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mnd999
3y ago
No ifs, no buts. Stop using Chrome.
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3y ago
You have to boil the water to make the beer.
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3y ago
I’m starting to think Musks acquisition is a piece of performance art akin to the KLF burning a million quid.
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3y ago
Netscape was pretty widespread for a while there.
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3y ago
I thought that too, but when I got Covid I lost my sense of smell for a few days, but could still taste things.
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3y ago
> In truth, Discord is no harder to sign up to than Slack, Matrix, Gitter, IRC, or whatever Not true, they demand phone numbers, make you fill out captchas and generally try to grab as much identifying data as they can get their hands on
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3y ago
Doesn’t help with the firmware problem though. If your old boot environment’s driver set doesn’t work with the newer flashed firmware things won’t work as before.
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3y ago
Okta completely block it so it has to be disabled for anything work related to, which is kinda annoying.
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3y ago
There’s also water, energy, busses outside of London, Openreach (especially them), and pitty the poor people of Hull with that Kingston shitshow.
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3y ago
PCSX2 can run Burnout 3 though. What else do you need? But this is seriously impressive. Modern Vintage Gamer has done some nice YouTube videos on it.
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3y ago
The new coal mine is actually a green energy scheme. They plan to attach a dynamo to Maggies corpse - the expectation is it will be spinning pretty rapidly in her grave.
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3y ago
Fight club.
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3y ago
Minimise investment to maximise profits, which you take, whilst running the minimum service required to avoid contract penalties or publicity so adverse you lose your contract. Then threaten to go bust and get bailed out by the government
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3y ago
Thames water has to be allowed to go bust, and the shareholders need to lose their shirts, because that’s what has to happen when a company is so badly run. Otherwise the abuse will continue. However, I would like to keep my water supply so
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3y ago
So legislate for transparency, why shouldn’t state owned companies be subject to the same rules as public companies?
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3y ago
Just to keep jobs? No. To ensure resiliency of supply? maybe. Probably moot as this point though since we should be getting away from coal anyway.
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3y ago
It was, rail track was a private company. They had to roll that one back because trains kept crashing.
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3y ago
It’s reached the point where it’s not credible to say otherwise. That doesn’t seem to stop the government though.
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3y ago
Where’s the money going? I’m not seeing evidence for 5x better research outcomes.
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3y ago
Of course use whatever works for you, but it sounds like sway would do what you want in a fairly painless way with wayland.
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3y ago
Wikipedia covers it reasonably well - https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milk_float
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3y ago
Yep, we used to deliver milk door to door daily in the UK with a fully electric fleet 50 years ago.
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3y ago
Stupidity with a hint of racism. Nice.
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3y ago
That’s very doable on a 10gb Ethernet network which is becoming more and more normal.
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3y ago
One New York cop sorted that as I recall. He didn’t even carry a gun initially.
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3y ago
> aside from major metro areas Wtf? They don’t need that at all
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3y ago
Thanks, for some reason I though credit derivative.
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3y ago
That's remarkably specific, have you secretly invented time travel?
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3y ago
For the downvoters, if you can’t tell this is an AI you’re gonna be in real trouble if these models actually get good.
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3y ago
> Is that cause and effect defensible? Probably not, it could be for other reasons but it’s certainly happening. > I haven’t heard any Americans civilians or politicians claim overtly or subtly that the US should be more like China. I
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