max1984_2

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by max1984_2 5y ago
I can't stand comments like this that obviously miss the overall point being made and tbh it is entirely done disingenuously. The terms of service are not in anyway enforced consistently or fairly. The way the terms and service is writ
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by max1984_2 5y ago
There are plenty of jobs in and around Manchester. South East is expensive and you wouldn't catch me going anywhere near London for any reason what-so-ever.
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by max1984_2 5y ago
> Sales tax is a joke to the very rich and powerful. A guy with million dollars does not have to spend 1000x more on products and services than a regular guy with 1000 dollars. He uses that big money in different ways that do not get tax
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by max1984_2 5y ago
People see all of the simplicity through rose tinted spectacles. Copy and pasting bits of HTML around was a chore and was prone to error. No decent source control (the source control at the time was garbage and tbh was a relatively new conc
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by max1984_2 5y ago
If you print money, you will typically create inflation. Which pushes prices up. Yes you can mitigate the effects for quite a while by exporting inflation and other tricks but all you are doing is kicking the can down the road. If you want
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by max1984_2 5y ago
Everyone always talks about London, but misses out some of the other cities/large towns. Manchester maybe a better option than London. Manchester is cheaper and has almost all the things you want from London without a lot of the negati
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by max1984_2 5y ago
Yes. Believe it or not, not doing something is better than doing something that will definitely have a detrimental effect. I am almost in my 40s now and one thing I've recently learned is that sometimes it is better not to do anything
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by max1984_2 5y ago
I was out of work during lock-down (I was a consultant) and being out of work for 8 months almost crushed me when I came back to work because I had to remind myself how to do some relatively simple things (e.g. how do I write a mock?). Bein
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by max1984_2 5y ago
Unfortunately people have to get an important idea in their head. The police are not there to help you for the most part. In the UK we call the Police the filth for good reason. Law enforcement's job is to incriminate you. They are not
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by max1984_2 5y ago
> There is nothing that you can do about it, so people are just apathetic. Just to expand on this. It is just recognising the state of current situation. A lot of people in the UK support the state in some form or another and if the stat
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by max1984_2 5y ago
If health care was properly private (not pseudo private) it would be really cheap. I had private health care in Spain / Gibraltar and it was relatively quite cheap. The NHS is a massive money sink that always requires more money to kee
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by max1984_2 5y ago
Getting people to move from something like Whatsapp to Signal is almost impossible. I have no intention of even living in the UK in the next few years to probably one of the overseas territories again (they are starting to tax the hell out
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by max1984_2 5y ago
I don't want to be "blackpilled" about it. But there is literally nothing that can be done about it. None of the politicians in the UK seem to care about freedom of speech, right to privacy or anything else that is classicall
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by max1984_2 6y ago
Someone always pulls out a C64 demo. This is using a bunch of tricks to do it and it is massively compressed. It generally isn't doable. My Amiga 600 without the Vampire or a Prisma Megamix cannot play MP3s of decent quality and the Am
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by max1984_2 6y ago
> Expertise/intelligence/whatever you call it is the ability to handle more complex tasks because you can place the less complex tasks as background tasks. No it isn't. I have seen otherwise quite smart people completely f
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by max1984_2 6y ago
> This flies in the fact of lots of evidence to the contrary Your examples are not evidence of higher IQ. They are examples of human progress. > 1) High-school students now understand mathematics that only advanced degrees would have
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by max1984_2 6y ago
Just tried it. It appears I am using cross-dos. I've still never had any luck with USB drives though (just tried a USB floppy I have as well).
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by max1984_2 6y ago
The capacity isn't the problem. It is the direct write access. If it is USB it tends not to have direct hardware access and it won't work no PC format disk e.g. the ADF Amiga format. If I use a real floppy disk controller + Linux
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by max1984_2 6y ago
USB floppy disk drives are only any good at reading and writing 1.44mb disks. If you need a 720k disk for something like an Amiga/Atari ST they don't work IME (some people have claimed otherwise but I've never had any luck).