Digit-Al

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by Digit-Al 1y ago
You appear to have misunderstood what happened. It was her management team that thought it was in bad taste. They then got the lawyers to draft a letter. The lawyers weren't acting "supposedly on their clients behalf", they w
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by Digit-Al 1y ago
Ever heard of a confusopoly[1]? [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confusopoly
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by Digit-Al 1y ago
That's a real shame to hear. Many years ago I took over the running of a website that was hosted on Rackspace, and their support really was great. We rarely had problems, but when things did go wrong they always resolved it really quic
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by Digit-Al 1y ago
Facebook mobile tip: if you click on the burger menu and select "Feeds" you will be taken to a page with a list of different feeds at the top. If you then select the "Friends" tab you will see only posts from your friend
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by Digit-Al 1y ago
What you're link refers to seems to be a different way to get to the feed that has been around for ages. The feed I described has been around for over a year (I can't remember when I first found out about it, but it was a long tim
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by Digit-Al 1y ago
>Facebook could provide you options to only see friend's content. People have certainly asked for it. They absolutely refuse to. What are you talking about? On the app, click on the burger menu and select feeds. You will then have a
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by Digit-Al 1y ago
What rock are you living under; our Queen died a while ago now. It will be by order of the King these days : - )
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Top 200 Most Common Passwords(nordpass.com)
4 points by Digit-Al 1y ago|0 comments
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by Digit-Al 1y ago
Oops! Yeah, you're right. Thanks for the correction. Shows how long it is since I've used it.
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Ask HN: How will the OSA affect small Mastodon instances?
29 points by Digit-Al 1y ago|15 comments
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by Digit-Al 1y ago
I'm a meat eater, but don't eat much red meat as I have mild arthritis and too much red meat causes me to get flare ups. I tried one of those burgers a few years ago (can't remember if it was Beyond or Impossible now) and did
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by Digit-Al 1y ago
Interesting, but surely thought should be thawt instead of thot.
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by Digit-Al 1y ago
Soooo long; I got bored about halfway through. There was only one word I was not familiar with though.
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by Digit-Al 1y ago
No, it's called the Gulf of Mexico everywhere else, not the Golf of Mexico. I'm not falling for your propaganda ;-)
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by Digit-Al 1y ago
Here in the UK we have something called Direct Debit, that is backed by the Direct Debit guarantee. All regular payments are made by DD and we can cancel a regular payment at any time just by contacting our bank. I can go into my banking ap
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by Digit-Al 1y ago
> On top of that, salaries for basic jobs would need to get much higher to incentivize people to work. Not true. The 'B' in UBI means 'Basic'. UBI wil pay your rent, utilities, and food, but not much else. Now, there
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by Digit-Al 1y ago
If you're really interested in a deep dive on this subject then I really recommend "A City On Mars" by Zach and Kelly Weinersmith (of SMBC). It goes very deep into things like - can you have babies successfully in space?
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by Digit-Al 1y ago
Well bully for you. For those of us who live in flats it's not so simple. If you were to put e.g. flat 8 and my postcode there are about 4 or 5 choices so you're probably not going to get your mail.
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by Digit-Al 1y ago
Yes, but this change now also allows you to do the same with, say, script.cs file.
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by Digit-Al 1y ago
Wouldn't it be likely that smell has something to do with why animals don't treat robots as animals? After all, lots of animals use scent to some degree to help identify each other. A robot won't smell like anything they reco
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by Digit-Al 1y ago
Even worse, in my opinion, is when you're typing away and a dialog from some other application suddenly decides to pop up and swallow all your key strokes; or, in the worst case, one of your key strokes just happens to coincide with a
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by Digit-Al 1y ago
If the creator is reading this, I was having problems with the viewport on my tablet. I can't scroll around the page and in portrait mode, stuff disappears off the side of the page, and in landscape mode stuff disappears off the top an
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by Digit-Al 1y ago
>Someone somewhere recently chained together a bunch of AI models to see what would happen if they emulated various departments in a large company, and they immediately learned how to pass the buck to each other and obfuscate the fact th
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by Digit-Al 1y ago
Also, as many of the well known manufacturers have been going for 40 to 60 years, and some of them for over 100 years (Rolls Royce, Ford, Mercedes, etc...) then 25 years is a newcomer :-)
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by Digit-Al 1y ago
Don't think it's other people's responsibility to spend their precious free time informing you of stuff you can freely look up online yourself.
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Physics Solves One of Man's Biggest Problems: Urinal Splashing(studyfinds.org)
5 points by Digit-Al 1y ago|0 comments
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by Digit-Al 1y ago
A little while ago I was doing 20mph in a 20 zone and got overtaken by someone on an electric bicycle lol
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by Digit-Al 1y ago
I remember many (many) years ago I used to frequent a small independent video rental shop. Then, one day a Blockbuster opened next door (and when I say next door, I do mean literally next door) offering a larger range of videos to rent and
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by Digit-Al 1y ago
Email and SQL: two technologies that people keep saying are out of date and need replacing, but they keep rolling on whilst attempted replacements wither on the vine, with their dust eventually blowing away on the winds of time.
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by Digit-Al 1y ago
OMG! Please don't remind me about trying to source control SSIS. One tiny change cascades into 1000 lines of source being different. Total nightmare.

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