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by mathieuh 3y ago
It must be quite an experience to talk to someone who unabashedly calls for apartheid. I'm more familiar in the west with people making racist or homophobic or whatever statements but then denying that they are themselves racist or hom
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by mathieuh 3y ago
I used to think I had some ADHD symptoms: growing up I never did any revision for any of my school exams until a couple of days before, all my coursework and projects were done last minute in a week of intense focus, I've had issues wi
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by mathieuh 3y ago
Completely the same, sometimes it does something cool but a lot of the time I start writing a comment to get it to generate even something simple like e.g. some boilerplate test code and it can’t manage it. It’s happened often enough that I
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by mathieuh 3y ago
For context, the UK enables massive tax dodging and shady dealings through its network of crown dependencies and overseas territories, amounting to £152bn a year. https://www.theguardian.com/business/2023/apr/
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by mathieuh 3y ago
I live in northern ireland in an actual house and the walls are thin enough I could dip my bread into my neighbours' soup. It is the number one reason I could never see myself living in an apartment, I'm very sensitive to noise an
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by mathieuh 3y ago
By the same token then you must agree that all Israelis are responsible for the horrific conditions that have prevailed in Gaza for decades, as well as the settler violence in the west bank, and apartheid. Which is obviously not true. To sa
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by mathieuh 3y ago
Baffles me why all these streaming companies are shooting themselves in the foot. For about 18 months there was a golden age where it was easier to pay for things than to pirate. Now we’re in a situation where it’s even /harder/ t
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by mathieuh 3y ago
It's the other way around, if you can see a word written you can pronounce it, but French notoriously has a large number of homophonous syllables.
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by mathieuh 3y ago
I think they were probably referring to the handling of such a ridiculously heavy car.
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by mathieuh 3y ago
As someone who’s never been into crypto, the general discourse when I look in crypto-related subreddits suggests that the very fact that mainstream media were calling it a Ponzi scheme is one of the reasons you should invest in crypto. It’s
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by mathieuh 3y ago
Problem is a lot of games give controllers aim-assist, and using one of these devices means the game still sees your input device as a controller so you get that aim-assist but you also get the benefits of using a mouse.
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by mathieuh 3y ago
I assume in Canada/UK it rhymes with vagina? That's probably because the royal cipher of Elizabeth II was ER, with the 'R' being for Regina (Latin for 'queen'). So I would imagine that people have heard it in t
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That’s crazy to me, I couldn’t tell you the last time I had to change an LED bulb, certainly it’s at least five years. And I work from home in a part of the world where it’s very dark for half the year so they get a lot of use. They’re Phil
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by mathieuh 3y ago
I never thought I would see an American Exceptionalist comment about a system of measurements. Metric measurements are as intuitive to me as American customary units are to you. I can just as easily use my handspan or the lengths of my fing
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by mathieuh 3y ago
You’re not the only one. It seems to me we should be trying to get rid of cars in favour of mass transport or two-wheel personal transport. Having personal transport in the form of cars makes little sense in cities where space is at a premi
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by mathieuh 3y ago
2500 calories for a marathon sounds way too low. I do bike rides every weekend that are typically burning over 3000 calories. This is with a power meter on the bike so it's not going to be miles off.
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by mathieuh 3y ago
I'm paying £15/month to rent a seedbox on which I have a media centre application and a torrent client installed. If I could get the same user experience for the same price legally then I would, but the legal experience is both to
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by mathieuh 3y ago
UK Home Secretary Suella Braverman is on the very-far-right-authoritarian side of the government, and she's been very vocal in her support for Israel. It wouldn't surprise me at all to learn that detentions like these are at her d
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by mathieuh 3y ago
Traffic lights are still fine for colour-blind people aren't they? The order of the lights doesn't change.
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by mathieuh 3y ago
If some fascist gets to be in charge of the US, can’t they just change the rules, ignore them entirely, or just use the media to change the truth and make people actually support their actions? You almost had this happen in 2021. Let alone
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by mathieuh 3y ago
It's become a culture war issue. In the UK London introduced a so-called Ultra-Low Emissions Zone recently, and Wales has dropped 30 mph speed limits down to 20, which prompted the right-wing populist government to come out as being &q
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by mathieuh 3y ago
Could be similar to what happened to the 2013 MacBooks with burn-in, Apple were using panels from several manufacturers and only the LG ones were affected by this extreme kind of burn-in.
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by mathieuh 3y ago
They keep talking about cloud streaming, is anyone except executives at these companies taking cloud streaming seriously? Every time I've tried it it's been a mess of latency and fuzzy graphics. If I were at the CMA I'm not s
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by mathieuh 3y ago
I can picture things in two ways: I can picture whole scenes, or I can imagine something existing in my vision, like I can imagine a ball lying on the floor or I can imagine a painting hanging on the wall. In both cases the pictured thing d
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by mathieuh 3y ago
The iPhone peaked at the iPhone 4 and iOS 4. Of course, there have been incremental upgrades since, but that was the last time I remember feeling like the new iPhone was a really big upgrade. The design of both the hardware and software Jus
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by mathieuh 3y ago
I had the same experience. Eventually I started writing jailbreak tweaks myself and that's what really got me into programming.
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I assume it's a hyper-corrective insertion of an 'h'
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It has nothing to do with them and I probably shouldn't have written it.
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Because that would be collective punishment and illegal under international law. Of course, that doesn't stop Israel bulldozing Palestinians' houses. To make it clear, I think it would be a very bad thing to revoke citizens'
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by mathieuh 3y ago
Environmentalism and social activism etc. have been a commodified for a long time now. You don't just buy coffee at Starbucks, along with your coffee you also get the nice feeling that you are supporting the poor farmers in South Ameri

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