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by fredley 8y ago
There will always be kids who don't get a strong family, whatever you do. You can certainly reduce this sort of thing (with adequate parental leave, financial parental support and broader societal compassion for parents (hard!)) but yo
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by fredley 8y ago
> considering their ongoing Brexit One of the big campaigns for Leave was that the EU was dampening our ability to trade with the rest of the World. I guess maybe not then?
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by fredley 8y ago
I've started using Vue for some projects, and while it has some fantastic upsides, I find it very hard to optimise. With native code you can easily profile and work out where you need to speed things up or leverage cacheing. With (e.
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by fredley 8y ago
Christ I cannot stand Office 365. For some reason, I cannot open files that are in my OneDrive folder without O365 authentication shitting itself, and refusing to save files. This means to edit files that are in OneDrive, I have to move the
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by fredley 8y ago
I mean obviously it should be. This is bananas.
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by fredley 8y ago
I guess what counts as 'middle class basics' in the US counts as 'basics' in the UK. Sarcasm aside, I find it a bit bonkers that places might not be safe to run, although I do believe it.
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by fredley 8y ago
It has more fat/oil in to help with frothing, I think that's the only difference. Also barista != barrister, those are two quite different jobs!
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by fredley 8y ago
Usage defines language, not the other way around.
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by fredley 8y ago
Competing costs money in any sport, and yeah commercial races can be expensive but there are many many cheap races to be had too. I am based in the UK, and here's how you can get involved in running cheaply: * Join Parkrun[1], free wee
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by fredley 8y ago
I agree with the time aspect, but not the money. Running has possibly one of the lowest barriers to entry, money-wise, of any sport. You need a pair of trainers, but unless you're running pretty seriously any comfortable pair will do.
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by fredley 8y ago
As with all architecture there are good and bad examples (with bad examples usually lost over time - leaving only the good), and with brutalism in particular issues with poor maintenance. Maintain any building of any age and architectural &
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by fredley 8y ago
Eh. I think although it's a 'dark pattern', it's one with measured effects on behaviour that result in less people crossing against the light, which (I would assume) correlates with less accidents. I think calling it une
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by fredley 8y ago
I noticed the use of wheelchair users, and the different skin tones used on the landing page. I hadn't looked into the actual resources so hadn't seen that they are not in fact offered in a range of tones. Oh well!
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El Helicoide: From an icon to an infamous Venezuelan jail(bbc.co.uk)
1 points by fredley 8y ago|0 comments
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by fredley 8y ago
All the skin tones are mid-brown, there is nothing darker and nothing lighter, though this would be an easy thing to change when using the library. Interesting how you single out pale skin.
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by fredley 8y ago
This is great, and I really, really love the inclusive-by-default approach.
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by fredley 8y ago
Dr. Lamar: Congratulations. Vincent: Well, what about the interview? Dr. Lamar: That was it.
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by fredley 8y ago
> banner across the main photo of the restaurant > You aren't led to believe the food is coming from somewhere it isn't. I think we have different definitions of what being 'led to believe' is.
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by fredley 8y ago
I thought this was going to be about ordering food from one restaurant, only to have it prepared in another 'sublicensed' kitchen, sometimes a shipping container: https://www.theguardian.com/business/2017&#x2F
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by fredley 8y ago
It's not just obtaining content, it's bloody playing it too. We have a Chromecast, which works great for Netflix and works acceptably for most domestic UK TV (BBC/Channel 4 etc). But it won't work with Prime, or several
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by fredley 8y ago
This is fantastic as Chromecast support was one thing keeping me from dropping Chrome entiredly. I have a real love/hate relationship with Chromecast. I love its minimalism and simplicity - you just pick something you want to 'cas
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by fredley 8y ago
Yup, I have one (I won't say which brand - they're all pretty much the same idea) and the reduction in movement transmition was amazing. My partner gets up in the night usually, and the reduction in disturbance from that was huge.
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by fredley 8y ago
I am pro using heroin medically (and all/any drugs where trials have shown them to be effective). For heroin, it's a powerful drug that can be used in palliative care situations where nothing else will do. When it's administe
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by fredley 8y ago
It was great with Serif-Google, and the implicit approach of "let's make cool stuff and worry if it makes money never" (since making money is not exactly a problem). Now with Sans-serif-Google cool stuff that doesn't mak
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by fredley 8y ago
Google really does have a habit of killing good products to make way for worse ones. Reader killed for Plus. Inbox (to be) killed for Gmail (still dreading this, I'm hanging on to Inbox till the end), and now Chromecast audio killed fo
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by fredley 8y ago
That wasn't what I got from it at all. Most of the patches I recognise were churches or Government buildings, roads etc. These aren't registered simply because they haven't had to be before. These aren't the 'elite&
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Data.gov offline due to Government Shutdown(data.gov)
1 points by fredley 8y ago|1 comments
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by fredley 8y ago
Allan McRobie at the The University of Cambridge has a restored, working one of these, and gets it out and demos it sometimes. It's fascinating, and well worth watching all the way through: https://sms.cam.ac.uk/media&#
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by fredley 8y ago
Because it's always a choice. You have a choice between implementing a new feature (that could earn you/your company money directly), or making an existing feature more accessible, which might make a very small number of people ha
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by fredley 8y ago
I'm interested, why do you think this genre in particular deserves mention?

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