BoxOfRain

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by BoxOfRain 3mo ago
Yeah I think the grief OP was getting over that statement in some of the other comments is unwarranted, I understand completely what they mean about tools. You have people who buy expensive guitars and barely play them for fear of scuffing
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by BoxOfRain 3mo ago
A fair point, I acknowledge my error without any admission of liability under intergalactic defamation law.
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With all due respect, this is the kind of attitude which caused people to leave Stack Overflow en masse . We're discussing interestingly complex political procedures, this event has triggered several.
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On the subject of amusing British political legislation, should he defeat Nigel Farage in the resulting by-election Count Binface will not be able to wear his costume in Parliament; not only is business attire required in the House of Commo
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by BoxOfRain 3mo ago
Yeah Winky the house elf definitely rubbed me up the wrong way for how pitiful she made the condition of freedom seem. > Oh, and Kingsley Shacklebolt is quite an interesting name to give a fictional black person. I'll be honest this
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I have a 1950s mark 2 Shturmanskie as my main watch, the same model Yuri Gagarin wore into space. It's a 'frankenwatch' in that it's been assembled from parts of other watches, albeit in this case they're the right
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by BoxOfRain 3mo ago
To be fair it depends so much on the city. Oxford is a great example, driving there is a hellish experience because it's a historic place with notable buildings which too important to knock down, especially in order to replace them wit
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by BoxOfRain 3mo ago
It's not the only example of extreme immorality that's presented pretty causally in the series. I loved the books as much as anyone, but Azkaban struck me as utter barbarism even then. You're telling me that prisoners, regard
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by BoxOfRain 3mo ago
I have never heard the name Beeching spoken with more venom than in Wales, I used to live in Mid Wales and now I live in Cardiff. If I wanted to visit where I used to live by train, I'd have to do a multi-hour detour of a sightseeing t
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Bit rich given where Anthropic sourced the data to train Claude with. What's good for the goose is good for the gander.
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I've not used Windows in a very long time so forgive my ignorance, but I always heard that it was a bad idea to connect an XP machine to the internet because of the amount of malware sloshing about. In practice is that much of a proble
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There's something so uncanny about the mismatch between the regard in which Blair is generally held by British people and the regard in which he seems to hold himself. If I were him I'd have retired from public life and kept a ver
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A lot of the demand is from guitar amps, while you can just as well simulate the behaviour of a valve amp these days there's still plenty of demand for the real deal. As long as the likes of Fender, Marshall and so on want to supply va
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I think you can in the limited sense it supports the idea privatisation doesn't remove politics, just relocates it and often into a less democratically accountable place to boot. Whenever a person or group has power over another person
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>Politics is irreducible from human affairs, privatization doesn't eliminate politics. It relocates it to a different set of actors. We ideologically privatised the water sector into regional private monopolies in the UK, and anyone
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I really do think the class system holds us back as a society in Britain, George Orwell had a lot to say on this subject in England your England and I fear the decline he describes in the 1940s only accelerated through the 20th century an
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Labour's spyware plan for phones is straight out of North Korea(telegraph.co.uk)
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> [UI] should have stopped changing almost 30 years ago In some ways it did, modern CLIs haven't changed that much fundamentally from their older counterparts. You can do more things but someone using a CLI 30 years ago wouldn'
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by BoxOfRain 4mo ago
My converse hot take is that I actually really liked Aero, I've always had a thing for translucent UI elements and glowing things.
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I love learning about pre-internet ways of transferring data on the back of other things. Another cool example is that the UK is only shutting down its longwave AM radio service this month (as opposed to decades ago) because the carrier is
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by BoxOfRain 4mo ago
This Teletext emulator displays a few projects recreating various services: https://zxnet.co.uk/teletext/viewer/ . I'm planning on building my own Teletext service at some point as part of a wider analogue TV
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> They built the RBMK reactors (like the one at Chernobyl) specifically because the dual-use design allowed them to generate civilian electricity while simultaneously harvesting plutonium for weapons, creating a fundamentally unstable sy
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There'd be other interesting implications as well, socialist systems were more open to the idea of cybernetics and with a proper computer industry the Soviets might have had more room to explore it. Mind you I still think it would have
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Map Men did a great video on the reverse of this, classified Soviet-made maps of Britain which were all labelled in Polish! They were in some cases more accurate than the British OS maps of the era which did not print some features around m
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I'd rather pay some nominal fee for access than give up my identity to an unaccountable entity I'd struggle to take cross-border action against if that became necessary. The price shouldn't exclude anyone who's strugglin
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I still think we're looking for a shadow by shining a torch at it personally; we have a rather chauvinistic view on what consciousness 'ought' to look like and this fundamentally shapes what we're looking for. We assume
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I'm not sure if this tracks internationally, but in the UK sports betting is enormous and young men are included in this. I've got mates from uni I distinctly remember putting chunks of their student loans on the football for ex
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Even without AI slop I've noticed this happen on Reddit. I once made a rather boisterously-argued comment on a political issue I'm passionate about, and I realised that I'd made a serious error of reading comprehension when i
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It's an interesting question, we often talk of 'socioeconomic class' but in reality social and economic class are quite distinct things I think. This is particularly pronounced in countries like the UK where the social class
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> India must remain an integral portion of the British Empire so long as the British nation continues to be predominant at home. It was well-understood in those days how much of the British Empire existed to defend or facilitate trade wi

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