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by frereubu 6mo ago
We have pretty basic needs - git repos + actions - and a bit of downtime here and there doesn't really affect us too much because we're not constantly committing and deploying, but even we're looking around for alternatives
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by frereubu 6mo ago
They're not putting them on hubs and chargers, Anker make more than that. In the article it says that they're being used first in earbuds.
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by frereubu 6mo ago
While I agree with the sentiment, one nitpick - "When you buy a Kindle, you are buying a disposable product with a predetermined shelf life. Meanwhile, when you buy a Kobo, you are buying a tool that can be maintained for a decade or m
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by frereubu 6mo ago
This is the study itself, which is much better, including photos of the equipment in the cemetery: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s13592-026-01256-6 The only illustration in this article is a photo of a
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by frereubu 6mo ago
> You never knew in advance if it'd be a quality recording or total garbage. I once bought a VHS recording of a Lemonheads gig after seeing them at the Glastonbury festival, guess it must have been around 1993, and in visual terms i
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by frereubu 6mo ago
Parent comment said their hometown had 300 people, which I can't imagine would support more than one or, at most, two grocery stores.
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by frereubu 6mo ago
"Not a simple problem to solve" feels like a bit of an understatement.
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by frereubu 6mo ago
"Alleged embezzlement of soft fruit"
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by frereubu 7mo ago
Ah, gotcha - I misread.
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by frereubu 7mo ago
But you've not cited any sources either, so don't pretend that you're some paragon of statistical analysis. You've just said things like "I wish I didn't grow up in an area where I know that to be true," w
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by frereubu 7mo ago
In London? Where was this?
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by frereubu 7mo ago
It's unsurprising to find lots of ambient / electronica here, and generally I'm the same, but I do occasionally like really loud punk or rock if I need some motivation, like the album Feel The Darkness by Poison Idea, or as I
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by frereubu 7mo ago
I occasionally have I Am A Tower on a loop when I really need to break through some kind of mental / coding block.
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by frereubu 7mo ago
So you can read replies etc. without having to be logged in to X: https://xcancel.com/exQUIZitely/status/2040777977521398151
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by frereubu 7mo ago
These people are almost unimaginably wealthy to the point where they're effectively unchallenged if they're not directly challenging the state (and even then they win quite a few rounds). "Power corrupts and absolute power co
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by frereubu 7mo ago
The penultimate sentence of this fantastic 1997 interview with Trump has stayed with me since I read it: "Trump, who had aspired to and achieved the ultimate luxury, an existence unmolested by the rumbling of a soul." https:&#x2F
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by frereubu 7mo ago
That's not a good distinction. If I see an advert for Microsoft 365 in the Start menu on Windows they're both from Microsoft but it's still an advert.
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by frereubu 7mo ago
https://status.stripe.com/
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by frereubu 7mo ago
Calling it a "tip" is definitely just a semantic trick to make it slightly less easy to frame a negative response and galvanise opinion against the practise. Reminds me a bit of confirmation shaming (which, now I think about it, I
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by frereubu 7mo ago
I'm in my fifties, have been involved in computing since I was a kid and I like Apple's stance on this because the threat landscape has changed, particularly for non-tech-savvy people. If you want that freedom there are various
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by frereubu 7mo ago
I've seen those too. I was going to say that I've seen people put the bowl to their mouth and shovel food in with chopsticks, but now that I come to think about it that might well actually be from the series Tokyo Diner and Takesh
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by frereubu 7mo ago
Yeah, could be - that's kind of what I mean in terms of being lost in translation. It feels like there's missing information / context in quite a few of them. Edit: In fact I think you're completely right - "picking
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by frereubu 7mo ago
> こじ箸 Kojibashi (also known as ほじり箸 hojiribashi) > To use the chopsticks to pick something out from near the bottom of the dish. I think there must be some bits that are lost in translation for some of these. This makes it sound like
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by frereubu 7mo ago
This has been going on for at least three years, although perhaps they left more popular sites like The Verge alone. My wife's business rebranded three years ago and they kept the old brand as part of the title, presumably because ther
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by frereubu 7mo ago
How far back do you want to take this? Like why aren't they giving credit to the person who invented the pen? C'mon, this is a much more direct copy of Monument Valley than Escher.
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Atlassian, AI sell-off’s worst-hit company, grapples with ‘SaaSpocalypse’(ft.com)
16 points by frereubu 7mo ago|1 comments
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by frereubu 7mo ago
This is a very well-done piece in a good cause, but it would have been nice for the author to acknowledge the very obvious inspiration from Monument Valley - https://www.monumentvalleygame.com/mv1 - particularly given they&
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by frereubu 7mo ago
Yeah, great anticipation for the undoubtedly forward-looking xennial Mojtaba Khamenei in Iran.
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by frereubu 7mo ago
Totally agree. Out of this context, the word "premature" can mean too many things.
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by frereubu 7mo ago
These kinds of victories really are thin gruel, aren't they?

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