jemmyw

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by jemmyw 9mo ago
Electoral reform is really hard for parties just voted in by that election system. Suddenly they see the good in that which they had previously seen as bad.
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by jemmyw 9mo ago
Not helping with your US/big tech dependence though
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by jemmyw 9mo ago
Kvaesitso is open source, so since writing this I downloaded it, removed the dynamic ordering and updated it on my phone.
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by jemmyw 9mo ago
I'm trying that one too. I did not like Octopi or KISS. Kvaesitso looks nice, I like the drawer and the drawer widgets are kind of cool too. The annoying thing that might drive me away is that you cannot set the order of favourites and
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by jemmyw 9mo ago
I remember talking about this 10 years ago. Not as a prediction but as a sensible business move for MS. What is the value in the Windows client now? The consumer side seems like more of a liability. The parts that make money don't need
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by jemmyw 9mo ago
This is the madness of the whole thing - the US could already build more bases in Greenland if they wanted to. This isn't about building bases or military strategy or even resources. If it were about those things then the US could take
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by jemmyw 9mo ago
> He might be their end-user (either business or customer) in which case he won't get 20% VAT back. My understanding, dealing with VAT/GST in another country, is that a business customer still gets the VAT back even if they&#x2
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by jemmyw 9mo ago
Could you fix your video to not zoom in and out constantly like that? It's pretty hard to tell what's going on when it zooms right in every time you click something, and it's so fast it actually gave me a bit of motion sickne
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by jemmyw 9mo ago
wasn't that more because at that point the US public just weren't interested in carrying on?
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by jemmyw 9mo ago
There is no rational reason. The US can put as many military resources as it likes there, and the fact that they haven't probably points to it not being a great place to station a larger force because of the climate. US companies can m
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by jemmyw 9mo ago
That's probably quite unfair. The EU nations don't have huge militaries that allow them to project force around the world. And they used to. They didn't just become cowards after WWII. Europe was reshaped by wars, and by Amer
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by jemmyw 9mo ago
I mean, I had a similar experience with the old doctor not being very worried when I had the same symptom. But when I raised that I was worried about having a heart attack and dying he was equally unworried about that "people die, don&
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by jemmyw 9mo ago
Why did you use `track` for variables and `#` for lists instead of using the same syntax for both?
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by jemmyw 10mo ago
That's not it at all. I do ditch books I'm not into. The situation I'm describing is usually where the story has some tension or I feel like the next chapter might have tension, and I don't want to push on for the time b
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by jemmyw 10mo ago
I just started reading simultaneously instead of sequentially and it really helped me get back into reading every night. The problem with one book at a time is that I'll get stuck or sick of one and then I just don't read.
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by jemmyw 10mo ago
I took the linked test and I was a little disappointed that I scored badly on all creativity measures. But the scale seems a little silly: you score higher for doing a broader range than doing one thing deeply. So I scored badly on visual a
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by jemmyw 10mo ago
I believe he offered to station French troops in Greenland
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by jemmyw 10mo ago
I've been using Claude code and cursor in a similar way for different projects and the results are very similar. At some point with Claude code I need to switch to CC + VSCode because I need to have more understanding of the code and s
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by jemmyw 10mo ago
Yes, it is unimaginable that the UK has replaced most of their automated car washes with immigrants washing cars manually. I've been back there and I've still family there, it's not that different "on the ground" as
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by jemmyw 10mo ago
I agree and I would similarly reconsider any purchase if I saw an ad for the product or company online. At this stage it's almost like if you have to advertise then you're not worth it. How do we find what's worth buying then
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by jemmyw 10mo ago
> while in the US you see automated car washes, in the uk most car washes are Albanians n other immigrants etc Er what? I moved away from the UK in 2007 but even then the only place I or my parents washed a car was the ubiquitous petrol
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by jemmyw 10mo ago
I remembered the same article too, I'm sure I could have found it again knowing it was listed on HN and/or recalling the wording. Good article too, going in depth on steam engines - the first ones were so inefficient they had to b
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by jemmyw 10mo ago
Fastest way to do it: induction hob and a hot water tap with one of those under sink boilers. It takes longer to fill the pan than to get the water to a rolling boil.
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by jemmyw 10mo ago
I missed that one. But it seems like a lively debate for the most part rather than a single opinion pile on. But yeah I get your point that it's like there's an unreasonable number of people who have a strong opinion on it despite
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by jemmyw 10mo ago
Do they? I've mentioned homeschooling on hn before without issue. There's always knobs who can't have a nuanced view of course, but generally the discussions I've seen have tended positive.
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by jemmyw 10mo ago
I've always loved the books. I grew up near Ashdown forest. When I visited the UK again I stayed in Hartfield and went to the little cafe they mention in the article. It was nice, my kids enjoyed it. I was reminded this year that my Wi
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by jemmyw 10mo ago
I don't believe so, built in, because I see some extensions for adding it.
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by jemmyw 10mo ago
It's a code editor. It's not that much more complex than vim. It doesn't do magic to your codebase that makes development different. I've written plugins for vim, neovim and VSCode... VSCode at least has well documented
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by jemmyw 10mo ago
It's not actually that bad though. I do remember the days when VSCode would often be the problem app, but not for a couple of years now. Sometimes a plugin runs a process that causes an issue... but the same happens with neovim, its th
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by jemmyw 10mo ago
It has jump previews and yea ctrl+o works

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