SmellyGeekBoy

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by SmellyGeekBoy 7y ago
Without giving away too many details, I worked on a project that involved the first installation of this in the UK last year. It's so good in person - you'd expect so for the price - but the early unit we worked with was incredibl
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by SmellyGeekBoy 7y ago
Not really proof that they aren't losing customers as they could be overcompensating by increasing revenue-per-customer
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by SmellyGeekBoy 7y ago
Mainly because Europe has caught up, as evidenced by many peoples' waistlines this side of the pond.
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by SmellyGeekBoy 7y ago
Next time you're at a supermarket count the number of people using cotton bags. Cotton bags are completely irrelevant but are often cherrypicked by those with an agenda to push.
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by SmellyGeekBoy 7y ago
> One that is better solved with a deposit scheme Ocado will pay 5p per bag, even other supermarkets' bags.
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by SmellyGeekBoy 7y ago
Tomatoes are pretty effortless to grow and you don't need to eat homegrown exclusively to make a difference.
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by SmellyGeekBoy 7y ago
There's a huge difference between killing animals specifically bred to be killed and killing wild animals.
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by SmellyGeekBoy 7y ago
Because ee.co.uk.billing.info would get taken down pretty quickly. Using this method the domain only has to work for one day before they move on to the next one.
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by SmellyGeekBoy 7y ago
I don't see how this is any more informative to your average layman?
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by SmellyGeekBoy 7y ago
EV certificates are a scam anyway.
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by SmellyGeekBoy 7y ago
Does the agreement apply retroactively?
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by SmellyGeekBoy 7y ago
The only "out of control" Teslas I've heard about are people misusing autopilot. I could engage the cruise control in my 2011 VW Scirocco and drive straight into a concrete barrier, I don't see any material difference. I
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by SmellyGeekBoy 7y ago
> Genetic testing will become even more commonplace and even more useful. Heh. There's a history of a pretty horrific genetic disease in my family, in fact it recently claimed a close family member. I'd dearly love to be test
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by SmellyGeekBoy 7y ago
This all ties in rather nicely with the other predictions of "offlining" becoming a thing. In fact it seems mighty tempting based on your predictions.
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by SmellyGeekBoy 7y ago
Accurate considering Venice has been experiencing the worst flooding in recorded history. Not sure how many Americans are aware of this.
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by SmellyGeekBoy 7y ago
If only there were some kind of device we could launch into space, fly over China and see for ourselves. Wait... https://co2.jpl.nasa.gov/
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by SmellyGeekBoy 7y ago
FWIW I was processing RAW pictures on a Core 2 Duo Mac Mini 10 years ago, so I don't believe this is "simply impossible" on any modern Mac.
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by SmellyGeekBoy 7y ago
Where the hell do you people live!?
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by SmellyGeekBoy 7y ago
Controversial opinion maybe, but I personally don't think anyone deserves to lose their life for stealing a laptop.
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by SmellyGeekBoy 7y ago
The desk?
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by SmellyGeekBoy 7y ago
I know a few people who smoke and haven't got lung cancer. Does that disprove the mountain of scientific evidence for the causal link between the two? Or does it prove that outliers exist? > Our bodies are just vessels that our soul
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by SmellyGeekBoy 7y ago
Thanks, I was starting to think I was going crazy.
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by SmellyGeekBoy 7y ago
Speaking as someone who has recently been involved with a very wide-scale project using CEC (demo units for a major retailer here in the UK) I concur - CEC is incredibly unreliable. My project ran on a very limited range of hardware from
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by SmellyGeekBoy 7y ago
I hope you walked away. I would.
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by SmellyGeekBoy 7y ago
I can't believe I had to scroll this far for this reference.
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by SmellyGeekBoy 7y ago
I'm not sure the fear is illogical in a case when over 300 people have died due to a known design fault, particularly when the manufacturer in question tried to sweep it under the rug the first time it manifested itself. I have no prob
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by SmellyGeekBoy 7y ago
Surely you were wandering around outside in these exact same temperatures only moments before?
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by SmellyGeekBoy 7y ago
> Edit: downvoters, explain yourselves please. You're accusing good samaritans of killing someone - with no evidence to indicate that this was the case?
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by SmellyGeekBoy 7y ago
I always do this, but when I try to pull out of the drive the windows all steam up. Meaning I'm now sat in my car for 5 minutes waiting for them to clear anyway. (I'm very much against wiping the insides of the windows as the smea
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by SmellyGeekBoy 7y ago
IIRC the Windows 95 install floppies were 2.88MB. With that in mind it's probably safe to assume that they were at least readable even in DOS, although I don't recall being able to format or write to a floppy at that capacity in a

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