CalRobert

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by CalRobert 1mo ago
It's very frustrating that behind every "you should be eternally grateful for every child no matter what" warm fuzzy message is an implicit "and if you ever express regret for having a kid who wound up non-verbal and vio
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by CalRobert 1mo ago
No idea but worth remembering that modern breakfast was invented to sell cereal.
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by CalRobert 1mo ago
Seems a shame in a housing crisis.
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by CalRobert 1mo ago
Violating gdpr is apparently legal. But even having opt out instead of opt in is in violation
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by CalRobert 1mo ago
Certainly had to convince my gp a few years ago that indeed there is Lyme in Ireland
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by CalRobert 1mo ago
Attestion (now via captcha) means that websites will presumably block Firefox and Google’s attempt to murder the web will be complete.
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by CalRobert 2mo ago
They’re not noisy because there’s a lot of people, they’re noisy because there’s a lot of cars.
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by CalRobert 2mo ago
We agree. I meant in the aggregate. Cash is very rare here in NL at least.
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by CalRobert 2mo ago
If you watch only one video make it the Berkeley Bowl one https://youtu.be/PUFQouwqbe8
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by CalRobert 2mo ago
Huh, a Dutch one? ING perchance?
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by CalRobert 2mo ago
Cool, good to know. When I first moved to Ireland you could get a hardware code generator too but I don’t know if that’s still a thing
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by CalRobert 2mo ago
We chose that when we stopped using cash.
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by CalRobert 2mo ago
In Europe at least the banks website won’t function if you don’t auth with their app.
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by CalRobert 2mo ago
Recaptcha requiring attestation also belongs in the list
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by CalRobert 2mo ago
Honestly, I just want a hardware keyboard. I still miss the slider htc touch pro 2
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by CalRobert 2mo ago
I guess I misunderstood the meaning of the term eugenics because I thought it was very much intentional artificial selection applied to humans. To reiterate - I do not support this! I think it's evil! but isn't that basically what
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by CalRobert 2mo ago
I agree with you and hate car centric development, and yet, if this idea gets low or no parking housing built, it could be worth considering.
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by CalRobert 2mo ago
It was originally 6 pack I believe… the phrase itself evolves
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by CalRobert 2mo ago
Dalwegians?
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by CalRobert 2mo ago
I mean, if we wanted every human on Earth to be over 6' tall, we could just cull the short ones (or stop them from reproducing), and this is scientifically valid, but, of course, evil. As far as lobotomy, I don't know, but it seem
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by CalRobert 2mo ago
When my stepmother died we went through her things and found all sorts of ticket and metro stubs from the year she lived in Paris. I’m saddened by the loss of these ephemera that carry a little story. I went to Radiohead last December and t
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by CalRobert 2mo ago
“ The app took him a week to build, half of it lost to code-signing purgatory” Maybe Google is eliminating sideloading to force people to not make their own apk’s now that it’s easy to do so.
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by CalRobert 2mo ago
For some it is and some it isn’t. My eldest was always a terrible sleeper.
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by CalRobert 2mo ago
That's interesting, I get pushback when I suggest anything different and for devs under 30 I've had to remind them that git and github aren't the same thing. This is not to cast aspersions on them, just the state of things in
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by CalRobert 2mo ago
Adventure games can have amazing stories - I still think Star Trek: A Final Unity could be a great movie, or novel even.
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by CalRobert 2mo ago
Yet the pointless banners and illegal tracking remains. They do, sometimes, but rarely. And having Ireland's utterly toothless DPC handling so many big tech companies makes it even worse.
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by CalRobert 2mo ago
Europe doesn’t enforce the law. Cookie banners are similarly pointless.
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by CalRobert 2mo ago
Sometimes they are forbidden from making the things they’d like for themselves. You used to be able to get your own food, build your own home, etc. But enclosure put a stop to that. And besides, who made the land you live on?
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by CalRobert 2mo ago
You’re not wrong. Having traveled a fair bit it does eventually turn in to basically a big theme park experience. I still like looking out the window though
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by CalRobert 2mo ago
Insane delays and cancellations. I’ve taken them Amsterdam to Berlin, Utrecht to Frankfurt, etc and only one trip has managed not to be multiple hours late. In one case a train ended early and I had to run like hell with my folding bike to

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