BoxOfRain

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by BoxOfRain 5y ago
I'll definitely keep an eye on this! Much appreciated.
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by BoxOfRain 5y ago
That's more of a reflection on the people doing the teaching than the style of teaching itself I think. This is purely anecdotal but I absolutely hated most of my pre-university education as it felt like jumping through completely mean
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by BoxOfRain 5y ago
How is this not just a crap take on Roko's Basilisk?
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by BoxOfRain 5y ago
Me too, I’m younger but very much in the boat of “paying for software quality with your privacy is usually a bad trade”. Nothing inherently needs to phone home, it’s a design choice rather than a mandate chiselled in a stone tablet. If pe
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by BoxOfRain 5y ago
I suspect so, still getting this error as of 21.39.00 British summer time.
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by BoxOfRain 5y ago
> I'm not saying "strive to be a prick because then you can be a great artist". I'm saying, separate the prick from the art, because if you don't, you have no art and you still have a whole lotta pricks. I love t
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by BoxOfRain 5y ago
I’d take a shoddy UI and no spyware over a good UI that’s spying on me despite being an offline application. I’ve used Audacity for years and I shan’t be upgrading until a spyware-free fork is available. Ultimate Guitar have a history of ab
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by BoxOfRain 5y ago
>The idea that politicians and bureaucracies can defer to external international conventions to be the bad-cop for wildly unpopular policy decisions It's as though so many people saw Brexit and completely refused to learn anything f
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by BoxOfRain 5y ago
Kotlin and IntelliJ IDEA really are a joy to work with in my opinion, they're very much my primary tools at the moment. I'd never really been exposed to functional programming features until I got into Kotlin and now I'm lear
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by BoxOfRain 5y ago
It's shocking just how much seawater will corrode steel. If you look at pictures of shipwrecks like the Lusitania and Titanic they've degraded a lot since they were first dived to in the '60s and '80s respectively. T
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by BoxOfRain 5y ago
>Only privileged person wouldn't value that. Hard disagree from me, it very much depends on what you value in life. While I have a lot of respect for people with that kind of technical ability and would no doubt be a better programm
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by BoxOfRain 5y ago
Thanks for your reply! It's interesting how you found yourself moving back to your hometown, I've always thought if I ever settle down properly it'll be in the coastal town where I went to uni. I went back to my hometown afte
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Ask HN: What's your experience of living nomadically as a tech worker?
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by BoxOfRain 5y ago
I went down that YouTube rabbit hole too, the production value is some of the best I've ever seen from any government department.
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by BoxOfRain 5y ago
It depends on how you're measuring value I suppose. Research for research's sake is rarely pointless, contributing to the sum of human knowledge is a worthy endeavour if you're okay with being in academia forever which many p
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by BoxOfRain 5y ago
I stopped watching broadcast TV out of sheer spite towards the TV licensing system and the slack-jawed oafs that enforce it, but that's a uniquely British reason!
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by BoxOfRain 5y ago
“Rules for thee but not for me” is an enduring part of British social stratification, while I’m glad Hancock’s resigned the time for an honourable exit was months ago. There’s a real notion among members of British high society that they’re
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by BoxOfRain 5y ago
I suspect it works like any other sail. On an ordinary sailing boat you’re aiming to balance the aerodynamic and hydrodynamic forces as efficiently as possible, if you’re heeling over too much you can reduce the power produced by the sail b
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by BoxOfRain 5y ago
I for one would be “bottle of gin a night” depressed living in a built up area, I realise I’m in a minority but city life absolutely isn’t for everyone.
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by BoxOfRain 5y ago
Blows Against the Empire by Paul Kantner and Jefferson Starship is another album that's a bit of a lineup of counterculture icons including Jerry Garcia, David Crosby, and many others from among Jefferson Airplane's contemporari
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by BoxOfRain 5y ago
Yeah, successful trolling more than anything is about being in the right place at the right time. A good troll casts a spark on a pile of dry leaves, a bad troll takes a blowtorch to a pile of damp logs.
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by BoxOfRain 5y ago
Reminds me of Yik Yak a bit, the user count dropped like the Titanic because they attempted to pivot away from the main reason people were using the platform to begin with (in this case anonymous posts).
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by BoxOfRain 5y ago
>We know how to do broadband in rural places. We do it all over the planet. We simply tax income and spend it on infrastructure. The problem is that this view means you need politicians who care enough about the issue and many simply don
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by BoxOfRain 5y ago
Yeah, British internet can be fairly inconsistent. I'm in a rural-ish area and can get 100 megs down on a fibre-to-the-house connection, but when I lived in an actual town I would be lucky to get 2 megs down on a good day. I literally
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by BoxOfRain 5y ago
I wonder if "hustle mentality" is something of an evolution the Puritan work ethic for a secular age? There's strains of Evangelical protestantism which place a great emphasis on the value of hard work to the exclusion of oth