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by iso1210 5y ago
I'm talking 16:9, I was watching a fairly recent south park (from about 2015) on an iphone12 mini, there are two options that double tapping toggles between, one is the original 16:9, the other zooms in so it's full width (includi
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by iso1210 5y ago
> Your mom appreciates a $600 weekend getaway with her son/daughter infinitely more than a $600 fancy bluetooth speaker. Your mom appreciates a $600 weekend getaway with her son/daughter infinitely more than a $6000 fancy do
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by iso1210 5y ago
Is crime higher, or is it that crime is reported more?
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by iso1210 5y ago
This was the case with Simpsons when it came onto Disney Plus - they took the 4:3 and didn't just blow it to 14:9, but 16:9 -- throwing away a quarter of the original image. There's now an option to show the original aspect ratio,
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by iso1210 5y ago
> house prices to income ratios are much worse But what about cost of housing -- interest rates are much lower, does that offset the costs?
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by iso1210 5y ago
155mph is 250km/h, I suspect that's where they miscalculated
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by iso1210 5y ago
As Channel 4 said at the time > Deposit guarantees should prevent this. But even after an extraordinary unlimited lending facility granted by the Bank of England and agreed by the Chancellor, customers preferred the sight of real cash.
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by iso1210 5y ago
This has been a threat for 20+ years, certainly everyone I worked with had outgoing ssh tunnels through the socks proxy, with reverse port forwarding, back then. If your network is reliant on a high firewall and nothing inside, you've
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by iso1210 5y ago
I used google maps the other day on my phone for the first in in ages (to see if they had anything for the fuel issues in the UK at the moment). I was amazed how full of junk I wasn't interested in getting in the way of the actual map.
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by iso1210 5y ago
> Bank runs like from the movie "Its a wonderful life" - they don't happen anymore. Another example of a bank run is the bank run of Northern Rock on the 14th September 2007. This was the biggest banking problem in the Un
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by iso1210 5y ago
I don't use either on a plane, can't sleep with facemasks, and I hate things in my ear. However it's not the noise. A plane rarely has turbulence - you can board a plane at midnight in Singapore, put the bed back after a nigh
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by iso1210 5y ago
£3k for just a managed access switch seems a bit high, you should be able to get a 48 port 1G juniper ex3400 with 4x10 uplinks for about £1500 (of course proper switch prices are always hidden in layers of mystery, which really pisses me of
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by iso1210 5y ago
Massively expensive and people weren't willing to pay
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by iso1210 5y ago
Yup, tax carbon use of energy on the way into the data centre, let microsoft, google, amazon etc work out how they want to charge it. Data centers in say south island new zealand powered by hydro will have near-zero carbon cost and thus be
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by iso1210 5y ago
I WANNA QUIT THE GYM!
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by iso1210 5y ago
> Services handling recurring payments need to compulsorily have a cancel button. Provided on the card provider end.
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by iso1210 5y ago
Demo looks great, alas the prebuilt binaries don't work $ wget https://github.com/alexhallam/tv/releases/download/0.0.10/tidy-viewer --2021-09-27 16:47:43-- https://github.com&#x
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by iso1210 5y ago
Any moving vehicle is a hazard, the faster it's moving (relative to the road) the greater the hazard A stopped car won't crash. A moving car will.
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by iso1210 5y ago
> When you're on the open road and the speed limit is 55mph, but everyone is going 80mph+, then anyone going the speed limit is a hazard Surely it's the ones doing 80mph that are the hazzard
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by iso1210 5y ago
It's spelt "you"
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by iso1210 5y ago
Serial is less useful as you need a serial cable, so if you're going to carry a serial cable you might as well have one with USB on the end. If you're going into an RJ45 serial connection (like I am at the moment), then an ideal l
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by iso1210 5y ago
I use a USB-Serial cable about once a week. I use an ethernet cable dozens of times a day. Framework means in theory I could have a laptop (Well in theory) with say 4 ethernet / serial ports (switchable) and SDI, and that's far mo
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by iso1210 5y ago
Yes, I'm sure you could make one which acted as a USB-HDMI converter as well as a rubber ducky. sprinkle a few around, maybe bribe a cleaner to leave one in a meeting room, and you're set.
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by iso1210 5y ago
> Keep the poor soul in mind that has to go through your code in 3 years time. That could be you yourself ;-) Isn't that why people move company every few years :D Complaining about crap legacy code is easier when it hasn't got
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by iso1210 5y ago
Not just the current government, UK health care funding (regardless of source) has been about £1k a year per capita lower than France, Germany, Netherlands etc for 40 years (and about £8k a year lower than the US). In 2016, UK governemnt&#x
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by iso1210 5y ago
> The U.K. healthcare system is the lowest level of medical service possible being made available with tax payers' contribution. Rubbish. International studies stick the UK health system high up, and typically far higher than the US
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by iso1210 5y ago
> That's the pre-tax salary For anyone watching, £100k ($136k) pre tax is £67k ($91k) post income related taxes. That's about the same tax rate as someone in California according to https://us.icalculator.info/t
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by iso1210 5y ago
Perth feels a lot nearer to the UK (especially with the non-stop flight from London, 17 hours vs 24 with a layover to Sydney) than the rest of the continent. It's 7 hours ahead rather than 9 which I think makes a difference too.
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by iso1210 5y ago
Been a while since I stayed in the EU, but I was in Brussels in October 2019 and stayed at an Aloft at the time of an EU summit. I distinctly remember remonstrating with the clerk about the embarrassment of my British passport when I handed
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by iso1210 5y ago
I can't think of a single country (other than my own, and maybe in the rest of the EU) where I've gone to a hotel and not had to give my passport and credit card. Passport is photocopied, credit card is checked. Passport number is

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