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by iso1210 5y ago
Seems "the cloud" had a major outage less than a month ago, my laptop has a higher uptime. $ 16:04 up 46 days, 7:02, 9 users, load averages: 3.68 3.56 3.18 US East 1 was down just over a year ago https://www.theregist
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My raspberry pi is still working just fine
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64 bit processor in 1995. AMD64 wasn't released until 2000. From memory Sun/Solaris kit supported far more memory than anything X86 based.
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Go parachuting
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by iso1210 5y ago
SPARC hardawre was very good in the 90s and early 00s, and Solaris was a solid unix, unlike that upstart linux. Solaris came out with ZFS and zones, where were both way ahead of anything in the linux ecosystem, however it's restrictive
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> The reason Singapore works is because people can leave, or go there, as they please. Where can they go? Singapore Citizens have a right of abode in Singapore, and they have one of the most useful passports in the world for visiting co
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by iso1210 5y ago
47g of heroin on the streets of New York or London looks to be worth about $5000, that won't get you far in a US hospital, and that's assuming 100% of the value went to the trafficker.
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by iso1210 5y ago
Do you have a source on that 1-3 million? Wikipedia says "The most widely accepted estimates are that at least 500,000 to over 1 million were killed", putting in in the vicinity of Rwanda, and less than Cambodia or Bangladesh
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1-3 million is about the number killed in Cambodia by Pol Pot
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Austrailia decriminalised gay sexual activity in 1973. Other neighbouring countries, Indonesia by comparision (aside from Aceh) has no law against it, nor does Thailand, Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos, East Timor (that's not to say LGBT peopl
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by iso1210 5y ago
Isn't that Dogecoin? (although inflation rate itself is deflationary - dropping from 5% pa about now to 2% in about 20 years)
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Was it? I thought HBO was a cable channel, which of course is streamed and compressed, but TV has always been streamed and compressed (even in analog days - 422 is compression standard as it throws away a ton of chroma, interlacing is compr
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by iso1210 5y ago
Having watched all of Game of Thrones on Blueray, when the final season came out I was stuck with a UK streaming service called "nowtv", which my router reported was pulling in at 4mbit a second. The entire battle of winterfell wa
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by iso1210 5y ago
They should have a popup saying "Try Firefox", then I'll believe it's based on a genuine concern for their users.
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class X { function Y { for (i < 20) { if (array[i] == 17) { // just 64 characters left now
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And that mad scientist could just as easilly be from Earth as from Mars. Once you have the ability for individuals to launch multi ton payloads on escape velocity, you have the ability for individuals to launch multi ton payloads at earth.
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You think that watching one film over another is more likely to cause you to die?
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Another version of the old "hit with a hammer" parable, albeit one where the incompetence of the elecrtician is rewarded.
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by iso1210 5y ago
High marginal tax rates in the UK are mainly hit at low wages (when you come off universal credit and get taxed at 75p on the pound, when you're repaying your student loan when you get an extra 9p/pound, when you have two kids and
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The remote has only come in in the last couple of years thanks to covid, and yes going forward if wages stay high. That's upto 70k, and note that it "depends on location". If you live in Durham you'll be on the 50k end.
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You have to realise that LPL has a very specific set of skills. Skills he has acquired over a very long career. Skills that make hom a nightmare for people like masterlock. I had a locksmith out a couple of years ago, and was very disappoin
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If you're pulling a 6 figure salary then sure. If you've been earning on a typical career - say £25k/yr starting in your mid 20s, £35k-£45k through your 30s, perhaps getting upto £60k by the time you're into your 40s, yo
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Go to eton is common
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People said the same thing about Next Generation and Phantom Menace
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Which started off as x11amp - that's the player I first used on linux (having upgrade from winamp/windows)
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> What it doesn't do well is spaff money indiscriminately at any old idiot with an idea. That's what government's for
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2006 called and wants its negotiation techniques back https://slashdot.org/story/06/10/28/226211/munich-migrating-...
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I had a gout flareup while in Washington DC for work. It's happened before, last time (in the UK) I phoned up the freephone national number for advice, my wife drove me to the local hospital, I walked (hobbled) in, had a couple of test
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In the 90s in the UK we couldn't watch DS9 at the same time as the US. The Season 7 finale was June 1999 for example, but the earliest we could watch in the UK was November, by buying the episodes on tape. After that they came out on S
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by iso1210 5y ago
Meh, I'm winning, at least here in the UK. I have Disney, Apple, Netflix, Amazon and BBC, including the option to buy/rent new stuff on amazon, giving me massive amounts of choice for less than mother-in-law pays for her Boomer TV

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