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by ralferoo 2y ago
It entirely depends on the book. For most modern paperbacks, I'd agree with you - the book is often just a means of transmission of the text. Even with modern books though, there are plenty of examples where it's intended to be a
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by ralferoo 2y ago
> The researchers found no overlap between male and female That's kind of a bold claim... EDIT: Interesting that I'm getting massively modded down by people who have clearly not even read the article. There's a bunch of gr
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by ralferoo 2y ago
It's just Stockholm syndrome...
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by ralferoo 2y ago
I suspect you're thinking of upstairs in the Golden computer arcade in ShamShuiPo. It's still there, but it was already "cleaned up" and respectable when I went back in 1999, having shifted focus almost entirely to busin
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by ralferoo 2y ago
I wasn't even aware that the Mac existed at the time, but I always had a fondness for rounded rectangles because the Amstrad CPC character set had 16 characters that represented all possible combinations of a central dot with N, E, S,
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by ralferoo 2y ago
> the London Oyster is a Mifare Desfire EV1 There are two distinct types of Oyster card, but I don't know which is which, other than from a user perspective. All I know is that I had an old style one (the one without the white D in
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by ralferoo 2y ago
Interesting, I didn't think you could pay directly via Alipay or Wechat. Most cities you can use chengchema/dachema mini-apps in Wechat to generate the QR codes, but also all the old smartcards I had from previous trips worked in
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by ralferoo 2y ago
Until you go to another city and discover that the local bus company has decided that instead of just letting you pay by Wechat pay or Alipay, you need to install their proprietary app to generate the QR code for the bus to scan, at which p
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by ralferoo 2y ago
Many games are popular targets for griefers or DDOS attacks, not because the attacker gains anything of value from the attack (and many of them aren't actually hackers, they just download the tools written by others), but instead they
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by ralferoo 2y ago
You might want some form of encryption or message signing to prevent spoofed packet injection. Just because the data might not have value to a third party, knowing that the data is legitimate has value to you.
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by ralferoo 2y ago
I guess I didn't phrase that quite right. My meaning was that I'm sure they don't actually care about protecting the privacy of your PII. I'm pretty certain that they'd sell it if they had the chance and/or use
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by ralferoo 2y ago
Favourite part of this game: the untangling cream and the bonus joke about the rabbit. Most hated part of this game: HOP, CLAP, KWEEPA. Also funny how I recall this stuff vividly more than 3 decades later! My first experience of IF was the
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by ralferoo 2y ago
I am certain that Pornhub isn't doing this because they actually care about PII. However, I can think of a number of reason why they are taking this stance: * They don't want the work to do the verification to be their problem,
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by ralferoo 2y ago
Interesting take - the way you cite this as an example makes it sound like they rewrote it from Flutter to Kotlin Multiplatform, but the actual article doesn't seem to support that claim. It actually says: > Cross-Platform Evoluti
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by ralferoo 2y ago
There are numerous mentions to Z80 as well as C64, and the arcade hardware was Z80 and this project started life as a plug-in compatible board, so presumably it still has support for being driven by Z80. If it started life as a Z80 board, p
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by ralferoo 2y ago
"I'd rather get on with some actual work than create a stupid document about me to pander to management's latest whim-du-jour." I guess it hasn't occurred to them that most introverts would hate having to write abou
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by ralferoo 2y ago
I've never used the original so this might be a faithful reproduction of the original (it's kind of cool), but it looks like the line tool and the multicoloured tool interact weirdly, and it doesn't erase the previous line wh
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by ralferoo 2y ago
I think you're being a bit unfair here. > If you do not have access to your company’s DNS records, please forward this email to someone in an IT role. If you don't even know what DNS records are, I'd imagine you'd ass
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by ralferoo 2y ago
Most VCRs were preset to output to UHF channel 36 (at least that's the UK numbering, it may be slightly different in the US), and so while recording different channels would be fine with multiple VCRs without a TV, watching the output
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by ralferoo 2y ago
I came here 45 years ago to say this, but for some reason my comment is only just showing up now.
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by ralferoo 2y ago
Yeah, I use a tissue barrier for that too. When I'm in Asia I usually carry around those little packs that have 10 folded tissues per pack. I normally tear one into quarters before I leave the street and go into the toilet, and use one
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by ralferoo 2y ago
And there was me thinking the soap was just that colour because it was made with olive oil...
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by ralferoo 2y ago
I've posted below about squat toilets, but you might want to try them if they are an option. Honestly, I'd glad I practiced a bit and learned to balance in a squat than have to sit on the (usually filthy) seats in most public toil
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by ralferoo 2y ago
I honestly much prefer the traditional Asian toilets compared to the western ones with seats when I'm using public facilities. Usually the door doesn't go all the way to the bottom so you can open and close it with your shoe, you
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by ralferoo 2y ago
I'd imagine it'd go to court and the union would have to testify that this is the case, and also have documentary evidence to back it up.
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by ralferoo 2y ago
> I'm curious what the logic is to justify lying about employment history in order to salt a union. Being from outside the US, I'd never heard this term before, and actually in my country it's rare that you join a company
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by ralferoo 2y ago
I probably didn't explain it clearly enough. If the nominal price is $x at the start and needs to drop to 0 before it'll sell, then the seller can artificially sell at a price higher than $x, by simply putting his own money $n int
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by ralferoo 2y ago
To be fair, in those pictures at the bottom he does actually look a lot like The Dude. I was thinking it was all bluster until I scrolled down and saw them!
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by ralferoo 2y ago
Thanks! I tried clicking around the various links and nothing seemed to happen apart from popups trying to get me to enter my wallet information, so I assumed it was just some kind of crypto-scam leaderboard. I've now read the other ar
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by ralferoo 2y ago
Practically though, this is unworkable. The cost to the owner if the release never happens is zero, so he just needs to match whatever $n is the total that everyone else has paid and gets to keep $2n, so the $n is profit that can never resu

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