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by rahoulb 5y ago
Technically Linux is “just another unix” but macOS is an actual certified UNIX
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by rahoulb 5y ago
> Dogs used to be kept outside. I don't know if you've ever seen any Victorian back-to-back terraced housing - but there is no outside. There is the house and then the street. > This applies to all dog breeds. Dogs that att
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by rahoulb 5y ago
In the UK, over one hundred stray dogs are killed every week. There is no need for more puppies.
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by rahoulb 5y ago
Cats are very territorial - they have probably chosen to live in your house, not with you; you're just an added bonus. Having said that my cat is very affectionate and loves to ask me to come outside and watch him playing. I'm su
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by rahoulb 5y ago
This is definitely written by someone who doesn't spend a lot of time with dogs. I would make the following point - as the "owner" of a Staffordshire Bull Terrier (closely related to the Pit Bulls that he speaks of), it is tr
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by rahoulb 5y ago
Well, in that Reddit comment it says he uses lies and threats.
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by rahoulb 5y ago
NatWest. They have some biometric auth thing in the app now but I've not set it up or even looked at it yet.
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by rahoulb 5y ago
I did this a couple of months ago (in the UK) - bought a car and did the bank transfer on my phone, sat in the guy's front room. However, I did need to borrow his card reader/code generator thing - put my card in, enter the PIN an
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by rahoulb 5y ago
All this talk of "media engines" and GPUs reminds me of the old SID chip in the Commodore 64 and the Amiga with Agnes and Fat Agnes.
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by rahoulb 5y ago
Then again, he made his start dismantling phone kit and making free long distance calls just to find out how it all worked
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by rahoulb 5y ago
How do you know their costs don't scale? Maybe there's insurance or compliance requirements that also apply? And it begs the question - is "cost-plus" the only valid pricing model?
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by rahoulb 5y ago
Why should someone who is making $100 revenue off a transaction pay the same fee as me who's making $1 revenue?
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by rahoulb 5y ago
Thank you for your work. I enjoyed it.
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by rahoulb 5y ago
None of the others were Mac browsers - they all felt cross-platform. Camino felt like a Mac app - and was the only real choice for that until Safari came along.
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by rahoulb 5y ago
Slightly off-topic but John Gruber has been writing about the new version of Safari[1] (and it's tabs and how they do or don't work) - and he linked back to some posts of his about Camino, which I'd forgotten about. Camino wa
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by rahoulb 5y ago
No. I'm not in the US, so I have no level of influence on the NSA. However, my Member of Parliament is tech-savvy (ex-developer although I don't know how good he was), he has a monthly surgery where anyone can raise issues with hi
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by rahoulb 5y ago
I was at university when that song was released and it used to amuse me greatly at the number of rich students singing along as if the song was some show of unity with “common people” - not taking a second to actually think about the lyrics
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by rahoulb 5y ago
> Other than the fact that it's owned by Facebook, I don't see any issues. That's a pretty big issue for me - whilst the original team were in place, I had a degree of trust for them, but since their departure (and the sto
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by rahoulb 5y ago
It's always been one of my favourite Simpsons' jokes, precisely because it's so subtle. And yes, I use both words all the time.
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by rahoulb 5y ago
As someone who has known Dom for years and started several projects with him, I can say he’s like this all the time and I really doubt he will change.
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by rahoulb 5y ago
Nice work Dom
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by rahoulb 5y ago
I don't know about UIUC, but I was at university in the UK in 1993. We had "labs" with about 30 Windows/DOS PCs in them that were for general use (meaning word-processing). Probably 1 in 100 students had their own comput
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by rahoulb 5y ago
The public schools would say their role is to prepare the future rulers of the country. And my school produced two former Chancellors of the Exchequer so I guess that makes sense. Mine wasn’t a boarding school though which probably counts f
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by rahoulb 5y ago
It’s a historical thing. In the olden days the only way to get an education was through privately tutoring. So establishments where everyone was educated together were “public” - even though you paid to attend. Nowadays “public meaning paid
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by rahoulb 5y ago
There have also been experiments run on split brain patients that suggest our idea of self is a reactionary rationalisation based on what the rest of our brain is doing. For example - asking, whispered into one ear, a person to get a drink
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by rahoulb 5y ago
As I understand it (and I've not spent too long on this, just picking at various articles) - there are two separate things at play here. Firstly - CASM scanning is done via fingerprinting - the image is fingerprinted on device and when
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by rahoulb 5y ago
That's not all he makes you do
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by rahoulb 5y ago
I'm in the UK and 100% of my clients and probably around 50% of the small business owners I meet at networking events use it. Xero being down is a big deal for a lot of people.
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by rahoulb 5y ago
Some TVs would show you which page was currently being sent in addition to the page number you were currently viewing. It went up sequentially, starting at 100 (which was the "home page"). That way you could time typing in the n
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by rahoulb 5y ago
One of the features I used to love on "classic" MacOS was the Stationery Pad. Basically you could create a file, then mark it as a "Stationery Pad". Next time you double-clicked it in the Finder, it created a copy and t

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