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811.
by Lio 2y ago
A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole
812.
by Lio 2y ago
I'm not missing your point, I just don't agree with it. :P If what you're suggesting were true we would have seen large numbers of EU unicorns based around gathering private data before GDPR that have somehow disappeared ..
813.
by Lio 2y ago
I’m not sure. Back in the day Apple marketed macOS as a serious Unix system for scientists and engineers boasting about NASA’s use of it. I think if Apple aspired to lockdown general purpose computing they would push the ipad pro range with
814.
by Lio 2y ago
If your business is dedicated to removing people’s legal right to privacy then you are probably going to break the law at some point. Why not just act ethically in the first place?
815.
by Lio 2y ago
I rode King Alfred’s Way, which includes the Ridgeway, a few years ago. It is a great route but I wish I’d had larger tyres. I used 33C cyclocross tyres and it does get a bit slippery up those chalk hills when it rains. I loved it and would
816.
by Lio 2y ago
It all depends on your Ruby runtime. If you want parallel threads then you can use JRuby and your threads will run in parallel on the JVM. I've used the Concurrent-Ruby gem to coordinate that[1]. It has copies of some of the Clojure d
817.
by Lio 2y ago
I don't expect to have to research the bag sizes every time I fly to the same destination just because Ryanair might have made them ever so slightly smaller.
818.
by Lio 2y ago
Ryanair is not straight forward, it's tricksy and only cheap if you hit the magic set of conditions that let you get the cheap deals at the cheap times. What people object to is not the no frills concept but the "ahaha you didn&#
819.
by Lio 2y ago
It's because, certainly the last time I was on Ryanair, if you wanted cabin baggage the cheapest way to get it was to order Speedy Boarding.
820.
by Lio 2y ago
There's surprisingly one company missing from this list; Hey/37 Signals itself. As the originators of Ruby on Rails I would expect to see here. (The list seems to include firms with 0 market cap already so it can't be based o
821.
by Lio 2y ago
Where do you live and whic places do you think smartphones are a requirement for? Where I live in the UK that’s all just optional and can be replaced with a couple of plastic cards. In fact my phone ran out of data for the last 2 days while
822.
by Lio 2y ago
This looks like an interesting project but it doesn't look like it's been updated in a couple of years. I'm always leery of swapping to new replacements for well established tools for this reason; what will support look like
823.
by Lio 2y ago
Haha this is great! For anyone wondering this is from the Socketry team behind the ruby Async gem and Falcon webserver.
824.
by Lio 2y ago
We say the chippie in the UK too. We also use sparkie for electrician.
825.
by Lio 2y ago
This seems to be a small thing but it's odd to see people talking about how "Kowloon" used to exist. Kowloon still exists. Kowloon isn't the name of the Walled City, Kowloon is where the Walled City was located. You c
826.
by Lio 2y ago
Expect to see someone else write a blog post on How I Used AI to fool an AI Spammer ...of course they'd probably get an LLM to write the article too.
827.
by Lio 2y ago
For me, TDK will always be synonymous the very best cassette tapes from my youth.
828.
by Lio 2y ago
Sorry but I don't think it's implausible at all. Outside of medical usage I think most commercial use of "titanium" is actually titanium alloys. I'm sure I read somewhere there's over 50 commercial grades so su
829.
by Lio 2y ago
I can kind of see that argument but it reminds me of when a new programming language comes out and there's no IDE support for it. That definitely stops some developers from considering it, others are happy to use just a standard editor
830.
by Lio 2y ago
It's worse than that, the US doesn't even use Imperial units, which was only introduced after US independence.. They use their own unique set of units that are different to both Imperial and Metric.
831.
by Lio 2y ago
This is the MBA curse. Some bright spark will recognise that they can make a short term profit by cheapening the product but retaining the high price. ...but if they don't then other firms selling crappy (but "good enough")
832.
by Lio 2y ago
Please stop with the cheap ageism. Whatever generation[1] you're in will be doing something out of your control that the next generation will look down on too. 1. ...and no, I'm not a Baby Boomer either.
833.
by Lio 2y ago
Looking at Apple's Airpods Pro, they're starting to get some of the features of hearing aids. E.g. features to allow doorbells through the noise cancelling. I don't think anyone would suggest them as a realistic choice today
834.
by Lio 2y ago
Neat idea. For some reason I thought this might be for calibrating cartridge alignment. If someone can come up with an easier way to correct that it would be amazing.
835.
by Lio 2y ago
Why not? Home storage batteries are available.
836.
by Lio 2y ago
You’re comparing the time to fuel a car at home vs a dedicated fuelling station. You can’t (generally) refuel your ICE car at home. The times to recharge at a fast charge station is coming down and down.
837.
by Lio 2y ago
Or you take a folding bike with you. Brompton even make an electric version for those that need it.
838.
by Lio 2y ago
Not sure why this is down voted. If you’re outside of the US avoiding Americanisms is important. Much like having a localised spelling checker. If I was preparing content for the US market I would probably do the opposite.
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by Lio 2y ago
Waitrose self-checkouts point a camera at your face when pay so that you can see yourself on screen. I dislike shoplifting and petty crime but I also dislike this form of cheap, petty intimidation. I don’t want to live in this dystopia.
840.
by Lio 2y ago
“I did a lot of math, I made a lot of money,” he reflected on his life, “and I gave almost all of it away.2 That's the story of my life.” And what a life it was. - This has got to be the dream hasn’t it. Making money not because you

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