Tomrn

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by Tomrn 2y ago
I tried this with some cheap "low-fire" clay that bought online and wanted to make into pots. I tried firing them in my metal "stove" style fireplace (these are the iron looking ones that are fairly common at least here
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by Tomrn 3y ago
Thanks for sharing your story, God bless you and your family.
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by Tomrn 9y ago
Anyone else getting a bit of a dodgy PR vibe about this post and all the glowing comments, or is it just me?
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by Tomrn 10y ago
My 2cents on how I picked up emacs: Keep using your 'main' editor for coding for now. Get a shell/terminal that you can open/close with a hotkey (iTerm2 on Mac or something like yakuake on linux) Run the editor you want
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by Tomrn 10y ago
This reminds me of something I read a couple of years ago about an earth-orbit satellite collecting O-zone data.. when it encountered the 'hole' it ended up throwing away most of the data since it failed its 'common sense&#x2
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by Tomrn 10y ago
Was anyone else half expecting this to be a dwarf fortress story?
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by Tomrn 10y ago
hundred percent agree with this. A standard lib bundled with all browsers would solve so much of the framework madness.
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by Tomrn 10y ago
favourite line from the article - "the plural of anecdote is data" nice.
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by Tomrn 10y ago
Thanks for the links man, the crash bandicoot stuff is a great read
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by Tomrn 10y ago
I always think this is the closest thing to a 'Bible for atheists' that I've ever found. Seriously awesome stuff
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by Tomrn 10y ago
My line is always "salary is something I'd discuss in a face-to-face interview". If they push just apologise and say you're not comfortable discussing your salary over the phone.
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by Tomrn 10y ago
"Results from models with alternative cutpoints at 1980 and 1985 are shown in the online supplement." Does anyone have a link to the online supliment? Also would it be normal practice for a study like this to make the raw data av
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by Tomrn 10y ago
The issue is that the data was gathered without a warrant, making it inadmissible. In cases like this where it sounds like a number was found in a known drug dealer's phone, I can't imagine they would have had much trouble getting
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by Tomrn 10y ago
On Point (A) "weird that they [hmrc] didn't [go after google for more fines]" Google had managed to negotiate some kind of 'tax-deal' with HMRC which came to light in 2016 and was widely critisized. It all seemed a
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by Tomrn 10y ago
People have seen the market responding to uncertainty by dumping GBP and FTSE and are equating that with the UK economy actually being much worse off already. Hence the sudden 'realisation' that brexit was a terrible decision. Lar
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by Tomrn 10y ago
Yep, the last few movie trailers I've seen on there have been subtitled. I assumed this was the reason. If this sees us getting more and better quality subs for video content then I'm all for it.
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by Tomrn 10y ago
I realised this is why I've been enjoying shows with subtitles recently (some anime titles on netflix) because it forces you to watch the show without the constant phone checking.