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by robotmay 7y ago
Because unfortunately, behind the scenes, Time Team is not well respected in the Archaeology community. A couple of their archaeologists were good, but overall they misinterpreted sites and caused problems when they dug (e.g. mattocking thr
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by robotmay 7y ago
Yep I swapped to it last year and I've had no problems. Works very well for me.
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by robotmay 7y ago
I understand the banking requirements but in theory they should only be keeping certain information for security practices and scrubbing it from everywhere else (e.g. marketing/analytics etc)
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by robotmay 7y ago
Only the parent article so far I'm afraid. Though I'd be interested in more citations too.
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by robotmay 7y ago
> The Lithuanian government has accused Revolut of having Kremlin ties before, which reached boiling point when it was reported that the company would be moving all of its servers to Russia. That I did not know. I was an early user of Re
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by robotmay 8y ago
Honestly Elixir has been one of the most enjoyable learning experiences I've had in years. Deployment is fine, but there are a few different things to consider (because you can do some really cool stuff using BEAM). But you can just ch
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by robotmay 8y ago
Seeing as I live just on the outskirts of a capital city (Cardiff), and I can't even get 3G signal inside my house, and no more than 80/20 broadband; I'll remain skeptical about the possibility of success for this outside of
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by robotmay 8y ago
It's pretty much a certainty with this project, in my opinion. Until everybody somehow has gigabit lines to their home and to their phones, I don't see this becoming popular. Like most Google projects, their actual success period
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by robotmay 8y ago
I play a number of old musical instruments from around the 1920s/1930s; diatonic accordions and a concertina. The construction of the bellows is not dissimilar from that of older books, as they're made of cardboard, leather, and h
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by robotmay 8y ago
I ditched Revolut last year and moved to Starling, pretty much entirely because I was sick of them trying to fucking sell me stuff in a "banking app" (they weren't a registered bank at the time, AFAIK). It became near impossi
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by robotmay 8y ago
Alfred Russell Wallace, the namesake of this bee, was a very interesting character and largely forgotten next to Charles Darwin. There's a rather great documentary with comedian/naturalist Bill Bailey that I would recommend watchi
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by robotmay 8y ago
I use Blockada on my phone, which runs an adblocker as a local-device VPN; a neat trick to do this without needing to root the phone (although mine is also rooted).
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by robotmay 8y ago
This is a reasonable salary for the role and in the Bristol area.
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by robotmay 8y ago
Pirate Studios - https://www.piratestudios.co.uk | Mid-weight Developer | ONSITE | Bristol, UK | Full-time | Salary range of £32-42k Pirate Studios is building music rehearsal studios in multiple countries, and we're big o
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by robotmay 8y ago
I rigged mine to boot off an SSD wedged into the "CD Drive" bay at the top. Cheapy connector to power it off the CD power connector and a SATA cable and it works great. There's an option in the BIOS to swap the disk controlle
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by robotmay 8y ago
Ah I've only used one of those unfortunately! I'm sure there must be some other similar models about :D My Gen8 has an upgraded Xeon E3 in it and runs a ZFS array; works extremely well as a media server, and transcodes very well (
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by robotmay 8y ago
I think that use case was a very good one for the Mini, but with the price hike I just don't see why anyone would choose this latest model. You can pick up a HP MicroServer Gen8 for ~$150 or the latest ones for ~$450, and those offer t
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by robotmay 8y ago
Personally I have indeed already tried this, and it worked very well for me, hence why I'm planning on getting a proper desk. However the cheap setup is massively inconvenient in my flat, hence why I've not been using it much. I p
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by robotmay 8y ago
Well, obviously it's not a replacement for exercise. Was anyone ever claiming that? Because I'd think it's fairly obvious that standing still doesn't exactly burn the calories off. The key is moderation, like with everyt
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by robotmay 8y ago
Might be worth investing in an Uninterruptible Power Supply for it if you haven't already.
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by robotmay 8y ago
Urgh we have a fleet of Pi units and this is a common issue for us, particularly in buildings with dodgy power supplies. I've got a Beaglebone Black to test out as a gradual replacement, as that has enough built-in storage for us to us
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by robotmay 8y ago
I was just thinking of swapping my largely-unused ThinkPad over to OpenBSD yesterday, so this is extremely timely and useful :D
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by robotmay 8y ago
I've been using Tailwind lately and I really like it. It lets me prototype and iterate quickly, and then when I've settled on a design I can create component classes for those completed styles. It has made doing frontend work slig
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by robotmay 8y ago
Waze is usually my go-to in the UK. Works very well in cities, at least. I did have a hilarious issue for a while where it didn't know about either of the Severn River crossings into Wales (and yeah I didn't have it set to avoid t
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by robotmay 8y ago
I'm always happy to see more Twilio alternatives. We get a very large number of errors from the Twilio messaging API (including weird stuff like SSL errors), and it does still seem very expensive. Hopefully more viable competitors will
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by robotmay 8y ago
Yep I have used Postmark for years and I'd recommend them over anyone else. Fantastic service that does exactly what I need and no farting about with tacked-on features.
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by robotmay 8y ago
I really dislike AppImage when it's the only way to get an app. I find it quite annoying to get set up on my system in such a way that it behaves like a normal piece of installed software (I run a fairly basic i3 setup with dmenu for a
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by robotmay 8y ago
We have nextbike in Cardiff and they've been a huge hit. There's static points to return them to, which most people seem to do, and the pricing is very sensible. There's no security deposit like with oBike, and they've r
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by robotmay 8y ago
I see them pop up a lot on Reddit at least. I don't think a huge proportion of Americans know just how bad they are or their history. For anyone who doesn't already know, there's quite a lot of info out there, but here's
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by robotmay 8y ago
Is there another source apart from the Daily Mail? They're a terrible rag with atrocious journalism quality and a history of bigotry.

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