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by benplumley 6y ago
The history and politics of this shift were discussed quite thoroughly in Happy City by Charles Montgomery: https://thehappycity.com/the-book/
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by benplumley 6y ago
I have to choose my ISP out of the ~10 that serve my house (this might be just one or two if I lived in the USA), and price and speed are also large factors in the choice. I can choose a VPN from hundreds, even after I've filtered by a
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by benplumley 6y ago
> rent seldom covers the mortgage on a property Don't forget that "covering the mortgage" involves building the landlord's equity, so it's not as if this portion is lost to the bank while the landlord has to depe
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by benplumley 7y ago
I think the point was that if the retaliation ICBMs fail in the same way, we as a species get a second chance to resolve the conflict without extinction.
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by benplumley 7y ago
YNAB4 allows exporting as CSV, then you'll need to massage this a little bit to get it into the format Eqonomize prefers (correct headings, etc) then import. I started the process to see if it was possible, didn't get round to fin
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by benplumley 7y ago
I've been using YNAB4 for about 5 years, when it eventually stops working I'm planning to move to Eqonomize[1] - it's GPL so should avoid your concern, but isn't quite as drastic a jump as GNUCash, and it's cross-pl
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by benplumley 7y ago
Something can be both average (relative to a population) and low (in an absolute sense). 15 days of holiday per year seems like a great example of this.
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by benplumley 7y ago
If DuckDuckGo gave me a captcha on every search I'd be giving Google several hours of my time per week solving them. Search is such a common operation, the time needed to perform one needs to be as low as possible.
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by benplumley 7y ago
How do you find the first client if it's explicitly something that happens before advertising yourself?
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by benplumley 7y ago
I want to try Mastodon because it's open, federated, ethical etc, all the qualities I seek out in the software I run (not to mention new and interesting, like you say). But at the end of the day it's still a Twitter clone, so offe
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by benplumley 7y ago
It's not in the article for some reason, but the distance is 188km (following the rail line, not as the crow flies), giving an average speed of 157km/h or 97mph.
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by benplumley 7y ago
Not exactly the format you're looking for, but that premise is exactly the story behind Alkaloid's excellent (imo) "Rise of the Cephalopods": https://alkaloidsom.bandcamp.com/track/rise-of-the-cephal
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by benplumley 7y ago
Can a Pi really keep up with that size of network or would you run it on more powerful hardware/a VM?
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by benplumley 7y ago
I'm in the UK, and I used to receive 2-3 spam calls per year. About five years ago, something changed (not my phone number) and I haven't had a single spam call since.
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by benplumley 7y ago
And their 'report a problem' link goes to a 403 page on form submit...
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by benplumley 7y ago
Also, at the very bottom, "Wobaka cost way less than lost deals" cost should be costs.
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by benplumley 7y ago
I feel almost agoraphobic when I look at pictures of suburban USA. I think it's a combination of flat landscape, low buildings, wide roads, no mature trees (your example notwithstanding) and no real features on the horizon. Off topic,
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by benplumley 7y ago
I know it's possible to download the entire Wikipedia database, but does anyone know of a way to download every article in this list? Preferably as a torrent.
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by benplumley 7y ago
I'm glad you pointed this out, I was ready to write this off as an illusion that just doesn't work for me. Provided your render scale is 100%, it's a very cool trick. Naturally easier to see on a lower DPI screen too.
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by benplumley 7y ago
Apparently one in 900 browsers has my list of system fonts, by far the most identifying thing Panopticlick could detect. However, the font list looked completely vanilla to me. I wonder if there's a telltale one in there that I install
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by benplumley 7y ago
Another anecdotal point against the language theory, I live in the UK and have received no spam calls in 15 years of mobile phone ownership. However, my parents' landline phone gets several per day, so perhaps it's too expensive t
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by benplumley 7y ago
If the show is true to the books, it's fiction in the sense that individual characters and minor events are made up, but the historical setting and major events are close to accurate. After all, you can't realistically make it com
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by benplumley 7y ago
I'm constantly surprised on this site by comments like "I would gladly spend $50/month on this", in response to startup/SaaS ideas that I'd balk at spending $5 on once. Perhaps it's cultural or perhaps the
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by benplumley 8y ago
On the live stream, the video feed cut out for the landing of the third (middle) booster.
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by benplumley 8y ago
Is "wasting police time" not a cause for a caution/small fine in the US?
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by benplumley 8y ago
This is a listing for a second-hand laptop, if the Chromebook had been bought second-hand too it would have probably cost significantly less than this.
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by benplumley 8y ago
As well as the bloatware added deliberately by Microsoft that's already mentioned, this method can't touch spyware and bloatware that's automatically reinstalled by the BIOS after reinstalling Windows. Unsurprisingly, the onl
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by benplumley 8y ago
Every toothpaste brand I can name is owned by either GSK or Palmolive. All GSK ones have the GSK logo on the front of the packaging. It's quite recognisable, if only as an acronym.
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by benplumley 8y ago
There's also far less of a takeaway drinks culture in Europe, for both fizzy drinks and coffee. The only drink I ever have in a car is a bottle of water which fits fine in the door pocket.
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by benplumley 9y ago
I've had Telegram, Slack and Discord open all day. Currently, they're using: 7MB Telegram, 350MB Slack, and 140MB Discord. Other heavy things I've got running are 160MB Spotify (which is electron) and 1GB Firefox (which is d

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