Normille

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   by Normille 4y ago

   I'd have been disappointed if that didn't get downvoted. Kinda proves my point
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   by Normille 4y ago

   Doesn't actually exist. Coming soon from Normille.com A unicorn that shits gold bars. Pledge money here!
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   by Normille 4y ago

   ME: Eh? Why? WIKIPEDIA: Not to be confused with Myrna Loy. ME: Ah!
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   by Normille 4y ago

   It's not only that the results 'aren't great' [to put it mildly]. It's that they're full of exactly the kind of 'SEO spam' results that your USP claims your site avoids. In fact, running the same sear
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   by Normille 4y ago

   OK. Let's give it a go. At the weekend, I found a few old LibreOffice docs that I wanted to see what was in them. But no longer have LibreOffice installed. So: SEARCH: odt viewer RESULTS: Visual QR Code Generator - Visualead
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   by Normille 4y ago

   Stop demanding you be treated absolutely equally to everyone else --whilst, at the same time, also demanding you be recognised as a special snowflake.
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   by Normille 4y ago

   I'm generally not a fan of throwing pointless wheelbarrows full of JS libs at a website. And would usually welcome any site announcing they're stripped out such cruft. But, as someone alluded to in the comments on the GOV.UK site;
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   by Normille 4y ago

   I used to host all my domains with NameCheap and moved them all off after a run in with their customer service, who I found to be really arrogant: NameCheap send out their reminder emails telling you a domain is about to expire in the forma
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   by Normille 4y ago

   UPDATE2: Well done, HN Crew. It was indeed the original short story version of Blood Music. I found I actually still had it and read it again last night. For the record, it also appears on Tangents, a collection of short stories by Greg Bea
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    by Normille 4y ago

    Thanks all for the suggestions. I did think it sounded like Blood Music... which I started reading once, but never really got into. But I'm convinced --or as convinced as anyone can be about memories from a while back-- that what I&#x2
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    ID This SciFi Short Story

    49 points by Normille 4y ago|35 comments
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    by Normille 4y ago

    Given Betelgeuse is ~550 light years away, this is pretty old news --even by HN standards!
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    by Normille 4y ago

    Why do you have to be young to not be able to afford an EV? I'm an old fucker and I can't afford one either. BTW --I read a while back that [in UK anyway] car ownership and numbers taking driving lessons/tests amongst young p
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    by Normille 4y ago

    I've been working my way through the series of these. Though listening in the house, while doing 'stuff', rather than while travelling. The ones read by Nigel Planer are much better than the few which are read by other people
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    by Normille 4y ago

    Your system might be secure. But, given that the vast majority of websites these days seem to require some kind of login in order to interact with them in any way, using a system like yours would drive me mad and waste so much time I'd
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    by Normille 4y ago

    I moved from LastPass to Bitwarden a few years back. Bitwarden does win a few kudos points for being free and open source. Unfortunately, Bitwarden is far from perfect either. It suffers from glaring UI problems which the developers have po
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    by Normille 4y ago

    >If you think Gen Z is full of phone-addicted zombies, though, you might be wrong. Forty-five percent of teens said that they wouldn’t have trouble giving up social media. More power to them. Most heavy smokers, alcoholics and ju
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    by Normille 4y ago

    Hold the front page! --Researchers discover that, when you're tired, you find it harder to think straight.
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    by Normille 4y ago

    SIX: The US never picks on anyone who could actually fight back.
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    by Normille 4y ago

    Paywall
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    by Normille 4y ago

    i don't use either.
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    by Normille 4y ago

    >but it's glue... Which is also made from the dregs of the meat industry.
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    by Normille 4y ago

    No. I'm welcoming Germany's [and on a wider level, the EU's] demise as their just desserts for acting as the US's poodle for the past several decades, instead of seizing the opportunity to create an independent and non-a
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    by Normille 4y ago

    Winner to collect their prize money at a ceremony in 3022
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    by Normille 4y ago

    I keep reading about these future "water wars" and can't help but wonder how much of the prediction is realistic and how much is coloured by Silicon Valley types extrapolating globally from what they see locally. I live in no
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    by Normille 4y ago

    Let's hope so!
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    by Normille 4y ago

    Is not good form to put a direct download link, without warning. Put [PDF] at the end of your title!
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    by Normille 4y ago

    I never said it wasn't an alternative. Or put down your choice. I was just including the addendum that no-one should expect to be able to do bring any of their existing [and possibly built up over years] 'stuff' with them, sh
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    by Normille 4y ago

    Looks moderately impressive. But I'd describe it more as 'Pixar style' than generic 'cartoon style'. Which you may like. But I, personally, find very lifeless, bland and 'samey'. A bit like the cartoon ver
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    by Normille 4y ago

    I'm still waiting for the first company to announce a '5G-ready, containerised, AI-powered, blockchain-based, metaverse, written in Rust'. It's bound to be a sure-fire winner.