Doctor_Fegg

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by Doctor_Fegg 2y ago
Chrome on Android doesn't have any significant competition. There's no need for Google to spend a lot of time and money implementing a feature that won't benefit them corporately.
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by Doctor_Fegg 2y ago
The author list on this paper is kind of the routing equivalent of seeing a song with writing credits to Bob Dylan, John Lennon, Jimmy Page, Thom Yorke and Prince.
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by Doctor_Fegg 2y ago
Yes, officer, this one right here.
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by Doctor_Fegg 2y ago
B&Q used to (maybe still do) run lorries up the motorway with the two-line legend: "www.diy.com. Shop online NOW". Now? I'm literally driving. I'll end up ploughing into the back of your lorry if I shop online now.
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by Doctor_Fegg 2y ago
Which doesn't preclude hardware keypads, which British banks have been issuing for at least 15 years now.
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by Doctor_Fegg 2y ago
Yes, that’s 3.5in. The picture in TFA is of a _3in_ disk.
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by Doctor_Fegg 2y ago
Weird that the photo of the eBayed disk is a Maxell CF2 - a 3in disk! These were standard on the Amstrad 8-bits (CPC/PCW) and the Sinclair Spectrum +3, after Amstrad bought the rights to the Spectrum, but I’d never seen them on a C64.
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by Doctor_Fegg 2y ago
For real life? (Bluey. The single greatest contribution to exporting Australian culture.)
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by Doctor_Fegg 2y ago
“It is possible to be technically native but also very bad” and yet still 100x better than iTunes.
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by Doctor_Fegg 2y ago
I have a bit of a theory on this. I used to edit a newsstand leisure magazine here in the UK. It was founded in the 1970s. We sold about 18,000 copies a month in our peak, making us the market leader. I'm not the editor any more (I wen
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by Doctor_Fegg 2y ago
And the code: https://github.com/ad-freiburg/loom
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by Doctor_Fegg 2y ago
> specifically in medium/big businesses/enterprises. This is a feature, not a bug.
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by Doctor_Fegg 2y ago
I used to suggest WTFPL for that, but unfortunately Google now allows WTFPL-licensed code ( https://opensource.google/documentation/reference/thirdparty... ). I've written the even swearier FUPL as an alternati
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by Doctor_Fegg 2y ago
Here's the news headline from the time for you: https://news.sky.com/story/network-rail-failing-to-stop-unac...
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by Doctor_Fegg 2y ago
> I have no idea why there are now apps that use Markdown as their back end storage format but only show styled text without the Markdown source code visible. Because backend storage of rich text is not a solved problem? RTF is a horrid,
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by Doctor_Fegg 2y ago
Also the biggest advantage of HTTPS for any bigco whose business model relies on showing you _their_ ads and no one else’s.
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by Doctor_Fegg 2y ago
Whereas when OSM started, they didn't (StreetMap and Multimap in the UK, MapQuest in the US).
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by Doctor_Fegg 2y ago
> You probably need to know where bike paths are Which is famously something OSM does _much_ better than Google.
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by Doctor_Fegg 2y ago
That _is_ the line from the Channel Tunnel to London St Pancras.
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by Doctor_Fegg 2y ago
Especially as it's less than 200m from the Guardian's London office to Google's London office.
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by Doctor_Fegg 2y ago
You can also drag the folder into Terminal to insert the path at the current cursor, or cmd-drag it into Terminal to do a `cd` to that path.
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by Doctor_Fegg 2y ago
That's kind of by design. Providing streamlined APIs requires a funding model to both host those APIs and pay an army of devops to maintain them. The OSM Foundation is intentionally small and doesn't do that. Rather, it encourages
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by Doctor_Fegg 2y ago
The number of people who call Google Maps just “Maps” is continually depressing.
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by Doctor_Fegg 2y ago
> including regulators like the UK’s Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) and Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) > as we finalize this approach, we’ll continue to consult with the CMA, ICO and other regulators globally Ve
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by Doctor_Fegg 2y ago
That’s not true for all types of companies. https://www.gov.uk/set-up-a-social-enterprise
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by Doctor_Fegg 2y ago
It’s a British website using British idiom. Nothing weird about it at all.
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by Doctor_Fegg 2y ago
Yes, that's entirely the point. The article is "Here's a thing I don't understand! Let's say how silly it is by comparing it to a thing I do understand." I mean, thanks for that. I could write an article about
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by Doctor_Fegg 2y ago
> Did the American revolution happen before, during, or after the Enlightenment? I’ve no idea. When did the American revolution happen? Not everyone’s cultural frame of reference is the same as yours. I can tell you when the Synod of Whi
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by Doctor_Fegg 2y ago
Ah, a chance to wheel out one of my favourite quotes ever. > Jim Buckmaster, the chief executive of Craigslist, caused lots of head-scratching Thursday as he tried to explain to a bunch of Wall Street types why his company is not interes
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by Doctor_Fegg 2y ago
Yes. I wrote a version of Minesweeper for the Amstrad CPC, a home computer popular in 1987 (though I wrote it a few years later). I think it was about 5-10Kb in size, not 300. The CPC only had 64k of memory anyway, though a 128k model was a

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