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by rahoulb 4y ago
Saying > Going cold turkey and never drinking again is the simple solution and it doesn't require all the drama is very impolite to everyone who has ever struggled with any addiction.
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by rahoulb 4y ago
I'm in the UK and live in a student area and it's a huge issue. There are some times of day where the Wifi speeds drop massively (I assume interference and madly swapping channels) - but wired stays constant.
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by rahoulb 4y ago
Apple iCloud+ (if you use Apple devices)
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by rahoulb 4y ago
Most of what I'm getting is pure spam stuff - nowhere near related to anything business. I do get a lot of business spam to other email addresses I have on LinkedIn but that's all vaguely relevant (no I don't want a website b
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by rahoulb 4y ago
My "linkedin@mydomain.com" email gets a LOT of traffic at the moment - I suspect that was a breach rather than being sold on (but that's being charitable).
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by rahoulb 5y ago
Personally I'd say MacOS 9 was the peak (ignoring its instability). Things like: * the filesystem root being the desktop - so you started navigation from the first thing you saw when you switched the computer on * the way the finder re
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by rahoulb 5y ago
It sounds like an OS-specific tool would be entirely the wrong choice for you as you work cross-platform. (Personally, I love the fact that copy/paste work in my Terminal with the same keys as every other app) And, if you weren't
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by rahoulb 5y ago
The word "agency" is important there ... There have been experiments on split brain patients (where there Corpus Callosum has been severed, so their two hemispheres no longer communicate), that seem to imply that the self is more
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by rahoulb 5y ago
That's an excellent incident report - especially given the target audience.
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by rahoulb 5y ago
If I remember rightly, Apple once patented a hard drive inside a mouse - so you could take your home folder/full OS with you wherever you went.
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by rahoulb 5y ago
Even if it were easy to set up that chat server, and millions of us started doing it - without systemic change (as another poster notes), all that would happen is we would have different gatekeepers (probably ISPs) because value has to be e
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by rahoulb 5y ago
I'd never heard of a "semi-truck". I've always known of them as "artics" - short for articulated. Source: my childhood best friend's dad was a truck driver (not artic though) and a day out in the lorry wa
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by rahoulb 5y ago
> How does that compare to refined cocaine taken intranasally? Immediate, bright energy, short acting (duration is half hour), feel it fading within minutes (which is why you want more)
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by rahoulb 5y ago
I'm in the UK and I use the TrainLine app - it allows you to add tickets to Apple Wallet (and there's a watch app as well). Then you just scan the QR code on your watch at the ticket barrier.
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by rahoulb 5y ago
“For instance, on the planet Earth, man had always assumed that he was more intelligent than dolphins because he had achieved so much—the wheel, New York, wars and so on—whilst all the dolphins had ever done was muck about in the water havi
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by rahoulb 5y ago
Personally I think writing Python is like writing maths, writing Ruby is like writing English. Depends which one you prefer.
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by rahoulb 5y ago
I had an MGF and an MGTF (late 90s and early 2000s) - so they had an ECU but it was all 80s technology in there (the MGs were basically Austin Metros with the engine replacing the rear seats and the roof cut off). Both died when the electri
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by rahoulb 5y ago
I agree. And fuel injection too - carburettors meant that every car had its own 'personality' and you had to get used to how it wanted you to drive it.
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by rahoulb 5y ago
I always had visions of hurtling down the motorway at high speed, and my passenger breaking out a terminal and typing ``` renice -n -15 `ps -a | grep brakesd | awk '{ print $1 }'` ```
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by rahoulb 5y ago
Well as a brown person I can tell you it happens to me about once every three months. My wife and eldest daughter report the same. And my non-white and female friends agree that it is a common occurrence. Anecdotal, I know. But still wha
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by rahoulb 5y ago
We have a fourth one - you're a woman or a non-white person and I'm going to lean out of the window and yell obscenities at you.
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by rahoulb 5y ago
As someone who has grown up (and learnt to drive) in England - I had a moment of sudden realisation in India. For me, the horn is a warning sign - "get out of my way" or "watch out!" - only to be used in emergencies. In
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by rahoulb 5y ago
In my experience, it all comes down to putting yourself in the other person's shoes. What do they think when you approach them? What would they like to happen? What outcomes do they want? Smile - it is welcoming to other people. Ma
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by rahoulb 5y ago
I would say, firstly, the construction industry has a reputation for going over-budget and over-time. The difference is they are much less likely to have stuff that's not fit for purpose at the end of it (although there are exceptions
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by rahoulb 5y ago
For me and dev work it's generally about misunderstanding the requirements. They ask for X, I think X involves A, B and C, when actually it involves A, D, E, F, G and H.
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by rahoulb 5y ago
I didn't know about that - but I suspect (it was a while back) that I did two points - best and worst case.
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by rahoulb 5y ago
This was dev work - and generally when something goes over by that amount it's because my understanding of the requirements and the client's understanding of the requirements were very very different.
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by rahoulb 5y ago
Years ago, when I was working at a company, I did a detailed estimate of a large project. I broke it down into components and individual tasks, then put estimated hours against each one, then put it all into a giant spreadsheet, to track pl
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by rahoulb 5y ago
> Obviously the entire reason for a companys' existence is to make money why should we expect anything else? Also this is true for every company in history. In Elizabethan times, company charters (and the subsequent right to create
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Google could be required to pay every iPhone user for privacy breaches(news.sky.com)
4 points by rahoulb 5y ago|1 comments

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