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by afandian 3y ago
As far as I’m aware this is all still untested theory? Much less chance of challenge if you stay within Zone 6. There’s still a lot of creativity to be had.
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by afandian 3y ago
Without that “gatekeeping” the game would have descended into confused chaos, with no clear rules long ago. Maybe it’s time for change, but we should be grateful that there is still a game to play.
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by afandian 3y ago
Pardon the snark. But international games always start from St Pancras (and Waterloo once upon a time). If “home games” had that luxury we probably wouldn’t even be discussing this.
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by afandian 3y ago
Angel. (St Hillary Changes have roundly been seen as whitewash, and rarely affect game-play)
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by afandian 3y ago
I think that only came in once the signalling went metric? Earl's Court (last time I looked) still had some originals. It's always been shades of grey.
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by afandian 3y ago
Always nice to see one's national parlour sport on the HN front page. It may seem completely impenetrable on initial and deeper inspection, but I'm sure us Brits will be happy to try to answer any questions.
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by afandian 3y ago
I think that given the HN audience, we should really be playing the Atlantic version. Not only is the spelling partially reversed, but the Perridale Variation is reduced to a single direction. Forfeiture rules are therefore irrelevant. It&#
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by afandian 3y ago
My wife and I are convinced that Pokemon is a giant secret extended game of Mornington Crescent played by the younger generation. Which is a comfort.
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by afandian 3y ago
You missed “gullible”. They’re selecting for the kind of people who wouldn’t immediately bail when they see this nonsense. Or don’t have much choice.
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by afandian 3y ago
After using Spotify for over a decade I moved to Qobuz, mostly on principle. Most of my library was transferred. The one thing I miss is the recommendations, especially as I like music that isn’t very mainstream. It might be that Spotify’s
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by afandian 3y ago
I read it as 3M the company. The title should probably be fixed.
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by afandian 3y ago
I recommend https://breathly.app/ It's open source, runs on iOS and Android and has aboslutely no clutter.
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by afandian 3y ago
It's a narrow use-case that doesn't cover RDMS. SQLite fits it though.
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by afandian 3y ago
When choosing a school we talked to the headmaster, pupils, teachers, and current parents. That’s far more rich than an inspector’s rushed visit. Not sure what you mean by politics.
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by afandian 3y ago
> Two key sources of stress for Ruth Perry, according to the evidence, were the long wait for the report to be published, and the strict confidentiality warning that came with the draft report. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news&
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by afandian 3y ago
Do they? As a parent I consider OFSTED a low quality signal. If you’re reducing a school to a single word, I don’t think you’re taking the job very seriously. I wonder how others feel.
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by afandian 3y ago
When they say > agreement with SpaceX to provide cutting-edge satellite communications (SATCOM) service to farmers surely they really mean > agreement with SpaceX to provide cutting-edge satellite communications (SATCOM) service to Jo
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by afandian 3y ago
If you like this you’ll also like Mike Harrison’s / mikeselectricstuff reverse engineering of the iPod nano screen. https://m.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL0KZLmPyL6Ak1bArDuLo77y...
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by afandian 3y ago
I heard that in the British system there’s a legal principle (or precedent?) that says that a computer system can be considered to do what its creators said it does. I can’t find a citation for this though. Does HN?
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by afandian 3y ago
From the beatings-will-continue-until-morale-improves school of marketing. No thanks. (And I wonder if advertisers know how their ads are being played? That ad is worth a lot less to Apple on the 5th play, and negative on the 10th).
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by afandian 3y ago
I use Firefox on iOS (which as we all know is mostly not Firefox). I don't have a google account. Nothing else exotic. YouTube serves me an ad every 3 minutes or so (I've not timed it). If I ever seek in a video, again, an ad. Eve
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by afandian 3y ago
It’s always drivers of red cars.
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by afandian 3y ago
There’s been so much misconduct in public office I just wish there were some open and shut cases.
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by afandian 3y ago
We know they lied. Do we know specifically if they have been shown to have committed perjury?
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by afandian 3y ago
Sorry it seemed that way, it wasn’t aimed at your reply. Personally I’ve tried both swiping and tapping. I feel out of control with both. FWIW, I had to make 7 corrections typing this comment.
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by afandian 3y ago
There’s a bit of a trope that people who want hardware keyboards in the era of touchscreens are idiots. I’m one of them. There’s a huge number, and therefore diversity of mobile users. Some of us have different preferences to the mainstream
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by afandian 3y ago
This, or similar. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=mjwAqDS6EcU It clips on the front of the phone. Has a small magnet that presumably triggers the onscreen keyboard to show and resize the visible screen.
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by afandian 3y ago
I’ve seen various phone keyboards over the years but never recalled one that used capacitance.
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by afandian 3y ago
These are standard tactile dome switches. And the PCB pads are static.
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by afandian 3y ago
I recently bought Samsung Galaxy add on keyboard, on a whim, to see if it would work with my iPhone. It sits over the screen where the onscreen keyboard is situated. On eBay it said “Bluetooth” but had no obvious signs of charging. Didn’t w

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