philpem

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by philpem 4y ago
The overwhelming majority of tweets are probably hot takes, food photos or arguments. While they might be interesting to sociologists in the future, looking at the tone and conversation in aggregate, some things should just be allowed to wi
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by philpem 4y ago
Thankfully these days there's emulation to help soften the blow - it's not the same as the physical workstation, but at least it's easier on the wallet. As for the shareware site, was it perhaps Sunsite or Metalab?
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by philpem 4y ago
Because they know you'll do the work you're doing -- and the tenfold increase -- for what they're paying you. They exist to make money, not to enrich their workers. The optimisation strategy is to pay as little as possible fo
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by philpem 4y ago
Most of Stalin's subjects didn't really get a choice in the matter...
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by philpem 4y ago
Indeed, a periodical subscription (say $10) with a number of posts or comments included would serve the same purpose. Gee this sounds like telephone billing...
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by philpem 4y ago
Link without the paywall: https://archive.ph/y1lcE
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by philpem 4y ago
If only more people were able to 'agree to disagree'.
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by philpem 4y ago
It certainly seems worst in the UK.
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by philpem 4y ago
I expect the answer is very little -- except they'd have to re-purchase Minecraft on the new account.
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by philpem 4y ago
Sadly not an option - Atlassian have stopped selling on-prem licences.
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by philpem 4y ago
Sadly speaking up about it only really helps if someone is listening.
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by philpem 5y ago
I'm grateful for the service Gitlab has provided to date, but this seems ludicrous. My use-case for Gitlab is to support the internal tools and some bespoke development for a fan-run non-profit event. In a typical year we might have ab
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by philpem 5y ago
Sometimes, but fools' never differ :)
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by philpem 5y ago
To be fair, the majority of bread-and-butter semiconductor manufacturing probably doesn't need EUV process nodes. You only really need that level of technology if you want to make cutting-edge (10nm or so) devices like microprocessors.
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by philpem 5y ago
It is pretty much how policing works in the UK. Declare it a civil matter, get it off the books as soon as possible... and that's not mentioning the mountain of police misconduct court cases that have popped up recently. Sadly the only
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by philpem 5y ago
"But the automated bot is infallible, sir! We don't know how it works, but we know it's perfect!"
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by philpem 5y ago
I'd like to see this picked up by a more reputable source. Metro is an offshoot of the Daily Mail, and largely known for its 'free' newspaper which is distributed on UK public transport. Its online operation is well known for
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by philpem 5y ago
Retail shops have to deal with similar. Basically they used you as a rental service, but used ebay's policies to force it through. When I worked retail, we used to get people buying cameras or lenses and using them for a weekend, then
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by philpem 5y ago
It's not exclusive to the Amiga - the same applies to the Acorn / RISC OS community too (to an extent). There's a font organiser which used to be sold by its author for £10, but was bought up by another company and is now bei
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by philpem 5y ago
Wow, this got my attention. I use Python for web application development. A 2-3x speedup would be very interesting for higher-load deployments.
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by philpem 5y ago
I was talking to A&A about speeds when I upgraded to FTTP. The upgrade was mostly for reliability -- my FTTC line suffered badly from local interference. They currently do an 80Mbps down, 20Mbps up service on both fibre-to-the-cabinet (
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by philpem 5y ago
I had an interview with a company a few years ago -- on paper it looked like a perfect match. During the interview things seemed to go well, but things took a turn for the worse with the technical lead's interrogation. He asked five or
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by philpem 5y ago
Very nice. I'm up to part 2 ( https://yingtongli.me/blog/2021/08/29/drm5-2.html ) and I had a thought. The SEH pattern (PUSH 32bit address then RET) should be identifiable with a plugin, and a code fl
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by philpem 5y ago
I can't help but wonder what kind of world we exist in, if people are driven to drugs (not specifically ayahuasca, but also prescribed ones) just to live. The spike in mental health diagnoses and drug use ... it feels like there's
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by philpem 5y ago
I've had my house egged and repainted, and been physically assaulted at events over baseless personal grudges held by others. You could tell me they hate the guy just for existing, and it'd be 100% believable. If I had to guess -
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by philpem 5y ago
I wonder if the advice about having different passwords to different sites needs to be expanded: have different, unrelated usernames too.
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by philpem 5y ago
They may have been funny when they were released - but his relentless shilling for muse has made it very clear what the purpose of them was. Dunk on the competition, to big up Muse and his own profile. They're (IMHO) unwatchable when y
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by philpem 5y ago
Good question. Assuming you're US based - Why not write a letter to your representatives, asking them why the police ignore and dismiss online harassment, and why a single US citizen continues to be allowed to operate what is solely a
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by philpem 5y ago
I absolutely agree with making the bullies accountable, and making the networks accountable should only be in addition to that. The guy who runs the site is a US citizen. If the police don't give a damn (which seems to be the case)...
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by philpem 5y ago
People have been complaining for years about some of the content they shield (KF especially). The site is responsible for at least one previous suicide. Their response is always the same... to forward the complaints onto the abuser for them

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