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by northwest65 4y ago
A couple of generations ago you could have 100sqm house, a small black n white TV, maybe a basic 4 cylinder car if you were doing quite well, and be happy about it. If I lived at the level of consumerism my grandparents did, I could still d
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by northwest65 4y ago
> Sure you can get some bargain basement i7 computer for half the price of a Mac but you will need to buy a new one in half the time of a Mac. Can you fucking Apple zealots even read?
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by northwest65 4y ago
> would happily pay double for something that will last me twice as long or longer. I'm still delivering software and making money from my Toshiba 1805. I'm not sure exactly how old it is though, I got it secondhand maybe 19-20
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by northwest65 4y ago
Now that is ugly, I'm dying to see if somebody can one up that one!
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by northwest65 4y ago
And I've forded rivers that would swallow your tanker truck. Just because you have done some basic bitch off roading doesn't mean you know the bush.
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by northwest65 4y ago
A tanker, even empty, cannot get into the bush. Even an unprepared 4WD is often unwise to take into the bush. A few jerry cans of gas in the bed are no bother at all.
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by northwest65 4y ago
Because out in the bush there is no mains, no diesel generators, and no gas generators, so they probably regards comment as worse than useless, at a guess.
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by northwest65 4y ago
What about answering his actual question?
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by northwest65 4y ago
It's always a crack up when somebody clearly didn't read the article.
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by northwest65 4y ago
I think that's more 4 car garage than 2 or 1 car. It also has quite a tall ceiling and industrial power and ventilation hookups.
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by northwest65 5y ago
Yeah, I too live in a country that uses a fair amount of hydro. Low in service emissions are nice, but on the flip side hydro kills an insane amount of animals and permanently destroys their habitats. We have geothermal too, but nothing mak
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by northwest65 5y ago
According to wiki the Kárahnjúkar Dam took 4000 tons of steel, and flooded 440,000 acres, and presumably consumed an ungodly amount on concrete. Presumably you can't keep expanding that sort of infrastructure forever.
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by northwest65 5y ago
Why, are you paying for said jazz bar in your taxes ala the BBC news site?
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by northwest65 5y ago
How about if it merely followed links at a rate not high enough to impact the server itself, but enough to poison the analytics well as much as possible, and rather than opt sites in, it just randomly disrupts the 10,000 largest sites.
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by northwest65 5y ago
How about an opt in botnet extension for your browser that focuses it's energy on sites with this sort of dark pattern behaviour. i.e. You install the extension, when you come across a site like this you vote it for getting punishment,
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by northwest65 5y ago
Yeah, but this was before Ajax when you had to hand roll XML RPC calls (i.e. long long ago).
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by northwest65 5y ago
Most flights are available through the airline booking systems such as Sabre. However, airlines might have flights available only on their own website at (sometimes massively) reduced cost, which needs to be booked through that site. So the
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by northwest65 5y ago
Back when we had to scrape airline websites to get the deals they withheld for themselves, residential IP was indeed the way. Once the cottoned on to it and blocked id, you'd simply cycle the ADSL model, get a new IP, and off you'
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by northwest65 5y ago
If you hadn't have posted it, I would have! Much like writing code, you collect knowledge along the way and the next one is hopefully better.
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by northwest65 5y ago
Tripe is also another slang word for bullshit.
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by northwest65 5y ago
I asked; they said they've never heard of it and it was probably something to do with buying a phone on credit.
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by northwest65 5y ago
I've used GitExtensions from the start of my Git usage. I've never had to blow any of my repos away at any point. I also use things like Rebase without thinking about it, something which from what I've read on here is conside
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by northwest65 5y ago
> Autopilot has been running in hundreds of thousands of cars, has driven several billion miles, Has it really though? > I have noticed for me at least it started happening after I updated at 2021.4.18.11 This implies that the functio
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by northwest65 5y ago
Came for the massive overkill, stayed for the abysmal soldering!
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by northwest65 5y ago
Fascinating; do you know what the logic was behind that?
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by northwest65 5y ago
We don't. Nature is great at self maintenance, much like forest fires we have to let it clear out the dead wood, and suffer when we don't let it. We don't like that because we like to espouse every life is precious and to acc
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by northwest65 5y ago
> Age discrimination is only illegal if the person is over 40. Sarcasm?
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by northwest65 5y ago
So handy for pirating software at PCCUG meetings.
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by northwest65 5y ago
https://www.easytechjunkie.com/what-is-a-keyboard-wedge.htm
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by northwest65 5y ago
>install this app or you’re fired What sort of backward country do you live in where that's even remotely legal?

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