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·10 hari yang lalu·discuss
I'm from where these spiders were found. The ants they're predating are an equally fascinating and super aggressive species of green weaver ants (that have other cool predators like "mimic" jumping spiders).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weaver_ant
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·29 hari yang lalu·discuss
It's funny, I booked a flight with Ryanair only about an hour ago - out of pure desperation - first time in 15 years.

I remember them being crafty, but I have to admit I was surprised by the level of tactics ... that is to say, what they are still allowed to get away with given European / UK consumer law.

Not to mention that a 20kg bag and hand luggage cost me significantly more than the fare itself. They even had upfront "package deals" that would have actually worked out more expensive - bundles of nonsense benefits.

In Australia most of this kind of borderline deceptive selling has been stepped on, to the point that you hardly see it any more.
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·bulan lalu·discuss
Since 2011 in northern Australia: https://www.worldmosquitoprogram.org/en/news-stories/stories...
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·bulan lalu·discuss
No doubt quite a few folk with the same question. Keen to understand performance tradeoffs.

Obvious comparison note would be that the "new" method currently enjoys somewhat limited browser support (no Firefox without a flag, and only since Safari 26)
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·2 bulan yang lalu·discuss
Great evolution story. Also love seeing what can be achieved by stepping outside design lines, re. centred, symmetrical UIs. Makes me want an apple watch ;)

As an aside there's a screenshot in the article showing the Hidden Valley at Glen Coe, which happens to be one of my favourite short walks in Scotland.

A less happy aside of that aside is the house at the base of the valley. I used to look at it dreamily as we drove past, always closed up, nestled by itself in a remote nook between the mountains. What an extraordinary place it would be to live. The park for the hike was only a couple of hundred metres up the road. A few years later I recognised the house in a Louis Theroux doco, when he travelled there with its owner - TV personality Jimmy Saville. Wow. And then a few years later again, after I'd returned to Australia, it came out, posthumous, that Saville was one of the UK's most prolific child and sexual predators. Horrific stuff. The name and outline of the cottage structure can actually be seen at the top of the map in the screenshot.
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·2 bulan yang lalu·discuss
I read this whole post silently mouthing a "CSP" mantra as each new vulnerability was discovered, years apart no less. Elated when I got to the revelation towards the end.

But for all my self righteous bluster the inline version was news to me. Hacker news. Awesome. Thank you.
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·4 bulan yang lalu·discuss
Great to see the united front holding:

"In all of our interactions, the DoW displayed a deep respect for safety and a desire to partner to achieve the best possible outcome," Altman said in a post on X."

https://www.reuters.com/business/openai-reaches-deal-deploy-...
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·5 bulan yang lalu·discuss
As others have pointed out a mix of express (and even "rocket") services, rather than physically removing bus stops, already works wonders outside of the US.

Combine that with improvements to things like waiting areas (i.e. introducing shade), frequency of services, price (in my closest city they introduced essentially free public transport for all - it's been a boon), and you've got something that can be effectively weighed against other forms of transport.

No it doesn't fit all situations and people, but it serves the majority well.
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·5 bulan yang lalu·discuss
Divers Alert Network, which is probably the most well known dive membership (and insurance) org out there is registered in Malta in Europe.
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·6 bulan yang lalu·discuss
That's fair. Lack of any official APIs outside of the standard YT data API is frustrating. Would love to see / hear about a rosetta stone for the streaming services to allow easier migration (and integration) between them. Though I guess that's not in anyone's interest.

Also regards the ban, from what I've read Google have included Music by choice. Potentially as a bargaining chip.
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·6 bulan yang lalu·discuss
YouTube music support? (ᵕ•_•)

I set a (very) old phone into child mode total lockdown with only YouTube music installed to make use of my family account and streaming playlists ... only to find it (the YTM app) wouldn't open due to the social media ban in Australia (legislation which I otherwise - controversially - completely support).
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·6 bulan yang lalu·discuss
Where I grew up (in northern Australia) a lot of people targeted and ate tilapia out of local estuaries .. there were a lot of them and they were big.
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·6 bulan yang lalu·discuss
theprojectsomething.com

Not much, but it's something. I use subdomains for projects.
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·7 bulan yang lalu·discuss
Yep no doubt FF users cut from a slightly different cloth than those who choose GAMS browsers.

But as an old-school Firefox user, with a slieu of mobile extensions installed and a healthy cynicism about our swan dive into the dark sea of AI ... I have no problem at all with the statements from Mozilla. Outsiders can argue all day about intent, it's the actions that count.
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·7 bulan yang lalu·discuss
Really appreciate the focus on education and a11y with sonic pi - a genuine differentiator
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·7 bulan yang lalu·discuss
I use CloudFlare a lot for "self hosting" .. but I also run an old pi from home with Bun in place of workers. Suprisingly compatible and low lift.

Not exactly "without CloudFlare", but for true compat you can probably also self host workerd itself which is open source: github.com/cloudflare/workerd
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·9 bulan yang lalu·discuss
A circular man proto I put together a little while back https://codepen.io/theprojectsomething/pen/JjmgXrg?editors=0...