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by goldcd 6y ago
I don't think the OP is really describing imposter syndrome - being "the only thing I know is how to pick up any new stuff fast" is a slight humblebrag (unless he fears a imminent shortage of 'new stuff' to deal wit
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by goldcd 6y ago
Yes! That makes complete sense. I remember being slightly confused when I did the alignment test and rather than it prompting me to "type which column looks good" it just said "looks good to me" Thank you. You've pl
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by goldcd 6y ago
I think the problem is pretty human. (or maybe I'm exposing my weaker moral character than the rest of you upstanding citizens). I think the vast majority of people who have entered some program of learning, want to 'learn' -
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by goldcd 6y ago
I don't know why either, I gave him an upvote. I put it in my post, as I quite like the interrobang and will never pass up the chance to use it. It's entirely legible, just uncommon - and "?!"?! just seems insert new ch
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by goldcd 6y ago
From HP's point of view of not given them a penny for maybe 20 years - and now I'm paying them $2 a month. They can knock off the cost of making and sending me a new cart - but they're ahead from this. A transaction has occur
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by goldcd 6y ago
I'm intrigued. Not sure how that gets you free ink though - I presume printer tracks usage in software through what it prints and logs that against the chip to guess what's in the associated cart. So if say I switched the chip on
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by goldcd 6y ago
No. Although you never actually got back to me when I read your suggestion and pointed out they didn't say we shouldn't be wearing masks.
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by goldcd 6y ago
Of course they can change their plans - and probably will, if only to add inflationary costs, changes in local tax etc. One 'offer' they're currently providing on the monthly month package is free printing of photos (up to 10
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by goldcd 6y ago
But you can use the printer - you just swap out the instant-ink carts for regular ones (or clones). Of course if I'm wrong, I'm open to being corrected - but my understanding is that it's not the printer that's the servi
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by goldcd 6y ago
Although to be fair, gold is quite volatile. Over last 9 years - Gone from $1800 an Oz, to $1000, to over $2000 Not something I invest in, but (for example) I'd no idea it was now worth more than platinum and has been for a very long t
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by goldcd 6y ago
I don't think it does. It differentiates between 'normal' carts and 'instant ink' carts. I've just signed up, but plan only starts when I put the instant ink carts in. When these run low, they send replacements
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by goldcd 6y ago
I'm a bit evangelical about the Snapscan (I somehow managed to talk about it whilst discussing printers..) I don't see the £24 as being ferociously expensive - as I'm really buying convenience. If you're looking at cost-
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by goldcd 6y ago
I don't think that's the point of the service. It's: A) A way of getting people over that "How much for an official replacement cart‽" hump, which often causes them to buy 'fake' ahem carts, or a new pri
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by goldcd 6y ago
I suspect the carts are 'very' locked down. I just signed up and I'll start getting charged when I insert my special 'instant ink' carts. i.e. The printer (and therefore HP) will know when I've put in the magi
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by goldcd 6y ago
To give a counter argument - I've embraced HPs new model. Couple of years ago, my old printer ended up in the bin. Was a great big hulking thing with a flatbed scanner that took up too much space. For the odd things I needed printing,
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by goldcd 6y ago
I'd have thought the likelihood of somebody dying is far greater from these tweets, than shouting fire in a theatre.
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by goldcd 6y ago
I just did. Seems 'fine' - more lenient that I'd go, but I'd agree that interminable lock-down of low-risk people is a bad idea. But we don't have that. Doesn't mention masks at all.
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by goldcd 6y ago
I'm unsure why you wouldn't consider wearing a mask to "be the right thing" I don't think anybody is saying that masks are a panacea - that would be "everybody stay home until we have a working vaccine". H
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by goldcd 6y ago
I would agree with most of that - not insurmountable, but all stuff that needs to be considered. History of money is fascinating (from direct trades, to intermediates like gold, to notes, to cash, to banks, to cheques, to online etc etc) an
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by goldcd 6y ago
In defence of the big VPN providers. 1) Why would you keep logs, when you could then be compelled to hand them over? 2) As setting up a VPN company is easy/cheap, you conversely have to spend a large pile of cash to advertize your way
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by goldcd 6y ago
I'd agree. When looking at systems, the focus is always on the bottle-necks - what is the component that is throttling the whole system. Which is fine, until you replace the next one, and the next one - and eventually you end up with &
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by goldcd 6y ago
Actually, that makes sense. I don't think MS will ever (as much as they'd like to) make us use their store - but "steam-stream" is at a massive disadvantage if they need to submit to whatever MS asks for in license (and
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by goldcd 6y ago
Just that - Win 10 Pro keys are dirt cheap from many online key sellers - and just work. I suspect that and OEM sales are how 99% of windows licenses are now sold - unless you know of people who buy them in a box from a store. Was a little
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by goldcd 6y ago
I can appreciate the effort in allowing windows games to run under linux, but can't actually see the point. Whilst Valve was pushing to create their own OS/ecosystem, it did make sense - but even then there was a niggling feeling
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by goldcd 6y ago
I would have thought ensuring that workers at google, getting absolutely no special access to specific other accounts, is pretty much the most sacrosanct rule. i.e. Google's unlikely to hand over the dossier they've assembled on &
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by goldcd 6y ago
Now it's quite clearly a plug - but serious amounts of compute power are required for protein analysis, and chucking cloud at it is a pretty good way of doing that. Look at Folding@Home
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by goldcd 6y ago
I like to think that she didn't go to your university, only added her music after reading your profile, and is currently playing the long game - what better way to network with your colleagues, than a wedding? (or congratulations)
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by goldcd 6y ago
I've always thought it's that last point you touch on, that's most important. There are mechanisms (and we can discuss their effectiveness) that try to balance the playing field in provision of opportunity - but there's
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by goldcd 6y ago
There's a push in the UK over the last few years to get broadband out to the small villages, who've been stuck on pathetically slow due to their distance from telephone exchanges. How it's being pushed out is a hodge-podge of
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by goldcd 6y ago
I think it's more than that. In my OP I very deliberately stuck to abstracts that I'd hoped "nobody could disagree with". And nobody seemed to - until I put more words beneath it. You're right though - engaging with

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