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by detritus 4y ago
*squints, re-reads. Again I mean, notwithstanding the fairly arcane language - 'ouch'.
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by detritus 4y ago
Not to be That Guy, but crikey - think of all the good that could be done in the world for half a billion dollars. . Cue my usual thought about how the likes of Apple could make/break Fusion Energy (prove/disprove viability) for
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by detritus 4y ago
Oh. Right. Duh.
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by detritus 4y ago
...please, do go on?
335.
by detritus 4y ago
I'll third Mullvad and I don't think EUR5 a month is particularly expensive.
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by detritus 4y ago
Thank you for saying this, because often when this sort of thing pops up on HN I click on the link and stare blankly at the page wondering "Just what the hell IS this?!" and I feel particularly stupid. I only keep one foot in the
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by detritus 4y ago
5Ghz apiece from each eyeball and i've got a nicely nanowave-warmed septum, thanks.
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by detritus 4y ago
Entirely off-topic, but this resonates so much for me - I think I went entirely off computer games for about three years, peaking around the age of 18. I left the world of the Amiga and then later got a PC for Uni and slipped into an entire
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by detritus 4y ago
Quite. I suppose I'm ignoring the fact that London was developed in bygone years in similary large tranches that have eventually found their form.
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by detritus 4y ago
This seems to be the case across much of London, sadly. 'Synthetic' is the word that comes to mind whenever I see these developments. Frankly, as much as the effort impresses me from a technical point, I'm content enough only
341.
by detritus 4y ago
I was not. Perhaps I'm showing my age, then. The first two games I played - utterly beloved to me - didn't have voiced audio. Everything thereafter is a blur that just got worse and worse. Perhaps I should give this one a miss, th
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by detritus 4y ago
As someone who's had both a Secret of Monkey Island-themed mobile wallpaper and ringtone at various points in recent years and still plays the first two games every five years or so - where the graphics are concerned I'm in the &q
343.
by detritus 4y ago
I've worn a 'uniform' based around Uniqlo's long sleeved tees for about 15 years now and I've noticed the quality drop off remarkably over the past few years. A shirt will barely last a few months now, whilst I stil
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by detritus 4y ago
Personally I prefer 'schpiel' :)
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by detritus 4y ago
Within a second of seeing the 'improved' ones I spot what is, to my mind at least, an immediate failure - the detail resolution is far too small. It doesn't account for the printing limitations on small fabric tags, never min
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by detritus 4y ago
From the very last line - "The only motive here is indignation." Brilliant.
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by detritus 4y ago
That caught my eye too and made me wonder just how much larger the fish in their tale had gotten over the years.
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by detritus 4y ago
I signed up to Mullvad - my first VPN - literally about 12 hours ago, purely because of how simple, yet comprehensively-explained, their 'onboarding' process was. I also particularly like the flat no-fuss EUR5 a month fee.
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by detritus 4y ago
I've often joked that I'm at least 1/4 potato, given how many of them I eat.
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by detritus 4y ago
It might be as simple as those old OS versions supporting serial or parallel ports or whatever arcane connector the Waste Seperator requires. Ultimately, if it's a single-purpose machine-controlling-machine that is air-gapped and never
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by detritus 4y ago
May I ask where you are from? My blood is Scottish and I grew up in the North of England and I can tell you that in the late 90s there was a lot of talk of a Northern Assembly to better represent that end of the country versus Westminster,
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by detritus 4y ago
Props need feathers.
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by detritus 4y ago
From an entirely selfish, personal perspective - good. All this achieved in 2018 with the 'levy on sugary drinks' is encourage manufacturers to replace sugars with artificial sweeteners which are to my palate, frankly disgusting.
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by detritus 4y ago
Off topic, but the first ever spam I received was for 'frozen escargot' from some company in New York, which as a comparatively impoverished first-year student at university in the north of England in the 90s struck me as more tha
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by detritus 4y ago
Amusingly, my now passed ultra-SNP uncle spent a lot of his life bemoaning the replacement of the contemporary beautiful Scottish desert with huge tracts of monoculture pine trees, changing the expected beauty of Scottish landscapes with te
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by detritus 4y ago
I stopped tracking the increases in my plywood costs here in London once they'd breached 250% over a two year or so period, starting somewhere around the beginnings of Covid (so, not entirely wedded to lockdown issues, if memory serves
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by detritus 4y ago
Sadly, a lot of the plywood I use comes... came from Russia. Replacements from elsewhere seems to be slow to trickle-through. A shame, because the Russian stuff was surprisingly good quality, for my needs.
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by detritus 4y ago
Embarrassment (really?), minor as it could be, seems like a really low bar for failure here.
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by detritus 4y ago
Surely it would be that unlikely if the machine was located in a Radio Shack, otherwise it has entire dictionary and encyclopedias worth of phoneme jumbles to potentially arrive at?
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by detritus 4y ago
How much would this have to be used to offset the (materials/energy/water) cost of manufacturing it though?

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