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by bArray 4y ago
> They said those with northern English or Midlands accents were more likely to worry about the way they spoke. > Many of those who were mocked for the way they spoke admitted anxiety over their future career prospects because of perc
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by bArray 4y ago
Just 3 weeks ago people were mocking me about the incoming recession [1]. These companies that can't pay their bills are going to lay-off staff just to stay afloat. Unemployment is about to skyrocket. [1] https://news.ycombi
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by bArray 4y ago
> I would find it hard for anyone to argue, with a straight face, that the most active members of the community do not lean towards a common political ideology. I believe it, but then let's not pretend it is otherwise. Let's no
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by bArray 4y ago
My biggest problem with hydroelectricity is the same problem I have with all dams - you're creating a structure that requires infinite maintenance. A dam does not fail gracefully.
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by bArray 4y ago
Now I want to see Windows Movie Maker open-sourced [1]. It was simple and intuitive. Alternatives are okay, but have a habit of crashing. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org//wiki/Windows_Movie_Maker
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by bArray 4y ago
At the very least, please do a write-up for us on how you're achieving 5-10k announcements a second.
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by bArray 4y ago
In the UK, where the BBC is hosted, solar-powered headphones are mostly a waste of time. It rains a lot and you spend a lot of time avoiding being outside. Most people are at work when the sun is highest in the sky. As others point out, mos
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by bArray 4y ago
> Will I/my articles get negativity within dev and tech communities because they are written in Medium? I can't view text without JS and I don't want to turn it on so Medium can track the anal cream my neighbour uses on th
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by bArray 4y ago
How did these people lose so much? I'm checking CEL.X and it's gone from about $6 to $1 in about a year.
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by bArray 4y ago
> I suspect the wilder parts of Scotland are actually far less populated than they used to be - the original populations of many areas being systematically removed by landowners in favour of sheep or deer: Fair enough point on population
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by bArray 4y ago
> UK has been so hot and dry this year that you are getting wild fires in England. The UK does get wild fires. They are mostly controlled for the most part due to the great efforts of the forestry commission. > WTF is wrong with peopl
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by bArray 4y ago
> [..] so they are probably fameous and any melting would be easily noticed). Famous in the 1700's? I believe the Scottish life was a lot more humble than it is now. I imagine these all-year snow locations would be more remote, hard
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by bArray 4y ago
Fair point. To make the global impact more clear, I would say something like: "Scotland is amongst many locations this year around the world with reduced snow coverage, including X, Y, Z.". That makes a stronger case for global wa
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by bArray 4y ago
> This is about patterns though, not single events. I agree, and I don't think we know enough. > The point isn’t just that Scotland is snow-free with record-breaking heat this year, but that it has been increasingly snow-free and
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by bArray 4y ago
> No, global temperatures are up this year. I haven't checked, but I also don't doubt it. The point is that it's unlikely to have been this specific event. There has likely been many similar events in the past, for example
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by bArray 4y ago
It hasn't happened in a while, and coincided with the opposite side of the world experiencing a heatwave.
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by bArray 4y ago
This global recession will be ruthless. I'm hearing of mass lay-offs even outside of tech now. I suspect people in the tech industry can expect to stay out of work for 6+ months. The US for example is in a predicament economically with
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by bArray 4y ago
> According to records, it previously melted fully in 1933, 1959, 1996, 2003, 2006, 2017, 2018, 2021 and now 2022. > Before 1933, it is thought to have last melted completely in the 1700s. Just to be clear, Scotland is now far more po
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by bArray 4y ago
Wikipedia certainly has its biases, but I think for school children it is perfectly fine as a source. It's not as if they will read research papers instead, let alone understand the quality of their source.
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by bArray 4y ago
Surviving one attack != secure
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by bArray 4y ago
> Having Google change their 2FA system for this group would be one such decision. It could be opt-out. > It's similar to the 'think of the kids + terrorism' attacks on encryption. No, it's not. Nobody choosing whe
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by bArray 4y ago
Again, this idea of "secure by default" should at least have an option to opt-out. A few misunderstandings about phones: 1. Somebody has a phone 2. Somebody has a smart phone 3. They are in contact with the phone 24/7 4. They
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by bArray 4y ago
I think there are better ways to open ZIM files. I've had massive trouble with Kiwix. The old version seems broke beyond repair and the new version is too heavy. ZIMply on branch `version2` has worked pretty well for me [1]. The search
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by bArray 4y ago
Which is why regulation is important for capitalism to work correctly. Regulation is used to capture values outside of economic gains. Maybe the goal of economic gains help accelerate climate change, but what is clear is that we need econom
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by bArray 4y ago
No need to apologize. Thank you for your investigation so far. > Edit: upon some further investigation, the CSS is inverting the elements correctly, except the html (or maybe body) background from white to black. Chromium seems to not wa
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by bArray 4y ago
I agree with most of this. > It's not really meritocratic. There was a clever study on this some time ago that proved female teachers systematically give higher grades to girls. To add anecdata, I did some marking of written and typ
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by bArray 4y ago
Interesting. The CSS is just: html{filter:invert();font:2em monospace;max-width:32em;margin:auto;} The "dark theme" is just an inversion of the HTML colours. It assumes the HTML page will be loaded with the default black
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by bArray 4y ago
Maybe 'fault' is too strong, but it appears to at least lay the burden on men. > The article repeatedly says that no-one knows why these things are so: they are symptoms, not causes. Well, I have some ideas as I suggested. I&#x
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by bArray 4y ago
I really don't like the framing of this article. The framing (to me) is as if the fault is with the men, and the solution must come from men. Many activist groups have spent generations influencing almost all systems (education, indust
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by bArray 4y ago
Here you go: https://coffeespace.org.uk/tools/css-64.htm A 64 byte CSS dark theme with a monospace font based on the 58 byte CSS theme [1] and a page that could be an entry for the 1kB club [2]. [1] https://

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