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by adam-a 8y ago
One really useful application is better digital zoom. I've definitely found I wanted to crop or zoom an image on my smartphone to frame a distant subject, but the resolution of my camera becomes apparent when I do it.
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by adam-a 8y ago
I can see the same thing happening over here in the UK. Me and my partner left London to move to a smaller city Scotland, we now pay 60% of the rent for a place that's twice as big. I still freelance for clients in London and can funne
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by adam-a 8y ago
This definitely seems like it's true. I wonder if there have been any reputable studies or surveys on how much time office employees waste on average like this?
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by adam-a 8y ago
This is actually not always reliable, many larger institutions are able to re-enable the DD and continue charging you. I had this with my council tax after I moved out and cancelled it from my end. There are many complaints about the same b
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by adam-a 8y ago
Yes, and out with Greece too!
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by adam-a 8y ago
I took the comment as referring to hosting just a git repo on a public server. If you are working on a private project a simple option is to get a cheap VPS, give all your developers user accounts, and clone the repo into a shared folder. E
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by adam-a 8y ago
I could see them in amsterdam, the place is covered in bikes and bike lanes and these type of scooters could easily mix in with that. They travel at a similar speed and can be left against some railings (or dumped in a canal) just like a bi
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by adam-a 8y ago
I think there's some truth in that. If you're dating you should definitely be putting your best foot forward and part of that means exercising, buying some nice clothes, getting your hair cut etc. When I was dating I also made an
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by adam-a 8y ago
While divorce rates may be around 55% and if, for the sake of argument, the total percentage of unhappy marriages is 30% (although combining lack of sex with domestic abuse is a strange categorisation to me) don't you think a lot of th
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by adam-a 8y ago
EU residents can also study in Scotland for free. It is only England, Wales and NI who have to pay the full fees.
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by adam-a 9y ago
Note that in many countries, the UK for example, you can vote and get a passport if you have a criminal record. I think it makes sense that this verdict was delivered in Europe where it seems the view on ex-convicts is a bit more generous t
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by adam-a 9y ago
I think this is absolutely spot on. So many people put their programming expertise or productivity down to some innate quality (that is apparently overabundant in white men). To me it seems nearly every one of those rockstar ninjas has also
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by adam-a 9y ago
There's a good explanation of what this means on Wired [1]. Hopefully this means the end of financial planning apps asking for my online banking password. Interestingly they also suggest online payments might go directly through the ba
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Open Banking: Britain's gigantic financial experiment(news.sky.com)
2 points by adam-a 9y ago|1 comments
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by adam-a 9y ago
Carl Jung was 11 when the book was published, so perhaps it's the other way around?
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by adam-a 10y ago
I went recently and it was still on display, although it was not in the computing exhibit as before, but sort of on it's own.
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by adam-a 10y ago
I would love to read some accessible information on this - how the models can be so trustworthy. I sort of reluctantly accept climate change, and I generally support environmentally positive politics, for a host of reasons. But when I see g
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by adam-a 10y ago
Of course, you forgot the sixth rule: > Break any of these rules sooner than say anything outright barbarous. So perhaps you could cut out the insults and bad language, it's only advice after all.
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by adam-a 10y ago
KDE was based around Qt and their rendering engine, KHTML became Webkit, which is a core part of Chromium. So Qt are using embedded Chromium, I wonder if there is any duplicated code in the repo now?
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by adam-a 10y ago
I recently had a similar problem, browsing a reputable news site (newstatesman.com), I accidentally clicked an ad and got taken directly to a page containing explicit pornography. I complained to the site and they said they do what they can
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by adam-a 10y ago
South Korean cost of living is about 2/3 of the cost in the USA, so wages are likely a bit cheaper [0]. I would guess that since, as the article says, the industry has been centred there for 30 years, at this point they probably trump
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by adam-a 10y ago
I've not been in the position of buying options before, but is that really how the tax system works? I understand you have to pay tax on income from shares, but if you're buying shares you haven't had any income from them at
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by adam-a 11y ago
I don't think his generalisation his accurate, and lots of others agree. Not only the idea that Tinder is majority used for hook-ups, but the idea that people have been having casual hook ups for hundreds or thousands of years, and mos
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by adam-a 11y ago
You make a good point. I think some of those checks - the CRB for instance, are undoubtedly good things. I wish that the black cabs would move on and require operators to have GPS devices and not rely on "The Knowledge". Impressiv
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by adam-a 11y ago
I think they mean you can download the free community edition and host that. Why do you feel you need to pay for the EE version?
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by adam-a 11y ago
Hi, nice tool. I just gave it a go and it seems reasonably accurate. I've recently been developing something similar - I'm detecting singing pitch for use in a game. I wonder did you use any particular method for detecting the pit
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by adam-a 11y ago
And the video, for those who are interested. http://parliamentlive.tv/event/index/2fed57d5-68f3-4867-bdfa...
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by adam-a 11y ago
This is reminiscent of The Toaster Project[0] a really interesting book written by an art student as he attempts to build a toaster from scratch. Including visiting disused mines and making a plastic mould out of a tree trunk. [0] - http:&
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by adam-a 11y ago
Chip amd pin or EMV cards seem to have quite high usage in Africa, the Middle East and South America [1]. Although perhaps you think cash dominates a lot more in poorer parts of the world? [1] https://www.emvco.com/about_emv
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by adam-a 11y ago
I may be missing something, but why don't they build a car park and widen the road? Surely it's a lot easier than trying to stop people going to one of the most recognisable landmarks in the world. It's definitely worrying th

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