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Huawei: UK prepares to change course on 5G kit supplier(bbc.co.uk)
3 points by AdmiralGinge 6y ago|1 comments
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by AdmiralGinge 6y ago
Twitter's actually worse I think, there's almost literally nothing nuanced you can write in 140 characters. The very nature of microblogging reduces discourse to "I'm right, you're wrong, shut up about it". I d
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by AdmiralGinge 6y ago
The whole component simply known as "the comments" is terrible, my only theory is that someone is paying them to destructively test mice through needless clicks.
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by AdmiralGinge 6y ago
In my experience this eventually happens to most iPhones. I know it doesn't fit with today's aesthetics but those older phones with rubber caps or sliding doors effectively prevented this issue.
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by AdmiralGinge 6y ago
UI-wise, I think macOS 10.4 is my favourite. There's just something really charming about the 2005-era Aqua design.
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by AdmiralGinge 7y ago
I know it's probably old news to most of you, but Facebook's content policies are genuinely moronic. I ran a confessions page when I was a student and some of the moderation decisions were breathtakingly idiotic. They'll let
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by AdmiralGinge 7y ago
I suppose any attempt at terraforming has to create oceans if we want an Earth-like habitat (theoretically this could be achieved by re-directing enough comets at Venus or Mars provided we can utilise that kind of energy in the future). Cou
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by AdmiralGinge 7y ago
There's loads of reasons not to! Monks who are trying to exercise their patience skills would find it very useful for example. Those who stress test input devices for peripherals companies will surely be a fan of the much increased nee
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by AdmiralGinge 7y ago
The UK is really weird in this regard, things like ID cards were massively rejected as far too authoritarian but we also have a government that wanted to bring in an insane internet restrictions. I think it comes of not having had a revolut
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by AdmiralGinge 7y ago
I agree, I use it as my main search engine as I'm trying to go Google-free at home but finding UK-centric things is annoying. I guess we must just be a much smaller market for them.
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by AdmiralGinge 7y ago
I'm amazed any self-respecting criminal would carry a smartphone (or arguably even a dumb phone) while committing a crime. You might as well spray-paint "I'm a criminal, come and arrest me at [address]" on a bedsheet and
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by AdmiralGinge 7y ago
I'm English as far back as I can find out, and I'm neither great in hot weather or cold weather. I think we're just genetically predisposed to complaints about the weather. I do marginally prefer the cold to the heat though,
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by AdmiralGinge 7y ago
Not the parent, but that would be very much a yes from me. Writing something safety-critical in a language like Python or JS would terrify me.
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by AdmiralGinge 7y ago
>most importantly, take a break from smoking which is know to increase ACE2 Not going to lie, I'm very very glad I quit smoking before this coronavirus business. I was down to just a vape by June last year and I quit that in Decem
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by AdmiralGinge 7y ago
I kind of went the other way, I prefer the discussions on HN. Any subreddit that gets over 100K (and arguably fewer) subscribers just becomes a cesspit. Take /r/ukpolitics for example, back in the day an anarcho-syndicalist could
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by AdmiralGinge 7y ago
I've always been a bit sceptical of things like a citizen's income, but a negative income tax instead of things like universal credit seems to be quite an elegant solution to dealing with benefit cliffs.
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by AdmiralGinge 7y ago
Not really, there's been scholarly argument against a literal Genesis since at least the 5th century A.D. if not before.
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by AdmiralGinge 7y ago
What would economics aimed at a sustainable planet look like? I guess this is quite an interesting question, are there any elegant solutions to penalising climate change in the same way a land-value tax penalises passively holding on to lan
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by AdmiralGinge 7y ago
I wonder if anyone's tried to write a language primarily for manipulating the DOM that's less... "quirky" than JavaScript? With WebAssembly being fairly well supported these days I suppose someone with a background in la
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by AdmiralGinge 7y ago
I tried this in a FreeBSD VM and it booted fine afterwards. OpenBSD wouldn't let me do it at all for some reason. Obviously no warranty on bare metal/systems that are actually used for anything.
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by AdmiralGinge 7y ago
I had an internship at a mostly Apple place at one point. Using the mac `say` command with cron or a timeout in the background was a lot of fun. One of the Linux guys had a script that detected changes to his wallpaper, set it back to the p
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by AdmiralGinge 7y ago
Isn't that only a GNU and FreeBSD thing? I think other Unixes will still let you rm -rf /. On FreeBSD you can do sudo dd if=/dev/random of=/dev/mem and it will do exactly that, write random crap into y
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by AdmiralGinge 7y ago
I do the same, except I tend to buy vinyl records if they're available rather than downloads.
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by AdmiralGinge 7y ago
>I spend so much time with computers and virtual things, that there's something about the physicality of the thing that's incredibly refreshing. I can relate to this, I've been restoring a sound system from the early 1970s
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by AdmiralGinge 7y ago
Because unless you're paying for an expensive service, it's uncompressed vs whatever bitrate your streaming service decides to use. It's usually cheaper just to buy the CD (and rip it if you want) if you're after quality
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by AdmiralGinge 7y ago
It's not uncommon for the engineers put more effort into the vinyl mix because it's a much harder medium to get right. It's actually vinyl's flaws as a medium that make it sound better in a lot of cases as you can&#x27
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by AdmiralGinge 7y ago
I'm the other way round, I have visual snow syndrome and light mode is often retina-searingly unpleasant.
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by AdmiralGinge 7y ago
Same on Kubuntu 19.04.
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by AdmiralGinge 7y ago
Jung was famously sceptical of psychedelics, telling people to "beware of unearned knowledge". I think he might have a point, especially considering how much human culture dating back to our earliest records apparently warns of th
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by AdmiralGinge 7y ago
Being able to isolate the part of the experience that deals with time sounds like it could create some interesting/horrific implications for society. You could give a criminal multi-century prison sentences for crimes and they still ha

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