JetSetWilly

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by JetSetWilly 13y ago
Apparantly Scotland is "foolhardy" if it opts for "secession", but Ireland, which already did opt for secession (less pejoratively, secession is typically known as independence once it is acheived), is a resiliant exampl
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Of course not, seeing as here in the real world, many questions can't be settled until there's a negotiation between the two parties undergoing a divorce. The sole reason for the white paper is unionists demanding "answers&qu
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Neither of those assertions are true. Only if there is a yes vote returned in the referendum will it be possible to say that "Scotland is seeking independence" - at the moment the most that can be said is some Scots are seeking in
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by JetSetWilly 13y ago
I have found mine very useful. It turned my old USB printer into a fancy-pants wifi printer. It has been running tiny-tiny rss since google reader shutdown. It runs an irc bouncer for me. It runs a dyndns updater for me much better than my
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> Germans, as I have been told, learn UK English in school. But eventually all their clients are American, so they end up learning American vernacular and spellings. Eh? The UK is a very large trading partner of Germany. German exports t
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by JetSetWilly 13y ago
The Acorn Archimedes version of Elite was excellent. It was essentially a clone of the original BBC elite, but with superior graphics and AI. The archimedes version even had a 6502 emulator built in so that the original procedural generatio
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by JetSetWilly 13y ago
Pretty nice. It could deal with weird java specific stuff like for example \p{javaWhitespace} - it deals with \s by saying it is "any whitespace", but it seems to think \p{javaWhitespace} is a character sequence, rather than an od
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by JetSetWilly 13y ago
I don't see how it is a crowded market. Apparently Sublime Text is good enough to make a living as a paid-for, closed source piece of software, in spite of the existence of tons of high quality open source editors like emacs and vim. T
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That's great, if you work by yourself and are very disciplined. In fact most of us work in very undisciplined teams - I could myself lucky when colleagues write a descriptive comment at all.
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I understand that cats have face blindness. To a human, another human looks very distinctive and unique as we have been crafted by evolution to notice the tiniest difference between faces. To a cat, we all look pretty much the same, it take
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by JetSetWilly 13y ago
That is very true. Also, bay trail still won a lot of benchmarks on said page. I cannot shake the feeling through, that while bay trail is competitive and will be very interesting for many purposes (looking forward to getting a small home s
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by JetSetWilly 13y ago
Except that the apple A7 has already trounced baytrail, despite being hobbled by a 28mm process: http://www.anandtech.com/show/7335/the-iphone-5s-review/5 baytrail has the vast expense of cutting edge foundri
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Could there be an AppleTV update of some sort? An A7, and some sort of app store would be nice.
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That's the difference though isn't it? Come to glasgow and hear the intensely rhotic pronunciation of "or" and compare to "awe" which has no R at all. The two words sound very different. "burger" in m
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What part of the UK? They are wildly different in Scotland, Northern England, Northern Ireland, in fact probably anywhere except for the south of England, and even there it doubtless varies.
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If you think that the UK and Ireland have been frozen in aspic since the 1920s, that suggests that you are very ignorant of the great many things that have happened in those countries, both of which would now be barely recognisable to anyon
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by JetSetWilly 13y ago
I've heard of being raised on the bread line, or the poverty line, but the command line? That's real deprivation. Imagine how excited they will be when they learn about hot water and inside toilets. More seriously, what can a 2-5
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It seems like a good reason to me. They couldn't pardon him when it mattered, and now they want to puff themselves up with how magnanimous and tolerant they are, just when it doesn't matter? Screw that! The pardon doesn't ser
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They may well have good reasons for being hostile to outsiders. Imagine 400 years ago they were friendly and approachable, but after a succession of whalers, slavers, British kidnappers and who knows what else, quickly came to the rational
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Unfortunately I bought into this "thinkpads just work with linux" hype and got a thinkpad - only to discover that the wifi frequently craps out because linux doesn't support well whatever intel wifi thing it comes with, and o