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hellweaver666

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About hellweaver666

I'm a 30-something year old web designer / developer from the UK currently working at one of the worlds top online e-commerce sites.

Recent public activity

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    Comment #48656539

    Oooooh, now I'm thinking... you could design a simple circuitboard that holds multiple picos (surface mounted) and uses the USB data pads on the back to pull all the USB ports out …

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    Comment #48320707

    Before we had the ESP32 type products that are now popular, using a Pi was often one of the only easy ways to make simple internet connected devices at home. I remember making smar…

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    Comment #48320622

    I've personally bought at least 10 of these things. Some of us build keyboards for fun!

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    Comment #48207915

    Go to store, select "pay by Wero". Get redirected to payment screen where I select my bank. My bank just shows a QR code that I scan with my bank app, authenticate the usual way, r…

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    Comment #48207887

    When we need that, we can use Apple/Android pay in many many places or just spin up a temporary visa/mastercard with platforms like Revolut.

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    Comment #48120206

    You upgrade the Mk3 to a Mk3s, upgrade the Mk3S to the Mk4, upgrade the Mk4 to the Mk4s and the Mk4s to the Core One. Prusa sell upgrade kits for each generation of printer. If you…

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    Comment #47612355

    Just installed... this is super interesting. Shorts are my kryptonite and I've been looking for something that gives me YouTube without the crap for a while now! BTW... just so you…

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    Comment #47518115

    When I got the prompt it just said "your account age is old enough to prove your age" and didn't ask for any further info.

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    Comment #47486743

    Would i require some public server side component to handle the call routing etc? (or could you just use something like Google Voice?)

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    Comment #47259669

    Kid probably realised his friends all had windows machines that could serve double duty as a gaming machine and wanted some of that action.

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    Comment #47259599

    My kids school has been giving every kid in the upper school an m1 macbook air and they have to replace a LOT of them. Everything they do is in the cloud (Google classroom, docs et…

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    Comment #46869252

    What's the difference between a big company and a criminal gang if not for the law? If it wasn't for the big companies, more dangerous things would be illegal, just like Heroin and…

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    Comment #46272531

    Adafruit actually focus on CircuitPython which is a fork of Micro Python but takes some of the complexity of Micro Python away. I don't personally like coding in C++ as I started m…

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    Comment #42375005

    In one of the BBC articles when talking about the ghost gun in his possession, they have added "possibly 3d printed". This is the only place I have seen this mentioned and it's rea…

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    Comment #42263715

    I'm sure this is very interesting but given that you decided to use light grey text on a white background the whole page was unreadable.

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    Comment #42202928

    Fellow Amsterdam resident here, this kind of layout is very common all over the city (I live in the south of the city but I have seen these all over).

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    Comment #42107371

    All time stock price high this past week too.

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    Comment #41566152

    Same here, thanks to me working from home my wife has been able to return to work (she's a teacher) which has given us more income (and less costs!) and massively improved our fina…

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    Comment #41566142

    Do they actually "own" it? I work for a large company who spent millions building a new office and then immediately sold it to a different company so they could lease it instead of…

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    Comment #41499258

    but it fails completely when you have a little bit of rain on your glasses :)

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    Comment #41388541

    I had a similar situation with my shutter blinds. The company wanted €500 to install a "smart hub" to enable voice control instead of their little remote. To hell with that, I orde…

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    Comment #41043952

    I remember back in the early 00's someone at work found out about my blog and news got around the office (it was a personal blog, more like a diary and I was in my late teens so it…

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    Comment #41032423

    Booking.com BV is a Dutch Company which has subsidiaries all over the world but is also itself a subsidiary of Booking Holdings Group which also owns Priceline, Kayak, OpenTable an…

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    Comment #41032403

    That sounds like a very Amazon-esque solution!

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    Comment #40995617

    The author talks about all the benefits of a "screen free" childhood and I remember my own fondly (although as an older millennial it was rapidly interrupted as technology spread).…