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by frereubu 4y ago
When reading the piece my first thought was "forum", closely followed by your reaction - that sounds... pretty good?
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by frereubu 4y ago
I think there's a good argument - made very well by Viv Albertine of The Slits in her autobiography Clothes, Music, Boys - that people outside the scene took punk too seriously. They weren't great crusaders for truth and justice,
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by frereubu 4y ago
I'm not stating an opinion on this one way or the other, but the language preferred by some people now is "people who give birth" rather than "mother" because it's seen as gender-specific (i.e. there are trans
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by frereubu 4y ago
Unfortunately not - I only have 121 lines in my filter list. I might dig into it again at some point, but it's only a nice-to-have for me.
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by frereubu 4y ago
I've got that set up, but it doesn't seem to work: https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/wiki/Cloud-storage I've followed the steps carefully a coupe of times, but still no luck. The page does incl
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by frereubu 4y ago
Not quite so mundane I suppose, but the meticulousness reminds me of Dan Graham's Homes For America : https://www.moma.org/collection/works/105513 It's a detailed description of the pseudo-choice offere
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by frereubu 4y ago
Yes, totally agree on the more mindful rebuilding of my physical library.
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by frereubu 4y ago
I'm not the person you're responding to but I'm the same as them, having gone back to physical books. I don't take books with me on errands, I read saved articles on my phone. Going on holiday I make a small selection an
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UK to invest £900M in supercomputer in bid to build own ‘BritGPT’(theguardian.com)
2 points by frereubu 4y ago|0 comments
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by frereubu 4y ago
As to anyone with power caring, you're probably not far wrong, but it's not forgotten in the English Premier League, where one of the long-standing teams, Newcastle United, who've been playing in one form or another since 189
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by frereubu 4y ago
In the UK, National Savings and Insurance - https://www.nsandi.com/ - is run by the government. Unlike most UK banks, which under the Financial Services Compensation Scheme have to protect up to £85,000 of savings per perso
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by frereubu 4y ago
You might like to read this if you're looking for causation: https://jonathanhaidt.substack.com/p/social-media-mental-ill...
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by frereubu 4y ago
You may be partially right, but IIRC one of the studies which found a significant decrease was specifically taking bug samples from number plates rather than windscreens because number plates have been the same shape and in the same orienta
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by frereubu 4y ago
https://twitter.com/justsaysinmice
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by frereubu 4y ago
The vast, vast majority of people in their 40s (wearing appropriate glasses if necessary) can tell the difference between an average monitor and a 4K display, which is the context of their comment.
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by frereubu 4y ago
For all those downvoting this question, I think you should take it at face value. It would be nice to think that "Genuine question..." is not a prerequisite for that.
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by frereubu 4y ago
That's a false dichotomy. I'm sure you could come up with something better than that if you put your mind to it.
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by frereubu 4y ago
I posted this on another comment, but you might be interested in permaculture, where ease of maintenance is key within a context of sustainable living. These are two of its originators talking about how they set up their plot, in a relative
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by frereubu 4y ago
If you haven't already, you might enjoy learning about permaculture. This is a short and easily-accessibile introduction - two of its originators, David Holmgren and Su Dennett, talking about how they designed their house according to
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by frereubu 4y ago
Looks very similar to the kinds of oven stoves and heat walls in https://www.lowtechmagazine.com/2008/12/tile-stoves.html , which I found quite inspiring.
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by frereubu 4y ago
GP didn't mention degrading retinas, just age. I'm over 50 and need glasses but, while acknowledging that life is a one-way journey, I just don't like people talking like ageing is necessarily this slide into decrepitude afte
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by frereubu 4y ago
I’m not sure if you’re aware of this, but alongside 3nm processes there’s a cutting edge technology called “glasses”…
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by frereubu 4y ago
It chimes with people in the late C19th / early C20th complaining about the fact they were overloaded by news because newspapers were being published on a weekly and then daily basis.
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Taking the Tesla to Truro? Warnings over lack of electric charging points(theguardian.com)
3 points by frereubu 4y ago|3 comments
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by frereubu 4y ago
I generally only nest one level down, and at most two. Any more and, as you say, it becomes very convoluted, particularly when it comes to specificity. However, alongside pseudo elements, the killer feature for me is that nesting enables na
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by frereubu 4y ago
As I understand it, licensing music in Spain is very different in the UK - in Spain you need to license individual songs, whereas in the UK you pay the Performing Rights Society for a single licence to play any recorded music. Which is why,
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by frereubu 4y ago
https://samf.substack.com/p/its-not-a-dead-cat
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It's Not a Dead Cat(samf.substack.com)
1 points by frereubu 4y ago|0 comments
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by frereubu 4y ago
For sure - I went through a period of having a couple of single espressos every day, and if I stopped cold without a day or two of tea drinking to taper off, I'd get a day of really strong headaches. If you can start and stop without n
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by frereubu 4y ago
For me the fundamental issue at the moment for ChatGPT and others is the tone it replies in. A large proportion of the information in language is in the tone, so someone might say something like "I'm pretty sure that the highest m

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