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by roryisok 10y ago
oops. I obviously have no sense of humour today. would it not be "hurricane" though?
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by roryisok 10y ago
> In the meantime, we have some pretty mind-blowing video of what such an incident actually looks like from the air. Mind-blowing is a bit of an exaggeration. it's just a video of three planes flying along side one another.
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by roryisok 10y ago
Eurofighter Typhoon and Panavia Tornado are different aircraft.
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by roryisok 10y ago
ok, I learned something today!
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by roryisok 10y ago
I live in Ireland, in the EU, and I'm fairly sure all the eggs in supermarkets here are washed. There's never a spot of dirt on them. And we always refrigerate, as does everyone I know
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by roryisok 10y ago
Well now I want to see this too. Somebody make it!
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by roryisok 10y ago
preface: take my advice, and everyone elses with a pinch of salt The programmer in me appreciates the neatness and simplicity of your site, but recruiters are not programmers. they will see a "plain" website by someone selling the
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by roryisok 10y ago
I'm not against Universal Basic Income, but there are some things about it which worry me, and which don't seem to come up very much in these discussions. leverage If we're all on basic income, we no longer have any leverage
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by roryisok 10y ago
That is a fantastic idea. I'm not even American and I'd be fascinated by that. Every country should have this. During election time you could put in a candidate's name and see their history, what they voted for, any legislati
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by roryisok 10y ago
I agree. Keeping archives of decade old arguments between random strangers seems like a waste of digital resources. It's like taking and storing minutes for the water cooler conversations in your office. I wonder how many petabytes of
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by roryisok 10y ago
Ok, that's fair
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by roryisok 10y ago
Makes sense. I don't see what the big deal is, surprised to see this at the top of the front page? I had to double check I wasn't looking at /new
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by roryisok 10y ago
Maybe I'm missing something, but why is this an electron app rather than a web page?
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by roryisok 10y ago
I have a hp spectre with a touch screen and windows 10, and it certainly doesn't suck. Great for sticking in tablet mode and browsing, organising photos etc.
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by roryisok 10y ago
About two weeks ago I commented on a post here (a concept design for a new mac pro) joking that the next mac pro would probably run and arm CPU and have the ram soldered on. Looks like I was on to something
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by roryisok 10y ago
No reason they couldn't put a touch screen on a MacBook or imac, though I guess they can't guarantee one on a mac pro
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by roryisok 10y ago
Since the KDE slimbook is on the front page I thought I'd share this, looks much more developed and useful to me
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Purism laptop – a laptop with hardware kill switches(puri.sm)
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by roryisok 10y ago
completely. new yorker articles lately are seriously stirring it
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by roryisok 10y ago
I've been beating this drum for years, MS Security Essentials is the only passably decent antivirus app there is, and seems to be the only one that doesn't try to scare users into paying for upgrades.
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by roryisok 10y ago
I see lots of interesting articles on vertical farms, but they always seem to produce only lettuce, which has zero nutritional value. it worries me that they don't seem to produce anything more substantial
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by roryisok 10y ago
not cereals alone, and not if they destroy the soil in a few generations
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by roryisok 10y ago
Nokia Lumia 925. A Windows Phone. Currently stranded on Windows Phone 8.1, with no hope of an upgrade to 10. CAMERA: 8MP, LED Flash and takes acceptable photos. Lumia Camera app has a burst mode which was removed in WP10, and is better than
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by roryisok 10y ago
Please don't be put off by this being on Wikileaks. This is not just some disgruntled British soldier dumping a few hundred secret documents. This is a single, very thorough report he wrote himself, describing in detail all the horribl
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by roryisok 10y ago
Have you read the document? There's a lot of awfully specific detail for "making things up"
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by roryisok 10y ago
Can we not flood HN with every new piece of Trump "news"? Sometimes non-tech stories are important enough to be featured here. This is hardly that
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by roryisok 10y ago
baires? Are we really making this a word?
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by roryisok 10y ago
markhalfdown? or... italics
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by roryisok 10y ago
absolutely. and I have both!
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by roryisok 10y ago
no need to hate on the blue walls. people who park their bikes in bikesheds with walls made of transparent materials shouldn't throw stones.

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