arachnophobe

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by arachnophobe 5y ago
Reminds me of this music video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QC25gRwbpsg
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by arachnophobe 7y ago
Yet another one - on a smaller scale on the sea front in Ventnor - Isle of Wight, UK: http://stokeywalk.blogspot.com/2015/12/launching-solar-syste...
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by arachnophobe 7y ago
Chrome extension - first test; probably has issues as the Firefox one can be updated much quicker, so is more up to date. Note - it is supposed to be Adject: Adds adjectives to mentions of Boris Johnson on a web page.
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by arachnophobe 7y ago
*for a very limited value of mighty....
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by arachnophobe 7y ago
Nope, that's the point - it's a play on words. 'Abject failure' combines with 'Adjective' to describe a noun: Adject Failure The add-on adds adjectives to mentions of the mighty* trumpster
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by arachnophobe 7y ago
Web extension created while in treatment because why not. First try so if it breaks anything - sorry. Mainly seems to work. Chrome version in 'Pending Review'...see how long that takes... Also available: Boris Johnson: Adject Fail
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by arachnophobe 7y ago
Started on a Wikipedia wormhole and came across a small note about beaufighter T4800 and I knew nothing about it. The story is interesting enough, not least as it's the pilot's own words, but the photo of the Grand Palais on the C
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Solo Raid on Paris – Flt Lt Alfred Gatward’s Words(britainatwar.keypublishing.com)
1 points by arachnophobe 7y ago|1 comments
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by arachnophobe 8y ago
Yep - If all my competitors are down the equation changes such that I _definitely_ want to be up. Any trade comes to me if it's urgent, and I appear more professional as I've got a functioning system. I might be an chancer running
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by arachnophobe 8y ago
When i was growing up something similar happened in our town - over pressure caused by connecting a high pressure gas line to the local supply - police closed off the whole town and a few bits and pieces blew up/caught fire. http:&#x2
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by arachnophobe 8y ago
As someone on a phase 2 trial an interesting note is that I know I'm on the trial drug (it's not a double blind trial), I also know that the drug worked in animal and vitro trials. Furthermore I know, from the trial literature, th
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by arachnophobe 8y ago
The app-before-this-one (before the server went down) was a reasonably competent bit of kit, basically a lift and shift of Lloyds, which when retired late last year became something with flashy animation on everything (animated log in place
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by arachnophobe 8y ago
Basically this is what you get if you learn to code in the early eighties, then try picking up thirty years later. I was asked by a friend who is in the band if I had done any graphics work or was interested in doing anything for a music vi
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BBC Micro / ASCII Music Video(youtube.com)
1 points by arachnophobe 8y ago|1 comments
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by arachnophobe 8y ago
Yeah - I came across two senators in my "people who submitted your details" list. Seriously what? How do they have my details and how is it verified that they got them legitimately? I'm in the UK, a UK citizen, have no contac
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by arachnophobe 9y ago
And yet the BBC version of Top Gear is getting slated for 'just' 2.8 million viewers in the UK alone: http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/top-gear-2017-ratings-... [Edit - this is for the 2017 series]
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by arachnophobe 9y ago
I didn't - I'd started off converting the videos to 8-bit colouring and in the process was experimenting with pixelisation and went off on a fairly extreme bit of a tangent. https://youtu.be/MZ1fZWa2I8w
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by arachnophobe 9y ago
I've been messing around with converting videos to ASCII for a side project - it's been a fun learning experience. Obviously I don't think ASCII art's going any where... https://youtu.be/oRdrMM20keI
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by arachnophobe 9y ago
As of the latest update macOS has started to nag me to allow automatic updates, so I think the comparison is probably valid. FWIW I told it No, for the same reason my Win10 laptop has been nagging me to update but I've not let it insta
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by arachnophobe 9y ago
I had the cursor skip on an older Dell model (not Ubuntu, Windows), but the cause might be the same - the Nub mouse buton (if that makes sense - the little finger mouse? What ever it's called) in the middle of the keyboard would pick u
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by arachnophobe 9y ago
Agreed about the clickbait title - he didn't steal from the Silk Road wallet: "Bridges was arrested and taken into custody on charges related to the theft of approximately 1,600 bitcoin from a digital wallet belonging to the U.S.
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by arachnophobe 10y ago
Putting it at the back isn't always a good idea - Ford Pinto anyone?
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by arachnophobe 10y ago
Another result was that she (Mary Mallon) was imprisoned/quarantined for the remainder of her life (after being released from her first quarantine and being told not to work as a cook, changing her name, working as a cook, causing more
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by arachnophobe 10y ago
I'm going to have to call that out...Windows 10 updates have bricked two different Dell laptops for me (Anniversary update did for the first, the second started throwing admin errors following an update then BSOD on reboot; neither cas
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by arachnophobe 10y ago
Digging around behind the tv and it's a oversize plug and thin wire rather than a laptop style plug-cable-transformer-cable-computer set up. Not quite the mains-to-box set up you're after.
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by arachnophobe 10y ago
Forgot to mention - fanless.
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by arachnophobe 10y ago
I've used a gigabyte Brix n2807 - it's slightly larger than other Brix models as it takes a 2.5" drive (using an old laptop drive to save costs). It's not powerful, but it runs Kodi and Windows 10 okay. Wi-Fi and Bluetoo
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by arachnophobe 10y ago
I wouldn't mind if it <i>was</i> one if my dual boot machines, that might almost be unstable, but both these failures were on single OS laptops.
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by arachnophobe 10y ago
Never mind hardening windows, how about stopping Windows update behaving like some sort of particularly malicious malware by forcing me to rebuild my machines at random after an update? AU forced one machine to be fully reinstalled, last we
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by arachnophobe 10y ago
Seems we've created Marvin. Who knew Google were the Sirius Cybernetics Corporation. Life! Don’t talk to me about life.

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