filter.

Surely being a life hack is a property of a solution, not of a question? What on earth questions are they inviting here?

I got a free Google Home puck with some purchase a while ago. The only thing I've used it for is setting timers in the kitchen, which it's quite well suited for as it's genuinely useful…

> Set on getting more: likes, followers, comments, I soon found ways to improve my metrics: I think the fact that 'taking better/more interesting/more unique photos' is not on t…

Yes, while you don't get such extreme drops, surge can drop from 1.6x to 1.4x by crossing the street if you're in the right place, which can save quite a bit on a longer journey.

This has a nice visualiser: https://observablehq.com/@four43/h3-index-visualizer …

Fun fact: Uber surge pricing is calculated per-hexagon (h9, I think). If you're near a hexagon boundary experiencing surge, hop across to another one and check again.

This is an extremely cursed idea, I love it.

Buy your own cables, and as you unwrap them, secure a tamper seal around them in some way. Commit the tamper seal codes to memory. Only then can you be absolutely sure.

As was posted in a separate thread, you might look at http://tomu.im/ too

They sell a programmer for it, so probably!

As a counter (and I watch James Hoffmann's output religiously, which is potentially up a notch even from this): If you enjoy your coffee the way it is, don't get pressured into making it &#x…

I'm on a laptop and it's taking up a third... But great article!

I'm reading Wilding by Isabella Tree that contests this view of the past flora in the British Isles. The impact of megafauna on the development of woodland is seemingly not accounted for in the…

This is the truth nobody will really talk about. Climate change is rooted in the size of the global human population more than anything else. Reducing our emissions buys us a bit of time, but it'…

Man I miss the enthusiasm and optimism of the 90's

The same goes for mesopotamia. We know a bit from the clay tablets, but we don't know anything about the ephemoral memes of the time.

You could, but it was (and is?) cooler to have flying toasters.

You mean this? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xLYatZdABrs

You're totally right! I think you could have flying fish too!

Beautiful. The nostalgia hit me very hard with this. I remember in the original version you had all sorts of options, and could even combine screensavers. For people who may not remember: screensavers…