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by ljf 2y ago
You are totally correct - I was thinking of 'picture messages' which this could send. I was only a little jealous of the 3210 as i thought it was quite ugly really, but the 3310 seemed a heap better, especially with the blue led (
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by ljf 2y ago
Totally! When I got my Nokia 5146 (still basically a 5110) - you had to pay I think £50 for the phone, plus the contract of £15 a month. A month or two later you could get the 3210 for free, plus a better contract from orange, that took adv
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by ljf 2y ago
I remember that Motorola, I was opening a student bank account and they offered a free 3 year student railcard (to buy discount tickets), a camera or that motorola - I was just about to get it when the lack of Snake and also the pretty poor
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by ljf 2y ago
I've often pondered why some animals make friends. I grew up on a small farm, where we mainly kept sheep. Most of the year the ram would have next to no interest in the yews (female sheep), unless there was some sort of threat - he&#x2
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Unidentified drones spotted over US air base in Germany(theguardian.com)
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by ljf 2y ago
I never unsubscribe (as I never subscribed in the first place) I just: right click > junk > block sender If I keep getting stuff from them/they mildly changed email addresses - I just block the whole domain. I suggested to our Cy
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by ljf 2y ago
All for the highest cost per person, in the world
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by ljf 2y ago
Lost myself to this blog this morning - so much great stuff in there, and crosses over with so many of the things I was interested in in my early 20s - brilliant posts about the Fossil PDA watch, the Web@nywhere and loads about vintage tech
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by ljf 2y ago
Gah - didn't spot that - this was originally posted 7 days ago, but seems to have been refreshed by dang - if you search 'honey' you'll see it was originally a thread 7 days ago , and note that some of the comments here
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by ljf 2y ago
Previous discussion https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42286030
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by ljf 2y ago
Certainly - that will benefit a lot of people who didn't want to (or who couldn't) take advantage of those offers. I was tempted to go for one, but would still have been around £400 a month after tax. I far prefer to buy a car in
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by ljf 2y ago
Totally agree - I live in a small (coastal) town where a there are very few jobs outside of service roles - and they are highly seasonal. Average salary for peole that work in the town must be around £20-25k and even cheap houses here are £
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by ljf 2y ago
Been blown away by 2nd hand prices lately. Back in 2022 we needed another car for my wife, and she wanted an auto. I would have loved to get an electric as she doesn't cover a lot of miles - but £12k was cheap at the time for something
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Electric cars make up one in four sold in November (UK)(bbc.co.uk)
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by ljf 2y ago
Not disagreeing with your central points - but average UK salary is now £35k and the average house price is £289k - therefore house prices are currently 8.25 times the average salary. Regional variations will make this far worse in many pop
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by ljf 2y ago
Here in the UK I can't say that we have the same issue - BUT we have far fewer SUVs and lights are regulated far more. You'll fail your yearly MOT (car roadworthiness test) if you have lights that are too bright or misaligned, and
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by ljf 2y ago
I can only speak for myself - I produce exec/board materials. Often a request will go out to several people and I can get ahead by responding first. Sometimes someone will reply to me quickly and the edge I bring is properly digesting
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This post deserves to do better on hn. A good write up of the problem, but more interesting was the steps to get this resolved - it is a shame it took them reaching out over LinkedIn to get a pretty huge issue solved.
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UFO expert not ruling out Russia or China links to drones seen at RAF bases(theguardian.com)
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After 50 years of mystery, siblings claim hijacker DB Cooper was their father(theguardian.com)
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'Royalties for everyone': Suriname president plans to share oil wealth(theguardian.com)
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First close-up image of a star outside Milky Way shows supergiant in 'cocoon'(theguardian.com)
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"I lost my six year old son when flash floods inundated Nova Scotia"(theguardian.com)
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This year 'virtually certain' to be hottest on record, finds EU space programme(theguardian.com)
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by ljf 2y ago
It is amazing how important it is to talk to the people who use your product. Years ago my bit of east London was being gentrified. One day I went in and the bar area was totally updated with a nice (old) bar top taken from another pub, mov
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by ljf 2y ago
When I got to the bit where they referred to the smaller training set of paid voice actors, that hit it for me. It certainly sounds like they are throwing the 'um' and 'ah's in to a script - not naturally. This is good,
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Clickable link for the lazy https://www.kalzumeus.com/2012/01/23/salary-negotiation/
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We have exactly this set up at work and I've never had a single issue with it. One usb c cable from one monitor to my laptop, which provides power and gets me two 24 inch monitors. I take video calls all day and never have any lag acro
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by ljf 2y ago
They cause an insulin spike so yes - but you can bend the rules however you want. For me just doing something where I stop myself gorging on sweets/chocolate is half the battle. Anything that spikes my insulin makes me crave sweet food
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by ljf 2y ago
Agreed feels like a very 'handwavy' number - I'm in the office today and people here just disappear too for periods of time. They always have done, and I guess they always will do. For me WFH is a game changer - much of my ca

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