AdmiralGinge

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by AdmiralGinge 6y ago
Personally I find it a lot less readable than things like JSON or TOML.
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by AdmiralGinge 6y ago
Either way, it seems like the whole debate is kind of misplaced. Analogue and digital systems have pros and cons, but crappy mastering will make almost every single one of them irrelevant in terms of sound quality. Personally I think vinyl
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by AdmiralGinge 6y ago
Yeah, my 4G is fairly consistent and reliable whereas I just don't bother with WiFi if I can possibly avoid it. It's a hugely frustrating technology I think.
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by AdmiralGinge 6y ago
Not if you want it to actually fit in the socket of a car or bike.
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by AdmiralGinge 6y ago
The two weeks of learning about it substantially reduces the risk of death, it sounds like a reasonable approach to me.
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by AdmiralGinge 6y ago
I wonder how much it'd cost for them to license a tiny part of the low-frequency radio spectrum? The one for BBC Radio 4 covers most of the country with a single transmitter for example, using this old-school technology you could repor
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by AdmiralGinge 6y ago
I had to set up a filter to automatically reject anything from any of their domains, they're an absolute plague that Moses would be proud of. I don't really like email alerts for social media as a concept anyway, if I want to hear
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by AdmiralGinge 6y ago
I'm using the common idiom, I don't think it's actually evil but in my opinion it's definitely a fundamentally negative practice that is unfortunately required to be used in the process of doing something otherwise posit
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by AdmiralGinge 6y ago
True, but cellular infrastructure is definitively in someone's territory. If I stick a phone mast up I'm still subject to things like planning permission even if the signal crosses a border. As far as I'm aware, space is pr
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by AdmiralGinge 6y ago
There's a bit of a spectrum between intrusive adverts and just malware, at some point we're going to need a definitive way to draw the line I think.
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by AdmiralGinge 6y ago
It's going to be very interesting for me. I plan to live on a sailing yacht and travel the world permanently, StarLink will make my working options a lot more flexible. Presently people are forced to see out their contracts over pote
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by AdmiralGinge 6y ago
I'm cautiously optimistic about this, even if it is self-interested. Ads are very much a necessary evil rather than something desirable in society I think, and providing developers with an alternative business model isn't a bad th
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by AdmiralGinge 6y ago
Fear and respect are two completely different things though. Under the Peelite model of policing, it's impossible to create genuine community police officers when there's a huge power differential (IE a tool that can easily end a
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by AdmiralGinge 6y ago
This just sounds mad coming from a British person. Almost all of our police are unarmed and do a decent job, the only place police routinely carry guns are airports for obvious reasons and Northern Ireland which literally had a decades-long
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by AdmiralGinge 6y ago
This threw me straight back to secondary school, we had a teacher with a fearsome reputation who was berating a class of mine for not revising efficiently, he said "you can't just open your book and learn by osmosis" and some
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by AdmiralGinge 6y ago
>It’s been a huge boon for everyone except I guess traditional publishers. My heart bleeds for them!
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by AdmiralGinge 6y ago
Oh fair, I always thought a distaste for Oracle was confined to tech.
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by AdmiralGinge 6y ago
I'm a web developer using macOS on my home machine for personal projects. I use Linux at work so I'm familiar with both, I have no intention of dropping either in the near future. Both fill a particular niche for me while not requ
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by AdmiralGinge 6y ago
Yeah, this surprised me too. As sceptical as I am of TikTok and its "I can't believe it's not malware" approach to privacy I feel a bit sorry for the poor sods actually developing it. Oracle are going to beat the world r
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by AdmiralGinge 6y ago
Many of the water companies in the UK still use divining rods to locate pipes, there's a lot of bollocks used in places that really ought to know better. Source: https://www.theguardian.com/business/2017/nov&#
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by AdmiralGinge 6y ago
Aren't they essentially just glorified galvanometers like the Scientology e-meter?
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by AdmiralGinge 6y ago
As much as we like to point fingers over the Atlantic, here in the UK our roads are mostly imperial except heights and widths which are in both feet and metres, because lorry drivers from the Continent kept crashing into bridges!
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by AdmiralGinge 6y ago
It's not in the UK, we have a serious political taboo against what's seen as a "papers please" kind of authoritarianism. Tony Blair tried to introduce mandatory ID cards and even with his massive majority it was politica
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by AdmiralGinge 6y ago
I also fired up a 2006-era original MacBook fairly recently, running the first Intel version of macOS (I've always had a soft spot for Tiger, its version of Aqua is honestly one of Apple's prettiest interfaces in my mind), while i
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by AdmiralGinge 6y ago
Huge shout out to DBeaver by the way, it's one of the most useful applications I use on a daily basis.
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by AdmiralGinge 6y ago
I set a custom uBlock filter to be rid of it.
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by AdmiralGinge 6y ago
In the minds of many people (especially British politicians!) the UK is actually "The City State of London with Four Inconvenient Countries Attached".
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by AdmiralGinge 6y ago
I'd consider volunteering to moderate a particular geographical area, when I was a student Facebook constantly took down the student confessions page I eventually ended up helping to run for the vaguest reasons, while letting actual ha
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by AdmiralGinge 6y ago
I'm one of them, the most frustrating thing with working with modern JavaScript is definitely the ecosystem rather than the language. React Native is particularly an issue, the recommended react-native-community geolocation library jus
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by AdmiralGinge 6y ago
British here, I've definitely heard it used that way but it's not the first thing that comes to mind.

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