gizajob

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   by gizajob 2y ago

   What are your books about? Fiction or non- ?
2. 812.▲
   by gizajob 2y ago

   If you’re not completely driven to write a book, and there isn’t a book inside you that you just have to get out, then do not bother writing a book. Agents and publishers have nothing to do with it - you don’t need to ask for permission t
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   by gizajob 2y ago

   Liverpool was the second city of the British empire at this point, so again, its “roughness” could be debatable.
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   by gizajob 2y ago

   Great article but the oldest guy in the UK definitely isn’t from one of the roughest parts of Liverpool, he’s had a nice life living by the seaside in a place called Southport 25km away, and doesn’t seem like a liar.
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   by gizajob 2y ago

   Yeah I took a photo of a weird moth in my house the other day, and accidentally scrolled up the next day to realise that the iPhone had categorised it as the exact species - a Poplar Hawk Moth. I was stunned. Didn’t even have to google for
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   by gizajob 2y ago

   “Who knows what the actual (financial) winners of this brave new era will be” Nvidia
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   by gizajob 2y ago

   …by showing you more ads.
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   by gizajob 2y ago

   I’m sure you’re right but how does Google afford to do it then? Do they have methods to drastically lower those costs? $2500 per month for each creator seems like it wouldn’t be a business worth running.
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   by gizajob 2y ago

   Thanks for the info. What if the poison was exactly a poison like in this case? I realise “the dose maketh the poison” but it wasn’t exactly strychnine or cyanide.
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    by gizajob 2y ago

    Yes absolutely. I thought the same thing reading that part. We’re miles past the point of negotiations of this kind after what has happened.
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    by gizajob 2y ago

    I’m sorry to hear the writer married an actual psychopath. There’s more of them around than one would imagine. I’m confused about the lack of charges though - in the UK this seems like it could come under Actual Bodily Harm or even attempte
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    by gizajob 2y ago

    Yes
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    by gizajob 2y ago

    There goes the share price…
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    by gizajob 2y ago

    I don’t see how Elite on the BBC Micro could have been written any other way. Today’s CS couldn’t have got the job done. Same with Manic Miner on the ZX Spectrum. Both involved extremes of optimisation using assembly to totally max out the
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    by gizajob 2y ago

    The miner gets paid every week. The company that owns the mine owns the diamond.
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    by gizajob 2y ago

    I sincerely hope so. Possibly my favourite lunch in the world can be had at Malaysian Laksa House (formerly Coconut House) on Elizabeth street in Melbourne. Their laksa is mind blowing.
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    by gizajob 2y ago

    The food at those IKEA stores has gone so so bad. It used to be pleasant but last couple of times I’ve been they’ve got rid of the cream meatball sauce and replaced it with thin, school dinner type gravy. It was awful, not even close to bei
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    by gizajob 2y ago

    French bows or German bows? Just so we know what not to get you started on.
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    by gizajob 2y ago

    I live in Britain and this katsuification phenomenon has totally passed me by. Indian curry, not so much.
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    by gizajob 2y ago

    84% spend all day yakking online posting under their real names
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    by gizajob 2y ago

    HP aren’t the mafia. Proved by jury trial that it wasn’t his fault if HP overvalued his company. Caveat emptor.
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    by gizajob 2y ago

    I’ve been pondering the cruel irony of this quite a lot. Double whammy is that his co-accused in the fraud trial was killed by a car the same weekend - https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c74jzd22dkno Naturally it
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    by gizajob 2y ago

    Yeah, they also have zero room left so I guess the option was between more dirty power stations in Malaysia or this. Seems like a wise, forward-looking initiative.
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    by gizajob 2y ago

    I don’t think I’ve seen an emoji on HN before…
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    by gizajob 2y ago

    Is saw that and hit back. I simply cannot be arsed with these things any more - the few years when the web got itself rid of popups and became clean and easy was a golden era that slid quietly into the oblivion of cookie prompts and annoyan
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    by gizajob 2y ago

    There is a technical difference in logic between if and iff. And “P if Q” would be better written “if Q then P” for clarity’s sake. So yeah if covers the same ground as iff, but iff includes the exclusion of everything else that isn’t Q lea
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    by gizajob 2y ago

    What a collection! Nice to imagine him sitting at home in his lounge room next to a Cray and an Apple I
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    by gizajob 2y ago

    I live in the UK, where he doesn’t feature prominently in academic philosophy.
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    by gizajob 2y ago

    Also the monied class totally lost its appetite for manufacturing anything due to the unions that went with it, and the solution to the problem of socialism was to destroy the idea of society, as per Thatcherism.
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    by gizajob 2y ago

    Thanks! Maybe in coming years the situation with my daughter will improve but I’m pretty certain I’m not going to be having any more children, even if I’d like that.