MrTortoise

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by MrTortoise 5y ago
what are AOL doing these days?
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by MrTortoise 5y ago
this is not true i have a default for £40 for a phone sim that they charged me for for 6 months after i cancelled. I do not owe them the money yet they sold the debt. Nobody cares ... I now have a default on my credit reference. The whole i
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by MrTortoise 6y ago
it opens by presenting unconnected things and then trying to say they all have a common cause - the drug its marketing it them goes on to question authority and saying any care that does work is ineffective by likening it all to a different
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by MrTortoise 6y ago
tbh i read it more as yet another example of a platform trying to restrict the rigths of its customers to do every other aspect of their business in the way they choose. I take your point - and its probably true. BUT when I use what is esse
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by MrTortoise 6y ago
What I like is the way everyone has just accepted the inference that the us is made of dumb parts
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by MrTortoise 6y ago
There are many contexts where the same words mean many - often directly contradictory things. Medical definition has a valid use. Does this one? I'm not sure which is whilst kind of true it falls into that class of observations and mus
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by MrTortoise 6y ago
Very cool but the spacing is off!
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by MrTortoise 6y ago
we value encryption we like stuff to be easy though for thousands of years people used codes that couldn't be broken but we got lazy wah wah lets break security
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by MrTortoise 6y ago
chicken and egg
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by MrTortoise 6y ago
most one sided fights ever. Just look at G forces. drone could have higher max speeds, higher max acceleration. fighter was designed ... what 20 years ago? Cost of drone? Cost of loss of either? total cost of ownership is vastly different.
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by MrTortoise 6y ago
A doctor should not refer to themselves as a doctor when a doctor of a different field. That's just wrong and abuse of authority. If he did that on philosophy he'd be ripped a new one
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by MrTortoise 6y ago
i learnt how cpu work on spim
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by MrTortoise 6y ago
given react is a dependency its a lot more
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by MrTortoise 6y ago
as a fairly well off white dude i resent this attempt to make things less fair for me! I like how fair it is atm. I fare pretty good thanks. (this is a joke before some muppet gets triggered)
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by MrTortoise 6y ago
does anyone still use telephone for important decisions? its all f2f or video isnt it? Expect more not less
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by MrTortoise 7y ago
No not in 20 years except maybe 3-4 times Shitty codebase and lack of tests defining business needs require it Also Devs with headphones on not starting decisions ... That way when people leave no one know why it is the way it is.
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by MrTortoise 7y ago
That looks like it's the step after boost. It's more general and has more interesting bits from the pictures. Bit old for someone that young I think .... Although I'll try her on the boost stuff I bet she would love it actual
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by MrTortoise 7y ago
We have a vector. He's like our pet ...
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by MrTortoise 7y ago
Lol we thought about that but my eldest put his hand in vacuum once. Got friction burns from brushes ... So something like that unsupervised is a bit worrying for us.
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by MrTortoise 7y ago
Yeah just got this for my 6yo, he's enjoying it but v hard for him to build. ... Then the whole needing an unlocked tablet thing.
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by MrTortoise 7y ago
Yeah I've been looking at that. Looks quite good
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by MrTortoise 7y ago
Probably a bit young. Kids are v different. One of mine would get bored quick because they move and it messes up her games. The other would enjoy. We had a robot that took cards and had sine games on it. Both looked that can't rememb
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Ask HN: 3 yo loves robots. What robot for 4th bday?
16 points by MrTortoise 7y ago|24 comments
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by MrTortoise 8y ago
You don't need team of X for microservices. It's an approach with trade offs. Made it work with 2 devs
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by MrTortoise 8y ago
Yes find an area you enjoy, dive in and get good at coding with people, pulling people into discussion. Set for life
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by MrTortoise 8y ago
Q1 didn't need 32 megs. We had it running on 8. I remember working all summer to but another 8 when I was building a monster rig to goto 16 in 1998
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by MrTortoise 8y ago
Quake was completely playable on high end gear dx4100 and p60 was fine. Quakegl came about later.
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by MrTortoise 8y ago
Low thousands? Is that really worth your time? Buy post-it notes, go momento and discover that all is well - distraction on details is part of creativity. Self awareness of it is key to directed productivity.
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by MrTortoise 8y ago
Give examples of problems and what you find hard. The more I code the more I realise how hard it is. 20 years later and I can count the good programmers I know on one hand. Most of them think they are terrible also. Programming is about del
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by MrTortoise 8y ago
you see i have never had to get a laptop serviced ... but then i don't buy apple.

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