LandR

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by LandR 6y ago
I have a VISA credit card and a VISA debit card. I was under the assumption that the VISA debit card offers me the same protections as the crecit card but I think I was wrong... > Are PayPal purchases covered? You are unlikely to be prot
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by LandR 6y ago
If you work at Facebook you are knowingly contributing to damaging the fabric of society for a pay check. No one at Facebook is innocrnt, you are part of the problem. If you have a Facebook account, delete it. I really think the world would
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by LandR 6y ago
That link isn't working for me, it just says video unavailable, but I think this is the talk the OP is linking to: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P2yr-3F6PQo
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by LandR 6y ago
No. We need less paper mail not more.
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by LandR 6y ago
Why does it scroll the page when I move my mouse barely an inch? I literally can't get the mouse over the volume sliders as it keeps scrolling the whole page up and down.
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by LandR 6y ago
I've had this book on my shelf for a couple of years. I was put off it because I finally saw the film (and the remake) and didn't like them. Especially the remake, fell asleep trying to get through that film on three seperate occa
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by LandR 6y ago
My experience on windows is that emacs is unusably slow. Multi-second lag on type and navigating isn't acceptable. Org-mode is especially bad.
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by LandR 6y ago
Where in Europe is war a possiblilty?
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by LandR 6y ago
Clearly....
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by LandR 6y ago
How harrowing can it be when they were comfortable enough to stop and camp for the night?
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by LandR 6y ago
It was. I think it got removed. Too inflamatory?
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by LandR 6y ago
Or you know, we could just tell these idiots to grow up or get therapy. There was no malice intended here at all. If people can't even hear a word from another language that vaguely resembles a racial slur when used in a non malicious
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by LandR 6y ago
Yeah, I had a flu about 8 months ago. It was utter hell. I was in bed for a good week and a half, the fever and just feeling like I was dying was awful, at some points during it I couldn't walk from bed to the en-suite bathroom without
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by LandR 6y ago
The headline from the BBC is a bit sensationalist I think, but that's what they have. Interesting article about retrieving the submarines though.
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Russia’s ‘slow-motion Chernobyl’ at sea(bbc.com)
57 points by LandR 6y ago|51 comments
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by LandR 6y ago
If you click on the time bit '14 minutes ago' in a users comment you go to a page where you can favourite individual comments too.
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by LandR 6y ago
Didnt know there was an app. THe website renders fine for me on mobile.
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by LandR 6y ago
And its more incredible that they dont listen when you remember those adults were teenagers once too, and probably had very real issues that were ignored by their parents too!
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by LandR 6y ago
> Ms Corbridge offers services ranging from $7-$25 "personalised penis ratings" What on earth! I guess I'm so out of touch with what some people are after on the internet.
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by LandR 6y ago
I was just saying today how I wish I could have a graphical representation of things like hashmaps and collections while I'm debugging! Then this pops up on front page!
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by LandR 6y ago
If it detects you are feeling down and you visit Amazon.com, it could show you an ads for example "Feeling down? Treat yourself to foo" I don't know if Amazon would stoop this low though.
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by LandR 6y ago
Well, I'm Scottish, I've been Scottish all my life! Lived in Scotland all my life.. That page is mostly nonsense.
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by LandR 6y ago
> proper Scots I don't think there is such a thing? Scottish people speak English, some use more slang than others, but it's English. This Scottish wikipedia reads like utter nonsense.
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by LandR 6y ago
I tried to read this page https://sco.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Burns , and really struggled. Is it just meant to be regular wikipedia pages but written in some awful slang?
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by LandR 6y ago
You mean you didn't understand this when you were 5? > In simple terms, the Discrete Cosine Transform takes a set of N correlated (similar) data-points and returns N de-correlated (dis-similar) data-points (coefficients) in such a w
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by LandR 6y ago
1 known case from ~25m to me seems like reinfection is incredibly rare and not really something to worry about? Or am I way off the mark here?
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by LandR 6y ago
What if you need to compile to native? Some places don't accept having to have a VM like .NET or Java installed to run.
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by LandR 6y ago
It's not that their feelings don't matter, it's that their is nothing anyone can do for them. I'm very ugly, I'm very single. I don't expect anyone to do anything about it for me. You just have to get on with l
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by LandR 6y ago
Why should society give a fuck though? It's not really a problem society can solve for them. Plenty of people have shitty lives, either they can't find a partner because they had the misfortune to be born ugly or maybe they were b
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by LandR 6y ago
There is probably a way they know his, but can you really fire a missile at something on a computer screen miles away and be fully confident the thing you are shooting at is enemy military aircraft? And not say a civilian aircraft ? I guess

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