ninalanyon

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by ninalanyon 3mo ago
Perhaps I'm misreading you but giving up rights and losing rights are two different ideas. I'm 70 by the way. If I want to plan for this I can set up a power of attorney.
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by ninalanyon 3mo ago
I wasn't affected either as I had given up using Windows already but it hit No. 2 son's machine. I decided that the intent was more important than their technical incompetence. I did buy a Sony ultrazoom camera recently but that
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by ninalanyon 3mo ago
I gave up on Sony for life when they tried to install a rootkit on my computer from an audio CD years ago and I see no reason to change.
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by ninalanyon 3mo ago
> limited rights for old people How old did you have in mind? > an old person is already looking forward to declining and dying All of my colleagues who have died in old age (at least late seventies) did so in full command of their se
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by ninalanyon 3mo ago
That blog entry is a delight to read! > As a result of advertising people being bastards, The gov.uk Design Team are a treasure.
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by ninalanyon 3mo ago
You can turn it off.
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by ninalanyon 3mo ago
> Instead of using two diagonal strokes, I draw two mirrored c’s, as my Russian penmanship teacher would suggest. The "mirrored c's" is a perfectly normal way to write x longhand in English. At least that's how I was
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by ninalanyon 3mo ago
> Tesla has also been guilty of some particularly awful designs on later models, Absolutely! They loaned me a Model 3 while my 2015 Model S 70D was having the battery replaced (just before the warranty ran out). I really disliked it de
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by ninalanyon 3mo ago
Surely an Android or other mobile and a USB GPIO device can do much the same. For most the outlay is then just the USB to GPIO. 15 USD from Adafruit: https://www.adafruit.com/product/2264
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by ninalanyon 3mo ago
You must be from the US.
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by ninalanyon 3mo ago
Neither of those are a problem in my 2015 Tesla Model S for the buttons that control the climate control or media player. It seems to me that many of the problems that people report related to touch controls are more to do with how they are
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by ninalanyon 3mo ago
I wish he would. Then the authorities would have to fix the problem.
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by ninalanyon 4mo ago
It's a bit more standardised in Europe I think.
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by ninalanyon 4mo ago
But the name of the month of June was said to mean haymaking in Finnish.
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by ninalanyon 4mo ago
> with a clause that they could remove them at any time. Then they did not sell them.
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by ninalanyon 4mo ago
Isn't June a little early for haymaking in Finland?
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by ninalanyon 4mo ago
> They send your transcripts out with an explanatory note, so that the recipient will not view the graduate poorly when they see the numbers. That's odd, I would expect any employer for whom the class of degree mattered to know the
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by ninalanyon 4mo ago
< I'm sure my score was below 40%. Such scores were expected when I was studying. No one got 100% in the kind of exams we had, not even those who got firsts.
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by ninalanyon 4mo ago
How long is too short? Each exam in my BSc Applied Physics final (1977, Exeter Uni.) was three hours and we had similar exams in each of the preceding years to weed out those who weren't keeping up. I'm pretty sure that having m
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by ninalanyon 4mo ago
Do I? And if so why?
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by ninalanyon 4mo ago
If your school just had you silently reading Shakespeare they were doing it wrong. It is meant to be performed and watched, his works are plays and poetry not novels. I was lucky, my English Literature teacher in high school was a (very)
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by ninalanyon 4mo ago
> Because physical exams are performed in mobile vans in NHANES, data could not be collected in northern latitudes during the winter Why not?
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by ninalanyon 4mo ago
In Norway e-scooters don't require registration plates but do require liability insurance. It's less than 100 NOK per month (~10 EUR).
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by ninalanyon 4mo ago
So now I have to have a mobile phone?
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by ninalanyon 4mo ago
Such things already exist in Europe. The RAC for instance: https://www.thecarexpert.co.uk/call-breakdown-provider-ev-ru...
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by ninalanyon 4mo ago
You have some evidence for that assertion?
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by ninalanyon 4mo ago
I suppose it's plausible that labelling might be required but what makes you think the EU would ban it?
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by ninalanyon 4mo ago
Not having interrupts isn't necessarily a problem. In fact if you want to be sure that the processor behaves deterministically then you might choose to not have interrupts. I remember seeing an article about the British RAF commissio
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by ninalanyon 4mo ago
Is it really a safeguard?
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by ninalanyon 4mo ago
> kage serve $HOME/data/kage/paulgraham.com If the result is static why does it need a server? Isn't it possible to make it so that it can simply be opened by the browser? Like: $ firefox $HOME/data/kage&#x

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