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by pushpop 7y ago
I fairness to your bed time reading example, it’s very common for people to have bed side lights - even if they’re just little lamps that rest on a table. At least this is the norm in the UK. So for a great many of us, turning our reading l
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by pushpop 7y ago
I completely agree with every single word you’ve posted there. From the history recap to the modern era problems. These days the only thing my Echo does which is remotely useful is setting named timers while cooking. So I can have my hands
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by pushpop 7y ago
In that case every computer interface is controlled by things you’re born with.
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by pushpop 7y ago
The points are mutually inclusive. The congestion charge is one of the reasons why there is little incentive to drive in central London.
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by pushpop 7y ago
We are talking about central London, not Greater London. Greater London is a massive area which has leafy suburbs and wide areas without congestion. Central London is where the worst of the problem is, where we have been discussing, where t
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by pushpop 7y ago
Sure, “little” would have been a better term to use but the context of my post was well established. If your only quibble was the use of that solitary word then you’re being pointlessly pedantic.
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by pushpop 7y ago
I get your point but you’re also missing the fact that there will always be a need for private hire vehicles (taxis, Uber, chauffeurs, etc), buses, delivery drivers and other goods vehicles too. Some of the streets I’ve worked in were conge
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by pushpop 7y ago
Most people don’t. However there will always be statistical outliers when talking about human trends.
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by pushpop 7y ago
The GP was right. There is very little reason for most people to need to drive in central London. In fact most of my London based friends either don’t have a driving licence or do and keep their car in a location outside of London. Unless y
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by pushpop 7y ago
When I read that Worms was getting remastered, I thought that meant the original DOS game with that style of graphics. The cartoony DirectX versions that have been around for about 15 years now always felt like the remastered “high definiti
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by pushpop 7y ago
You shouldn’t need to do it every few days unless your surfaces were particularly grimy. And on those kind of surfaces the slip pads would still need cleaning even on optical mice plus the sensors on the early ones didn’t work too great unl
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by pushpop 7y ago
While there is more supported devices using that spectrum I don’t personally have that many of them running at any point in time so I’m not convinced that’s the main cause of the problem. I suspect it’s more due to wireless keyboard /
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by pushpop 7y ago
Likewise. I used to be an avid gamer back then and optical mice were terrible for a long time. They were either too light, or batteries needed changing too often (in the case of wireless mice) or they just didn’t work properly on your surfa
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by pushpop 7y ago
I can see both sides of the argument here. On the one hand Amazon are just using open source literally as the license allows. But on the other hand it does feel a little underhanded that Amazon can incorporate these projects into their port
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by pushpop 7y ago
Coincidentally that’s what I saw as well except the wig was a children’s stuffed gorilla.
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by pushpop 7y ago
I’m all for thinking outside the box but many of the complaints described in that are blamed on UNIX when in fact they were also adopted by a multitude of other non-UNIX platforms and reason they became common was because it simply made mor
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by pushpop 7y ago
You might have a point regarding Netflix but Amazon’s cloud computing business is bigger than its online shop and used extensively the world over and has a lot of SaaS products based on communications alone (never mind all the other stuff i
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by pushpop 7y ago
Food doesn’t always need to be wrapped in plastics. For example I’ve seen bananas wrapped in clear plastic bags. Why is that when bananas come with their own “wrappers”?
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by pushpop 7y ago
I’m sure they will die at some point. When that happens I get the joy of playing them all over again. Bar a few RPGs, there’s nothing there that can’t be beaten in a few hours once you’re familiar with the game. Which is one of appeals of r
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by pushpop 7y ago
It isn’t. At least not unless it’s boxed with manual and in mind condition. But then that’s not really a fair comparison because if the GBA was boxed then that would be worth more too. Gameboy games are the one area of retro consoles that h
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by pushpop 7y ago
I really wish people wouldn’t mod old hardware that can never be replaced with new hardware that will have a significantly shorter shelf life. Particularly given how affordable 3D printing has become where you could render your own retro lo
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by pushpop 7y ago
All of my battery backed games are still going strong. Not just the Gameboy ones but all the other retro consoles in my extensive collection too. However I do think I’ve been exceptionally lucky not to have even one bad egg amongst my archi
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by pushpop 8y ago
That isn’t Japanese, it looks more like Hangul than Kanji. So my guess would be Korean.
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by pushpop 8y ago
Yeah, I got that impression too
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by pushpop 8y ago
How does he know his ratio of browser usage 15 years ago? I couldn’t even provide that figure for last year let alone more than a decade in the past
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by pushpop 8y ago
Unfortunately the search (whatever that navigation feature is called) in Windows was always several steps behind what Linux and OSX offered; even before Cortana was a thing.
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by pushpop 8y ago
I’m aware not al of them do. This is why I said “many” and not “all”. There are roughly 3 main groups of European languages: Italic (or Romance as you described it) for Western Europe, Germanic which is predominantly Central Europe, Scandin
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by pushpop 8y ago
The fact that you concede the title can be read that way - even if it is begrudgingly - means your post is entirely made up of nitpicking and mental gymnastics (as you put it). Which means you’re being just as deceptive as the title you’re
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by pushpop 8y ago
I got your point and said it’s irrelevant nitpicking that completely ignores the definition I linked to in my first post. Sure, it might be a bit clickbaity but this trend of “I didn’t bother to read the article so I’m going to bitch and mo
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by pushpop 8y ago
I don’t think it’s as clear cut as the article describes. If all you want is to define a few static values, like DB connection details, then it makes sense to use something that is easier to parse. However if you’re building another nginx t

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