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by gpmcadam 4y ago
I believe reddit was rewritten in Python (formerly Lisp?)
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by gpmcadam 4y ago
> PlayStation VR2 is only compatible with a PS5 or PS5 Digital Edition console
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by gpmcadam 4y ago
Is this what The Verge is now, Tweet-like blog spam? Here’s the tweet they have ”quoted”: https://twitter.com/ianzelbo/status/1582886309277769730 Maybe this is the better link?
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by gpmcadam 4y ago
God save the Queen
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by gpmcadam 4y ago
Not really for sharing links, but for discussion there's https://writing.stackexchange.com And for general use of the English language, there's: https://english.stackexchange.com
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by gpmcadam 4y ago
+1 for https://whisk.com One feature that might not be obvious, at least here in the UK, is that it has integrations with most online supermarkets so you can relatively painlessly add your recipe shopping list to your online bas
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by gpmcadam 4y ago
nesting them, if you will
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by gpmcadam 4y ago
No, it's highways because not all highways (major roads and motorways) are motorways. See: https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/highways-england
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by gpmcadam 4y ago
It's a combination. Revenues gathered via road tax have a provision for older/more polluting cars so you pay less the newer your vehicle, essentially. Some of the money is used to fund the maintenance of highways, though. Local ro
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by gpmcadam 4y ago
"Road tax" (a levy to cover the cost of maintaining the public highway) obviously needs to be extended to cover EVs at some point. I'm surprised it hasn't already. However, broadly speaking: tax the thing you want less o
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by gpmcadam 4y ago
In JavaScript, you can use `String.prototype.toLocaleUpperCase()` > 'Türkiye'.toLocaleUpperCase('TR') 'TÜRKİYE' [1] https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/J
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by gpmcadam 4y ago
meta (heh): can’t view this page without accepting all cookies, including Facebook ad ones, which it says you can control on your cookie settings page (404 link) but if you don’t have a Facebook account you can’t access
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by gpmcadam 4y ago
There are (non-trivial) ways of making back-up copies of your purchased digital material, just as there were for Blu-Ray and DVD purchases in the past; so the choice isn't solely between piracy and purchasing.
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by gpmcadam 4y ago
protip: use comments to remind yourself or make commands searchable, e.g. $ find . -iname 'package.json' -exec jq .version {} \; # get npm module version numbers for all packages now when you search history you can do so
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by gpmcadam 4y ago
to be fair, mobile users are probably grateful of that
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by gpmcadam 4y ago
maybe on a wifi network before authentication when it may allow DNS resolution but not HTTP requests?
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by gpmcadam 4y ago
do you clone the ubikey or enroll two different keys? i struggled to find providers who let you register a second key
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by gpmcadam 4y ago
A workaround for #1: - on any post or comment click 'report' - the popup that opens is an iframe with the new reddit - dismiss the cookie banner from within that iframe - close the report dialog future visits to reddit will now ha
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by gpmcadam 4y ago
I'm assuming by 'Dark Mirror' you mean 'Black Mirror', and not 'Dark'? Well, Black Mirror was actually created by Charlie Brooker and his production company Endemol for Channel 4 in the UK and simply bough
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by gpmcadam 5y ago
I'm not confused as to the difference, but thanks for the concern!
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by gpmcadam 5y ago
Clearly you’ve never seen some of the bizarre stuff that C4 had put out over the years then? Perhaps the thing to take from this is that people want to watch bizarre stuff?
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by gpmcadam 5y ago
Its odd in a democracy in 2022 that a government should own a media/news organisation. If the argument that this is profitable is true, then it should be capable of carrying on its endeavours privately with no issue whatsoever.
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by gpmcadam 5y ago
FYI Markup, a feature of the Photos app in iOS can essentially do this fairly trivially. https://support.apple.com/en-gb/HT206885
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by gpmcadam 5y ago
Not a lawyer etc. but in my experience? Remove the corporate build and install what you want. Carry an Ethernet adapter.
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by gpmcadam 5y ago
anecdotally i’ll go to ikea for a specific product but will always end up picking up some small items impulsively i wonder what the proportion of a typical spend looks like breaking down planned vs impulsive my guess is majority of money is
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Rebalancing data in shared-nothing distributed systems(nvartolomei.com)
1 points by gpmcadam 5y ago|0 comments
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by gpmcadam 5y ago
"Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic"
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by gpmcadam 5y ago
Hey thanks for the feedback. I guess you could use this to generate images for your real Wordle solutions but I kind of envisaged it would be used more for fun/memes. See: https://www.instagram.com/p/CZJqVFYrxle&#x
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Show HN: Wordle Image Maker(wordle.gary.mcad.am)
39 points by gpmcadam 5y ago|6 comments
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by gpmcadam 5y ago
"NPR’s sites use cookies, similar tracking and storage technologies, and information about the device you use to access our sites (together, “cookies”) to enhance your viewing, listening and user experience, personalize content, person

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