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by smcl 4y ago
Yeah it's definitely hard to learn another language when there are a lot of people who speak your language and you don't necessarily need to learn it to get by. I have a tip if you want German to feel a bit easier though, hop ov
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by smcl 4y ago
How on earth is there an article about how to stop large numbers of feral hogs without mentioning the most famous tweet on the subject: https://twitter.com/WillieMcNabb/status/1158045307562856448
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by smcl 4y ago
Weirdly I am now seeing it again. I don't know what happened :-S
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by smcl 4y ago
"Cascade of Attention Deficit Teens" - it's a phrase coined by jwz (of Mozilla fame) to refer to how some some projects (he specifically targeted GNOME) tend to throw out mature-but-imperfect code and rewrite it from one vers
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by smcl 4y ago
In any HN discussion on housing there is inevitably a couple of people acting like you’re trying to build a krushchevka on their lawn. It’s like if we pretended all detached housing was like the infamous “groverhaus”[0]. The user you’re rep
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by smcl 4y ago
I remember them from my recent (~2 yrs ago, wow) re-watch of TNG! Their strategy was to look helpless to trick bypassers into helping them out, since they were not clever enough to do engineering work etc themselves.
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by smcl 4y ago
> Kunt gets censored in a popular game Ahhhh a distant cousin to the "Scunthorpe problem" - English and Dutch are not so dissimilar after all! Related problem I saw recently, guy called Nasser had the "ass" in his nam
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by smcl 4y ago
Me too. I subscribe to Netflix, HBO and Amazon though. There are shows companies will not offer in my locale at any price. I could either take a stand and hope that whoever is in charge picks up the signal somehow then wait … or I could jus
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by smcl 4y ago
To be honest it didn't really achieve a great deal. The Murdoch papers still have a pretty heavy influence over British politics - they stuck with Boris long after he should've been done, it was only when they turned on him it tha
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by smcl 4y ago
Your friendly neighbourhood torrent merchant, I guess
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by smcl 4y ago
Honestly he was a good guy, and was one of the few MPs who didn't get caught up in the expenses scandal. Yeah I think unfortunately people were easily persuaded that this made him look incompetent (I didn't vote, would have voted
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by smcl 4y ago
> I don't give a crap about e-Sports Yes this is what's so bizarre! You and I are disconnected from that scene altogether (I don't even like Smash!), we don't have any vested interests and yet we can both see that it&
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by smcl 4y ago
The sister-comment to yours by user fat-chunk describes it much better, but we're not even talking about big commercial events and corporate entities. We're talking about community events run for fun, rather than profit. But even
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by smcl 4y ago
I understand that laws are weird and that you'd want to err on the side of caution. I don't understand that it's so easy to get someone's content taken down to the extent that (for example) a DMCA takedown request is a c
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by smcl 4y ago
Wait now you're now making a different point entirely. Before you suggested they shouldn't need to go out of their way to treat e-sports any differently (to accomodate them) because they're not the target market. Now you&#x27
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by smcl 4y ago
I too was looking on from abroad, the only things that reached me were that Miliband was a little bit goofy and that he wan't the favoured candidate by the Murdoch papers (where he took an absolute hammering, I think we all saw the pic
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by smcl 4y ago
This doesn't match with my experience in a Scottish state school, albeit way back in 1997-2003. In the top class in maths we always had more girls than boys throughout my time there. If anything boys were often treated as a nuisance fo
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by smcl 4y ago
If I recall correctly there's a certain length videos need to be to get adverts or to be monetised - something like ~10 minutes. So while this one is a little bit played out (maybe this happens to get an extra set of ads in the middle)
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by smcl 4y ago
> they're just two radically different and largely incompatible audiences This is incorrect, and I think you're maybe missing some context. What is being referred to here isn't esports players being whiny or particular abo
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by smcl 4y ago
I think there's another side of this that is being glossed over. While Nintendo are being a bit overbearing (and IMO self-defeating), they're sending these takedowns to YouTube who are happily executing them, and are seemingly u
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by smcl 4y ago
I think that would still be illegal but just very hard to prove and prosecute.
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by smcl 4y ago
I like it, I happened upon a good collection of accounts to follow by chance and it worked out well. I really only switched because the company that made the Twitter client I used (Tapbots) made a Mastodon client (Ivory) shortly after Elon
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by smcl 4y ago
That's a good idea actually. If I get bored on Mastodon and feel like I wanna give Twitter another whirl I'll try that. I went opened it up a few days back and saw a promoted post for every ~8 real tweets or so. Unreal.
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by smcl 4y ago
If you follow thousands of people then maybe. But in that case you're going to miss tweets anyway, so if you've got way too many tweets buffered and you want to see more recent stuff you can opt to skip them.
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by smcl 4y ago
Man, all this effort when all most of us want is to see tweets from the people we follow in chronological order. Absolutely wild.
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by smcl 4y ago
Ah that's something I didn't even consider - and I guess a lot of people don't even consume things that we normally add individual sachets of sugar to. At least giving the weight in grams gives you something to go by. Ultimat
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by smcl 4y ago
Weird thing is that I don't actually have a connection to five sachets of sugar. People might frequently handle one or two sachets at a time and can conceive of the idea that five isn't that much heavier but at that point we mig
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by smcl 4y ago
> mainly through heavily injecting ads HNers are more likely to use an ad blocker so they may not quite appreciate how severe this has become. I recently switched my casual/kitchen computer from an old MacBook Air (where I’d browse
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by smcl 4y ago
It's also the catchphrase of a fictional product a character (played by Adam Scott) in "Party Down" (show about struggling actors working in catering) advertises. It's his only real success as an actor, and it follows hi
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by smcl 4y ago
That's a extremely naive way to look at police. But if you think the police do "high quality" anything then you're probably not the kind of person who could be persuaded otherwise.

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