ciaranm

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by ciaranm 10y ago
This reads like the _exact_ opposite problem to what the parent described, to me.
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by ciaranm 10y ago
From an outsider's perspective, nowhere comes close to the US for gun (and by extension, miltary/police) fetish. Wikipedia seems to back up my first thought: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Estimated_number_of_g
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by ciaranm 10y ago
FWIW, the Guardian regularly publishes drafts of articles on it's website, and then makes changes and corrections to the articles. I regularly see Top Photos, Headlines, Captions and even whole paragraphs appear and disappear after a f
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by ciaranm 10y ago
Have you updated the OS? I found battery to be a problem on my 15" until 10.12.3, wherein it's much improved.
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by ciaranm 10y ago
I cycle with my MBP on my back every day. I also develop backend apps using VMs and need processing power. I bought the 15" MBP because this time around it was light enough for me. A year ago I would have got the 13", and been s
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by ciaranm 10y ago
But ensuring 5 years of guaranteed service at a fixed price is reducing their risk. It prevents Google from pulling the rug out from under them, or from the price going up and they have no option but to accept it. I imagine part of their
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by ciaranm 10y ago
I really, really like Windows 10. I spend most of my work days in OS X on a Macbook Pro - but I also spend a lot of my free time gaming. Windows 10 is so much more user-friendly than any other OS I use. Settings are easy to find, generally
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by ciaranm 10y ago
Yes, this is mostly my experience as well. I had a delivery truck driver get out and start yelling abuse because I banged on the back of his vehicle to alert him that he nearly knocked a woman off her bike a couple days ago. This isn't
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by ciaranm 10y ago
I make a point of banging on any vehicle that's nearly hit someone and not noticed/acknowledged it - regardless of whether it was me they nearly hit or not. People get mad (especially people driving vans/small trucks), but it
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by ciaranm 10y ago
I find this comment utterly disgusting, and entirely reprehensible. You should be ashamed. Imagine being unable to go to work after a short vacation - because someone didn't like where you were born, and in the meantime, on a whim, dec
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by ciaranm 10y ago
Apparently there's a logo that has to be run before & after the show - but only if the show is made in the UK - https://www.ofcom.org.uk/tv-radio-and-on-demand/advice-for-c...
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by ciaranm 10y ago
Try BetterTouchTool[ https://www.boastr.net/ ]. I'm using it to customise my TouchBar for each app I use, and it's great. Touchbar version is an alpha - but I've found it mostly stable.
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by ciaranm 10y ago
I feel like a world where people who have addictions are treated rather than criminalized can exist. Debt isn't a problem in itself, but I don't feel like there's enough support for people who find themselves in rough financi
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by ciaranm 10y ago
Maybe dealing with the root issues that cause homelessness (mental illness, debt, drugs, etc) should be more important than whether well-off people 'feel' safe? People being dirty and homeless doesn't make them automatically
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by ciaranm 10y ago
Ah, my apologies - I misread the parent comment.
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by ciaranm 10y ago
I don't think the cabinet is allowed to vote against the govt.
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by ciaranm 10y ago
Yeah, they're definitely targeting that market initially - but I'm seeing communities outside that sphere start using it: https://facebook.github.io/react/blog/2015/10/19/reactiflux-... It
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by ciaranm 10y ago
Discord does most of this. I've entirely moved to using it for voice comms with people where I'm suggesting the platform. It's guest support is pretty robust, so just fire someone a link and they can dial in from their browse
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by ciaranm 10y ago
Lots of CCTV isn't government-run. Some is, like local parks or whatever, but most is run by businesses who want to be able to catch folks who have broken in. In order to get access to the footage, police generally need a warrant. I gu
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by ciaranm 10y ago
I agree with the parent r.e. safety concerns though. It's a cheap, easy way to provide a relatively sure record of truth for public spaces. It helps prosecute people who enact violent or other crimes, and reduces the number of those in
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by ciaranm 10y ago
I can add my anec-data: I find it really hard to read white text on any dark background, black being obviously the worst. I also find pure white with pure black really straining on my eyes. I hate the trails of lines I get reading bright
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by ciaranm 10y ago
For whatever it's worth, Siri is much, _much_ better at understanding my accent (Scottish, but mild) than Alexa is. We've got an echo at home, and I find it painful to get her to do pretty much anything other than ask for tube sta
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by ciaranm 10y ago
Just want to clarify a point - you don't have to employ the person who stands in for you, you just need to be contractually allowed to do so. Otherwise, your client is paying for _you_, not the service you're providing (e.g. [te
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by ciaranm 10y ago
What? I'd stash the changes I'm working on for the new feature, cut a fresh branch from whatever trunk/master/develop we're using, fix bug, checkout my other branch again, stash pop/apply, and we're back t
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by ciaranm 10y ago
Ah, I think I had this the other day. I booted my PC, it updated, when I logged in I had no connection to the internet (ethernet). Was confused but my MBP and phone had working connections so I just rebooted. Worked fine after that.
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by ciaranm 10y ago
I'm guessing they want you to use the watch for this. It has at least a gig set aside for music etc.
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by ciaranm 10y ago
Nutmeg might be worth looking at. I've used it for my pension pot since I left my perm job and went contracting/freelance.
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by ciaranm 10y ago
Can we stop with the 'everyone in Europe' thing? It's almost never true. I live in rented accommodation in London and have the same style of shower heads as in the article. Here's a fairly prominent seller of bathroom st
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by ciaranm 10y ago
Sometimes it was just adding a cover page - that's fine. Other time they'd edit my contact info out, change wording, stuff like that. I'm not happy with edits being made without my approval, so I stopped giving them an editab
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by ciaranm 10y ago
I don't give recruiters a word-formatted CV. Too many times I've had my CV edited from what I gave them before forwarding it on. It got to the point where I had to start asking companies I interviewed at for a copy of what the rec

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