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by colinb 7mo ago
I’d upvote this a hundred times (which seems very in keeping with modern democratic (small ‘d’. Put away that axe Eugene) norms) not because I love the solution, which is necessarily janky, and not because I like the author’s prose style, t
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by colinb 8mo ago
Art is only interesting if it elicits an emotional response in the viewer. Otherwise it is illustration. And the wonder of it is that we can all have different responses to the same thing. (The Mona Lisa is a waste of canvas and oil - a hil
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by colinb 8mo ago
Your quote needs a “sometimes”. For every murderous, blood-soaked dictator who experienced pitchfork-o-clock there are several others who died peacefully in their beds at a rote old age. Louis the n-teenth lost his head. How about Louis 1-(
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by colinb 8mo ago
Alas I think I've read/watched everything on your list. I'll try a useful echo response. I read the two big Arkady Martine books, and much of Ann Leckie's work. I thought they were all pretty good. Martine because the Az
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by colinb 8mo ago
Recommendations?
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by colinb 8mo ago
“Time doth transfix the flourish set on youth And delves the parallels in beauty's brow, Feeds on the rarities of nature's truth, And nothing stands but for his scythe to mow:”
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by colinb 9mo ago
just for hiring someone in France via a third-party employer of record.
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by colinb 9mo ago
How certain are you of this? I only have anecdata, but when I tried to use a 3rd party agency to hire someone in France, from Ireland I got the process through several layers of management, up to and including the CEO and COO of my American
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by colinb 9mo ago
I think it's largely to do with the whether the games are PvP multiplayer or not. I.e. many such games have anti-cheat systems that embed in the Windows kernel (or something like that - my Windows internals knowledge is... slim). I ass
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by colinb 10mo ago
This argument that nuclear power generation is clean if you ignore the times when it isn't seems a bit no-true-Scotsman to me. It's a thing I've changed my mind about more than once in the past. What sways my thinking now is:
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by colinb 10mo ago
So jelly and ice cream for the founders and a pat on the head for everyone else? Surely even by the cockeyed logic of usual startup exits this is egregiously nasty? Perhaps there’s some nugget of gold that the papers haven’t reported? If no
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by colinb 10mo ago
Fagan inspection has entered the room
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by colinb 10mo ago
Wholly ignorant passer by here. Is this a thing that’d make (notoriously) slow FPGA synthesis (by which I think I mean the conversion of VHDL or Verilog to something that can be injected into an FPGA) much faster?
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by colinb 10mo ago
It definitely seems uphill but not infinitely so. https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-55795075.amp Though that case, returning an alleged, now convicted child rapist took decades. https://en.wikipedia
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by colinb 10mo ago
There's an interview show on RTE presented by Tommy Tiernan. I don't care for him much, but I happened to be watching the episode where JJB was interviewed. The thing that makes the show interesting (modulo Tommy, the prick) is th
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by colinb 10mo ago
Isn’t this already a well known thing? I first learned of it reading The Great Mortality by John Kelly maybe eighteen years ago. An excellent book by the way; funnier than you might expect a history of the Black Death to be.
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by colinb 11mo ago
oh, it's illegal where I live. But some people pretty clearly ignore that. Enforcement doesn't seem to be a thing. I think this is one of those laws that falls into the category of things that we just have to rely on people&#x27
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by colinb 11mo ago
One more reason to look to an electrically heated future. Where I live the air becomes unpleasant in winter as some neighbours heat their homes by burning what i can only assume are old tires and horse carcasses.
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by colinb 11mo ago
I have happy memories of the struggle to open the Trotsky boxes. In my house we used to have them with cocktails, so it was easiest to just pull out the bar tools and hack away. (Oh the embarrassment. My ears are burning)
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by colinb 11mo ago
The topic is interesting to me but the requirement for a display supporting VGA undermines that. In my ignorance, I still think I understand where the requirement comes from (VGA is I believe easier to build with FPGA than HDMI) but I don’t
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Italian companies seek High Court order directing Meta to restore accounts(irishtimes.com)
3 points by colinb 11mo ago|0 comments
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by colinb 11mo ago
I thought that all lands between high and low tide belongs to the monarch. Is that not applicable here?
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by colinb 11mo ago
To which Beacon of Free Speech will you go? The UK has its problems. Vague laws, over-excited police, Home Secretaries from every party who can never get enough polish on jack boots. When I lived there I complained to my MP about David Blun
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by colinb 1y ago
It’s been more than forty years (good God!) since I read it, but I recall enjoying Virginibus Puerisque excessively. My delight was doubled when I found out that my mother had read and enjoyed it too. Travels with a Donkey was another hit f
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by colinb 1y ago
Is it the DAC or the wired headphones that make the difference?
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by colinb 1y ago
I'd like to be respectful, guidelines and all that, but this comment is dismissive of people's real concerns, and frankly a bit arseholey. Do the people who offer to buy your house have armies? Are they keen on deploying drones an
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by colinb 1y ago
It is free, but it's also easy to throw money at George, as you've probably already done. The About menu has links for Patreon and Github Sponsors. I've only ever used the former. Given how much of my time is spent in the ter
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by colinb 1y ago
Before reading the article, I was going to talk about my very disappointing visit to the Franklin Institute a few months ago. Then I read the article and discovered that it's about the disappointment of visiting the Franklin Institute
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by colinb 1y ago
I’ve been using Chezmoi. It has lots of niceness. Two things are awkward for me. Maybe you have solutions. I know my way around emacs. vimdiff is a foreign country. Often my changes are speculative or experimental. So I checkout, edit, appl
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by colinb 1y ago
More intersex people than redheads, no? Spend time in Ireland or Scotland and tell people they don’t count.

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