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Twitter has a remarkable capacity to help you do stuff you had absolutely no prior intention of doing.
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26th August 2017
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Examples of speculative fiction with companion-like personal helpers of some kind, off the top of my head: Snow Crash; Speaker for the Dead; His Dark Materials.
26th August 2017
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I like the idea of digital assistants. Just not ones provided by big corporations with profit motive to hoover up my personal data.
26th August 2017
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Is there some kind of open format for music playlists? Plain text being one choice obviously. But something that works across multiple streaming services. Or your own collection of audio files.
26th August 2017
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Binary expression trees -> Post-order traversal -> Reverse Polish notation.
Awesome.
26th August 2017
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You won’t believe this one cool trick to improve the efficiency of your exponentiation. #mathsclickbait
26th August 2017
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Exponentiation by squaring. O(log n) rather than O(n). Algorithms are cool!
26th August 2017
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Plans for custom ROM scuppered by unlockable bootloader, but phone running much more freshly anyway following factory reset. Without ability to get latest security updates will have to approach security through other means.
21st August 2017
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Org-mode to taskjuggler export, this is awesome. All open-source, open formats.
21st August 2017
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Postcode search seems to be a bit lacking in OSM. I.e. my postcode doesn’t exist.
20th August 2017
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