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by bluescrn 3y ago
Bikes are cheap. Living within cycling distance of your workplace can be incredibly expensive.
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by bluescrn 3y ago
Please Reddit, just let us use a web browser to access your web site. Users shouldn’t be forced so aggressively into using an ‘app’ - whether the official one or a 3rd-party app - when mobile web browsers are so very capable.
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by bluescrn 3y ago
The mentality of ‘the customer is always right’ also leads to homogenous thinking, with universities of all places now leading efforts to discourage freedom of speech/thought and punish ‘wrongthinkers’. It’s what the ‘customers’ are de
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by bluescrn 3y ago
But then you don’t get a space-based energy weapon as an added bonus
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by bluescrn 3y ago
Been there, done that... It's such a shame, as the early years of mobile gaming were a lot of fun, but the market decided it'd rather have ad-ridden near-gambling exploitative F2P so long as it was labelled as 'FREE', ra
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by bluescrn 3y ago
> Bet on the youth, they are still malleable Yes, they're the most vulnerable to online propaganda. Sounds like a good reason to keep them away from social media.
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by bluescrn 3y ago
To be fair, pro-immigration is governnment policy too. Just for different reasons. The Tories want cheap labour/low wages, and sky-high house prices.
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by bluescrn 3y ago
But being heavily biased in different directions on different issues doesn't sum up to neutrality.
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by bluescrn 3y ago
RetroArch has become the more popular multi-emulator system, and many emulators have now been integrated into it.
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by bluescrn 3y ago
Is that more or less compassionate than leaving them to die on the streets?
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by bluescrn 3y ago
Cars are a fairly constant and relatively low-level background noise, except for boy racers with intentionally-loud exhausts and revving aggressively, or anyone honking angrily. Trucks and buses going over speed bumps, now that's much
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by bluescrn 3y ago
At £3K, they're not going after gamers or even enthusiasts. They're more likely going after creative professionals who're already all-in on the Apple ecosystem. Maybe product designers or architects, who want to show clients
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by bluescrn 3y ago
> I don't think there is a consumer market for head mounted AR anymore - if there ever really was I suspect there's a market there, but only if the device can be made to look like a pair of fashionable sunglasses, and was drive
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by bluescrn 3y ago
And how many phones+tablets are throw away due to the inevitable expiry of glued-in non-user-replaceable batteries?
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by bluescrn 3y ago
Also https://www.arcadeclub.co.uk (While they don't brand themselves as a museum and it's very much about playing the games, they have an incredible collection of arcade gaming history)
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by bluescrn 3y ago
> For companies where insider trading is a serious issue. As an employee, you will be key-logged, tracked, spied upon. If you really want to get into insider trading, you probably need to get into politics, not banking...
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by bluescrn 3y ago
Prison is excessive. But how about some sort of environmental levy on any device prematurely 'bricked', or disposed of before reaching a certain lifespan. Including those bricked by server shutdowns, or by the inevitable failure o
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by bluescrn 3y ago
The problem area seems to be property crime without direct violence. It can ruin the victims life just as much as non-lethal violence (taking away a person's source of income, or transport required to keep a job, or wrecking a business
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by bluescrn 3y ago
> But who bears the cost of extra policing, court time, jail space? Does that really exceed the cost damage done if they're left to keep on stealing/crashing cars? At some point they'll kill someone, and the 'cash va
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by bluescrn 3y ago
It shouldn't really matter that theft is easy. If you're prepared to smash a window, you could steal from homes and businesses, not just cars. There should be a strong enough deterrent to make it uncommon. You may not be able to s
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by bluescrn 3y ago
Also available: photoshop.zip and office.zip
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by bluescrn 3y ago
Does the P in GPT stand for 'plagiarism'? 'Generative Plagiarism Tool'?
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by bluescrn 3y ago
To the left, she's failed the purity test already by following a handful of 'evildoers' on Twitter. To the right, the WEF connection is concerning, and her commitment to free speech is in question. But perhaps she just wants
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by bluescrn 3y ago
We're stuck with a bad choice between authoritarian right and authoritarian left these days. One side is 'tough on crime', the other is 'tough on speech'. As a disillusioned lefty, and thankfully not in the US, one
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by bluescrn 3y ago
I'd be surprised if the angular design complied with regulations related to pedestrian safety in countries such as the UK, where AFAIK you can't have rigid hood ornaments or bull bars. As for size, larger vehicles/SUVs are fa
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by bluescrn 3y ago
Let’s stop using the ‘side loading’ euphemism and just call it ‘loading’. Let us load our own code.
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by bluescrn 3y ago
Why not, the money printers are still warm, just hit the 'solution to anything!' button again?
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by bluescrn 3y ago
Without Elon, SpaceX could surely succeed as a business, making good money from launch services and Starlink. They wouldn't get to Mars, though. Starship needs the 'recklessness' of being prepared to fail rapidly, repeatedly,
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by bluescrn 3y ago
The US won't have the tech in 10 years either if current levels of political tribalism continue. Seems that a lot of people want to see Elon destroyed over Twitter/politics. See the incredibly negative reaction to the Starship lau
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by bluescrn 4y ago
These days, the possibilities for hobbyist electronics are endless. You can still use breadboards and discrete components to experiment with the basics, but now you've got the world of microcontrollers and FPGAs to explore, you can use

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