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by sjclemmy 8y ago
Very Kafkaesque. It’s completely unacceptable to remove a service without explanation.
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by sjclemmy 8y ago
I was thinking about communication the other day and came up with an aphorism: “We can’t even understand other people when we speak the same language - what hope do we have of communicating with an alien life?” By which I mean we wouldn’t e
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by sjclemmy 8y ago
I’m sure lots of people in the UK would like to believe that a summer like this is the ‘new normal’. But I can attest to the fact that the last time temperatures and rainfall were like this in the UK was in 1995 and before that 1976 (which
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by sjclemmy 8y ago
From my experience this is a foundational idea in a marriage / coupling. Took me many years to realise there were two forms of support and more importantly that my response was always solutional. I am now able to sit and listen without
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by sjclemmy 8y ago
I totally agree with the author. I’m a ‘finisher’ (so tend not to start things! ;)) Like the author it’s taken me a while to get to the point where I can ditch a book part way through. But when it comes to books, if you don’t want to read i
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by sjclemmy 8y ago
I have so many problems with these kind of articles / studies. For starters, does any of this matter? There seems to be a moral assumption that more motivated kids are somehow better. I also dislike the ‘more autonomy’ argument - somew
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by sjclemmy 8y ago
An interesting article but some of the conclusions at the end of descriptive paragraphs seems to come from nowhere and are completely unsubstantiated; “But machines don’t correct our flaws—they replicate them.” “We face a world, not in the
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by sjclemmy 8y ago
Just to counter the selection bias in the answers to this question; be careful. A friend of mine took mushrooms and it triggered schizophrenia. That was 30 years ago and he never recovered.
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by sjclemmy 8y ago
Yes. And they’ve both turned out fine so far.
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by sjclemmy 8y ago
I think it’s Adults who are supposed to manage their own behaviour. Children? Not so much. This sounds like a rehash of the ‘Kids today’ perspective. Children have always been children and Adults have always struggled with their behaviour.
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by sjclemmy 8y ago
Good article. I’m currently using Entity Framework in .net and I’ve designed the latest bit of software I’m developing by using the balanced approach advocated here; the modelling and the RDBMS are both part of the system and have their ow
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by sjclemmy 8y ago
The funny thing about democracy is that if you have a fairly egalitarian society, the government actually represents the views of, and works for the people. So the statement you quote is saying that the people, through their democratic syst
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by sjclemmy 8y ago
And if FB shut down WhatsApp, users will be looking to go elsewhere, and probably not FB Messenger.
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by sjclemmy 8y ago
When I read things like this I start to think about the following question: Given no technology at all (i.e. after an apocalypse!), how would one go about creating a computer (as we know them). What sort of knowledge would you need? The sc
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by sjclemmy 8y ago
When they say ‘visible with the naked eye’, do they mean looking straight on or with peripheral vision? Because you can sense more light in your periphery, so that might explain why it seems ‘more’ than about 4500 stars you can see.
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by sjclemmy 8y ago
Check out the jobhound link and check out the screenshots: “I got 5 out of 6 right but was given a 62%. Damnit!” Haha.
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by sjclemmy 8y ago
And the opposite is true; I can care without understanding.
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by sjclemmy 9y ago
Similar scenario that me and my family had with some of our friends and their children. The parents of my friends had bought an annoying toy for the children of my friends - a duck that sang an annoying tune. At a New Year’s Eve party at t
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I acted my way out of prison(bbc.co.uk)
1 points by sjclemmy 9y ago|0 comments
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by sjclemmy 9y ago
Reminds me of reading the Fortean times when I was younger. Sounds like a made up or exaggerated story. Telltale statement > “According to a local media report”. So this is a report of a report. Hmmmm.
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by sjclemmy 9y ago
> ‘The cop [would] be able to say ‘Give me the warrant details for Joe Blocks,’... I’m assuming this site is US based because someone from the UK and especially Lancashire would know that he meant Joe Bloggs. https://en.m.wiki
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by sjclemmy 9y ago
Way back in the dim distant past I had a lovely Sony cube radio alarm clock. It had a switch on the back to determine the clock speed, either 50 or 60Hz. One day, unbeknowst to me, I, or someone else, moved the switch from 50 to 60Hz. When
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by sjclemmy 9y ago
Precisely the reason I never invested in the Sonos. I looked into it a few years ago and I just thought they were overpriced and inflexible. I have Bluetooth speakers in my rooms and Spotify and Radio apps on my phone / tablet. Cheap
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“You're on the verge of losing everything but you don’t understand why”(bbc.co.uk)
162 points by sjclemmy 9y ago|134 comments
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by sjclemmy 9y ago
> If you don't get sick with fear inside when you name your rate then it isn't high enough Absolutely spot on. I sat in a meeting with a client and another consultant who named a price for some work. The client’s immediate resp
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by sjclemmy 9y ago
Being local to the area in West Yorkshire described in the article, I’d just like to correct the impression given in the article that Gildersome is a quaint ye olde english ‘hamlet... dominated by farmland’. It’s a suburb in the centre of a
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The Fall singer Mark E Smith dies(bbc.co.uk)
2 points by sjclemmy 9y ago|0 comments
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by sjclemmy 9y ago
10 PRINT “HELLO!” 20 GOTO 10 I’ll just leave that there for a bit more 80’s nostalgia.
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by sjclemmy 9y ago
I read “The Lathe of Heaven” when I was younger. I remember being fascinated by it, as only a young person can be. I hadn’t really thought to look at her other books since then (which is probably about 35 years). I’ll definintely be reading
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by sjclemmy 9y ago
“If you play a bum note, play it a couple more times and it sounds like you meant it” Eric Clapton, I think.

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