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511.
by iso1631 8mo ago
> "Personal Computing" is going to become a luxury of the past, and we’ll all be terminal-renters in someone else's data center. These things are cyclical.
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by iso1631 8mo ago
cooperation. Sure you have to isolate certain rogue states - North Korea, Russia, USA. Always the way.
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by iso1631 8mo ago
> I’m just afraid that prices of $everything will go up soon and will not come down anymore, like they did after Covid. Just like the price of labour. Your salary went up and doesn't come down In the UK weekly earnings increased 34%
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by iso1631 8mo ago
> he was convicted in 2015 of two counts of open and gross lewdness for displaying his genitals to a neighbor through the window of his home So he was naked in his own home? #Land of the free
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by iso1631 8mo ago
So 17 year old there's no access, then on your 18th birthday go nuts, completely unprepared?
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by iso1631 8mo ago
> 2. attempting to not waste time if the candidate's expectations are way out of line with the amount the company is willing to pay. Good reason for them to say what they're willing to pay before I bother reading their job adve
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by iso1631 8mo ago
The UK has multiple legal systems. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Limitation_Act_1980 Applies to England and Wales, I believe there are similar ones for Scotland and NI
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by iso1631 8mo ago
Nobody is found innocent in UK courts. You are found Guilty or confirmed you continue to be Not Guilty. In Scotland there was also the verdict "not proven" but that's no longer the case for new trials
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by iso1631 8mo ago
And indeed there are four different levels for that.
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by iso1631 8mo ago
But that's not the javascript, it's how it's used (react or whatever) You can write terrible non-performant code in assembly and C, and perfectly speedy pages in html and javascript (say the page you're on at the moment)
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by iso1631 8mo ago
So ITV don't get any money, so they stop making this stuff They gave you an option to pay for it without adverts, but you decided to invest your time and energy in bypassing the adverts rather than pay the cost of a pint of beer. You c
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by iso1631 8mo ago
You are implying there's no point in doing anything as people will find loopholes (which governments can then close) This site is no place for thought terminating cliches
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by iso1631 8mo ago
A regulation permitting me to swing my fist into your would restrict my freedom, and damn your nose It amuses me how the "land of the free" makes it a crime for people to cross the street without doing it at regulated locations.
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by iso1631 8mo ago
BBC's funding model is in its last 36 months
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by iso1631 8mo ago
> It's much like how in the UK they banned advertising for tobacco, and years later had to expand it so that supermarkets cannot even show the products visibly because the brand has their own inherent advertising that's visible
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by iso1631 8mo ago
> The Blu-ray collection appears to be available for about $100. It saddens me that people aren't willing to pay a pittance in cash (about $1 an hour) for entertainment. They're willing to spend their time, but not their money.
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by iso1631 8mo ago
Wikipedia says Viva.com is a multi-billion dollar startup It seems unlikely you're the first company using viva.com and using google workspace. Clearly the problem here is that viva.com emails aren't arriving on your google worksp
528.
by iso1631 8mo ago
It does seem unlikely that there are no customers on google workspace who have tried to use viva. I don't do payment processing, and my email is via zoho, so I've no idea how large either of those groups are. I wonder what google
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by iso1631 8mo ago
> Their support team's response to my detailed bug report: "your account has a verified email, so there's no problem." Sadly I doubt their system is xkcd806 compatible ether. This isn't an engineering problem, it
530.
by iso1631 8mo ago
The authorities know their IDs and fully support them
531.
by iso1631 8mo ago
> Oil, water temperature and alternator warning lights would be replaced by a single 'general car default' warning light. > Occasionally, for no reason, your car would lock you out and refuse to let you in until you simultan
532.
by iso1631 8mo ago
ctrl-k is for the search box ctrl-l is for the address box At most I want the address box to do is look up a dns name. Which can still be a risk if I were to hit "enter" with sensitive information which could in some cases get pus
533.
by iso1631 8mo ago
vim is a far larger program than a text editor. notepad was always a plain text editor. It had enough problems with unicode and what that means to be "plain text".
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by iso1631 8mo ago
For those who survived sure. For those at the time, I'm sure they would disagree
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by iso1631 8mo ago
Originally spinners and weavers were quite happy. One spun, the other weaved, and the cloth was made. Then along game the flying shuttle and the weavers were even happier - producing twice as much cloth and needing half as many spinners. Th
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by iso1631 9mo ago
Mainly because cash processing fees are higher than electronic, and the primary use of cash is to avoid paying tax
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by iso1631 9mo ago
There are many ways to do anonymous proof of age. E.g. go to a physical store and buy a proof of age token, the store will ID you as much as they would for buying alcohol or cigarettes. But that doesn't meet the requirements which is p
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by iso1631 9mo ago
> but ok that story is dated I'm struggling to think of the last time I saw a commercial unix -- we still had solaris on some new machines until about 2006 - the last I remember was the x4500 with ZFS. Our sun sysadmin contractor (w
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by iso1631 9mo ago
I get why OSes come with nano as the default editor, but it's so confining and slow to use when you're used to vim (or I'm sure emacs)
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by iso1631 9mo ago
Because emacs requires 8 meg of ram, and even then it's continuously swapping?

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