adamauckland

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by adamauckland 4mo ago
37% of the voting population voted for Brexit, it wasn't anywhere near a majority.
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by adamauckland 4mo ago
> all we got in the UK was the BBC Micro, way back in the early 1980s, and since then tech has been culturally uncool. Off the top of my head, ARM is from Cambridge.
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by adamauckland 7mo ago
People send their private photos to their private cloud backups with the reasonable expectation that those photos remain private and therefore not a privacy violation. If it transpired Google or Apple had staff looking through people's
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by adamauckland 7mo ago
The kettle was boiling water. The chef was out the back, boiling water. The chef was out the back. Boiling water had spilled everywhere. The seas had turned to boiling water. I dunno, could be down to interpretation.
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by adamauckland 9mo ago
Speeding is a criminal offence, lying about who was driving is punishable by prison.
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by adamauckland 9mo ago
"Share" is a big ask. Why should anyone be bothered to listen to something you couldn't even be bothered to write?
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by adamauckland 9mo ago
Art is all over the natural world, look at animals which build nests, arrange pebbles, choose shells etc.
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by adamauckland 10mo ago
He gets it on the healthcare like all developed nations.
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by adamauckland 1y ago
There's a lot of people complaining "Why use knobs?" and a lot more people giving the reason "Because DAWs use them" without explaining why DAWs use them. First, it's a visual representation of the value, and i
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by adamauckland 1y ago
Where's all this wealth going to come from if nobody has any jobs?
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by adamauckland 2y ago
If you're a morning person and you're scheduling meetings for the morning you're literally wasting your period of productivity.
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by adamauckland 2y ago
While physical media feels more valuable because you can hold it, share it with people etc, I'd suggest you didn't pay $3.99 for the video at Blockbuster, you paid for the event of going to the store, browsing the titles, maybe di
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by adamauckland 3y ago
Lapland new forest 2008? https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-dorset-11842396
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by adamauckland 3y ago
I consider a "bug" to be "it was supposed to do something and failed". Issues around business logic are not failures of the system, the system worked to spec, the spec was not comprehensive enough and now we iterate.
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by adamauckland 3y ago
There's entire studies on it, I saw a lecture by some English professor who explained how the brain isn't fast enough to parse words in real time, so runs multiple predictions of what the sentence will be in parallel and at the en
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by adamauckland 3y ago
Haha, does it involve timers?
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by adamauckland 3y ago
It's pretty simple if your goal is using boring, stable technologies. Django/Postgres/Memcached/Redis/Nginx are all really stable. I've built quite a few projects using almost exactly the same stack over the la
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by adamauckland 3y ago
Why should the parent's deny the child a smartphone because Tik Tok has terrible data use policies? You can also use Tik Tok on a laptop, but schoolwork is all online, what's the plan there?
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by adamauckland 3y ago
Stick a nail in
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by adamauckland 3y ago
I remember doing the authorisation by phoning up a Streamline who would give you an authorisation code to put on the credit card form. I worked for Electronics Boutique and we couldn't give the games out without the code
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by adamauckland 3y ago
Yes, but they were moving from enterprise JAVA which is considerably more verbose
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by adamauckland 4y ago
You were born in London and say "gotten"?
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by adamauckland 4y ago
Because as soon as you tilt from producing features to fixing bugs, you are losing traction and your competitors will win and now you are bankrupt. I've seen entire businesses collapse because of this mentality.
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by adamauckland 4y ago
Phone OS do most definitely have emergency services features allowing you to bypass normal OS functionality, yes. Similarly, if you want to own the worlds information, you have certain responsibilities because people will go to you in an em
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by adamauckland 4y ago
> Isn't that only for age 13 and over If your child has their own tablet set to their age, sure, but I know plenty of people who just let the kids use Mom's iPad
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by adamauckland 4y ago
Because Twitter makes money from advertising not selling direct to end users. I used to use Tweetbot which has now stopped working, as a result I don't use Twitter any more, the advertisers have lost one extra person to sell to.
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by adamauckland 4y ago
Unpredictability. ChatGPT writes stories like children do. Very wordy and boring. Then this happened then that happened. Interesting stories have a set up and when you think you know what's going on, they switch, otherwise it's no
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by adamauckland 4y ago
Morality aside, an artist who entirely copies someone else's work would be looked down upon because they are not original or creating anything novel or new.
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by adamauckland 4y ago
What do people do to afford $30,000 throwaway wristwatches? There can't be that many of them in the world, that's the definition of the top 1%?!
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by adamauckland 4y ago
Spotify only knows what you tell it. Currently, you can add a Bio, links to social media sites and create an image gallery, but the admin section isn't particularly smart, I can't see anywhere to set specific data like band member

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