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chrisbroadfoot

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About chrisbroadfoot

profile := struct{ Web, Twitter string }{Web: "http://chrisbroadfoot.id.au", Twitter: "broady"}

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    > In the future, I intend to sell internet access via the UniFi Captive Portal I'm pretty sure Telstra, Optus, Vodafone disallow reselling.

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    Comment #28595255

    That's just what we Australians like you to think. Drop bears are actually not very common.

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    Comment #27168991

    > As a bonus, emscripten/WASM compiled code will also be more efficient in the browser than plain JavaScript or Typescript. Small gains compared to the cost of implementing. 10-20%…

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    Comment #25294485

    What about that thread shows she's toxic?

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    Comment #25294200

    > spilling 'special sauce' information to the public. You never heard of it, and that's a good thing. okay, cool. That's not what's going on here. We're talking about AI ethics, an…

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    Comment #25062863

    Zero doubt? Wow, wish I had such confidence to make claims about things I know little about. Each photo's geolocation data is stored. Of course. It is shown in the UI, as well as i…

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    Comment #24667014

    Some policies will disable your Yubikey/U2F key if it goes unused for N days. Usually low enough that it's annoying to keep a backup key. We've used https://rsc.io/2fa to share TOT…

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    Comment #24117082

    Also, correction, the correct import is _ "google.golang.org/grpc/xds"

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    Comment #23879308

    "The team also tested their approach on a collection of 30 challenges in DeepMind Lab using a more powerful 36-core 4-GPU machine. The resulting AI significantly outperformed the o…

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    Comment #23802319

    Yep. It's useless for activity tracking. It thought I was sedentary while I was doing a spin workout. They still don't have a way to manually start activity tracking via an app.

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    Comment #23610586

    Earth = consumer globe viewer. Earth Pro = prosumer Google Earth. Earth Enterprise = private, offline globe. Earth Engine = research-oriented massively parallelized ML-based imager…

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    Comment #23610571

    Google Earth Enterprise is a very different thing, but is a great call out.

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    Comment #23610549

    The Twitter thread linked at the very top of the page talks about it. https://twitter.com/mouthofmorrison/status/12656350684684861...

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    Comment #23610231

    > As for Google Maps. The biggest tell is that there’s almost no geospatial capability in the software. They don’t want you to analyze and understand. They just want you to consume…

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    I think that's what GP is saying. Presumably they don't resell, and don't allow resellers, so no counterfeits of their store brand products.

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    Comment #22850709

    > telnet, nc, ftp, ncftp, lftp, wget, curl, lynx, links? Luxury! Gone. No nc.

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    Comment #21037959

    Joy on Demand. Free to read on Kindle: https://www.amazon.com/Joy-Demand-Discovering-Happiness-With...

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    Comment #21012752

    > at least for months I'm traveling. note I'm pretty sure it's calls from USA to other countries, and that the rates calling from outside USA to USA and other countries is the same…

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    Comment #20835840

    Very cool. How do you route your legacy number? Did you port it to Twilio?

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    Comment #20560614

    Read this sentence as "600+ major markets, internationally". A "major market" is basically a city/metro.

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    Comment #20186629

    To be pedantic, it's "wouldn't npm be the wrong tool" (it isn't, necessarily, I believe lockfiles provide you with reproducible builds) Vendoring/copying them is another way to ach…