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by gvurrdon 10y ago
I had one of those, at least according to the repair manual. In that case I found that the local garage were able to change the bulb without dismantling anything by putting the car over their inspection pit and reaching up through a narrow
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by gvurrdon 10y ago
Generally good advice, of course. However, I note as a counter example that the last time I asked a member of the public for directions it was in the US, in Baltimore, the morning before a riot. He directed us to a station far from where we
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by gvurrdon 10y ago
In general I would agree; a violent punishment (assuming you can manage one) generally does the trick for putting off physical bullies. However, they have workarounds, such as entirely replacing physical assaults with taunting, vandalism or
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by gvurrdon 10y ago
Definitely. The appearance of smartwatches which are capable of understanding a command along the lines of "remind me to do $thing at $time/$place" has been excellent for improving my relaxation.
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by gvurrdon 10y ago
If I understand correctly what you mean then it is a valid point, but I think the writer of that article is discussing something different. For example, consider the art of foo-jitsu, which is mostly based around kicks and so suits tall peo
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by gvurrdon 10y ago
With which part do you disagree strongly? If it is that the description of the first focus omits mention of other important factors such as de-escalation and use of minimal force then I would agree that those should be included. The rest of
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by gvurrdon 10y ago
What I meant was that in contests with blunts, such as competitions or bouts in class, both fencers will sometimes hit each other simultaneously. I perceive a lot of this as being due to a lack of caution because the participants know they
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by gvurrdon 10y ago
I'm a member of a group that practices medieval sword, dagger, and unarmed techniques - with a view to being martially sound and historically accurate My background is similar, though it's not mediaeval (nothing earlier than the
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by gvurrdon 10y ago
Indeed, the fear of being hit by a sharp sword is something that I am certain has an effect upon bouts. One major effect of the lack of fear is that participants become more and more keen to hit their opponents at all costs, resulting in do
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by gvurrdon 10y ago
Not necessarily "quite a bit" different; various HEMA forms seem to have done quite a good job of reproducing combative styles very well, within their limitations. Of course, this requires rules sets which are designed primarily t
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by gvurrdon 10y ago
It's certainly an activity that requires a lot of fitness; sparring/bouting without all that armour on is tiring enough for me. But, I hear from mediaeval HEMAists that it's not really quite the same as mediaeval combat in th
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by gvurrdon 10y ago
I too would very much like those things. But, how would we know that they were telling the truth about not collecting the data?
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by gvurrdon 10y ago
The only time I recall wishing I had one was when I was driving through London (normally something I avoid at all costs) and got stuck in very slow traffic for about two hours.
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by gvurrdon 10y ago
Automatic transmission cars are not popular in the UK. I've never really understood why, but I get the impression that they are considered to be expensive, unreliable and somehow offering poor performance or fuel economy. I've nev
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by gvurrdon 10y ago
Does this also delete location history?
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by gvurrdon 10y ago
Thanks - clearly I wasn't paying attention as I had not noticed NFtables. Another exciting task to look forward too, then.
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by gvurrdon 10y ago
Indeed, Privacy Guard can't do that, unfortunately.
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by gvurrdon 10y ago
Presumably any of Google's data gathering will use Google Play Services, and so using Cyanogenmod would be no protection against it if the gapps package has also been installed.
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by gvurrdon 10y ago
The functions of which xprivacy is capable seem excellent. Unfortunately, when I tried it I found it to be an enormous hassle to use. The UI was bad enough but upgrading Cyanogenmod with xposed and xprivacy was more of a nuisance. Cyanogenm
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by gvurrdon 10y ago
Indeed, I got a Gmail account when it was invitation only, and back then it didn't really seem particularly sinister. It was also very useful compared with the other services which were available (the excellent spam filtering was notab
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by gvurrdon 10y ago
Thanks, I didn't realise that it was possible to hide it; if it is possible to conceal both date and year then that leaves only the timeline, sinister data collection and general tediousness as issues.
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by gvurrdon 10y ago
That, and the ability to conceal my birthday from everyone, would go some way towards persuading me to use it.
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by gvurrdon 10y ago
I have in fact set it as default, but the watch still likes to ask "which number".
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by gvurrdon 10y ago
I find that sometimes, after the "OK Google, send a text to $PERSON" my watch will ask whether it should be to their mobile, work or home landline. A way to set it to only send text messages to mobiles would make sense but I can&#
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by gvurrdon 10y ago
Your instructor seems like a sensible fellow. Indeed, there are various focuses to the martial arts and what is taught in a particular school won't meet every requirement. I've found this article very useful for summarising this
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by gvurrdon 10y ago
Yes, that's how they handle it. I agree that they probably haven't hashed the password. Any time that I complain about this sort of thing the company agent usually doesn't know what I'm talking about.
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by gvurrdon 10y ago
Another one that is a great pain are the sites that insist upon asking for three letters from one's password to log in. This is all very well if one has an insecure password, but when I've created a 20-character password containin
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by gvurrdon 10y ago
I am reminded of an advertisement for "compressed molecules" lager from the 80s. This is the only reference I can find: https://broken-tv.blogspot.co.uk/2011/05/when-advertising-wa... I was starting to t
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by gvurrdon 10y ago
I've not had any serious problems entering the US, but it is always a mildly unpleasant experience with long queues, fingerprinting, and questioning by a humourless guard. The return trip is usually a little less unpleasant, with much
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by gvurrdon 10y ago
I've turned most of these off. The weather is useful as is commute information, but site updates and things Google think I might like based on my searches are generally poor. There was a recent reminder not to forget to vote and occasi

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