mattbee

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by mattbee 5y ago
Bean to cup espresso machine (Melitta Purista, £339 fwiw). My days of faffing with portafilters are behind me, and it will make it extremely strong if you want. 2002 Toyota Alphard minivan (£7000, 60k miles) - it does everything! Kids, 7 pa
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by mattbee 5y ago
This is nonsense on toast. Ink is open source, and they run an instance of the editor etc so you can try it out and publish your own compositions (like Twine). It's a games company trying to make better storytelling tech, they're
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by mattbee 5y ago
When you want out of a business, the pull of someone who's promising to get you out is very powerful. I can see how it would sap your energy for due diligence. When I sold my business, even when the deal was going smoothly and I had a
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by mattbee 6y ago
20 years ago, I shipped a Ruby/SDL powered quiz game to a network of Windows NT4-powered games cabinets in pubs. They had 64MB RAM and the jerky animation due to garbage collection pauses ATE ME ALIVE for about 6 months. What's ch
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by mattbee 6y ago
Is your diatribe an argument that Pornhub should have the right to distribute pictures of a sexual assault?
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by mattbee 6y ago
I don't know how the FSD upgrade is sold contractually, but if you buy something that doesn't work in the UK you'd go to court and ask for a refund. You'd have to take into account the value you've had from somethi
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by mattbee 6y ago
Excellent, cheers! Now we can have a FM200 huffing party after lockdown!
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by mattbee 6y ago
My old company's DC uses FM200 gas which puts fires out without asphyxiating anyone (I'm assuming the experience would be a respiratory workout for anyone caught in it, but it would have cost £20000 to test).
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by mattbee 6y ago
I can't see how old the author is but my son's primary school got 24hrs notice of their last inspection a coule of years back. A ex-teacher friend 10 years ago told me it was a lot less than a week's notice for her larger se
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by mattbee 6y ago
Hey anon, I feel for you, and most of the answers here are giving you a 12-month plan when you need a 1-month plan. If you know Linux well enough to configure Wordpress, how about tech support for a hosting company? Try making some short e
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by mattbee 6y ago
The official number of suspected deaths connected to the issue in the US alone was 89. I'm not sure why you wouldn't take it seriously.
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by mattbee 6y ago
Tesla learned from Toyota's playbook! At least they were settling their "unintended acceleration" issue as Tesla were getting started: Deny and minimise systemic faults, recall quietly if ever, and blame it on the user wherev
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by mattbee 6y ago
Signal, then? Your intent is irrelevant (& fairly assumed) when you use the wrong word. It's this kind of thinking that led an ex colleague to wonder out loud whether he shouldn't seek some "desensitivity training" f
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by mattbee 6y ago
Some words carry intents, even vicious ones, even if you're ignorant of them.
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by mattbee 6y ago
There are many happy use cases for an electric car in the UK, but most of them involve never planning to charge en route. e.g. my family's main car is a 24kWh Leaf, and did 10,000 miles a year (pre pandemic) without leaving our city&#
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by mattbee 6y ago
Charging infrastructure in the UK is so bad - I have so many terrible apps on my phone to activate the many brands of different charging points. So I'm very happy to see consolidation if that's going to make charging more reliabl
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by mattbee 6y ago
Amazed nobody has posted it yet - Infinite Adam Curtis by Tom Scott: https://www.tomscott.com/infinite-adam-curtis/
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by mattbee 6y ago
I mean I love finding those "obvious" improvements too but how do you know you've succeeded without profiling it? ;)
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by mattbee 6y ago
I haven't seen one here for years but I always assumed they were a fake-out! There are definitely criminal penalties to not paying, but mostly it's done by sending threatening letters for addresses that don't have licenses,
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by mattbee 6y ago
Call them and ask! They may punt you to one of their customers if you just want a U or 2. If you plan on your own AS and IP space - full network independence - ask which carriers are there, and plan on a quarter or half rack for a router. Y
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by mattbee 6y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network-neutral_data_center
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by mattbee 6y ago
You need to rely on the net as a whole - which allows for multiple hosts and carriers and a lot of flexibility between them.
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by mattbee 6y ago
Probably the rep of Greenwald, a notably "former journalist". (it's unflagged right now)
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by mattbee 6y ago
> This is disingenuous. Already credit card companies have begun to de-platform people. Once Visa and AmEx refuse to do business with you, you are on increasingly thin ice. If both Google and Apple refuse to host your app in their App St
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by mattbee 6y ago
Depends where in the world they are. But US carriers are nowhere near as fussy over who they supply unless their clients end up overwhelming their networks.
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by mattbee 6y ago
> On the other hand, do we really want a handful of unelected billionaires deciding what is acceptable speech - whether or not we agree with them? We talk about net neutrality, but shouldn't we apply the same standard to hosts like
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by mattbee 6y ago
How this cesspool got built is a metaphor for the wingnuts who used it. Most of us here know - if you want a resilient, censorship-free service, you can still: buy your own physical servers, rent data centre space (or a garage), buy multipl
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by mattbee 6y ago
> She posted it to her 170 twitter followers, stupid sure, but how was she to know someone would pass it on to a journalist with hundreds of thousands of followers who would then spread it and complain to her employer? Because her job ti
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by mattbee 6y ago
As a Brit I agree, I muttered my way through the parochial tone. Now imagine the parallel universe where it had been the Dragon 32 whose CPU had taken over the world :)
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by mattbee 6y ago
The other thing this scheme gives you is a unique image per customer, so you could use it to trace illegal copies. When I worked on some expensive emulator software 22 years ago, floppy protection wasn't appropriate but I suggested to

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