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by isostatic 7y ago
Wouldn't that simply say "root did this at this time", and maybe "on this pts", and then I'd have to marry that up with who was logged on at the given pts at that time? Either way we don't sue sudo to enfo
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by isostatic 7y ago
C90 cassettes are objectively terrible
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by isostatic 7y ago
> For example, Spotify says that its average payout for a stream to labels and publishers is between $0.006 and $0.0084 but Information Is Beautiful suggests that the average payment to an artist from the label portion of that is $0.0011
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by isostatic 7y ago
We have an ever changing group of about 60 engineers who need the ability to do rooty style things on about 500 different machines (very few of which are the same, so things like ansible don't work too well). While only a handful actua
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by isostatic 7y ago
Yup it's nearly 4 years old. Newest kit I have (along with my 2014 desktop, 2013 mac and 2010 thinkpad) Sometimes individual consumers change things, most of the time it needs regulation to help them. The 'invisible hand' may
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by isostatic 7y ago
> Cellphones Are Throwaways That's the point - they shouldn't be. The cost of a cellphone does not cover the cost to the planet of producing that cellphone.
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by isostatic 7y ago
Notepad was fixed years ago
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by isostatic 7y ago
Because they want you to use google as your portal to the internet. I change my Firefox copies to have separate boxes, and no search from url bar. I don’t recall offhand as it’s muscle memory, and I’m on a phone, but I think it’s ctrl-k for
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by isostatic 7y ago
> 3 - Why do I, as a UK resident, have to provide money so that someone in Vietnam can access our state news? Up until a few years ago you didn't. In the news + current affairs genre there was 1) UK output (Huw Edwards, News24, Pano
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by isostatic 7y ago
World News TV that you get in international hotels is a commercial arm, it's purpose is like CNN international. World Service - mainly radio, but also TV, is to deliver a UK viewpoint to the world - traditionally "the colonies&quo
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by isostatic 7y ago
But don't worry, you'll still look.... absolutely fabulous
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by isostatic 7y ago
One has to assume Wood Norton was also a target
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by isostatic 7y ago
"shall not be violated" How's that Militia going? Got any nuclear weapons?
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by isostatic 7y ago
If the 2nd ammendment didn't apply at "The Border" (aka the 100 mile wide 'constitution free zone'), then perhaps there wouldn't be such a zone https://www.aclu.org/sites/default/files
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by isostatic 7y ago
So much for the 4th amendment. It seems that most of america only cares about the second.
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by isostatic 7y ago
Ubiquity -- Uber works in London, but it also works in Manchester, and Cardiff, and New York, and Sydney Addison Lee works in London.
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by isostatic 7y ago
Wheelchair users - black cabs (technically) take wheelchairs easilly.
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by isostatic 7y ago
Given that cabs typically have 1 passenger in, why should they be allowed in bus lanes?
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by isostatic 7y ago
So you would argue that bus lanes should be HOV lanes - if you have at least 3 people in your car you can use it (although if it's a taxi, minimum would be 4 people)
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by isostatic 7y ago
Which laws? Uber is perfectly legal in the UK, same as Addison Lee. Sure there's lots of complaints from the buggy whip manufacturers, but given their product is 1) Worse to use (standing in the rain with you arm out in the hopes someo
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by isostatic 7y ago
Web Browsers were paid for at one time, as were operating systems.
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by isostatic 7y ago
They are typically moving between 0 and 1 passenger around -- worse than cars.
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by isostatic 7y ago
I did once. Went less than two miles, and ended up £20 worse off. The other time I tried to use it I got yelled at for getting in it without telling him where I wanted to go. I do use uber or other private hire in London on occasion - when
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by isostatic 7y ago
Black Cabs, used by the rich to bypass the traffic. They should be banned from bus lanes at very least.
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by isostatic 7y ago
> It was commonly believed that the point of those charges (whether they were true or not) was to get Assange to Sweden, at which point Sweden could roll over, do the US's bidding and extradite him to the US. Which was always ridic
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by isostatic 7y ago
If your machine is pointing to doh on the Internet, how does a reverse lookup for an rfc1918 address work? One issue with doh is that it’s inconsistent - some applications use one resolver, some use another. The network (via dhcp) can’t hin
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by isostatic 7y ago
Sure, as were things like CIX, and indeed compuserve in the early days
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by isostatic 7y ago
How do you do PTR records? (what hostname is 10.12.43.122) How do you do split DNS? (Inside my network I want it pointing to my internal server) Now you could argue that the fault in both of those cases is IPv4 and the natting that comes wi
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by isostatic 7y ago
In 1990 in the uk we paid 1) per minute charge on the phone (typically 1-10p) 2) per monthly charge to phone company for line rental 3) per monthly charge to isp for access 4) per minute charge to isp while we were dialed in
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by isostatic 7y ago
Your job is forcing you to do bad things for your health. Either say no, or leave. It’s not the airline’s fault.

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