Normille

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by Normille 6y ago
>If the subject software had a concept of priority, these articles would explain how to set priority using 'configure' but not whether priority=2 was higher or lower than priority=1. It's amazing how often this is
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by Normille 6y ago
Ha! Ha! --great find. I didn't read the entire thread but I wonder if any of the people who commented then are still around? And, if so, what [with 40/40 hindsight] they make of their strongly held opinions back then. Especially t
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by Normille 6y ago
>How do european (or perhaps just the UK's) legal system(s) work in that regard? The general rule is that the laws by which other nations have to abide and the standards other nations have to meet don't apply when the U
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by Normille 6y ago
Article is from Jan 2019 so very OBE --not least of which are UK has a new Prime Minister and Brexit has [finally!] happened. Might have been helpful for the original poster add the date!
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by Normille 6y ago
I hate central heating! My natural body temperature preference is to be too cold rather than too hot[0]. And people always have central heating on far too high for my comfort. When I'm in a building with central heating, I feel my face
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by Normille 6y ago
Nope. Not any more. they've had some cases of the more contagious UK strain and have gone into a 2nd lockdown, as of 26th Dec. Essential travel only and no more than 5km from home. https://www.rte.ie/news/2020&#x2
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by Normille 6y ago
Aye, but there's the rub. Are you only in favour of free speech if it's expressing views that you don't find abhorrent? For all that we in the West love to criticise countries like China, Russia [and formerly the USSR], etc.
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by Normille 6y ago
>a comment requirement would likely just encourage a low quality comment to receive more low quality responses >Imagine the opposite, if everyone who upvoted your comment had to reply "I agree" or something similarly
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by Normille 6y ago
>but it is easy enough to fix by apply user CSS. ..or just highlight the text.
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by Normille 6y ago
>Downvoting has the aggregate effect of suppressing speech... Whatever else HN is, it isn't a platform for free speech. There is definitely an 'orthodoxy' of opinion on here, stepping outside of which is liable to
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by Normille 6y ago
Depends what you mean by 'recently'. But I've changed my mind about Covid. I'll admit that, when the first reports were surfacing in the media early last year, I dismissed them as just more of the hyperbole and 'cli
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by Normille 6y ago
The thing I find puzzling about the whole face masks thing is that so many people come out of shops, off public transport etc. and throw them on the ground. There are face masks lying all over the place at bus stops and in supermarket carpa
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by Normille 6y ago
I've never noticed ads on StartPage. But then I use an adblocker.
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by Normille 6y ago
A lot of the comments are looking to find ways to get around the fact that entering text on a phone is a pain. Others have suggested creating 'art' but, personally I find a phone screen far too small for drawing on. If you want to
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by Normille 6y ago
ME: Alexa. Play me Sergeant Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band. Alexa: I don't know that. But I found this online: A "Sergeant" is a rank used in the military and police... ME: Alexa. Stop. Play me Sergeant Pepper's L
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by Normille 6y ago
Good. Fuck Ireland for their policy of building an entire economy on the basis of sucking the arse of American megacorporations, rather than actually investing in producing stuff for themselves, or building up home-grown businesses. Let&#x2
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by Normille 6y ago
eBay --can't stand their website usability-wise, the way they totally ignore user feedback and their usurious fee structure. Unfortunately it's about the only site for selling your unwanted stuff that gets any kind of decent traff
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by Normille 6y ago
Why don't you use StartPage instead? It searches using Google, but it's private
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by Normille 6y ago
Aye. Those page load times will be something else!
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by Normille 6y ago
I've given up on social media entirely. I've never had a Facebook account. I gave up Twitter last year and Instagram earlier this year. Once I got over that reflex of feeling the need to respond to events by shouting my useless op
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by Normille 6y ago
His writing suggests it was the adaptor itself which died: >...the charger started malfunctioning. When informed of the price for a new charger, I was so disgusted with Apple’s sales practices... that I refused to buy it. Instead, I
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by Normille 6y ago
>I think 16 is getting to the end of its usefulness in a laptop these days.. Seriously? What are you people doing on your laptops to need so much RAM? I'm producing graphics and doing image manipulation on a 7 1/2 year
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by Normille 6y ago
I had to play, after reading this. So I've just searched my emails for the receipt from when I bought my current laptop: > Delivery: 23 Jul, 2013 - 25 Jul, 2013 by Standard Shipping > 11-inch MacBook Air > £1,159.00
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by Normille 6y ago
Upvote for being someone who actually checks this, before posting a submission.
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by Normille 6y ago
Nearly as irritating as, otherwise literate people who insist on writing "ppl" instead of "people". [and I don't think you're being pedantic]
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by Normille 6y ago
Boris [and his fuckwitted cronies] can kiss my arse! I [and thousands of other people] have already made plans and spent money preparing for Christmas visits to family we haven't seen for over a year. I'll be going, come hell or
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by Normille 6y ago
"Literally" everyone? Methinks you need to consult a dictionary.
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by Normille 6y ago
As a keen photographer myself and someone who's done similar projects [albeit not on such a timescale] I've got to 'say I found that body of work pretty underwhelming. Look through any family album and you'll find simila
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by Normille 6y ago
I tried it for a while but, although there was a lot to like and it's streets ahead of the more well known Pathfinder, the inability to set view options on a per-folder basis got so annoying I eventually ended up going back to Finder —
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by Normille 6y ago
I was thinking the same myself. He's an entertaining read... or was... but now he's starting to sound like a scratched record

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