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Worldometer, a quick project that became one of the most popular internet sites(newstatesman.com)
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Robert May, former UK chief scientist and chaos theory pioneer, dies aged 84(theguardian.com)
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Apple fined record €1.1bn by French competition regulator(theguardian.com)
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by m0nty 7y ago
Another my mechanics fan ;) Was literally just watching his latest video. Happy not to use WD40 if that's his advice. I know oiling bearings which have grease in them is a no-no for just the reason you describe - will loosen the grease
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by m0nty 7y ago
WD40 is indeed great for cleaning things, including bike parts. And you can use it as you suggest, then apply another lubricant designed for bike chains. However, there are other cleaners specifically designed for bike chains. It's jus
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Man who misses Ceefax spends years creating his own version(independent.co.uk)
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by m0nty 7y ago
If you like to read, read Clive James. He is perfectly at home discussing anything from Buffy the Vampire Slayer to George Orwell, and his essays are just beautifully done. Sadness that he died, but he knew it was coming, was grateful the s
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by m0nty 7y ago
Or alternatively: that most of us happily accept the lower costs of goods and services from developing countries, but some people get upset that this drags our earnings down because of the competition from their workforces.
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by m0nty 7y ago
Press F9. Reader Mode ftw.
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by m0nty 7y ago
> Don't agree with this assessment at all, we do stand-ups and it rarely takes more than 5 minutes I do agree with it, because everywhere I've worked that does a daily standup does it wrong, and I think OA is more about those
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by m0nty 7y ago
Joshua Foer goes into this in 'Moonwalking with Einstein', approaching from the view of a would-be mnemonist and how scrolls were far less efficient than books. OA touches on headings, indexes and tables of content, but Foer goes
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by m0nty 7y ago
I got "fuddy-duddy", so presumably it was seen as an old (or old-fashioned) person's hobby.
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It Looks Like the Move from Google Play Music to YouTube Music Is Back On(theinquirer.net)
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by m0nty 7y ago
ITT: lots of people missing the point that he doesn't actually believe his games look like crap, he's just made a conscious (and profitable) decision to go retro. He likes his games' visual style and values the freelancers wh
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by m0nty 7y ago
I was wondering about that, so thank you for the clarification. The other issue I had with it was that plastic bags are notorious for ending up in hedgerows and waterways, so there is that secondary impact from being a disposable item, whic
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by m0nty 7y ago
"For a cotton tote to have less environmental impact than a plastic bag, it has to be reused 7,100 times. So why do tote bags have such good PR?" https://www.newstatesman.com/politics/environment/2019&#x2
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by m0nty 7y ago
> You're going to have to invest the time to do it right up front This is the problem with most places I have worked: "I want this and I need it today." Scripting is the obvious answer. Then it will change to "I want
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by m0nty 7y ago
I might have kept my subscription if "next day delivery" wasn't all-too-often "day after next day and maybe even the day after that, depends if it's a weekday or not." I don't miss it.
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by m0nty 7y ago
I spend a significant amount of time taking photos of BIOS settings to help technical staff image our PCs. Screenshots from something like this would be way better. Shame we tend to use Fujitsu :)
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by m0nty 7y ago
> think a green field is nature I see these areas basically as factories, albeit we do have the kind of food security our ancestors could only dream of. Would be fantastic to see more forested areas and associated 're-wilding'
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by m0nty 7y ago
I looked for something to alter its behaviour, but there's nothing I can find. I think it's really dangerous, I'm not using Google Maps for navigation again if I can help it.
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by m0nty 7y ago
It's a complicated issue, but my disappointment is that we have the chance to be free from widespread traffic noise, for the first time in almost a century. Yet it's to become mandatory. It's not as though traffic noise is be
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by m0nty 7y ago
I use this. Got fed up with Google Maps (in navigation mode) constantly trying to get my attention for things unrelated to driving. "We've found a faster route!" it would say, as if saving five minutes on a five hour journey
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by m0nty 7y ago
Andro Linklater in Measuring America says this is one of the great tragedies of forcibly relocating Native Americans from their traditional lands: the loss of the oral histories bound to routes and landmarks on those lands. So the theory
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by m0nty 7y ago
> I VPN in to my home network, ssh into the pi using Terminus on my iphone, and 'aplay' the wav file Once, when I was working away from home, someone unplugged the phone at home so I couldn't phone in. After becoming very
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by m0nty 7y ago
> Chrome is the new IE Some software houses who supply the company I work for, are refusing to work with anything but Chrome. So it really does seem like the bad old days all over again.
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by m0nty 7y ago
Had to look it up :)
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by m0nty 7y ago
> "These institutions would teach that if you ate a healthy breakfast you could be more productive at work. Of course, that would be an excellent selling feature that would win over converts. Cereal companies would begin to pop up l
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by m0nty 7y ago
The writing is really odd. "According to the Dansville Historical Society, Jackson would create and use this cereal in his sanitarium in Dansville NY." Well, did he or didn't he? Why say "would create" when you mean
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by m0nty 7y ago
> add a light or buzzer I doubt these machines are silent already.

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