ClearAndPresent
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Comment · 2 months ago
I spent a while trying to figure out why the site was open and working perfectly. Turns out uBlock keeps the site open on a Sunday and it's so splendidly written that it works like one of those old-time websites; the links work when you click them.
Comment · 2 months ago
No mention of Dehomag or what those punch-card machines were used for in the 1930's, so only homeopathic levels of truth.
Comment · 1 year ago
One that comes to mind was the manuals and bits and pieces that came with Infocom text-based adventure games. They were nice bits of cruft to have alongside the actual game but in certain instances puzzles within the game could only be solved by referring to something on the card, or booklet, supplied with the game. I can't recall if it was The Hitchhiker's Guide, or Leather Goddess of Phobos, but the requirement popped up quite deep into the game.
They weren't license keys, persey, as all the printed material was the same, but a tacit test as to whether you had bought the actual game, or just copied the disk.
Comment · 1 year ago
Ironically, I can't see your image because Imgur assumes my VPN is malicious and rejects traffic from it. (Instead of saying this, it lies about being over capacity. This situation mysteriously resolves when I disable the VPN.)
Comment · 1 year ago
Useful idea. I, and many peers, are your target market. However, this looks like it might be US centric, based on searches in the merchant/wallet search on the main page.
Is it? Might be worth mentioning that somewhere so a large international audience doesn't waste time signing up.
Comment · 1 year ago
That is all the Harry Potter books in one .txt file, hosted on Github.
Comment · 1 year ago
You might enjoy this discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41942096
Comment · 2 years ago
My understanding from the paper is there is no difference between 4, 8, 12, and 40Hz frequencies on the neurobiologcial effects, but I found the 8Hz a bit less comfortable than the 12, so I uploaded both.
Comment · 2 years ago
Paul's animation wasn't playing at an even rate for me, for some reason, so I created two video versions (8Hz and 12Hz) with the 16 second on/off period, starting with an off period, running for 254 seconds, as per the paper. These versions end with an an additional off period, as a 'cool down' from the flicker.
Framerate of 24Hz differs from the 120Hz as presented in the paper, but here there is no 40Hz flicker attempt so it shouldn't be an issue.
Compression may affect the edges of the lines, but downloads are enabled.
8Hz version - https://vimeo.com/1023278230/8ad6db6234
12Hz version - https://vimeo.com/1023275135/378186db55
Comment · 2 years ago
Indeed. I anticipate the next Post Office Scandal(1,2) attributed to LLMs.
1 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Post_Office_scandal 2 https://www.postofficescandal.uk/
Comment · 2 years ago
The icon is the teal/white circle just in line and to the right of the social media icons at the bottom of the page. I missed it on first glance and would have no idea what it did.
Comment · 2 years ago
More a reformulation of Clark's third law:
Comment · 2 years ago
Considering you can fly from London to Chișinău for around £36 at present ($45) on a low cost EU airline, then it probably isn't. The Telegraph is a right leaning newspaper for a wealthy readership, so their travel articles offer luxury. (The details of the holiday provider mention 4 star hotels.)
Plenty of indie travellers potter around in Eastern Europe via flight hops or train, and could spend a similar amount for a whole summer's travel.
Comment · 2 years ago
As a palette cleanser and loin girder: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jVkLVRt6c1U (You already guessed it was Mike Monteiro.)
For this project:
Did they refuse to pay actively ("We won't pay you."), or passively (No replies to emails.) The latter might be incompetence.
As others mentioned, specific legal advice depends on respective jurisdictions, but an offical lawyer's letter sometimes wakes up legal when accounting is drifting.
Did you deliver the final access to the code / server / credentials? If not, gently bring servers, DBs, platforms to a halt pending final payments.
Future projects:
Contract, always.
Up-front commencement payments, always.
Price yourself higher in the initial quote, and ask for staged payments, such that by the time your delivery schedule is 50-75% done you are 100% paid.
You control the source code accounts, you control the server credentials, you control the database access credentials, you hand over final access after the final check has cleared.
https://whospecialfeatures.fandom.com/wiki/Shada_(2017_Anima...