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by m0nty 9y ago
Idris Elba and Dominic West both caught me by surprise, given that I'm English and I was convinced they were both American. Then I heard Idris in another production talking proper London ... Discussion of his accent here from a dialect
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by m0nty 9y ago
Paul Dacre?
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by m0nty 9y ago
Ed Burns, the series "script consultant" (if that's the right term) was a Baltimore cop, and David Simon spent many, many hours hanging out on street corners with Baltimore corner boys, first convincing them he wasn't a
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by m0nty 9y ago
Promised when XP came out, iirc.
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by m0nty 9y ago
> Start from scratch, don't connect anything legacy The myth of the clean sweep. Personally, I've found such systems tend to be late, wrong and inevitably end up resembling what they replace, warts-and-all. This is because syst
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by m0nty 9y ago
> Your experiences with UK IT make for depressing reading. I am astonished that even skilled techies don't take security seriously, using passwords like their car registration or company name - I've seen that with a military c
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by m0nty 9y ago
Everything is a "bug" according to most journalists. We'll probably get something a bit more coherent from Ars Technica or The Register. WRT the failings: I've worked in IT in the UK for more than 25 years, and I have ne
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by m0nty 9y ago
Yellowapple is correct, it was my proxy which funneled all web traffic out to the Internet.
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by m0nty 9y ago
I used to do something similar for porn-site visitors when I worked at a school. Discipline was not well-enforced, I had zero authority as the IT guy, and when I blocked a porn-site in the proxy, they all moved to another one within minutes
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by m0nty 9y ago
> Now she takes care of herself and we don't know if she's now successful I get a bit tired of the generalisations in OA. Sometimes there is far more wrong with life than just not taking good enough care of yourself in terms of
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by m0nty 10y ago
You can get fully-functional velomobiles which are basically "pedelec with a shell" but far from being mass-produced (I'm guessing you probably know this anyway). I'd love to have one but they are expensive and (in the
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by m0nty 10y ago
It was something my boss told me when I used to work retail. I think it's part of the commons now ;) no attribution.
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by m0nty 10y ago
"You never win an argument with a customer."
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by m0nty 10y ago
Such carelessness was fairly normal for the time: the surveyors were often under pressure to complete quickly, even in the worst territory, with poor equipment and little actual training. On top of that, they were often bribed to move bound
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'Sightings' of extinct Tasmanian tiger prompt search in Queensland(theguardian.com)
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Boston public schools map switch aims to amend 500 years of distortion(theguardian.com)
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by m0nty 10y ago
Yes, that's what I meant. It's coded into their DNA (and their name) to not want the union to disintegrate.
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by m0nty 10y ago
Yes, probably 2020 on the election too, but there was some talk of a referendum in 2019. Will not edit ... Article 50 possibly as early as tomorrow.
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by m0nty 10y ago
Could be worse than that, at least from the viewpoint of the Conservative and Unionist Party, to give them their full (and oft-forgot) name: > "For the first time in my life, the prospect of a united Ireland is not only credible but
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by m0nty 10y ago
I had expected them to wait until 2019 given that's the probable date for the next general election. I think they might be timing this to coincide with Article 70 notification this week. Apart from people's fears about what that w
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by m0nty 10y ago
I was trying to sign up to an online gaming site recently, and my initial password was shown as being "strong" but was rejected — not enough "special" characters. It was 24 chars long and straight out of Keepass, but wha
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by m0nty 10y ago
> constantly hit Do you have any references for this?
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by m0nty 10y ago
Ah, OK, sorry. For many people, "picking on" means close passes and other illegal forms of intimidation. Like "picking on" someone at school means bullying.
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by m0nty 10y ago
> to be fair is true No it isn't. It's confirmation bias of a stereotype. Motorists often display contempt for the rules, but everyone goes on about cyclists doing it. An asshole in a car will be an asshole on a bike given the
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by m0nty 10y ago
> shows some bias The clue is in the name, it's a mag about cycling. It's run by Carlton Reid, a well-known expert on cycling - his most famous book is "Roads were not made for cars", a history of the intertwined hist
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by m0nty 10y ago
> Self-driving cars won't have these problems. My concern is that they will, but policymakers decide a few dead cyclists is a price worth paying. In the UK, we're already ignoring an air pollution crisis (mostly from car fumes)
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by m0nty 10y ago
Let's face it, that's not a problem with the watch per se :)
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by m0nty 10y ago
I have no problems with these groups in themselves, I'm of Irish descent so it would be a bit stupid if I did. It does seem like a very limited selection, though: there are hundreds if not thousands of other groups which could be accom
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by m0nty 10y ago
Looks great if you're Indian, Irish or female. Edit: Or AU/NZ, missed that one.
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by m0nty 10y ago
> I really, really don't think so Hacker News is, I think that was the intended meaning.

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