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On: LinkedIn is now using everyone's content to train ...

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Having your data mined for AI?

On: Kioxia Demonstrates Raid Offload Scheme for NVMe D...

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When I first bought Kioxia flash I thought it's a random Chinese knockoff. Shame they ditched Toshiba brand on these.

On: Full text search over Postgres: Elasticsearch vs. ...

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That's a lot of posts for a blog :)

On: A rare disorder makes people see monsters

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Interesting, thanks for linking - myself I thought of a classic, Saya no Uta

On: The Unix Pipe Card Game

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Come on, you can print it yourself if you want and it's clear that at this price and shipping from Europe he earns close to zero on these.

On: Kawaii – A Keychain-Sized Nintendo Wii

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The sensor bar is passive - it's just two infrared diodes so the Wiimote can get an idea of its own position.

So you can replace it with candles as they emite infrared light as well!

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I always thought it was hilariously similar to how to old NES zapper worked - the sensor was in the gun, it decided what you ‘hit’ based on what the sensor saw when the tv flashed. I think it was an early instance of me recognizing an engineering ‘hack’ - instead of the target reporting whether it had been hit, it was the gun reporting whether it thought it had hit the target.

On: I found an 8 years old bug in Xorg

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In Xorg timescales that's probably one of the youngest bugs :D

On: TfL's simple pop-up message led to a significant d...

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Eh, it's just to force you not to use paper tickets and clog the machines. If you want to pay with cash, you're supposed to buy an Oyster card (£5) and top it up at the machine or most convenience shops across London.

On: A POI database in one line

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Unless you're on classic Mac OS if we are being pedantic :-)

On: U.S. Steel Shareholders Approve Sale to Japan's Ni...

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So just give or take 35 million people, with Taiwan being integral to the world's chip manufacturing industry, and HK conquest violating the handover treaty. That's far from nothing.