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by swilliamsio 5y ago
As someone with a middle name, it has never caused me any problem when filling out forms and the like.
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by swilliamsio 5y ago
That similar question and this entire thread reminds me of xkcd 2173. [0] We obviously already let neural networks detect drugs and drive cars, though the former gets to wear a nice fluffy fur coat. [0] https://xkcd.com/2173
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by swilliamsio 5y ago
Fantastic film. Well worth a watch.
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by swilliamsio 5y ago
I tried out Obsidian but its really not for me. The divide between edit mode and view mode is annoying and I don't really see the appeal of the focus on the graph and links - I'd prefer if my notes were kept organised and logical
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by swilliamsio 5y ago
I use Baconreader on Android and its great. I've heard loads of great things about unofficial reddit apps and nothing good about the official app.
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by swilliamsio 5y ago
> Apple wound up completely monopolizing music sales for a decade iTunes was never big enough to count as a monopoly on music sales, not even close.
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by swilliamsio 5y ago
Haven't heard of this until now. Looks like a cleaner version of Bootstrap?
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by swilliamsio 5y ago
Can't imagine those water aliens would be too pleased with all the plastic we've been dumping down there.
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by swilliamsio 5y ago
Have you thought of getting a RSS feed reader so you don't have to check? I use Feedbro which is also a browser extension so its very easy to see when theres a new post.
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by swilliamsio 5y ago
How are you finding app availability and system stability? About four or five years ago, I had a BQ Aquaris E4.5 which ran Ubuntu Touch and used it as my daily driver. I really struggled with the lack of app support - no Messenger, no Snapc
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by swilliamsio 5y ago
The commmon joke goes something like this. Video gamers think there are only: * Two races: white and ""political"" * Two genders: male and ""political"" * Two sexualities: straight and ""pol
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by swilliamsio 6y ago
A game of study for comparison might be Victoria 2. It's a grand strategy set in the Victorian period and has a decent economic simulator that the player can influence in a fair few different ways. A few different ways a player can eff
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by swilliamsio 6y ago
Though not everything on HN is tech related, you could argue Prince Philip was a bit of a tech icon as this article did: "Prince Philip, inadvertent father of the Computer Misuse Act, dies aged 99" https://www.theregist
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by swilliamsio 6y ago
For my personal website/blog, I use the beautifully simple static site generator makesite.py.[1] For the other sites I've made, I've used WordPress or plain old no fuss static html/js/css. [1] https://git
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by swilliamsio 6y ago
I thought this was an April Fools joke at first.
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by swilliamsio 6y ago
Most warships carry 40mm or 20mm minigun-like weapons which seem far more well-suited to taking down drones. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phalanx_CIWS
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by swilliamsio 6y ago
When the canals expand, the ships get bigger too.
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by swilliamsio 6y ago
Surely public transportation options are infinitely more preferable than people repeatedly renting cars?
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by swilliamsio 6y ago
Please don't tell me there exists genuine attempts to "cancel" the .io domain.
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by swilliamsio 6y ago
Yea, but speaking slowly and clearly is _only_ useful to anyone learning the language. If I spoke to you in Klingon, and you don't understand Klingon. Would speaking to you in Klingon slower and louder help you? Undoubtedly, no, it wou
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by swilliamsio 6y ago
Wow. Four jokes in a row. Is this a reddit thread or a hacker news thread? I can't tell any more.
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by swilliamsio 6y ago
Is this a reference to the Iliad/Aeneid/Odyssey and how humans were gamed by gods into fighting each other pointlessly for ten years? Or is there something else called Troy?
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by swilliamsio 6y ago
That's awesome. How did you do that?
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by swilliamsio 6y ago
> I don’t need an album shuffled by default, the artist picked the track listing for a reason I don't get you. Isn't the shuffle button on or off based on the last time you changed it? If the shuffle is on, and you play an alb
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by swilliamsio 6y ago
What one person calls obsesssion, another calls perfectionism.
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by swilliamsio 6y ago
It's a good start. I shall watch this space with great interest.
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by swilliamsio 6y ago
Pretty sure changing your name is free most places in the world.
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by swilliamsio 6y ago
Any idea why "Lightwater Country Park" is on the list?
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by swilliamsio 6y ago
Yea, this is definitely the way. Stop at a logical stopping point. Leaving at the point where a task or sub-task is completed ensures the next time you come back there's a logical next step for you to begin.
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by swilliamsio 6y ago
I highly doubt you are old enough that western did not always have that meaning for the majority of your life. It's a holdover from the Cold War, after all.

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