stevetrewick

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by stevetrewick 11y ago
Where I live (coastal UK) the answer is quite simply that people throw them in. Yes really. More discard them in the street, where the wind does the rest. No evidence so far that the 5p mandatory charge is changing this behaviour. So yeah,
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by stevetrewick 11y ago
>Perhaps more research could apprehend what actually works No, not really. Since the obvious solution (i.e. the one that has worked everywhere in the world it's been tried) is affordable grid scale electricity - which at this poin
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by stevetrewick 11y ago
I'm the opposite. As a callow youth I favoured functional brutalism in UI. After a lifetime of interacting with actual users, a bunch of HCI classes and having watched those kinds of legacy systems become productivity vampires in too m
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by stevetrewick 11y ago
tl;dr: Super conservative business culture, arguably not news but : >"Japanese companies generally lag foreign companies by roughly five-to-10 years in adoption of modern IT practices, particularly those specific to the software in
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by stevetrewick 11y ago
Keep. First time I've been able to read the front page in portrait. Personally I'd like larger font for comments and maybe the comment width nipped in a bit as I end up zooming and scrolling which is bad for flow, but that's
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by stevetrewick 11y ago
AIUI, either the Council (of ministers, i.e. the various appointed government representatives) or the Commission ( the technocratic bureaucracy which may have regulatory power delegated to them in some area of competence by the Council) can
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by stevetrewick 11y ago
Which only helps with this particular attack vector if the carriers distribute baseband updates to prevent 2/3/4/nG handsets from speaking 2G.
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by stevetrewick 11y ago
>...asked member states to grant him protection from extradition Incredibly misleading. Key word there is "asked". The EU Parliament has no power to compel such, nor indeed can it pass legislation by itself.
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by stevetrewick 11y ago
Poynton seems to have achieved its result without the massively disproportionate act of mass surveillance you seem to be advocating.
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by stevetrewick 11y ago
>despite evidence Such as?
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by stevetrewick 11y ago
No, you're wrong. The meta tag is a problem. No matter how subjectively 'good' a design is, it should still not be up to the designer to decide to break a fundamental UX paradigm of my device, nor to decide what size of text
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by stevetrewick 11y ago
> then the streets are not safe for biking. Nonsense. I regularly rode on such roads from childhood until recently, a period of some 30 years, and during all time I was at allegro of vision below legally blind. I have had precisely two
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by stevetrewick 11y ago
AIUI most FLOSS code is under copyright [0] the distinction being that the author(s) grant others a licence to use, copy and distribute under certain restrictions. It seems that the author here wants people to be able to read the code, but
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by stevetrewick 11y ago
Yes, it uses IOKit which is a private API on iOS.
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Well I guess now we know which government provided the seed capital for Peeple.
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They use a measure called Multifactor Productivity. From the linked report : Multi-factor productivity (MFP) growth measures the growth of GDP over the combined contributions of total hours, workforce skills, machinery and structures and I
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by stevetrewick 11y ago
>More and more economic value of what we consume derives not from land and raw materials but from human inputs like design, creativity, engineering and services. This means that a smaller amount of raw materials is necessary to produce
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by stevetrewick 11y ago
The authors summarise their disagreement with your 1 in TFA. Despite frequent assertions starting in the 1970s of fundamental “limits to growth,” there is still remarkably little evidence that human population and economic expansion will o
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by stevetrewick 11y ago
tl;dr: We may never know as the article doesn't address the question, choosing instead to list the author's favourite reasons why London is so awesome. I beg to differ, personally. Poor air quality, overcrowding and hopeless mobil
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Small scale nuclear fusion may be a new energy source(gu.se)
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by stevetrewick 11y ago
>just like a decent tennis player will not have difficulty returning an attempted drop shot serve. County champ tennis player and LTA coach here. You might not see this much from tour players (though Razzano had a crack at it in Paris th
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by stevetrewick 13y ago
And perhaps when it's no longer a developer only beta - with all the additional caveats, agreements, monitoring and instrumentation which that entails - it will be.
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Communications Data Bill UK(en.wikipedia.org)
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by stevetrewick 14y ago
I'm one of those people. I code with 3/60 vision. Here's what I do. I use an articulated arm for my monitor which holds it much closer to my face than any stand could while not forcing me to hunch over my desk to see. I use larger font siz