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by m0nty 7y ago
Depends what you mean by 'reasonable' but I've always been happy to pay Hetzner c. €22 per month. You do get a lot of storage with some of their servers. https://www.hetzner.com/sb
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by m0nty 7y ago
Ctrl-A and Ctrl-E are discussed. Try also Ctrl-K to delete to the end of the line. Alt-B and Alt-F to move one word at a time. I'm sure there are many more.
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by m0nty 7y ago
You can use the !SP operator before your DDG search to invoke StartPage, which uses Google results. I mean, it's the same thing, just it doesn't look like you're using Google search ;)
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by m0nty 7y ago
I let my Prime lapse this year, for similar reasons. Gone are the days when Amazon tended to have medium- to high-quality items. Now it's a 50/50 chance I will get some cheap tat which has been expertly misrepresented by the selle
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by m0nty 8y ago
I don't think it's silly, more of an extended field test which might cause some people to put their phones away. Everyone involved is probably thinking it's of marginal benefit at the moment, but the field-test data can be us
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by m0nty 8y ago
I know organisations which would automatically disqualify candidates who send "thank you" or any other kind of emails. They would call it "canvassing", which is forbidden for job-seekers in these organisations.
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by m0nty 8y ago
My own "you'll never get another chance to do that to me again" was when I migrated an organisation from Microsoft Exchange to Google Mail and Apps. It was great with Outlook Connector for Gmail, then they killed it. I will n
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by m0nty 8y ago
Before we even get onto climate change, noise pollution's effects on the brain, smoke's effects on internal organs, etc.
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by m0nty 8y ago
I do realise you are just putting a view which you might not share, but still: The problem with the idea that car drivers pay for the roads out of vehicle tax is flawed, since very often (not sure about the US, but this is true in the UK) t
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by m0nty 8y ago
You can use Putty Portable, without installing the whole PortableApps suite, and get settings in files rather than registry. https://portableapps.com/apps/internet/putty_portable
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by m0nty 8y ago
> Tim Berners Lee had this Pollyannaish view once upon a time that went like this: What if we could develop a web that was free to use for everyone and that would fuel creativity, connection, knowledge and optimism across the globe? It&#
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by m0nty 8y ago
It's a running joke in archaeology that any artifact of unknown usage has "religious" purposes, whatever that might mean. The whole druids thing (as it's presented today) is a recent invention, basically the 19th centur
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by m0nty 8y ago
Plus, in the UK the VPNs do not block certain websites which ISPs are legally required to block.
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by m0nty 8y ago
I've always wanted a velomobile, which is about that price although you still have to pedal. Electric ones are available though.
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by m0nty 8y ago
I had a similar one ... and yet, not quite enough to outright convince me it was a fake. Because some people do wear weird hats and toupees.
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by m0nty 8y ago
> The rsync manpage is way too long I see its thoroughness as a feature, not a bug. It's very well written and I can just ignore the bits I'm not interested in. I wish more man pages were "too long" like this one is.
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by m0nty 8y ago
Worth remembering that VLC 3 also does Chromecast. Different use-case I know but it is very handy.
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by m0nty 8y ago
There's also this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6866085 And the Google 'Shell Style Guide': https://google.github.io/styleguide/shell.xml Just in case you hadn't seen them a
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by m0nty 8y ago
This is a complete 180 from about 18 years ago, when I contacted someone re. the Jobcentre website requiring Internet Explorer: "I only have a Linux system, how can I get access?" "We only support Microsoft Explorer." &q
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by m0nty 8y ago
It's rare that these airfields have survived in the UK. Beaulieu Heath was an important airfield in WW2, but now it's almost invisible from the ground. Google Maps shows its layout quite clearly still: https://www.googl
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How a Wooden Bench in Zimbabwe Is Starting a Revolution in Mental Health(digg.com)
3 points by m0nty 8y ago|0 comments
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by m0nty 8y ago
I don't remember providing them with ID but I've been a customer for a long time, maybe it's a recent requirement. It's worth opening a dialog with them if you're having issues - you'll be conversing with a rea
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by m0nty 8y ago
The drugs are appalling. They have all sorts of weird side-effects but offer only marginal benefits in terms of sleep amount and quality. I have used Mirtazapine to good effect, however, so you might yet find something which does suit you.
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by m0nty 8y ago
> What exactly is new about this? My thoughts exactly. I've tried all the things in the article (inluding CBT) and they are ineffective for me. This is acknowledged in the article ("we're all different") but the overa
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by m0nty 8y ago
I moved back to Firefox after an update to Vivaldi started lagging badly when I woke up my PC. Maybe it was an extension, but after disabling some of them I realised I don't really have time or inclination to find out. Another thing I
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by m0nty 8y ago
Always worth remembering that the person who writes the article usually doesn't write the headline. My reading is that climate-change effects have got dramatically worse in the last few years, and are not likely to improve in any fores
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by m0nty 8y ago
> the collapse of human civilization I must have missed that bit in the article.
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Attempt to replicate major social scientific findings of past decade fails(theguardian.com)
1 points by m0nty 8y ago|0 comments
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by m0nty 8y ago
I was told all these phenomena (on maps) are referred to as "cartographers' follies", so the other names are interesting to hear. In the "real world", it was commonplace for compilers of mailing lists to include sev
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by m0nty 8y ago
> Intercepting http without the user knowing was a bad practice to begin with A proxy and strict filtering of media files was essential when I ran a school's network using dual ISDN lines to connect to the Internet. Slightly analago

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