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by detritus 4y ago
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31479578
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by detritus 4y ago
Oh Gosh, I feel so stupid - that's exactly what I was looking for.. please tell me they just added that this morning? I know they didn't..!
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by detritus 4y ago
Yeah, that's the most immediate thing to try, but unfortunately, that doesn't work for some reason.
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by detritus 4y ago
I'm a big fan of multi-account containers.. or at least, was. Recently I inadvertantly added a domain to one of the ascribed containers on my laptop and I'll be damned if I can work out how to undo it, other than uninstalling and
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by detritus 4y ago
By the same author, at that.
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by detritus 4y ago
I wish! "IWS behaves like a muscle" is sort of what I was thinking though. Small deep cells, intermediate wide cells, large, flat sub-dermal cells, outer skin. All the cells being somewhat indivdually addressable in terms of press
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by detritus 4y ago
Aside: Many years ago I had an idea for something, which may or may not be plausible, and even bought a couple of books on invention and patenting, so I could perhaps develop it. I never did. Not my realm. BUT. My thought was: Could you hav
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by detritus 4y ago
The thing I like about ground-effect over-sea vehicles is that, unlike hydrofoils, they're not majorly reliant on very fast blades chopping through whatever comes across their path in the topmost layer of the ocean, where life tends to
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by detritus 4y ago
Brit, with occasional light linguistic pretensions, but who has never had anything to do with theatre here - 'Today I Learned' as they say. I've not had 'Fresnel' as a French name and I'm guessing the pronuncia
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by detritus 4y ago
I'm an ex-webnik who still occasionally dabbles in web design, so have all of them installed. Unused, mostly, but installed :)
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by detritus 4y ago
Really? I'm a firefox user too and whilst I occasionally bump into some situation as you describe where I need to hop onto Chrome, I genuinely can't remember the last time this happened. Nope, actually - sometime last year, with s
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by detritus 4y ago
Ignorance isn't.
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by detritus 4y ago
Good! London next, please.
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by detritus 4y ago
Are they not, fundamentally, one and the same?
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by detritus 4y ago
If only I'd said something like "vaguely ‘libertarian’" to dismiss any notion of orthodoxy in the matter. Curiously, my good friend who most suffers from the what I accuse him here also holds himself in similarly-noble terms
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by detritus 4y ago
Funnily enough, I have a few vaguely 'libertarian' (in a UK-sense) friends who don't see that if everyone broke societal 'politenesess'/manners as they do, ekeing a small personal advantage, then everything goe
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by detritus 4y ago
Ah, 'Thank you'! Yes that's the skit I remembered, and by golly, as fucked up an idea as it is, he's entirely right. "I don't know what to do with that information. I don't have way to apply that to anythi
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by detritus 4y ago
> -significantly raise the penalty for sexual child abuse I'm sure some dark comic (Boyle, Gervais?) made a joke along these lines, but presumably the problem with this tack is that you end up with more dead children? Biology, con
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by detritus 4y ago
Ah yes, English – that famously-consistent and unbaggaged language with just one word, entirely native, per concept. Rot and cobblers for excessive prose!
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by detritus 4y ago
That's very sweet of you, but no, it's just a damn good word.
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by detritus 4y ago
The shop in between Holborn and Tottenham Court road, by any chance? Always loved that place. In regards to the model and the time, I suspect you're mistaken, but .. meh.
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by detritus 4y ago
We didn't get to see it for nearly another decade or so, though. "The existence of the aircraft was officially acknowledged in 1988" – https://www.britannica.com/technology/F-117 Certainly, the precursor
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by detritus 4y ago
Mm, quite - I can't help but feel that most Blockchain-based-Thing announcements are little more than exercises in domain-specific omphaloskepsis.
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by detritus 4y ago
Are you sure you're not thinking of the F-19 model that came out in the very late 80s? I was a bit of plane nerd at the time - by early adolescent standards, at least - and I remember all my books being blindsided by the F-117's u
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by detritus 4y ago
Oh! To have played this on a machine with a double digit clockspeed! I loved my Amiga 500, and spent many hours on F-19/F-117, but crikey 7.little MHz was not a lot to play with (although quite enough for the super-fast, fun but otherw
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by detritus 4y ago
People were shorter back in Robin Hood's day, so Sherwood was bigger for them.
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by detritus 4y ago
Well, I don't believe it's not their right, but I am otherwise in agreement with you - it's daft to block such functionality. Ultimately, that's the creator's mistake to make and it's incumbent upon the end-use
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by detritus 4y ago
You don't understand why someone would want to create something the way they want to, really? How much choice do you have in the typesetting of any book you've ever bought? You could still use a magnifying glass on your monitor, a
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by detritus 4y ago
Me. I use eBay a few times a month, but never, ever touch Amazon. *shrug
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by detritus 4y ago
Two of my best friends were from 'less than well off' families, and they both had Amigas. My fault - I was lucky to come from a comfortably-off family and had one, which they used to come and use on sleep-overs, planting the seed

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