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by swores 11mo ago
You're creating a straw man (perhaps accidentally) which makes your argument seem such stronger than it is against the actual proposals. Neither the comment you replied to, nor the proposed law, suggest the limit should be solely gover
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by swores 11mo ago
In that case your memory (or perhaps just attention to detail when watching) is better than mine, and I withdraw my previous belief! Thanks for the correction
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by swores 11mo ago
I might be wrong but I don't remember the original framing ever showing the sign, so I assumed (perhaps incorrectly) that it was there ready for them to move in shot if they ever wanted it, but that as seen in this image it's not
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by swores 11mo ago
They never intended to show anything to the right of the doorframe on TV, so there's a random sign on the wall and a big hole in the wall (which makes sense if you are a camera crew wanting to film a sitcom in the apartment, that doesn
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by swores 11mo ago
Glad to have helped! I just noticed it randomly many years ago, I don't remember the occasion but I guess I was scrolling trying to find a page in history lazily and noticed it at the bottom. It's an example that sums up feature d
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by swores 11mo ago
FYI, an easier way to search in pages in Safari is to just type what you want to search for in the address bar, and then at the bottom of the list of suggestions (you may need to scroll it down) you can tap "On this page".
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by swores 11mo ago
Counter anecdote: I also have a British accent, and while I find Siri as shit as everyone else in this thread the dictation built into the iOS keyboard very rarely has a problem with my accent. I'm fairly close to Received Pronunciatio
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by swores 11mo ago
Their point is that Siri is not consistent with these things. If you've never had these issues yourself then good for you, not everyone is as lucky. I have had the same issues myself. The "allow Siri when locked" toggle for
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by swores 11mo ago
Haha that's great! I'm not a fan of his (nothing against him, just not my cup of tea when it comes to comedy and mostly not been interested in other stuff he's done), but the few times I have seen him as a guest on shows it&#
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by swores 11mo ago
A blind comedian / TV personality in the UK has just done a TV show on this subject - I haven't seen it, but here's a recent article about it: https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2025/nov/2
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by swores 11mo ago
One could argue that, and like I just wrote in my reply to your sibing comment ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46087142 ) I would agree with you with regards to ethics, but it's not a valid argument from an actual
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by swores 11mo ago
From an ethical point of view I completely agree that it's predatory, I just don't believe any EU laws exist that mean anyone would have a chance of success trying to sue over that, I don't believe it to be illegal. And while
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by swores 11mo ago
Those aspects of contract law mean that if MS included "you owe us your first born child" or "if you have not uninstalled this operating system within 2 weeks of installation, you owe Microsoft an additional one million dolla
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by swores 11mo ago
Interesting, thanks!
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by swores 11mo ago
For anyone else who, like me a moment ago, doesn't know the meaning of ** but is curious: it's how many (but not all) programming languages express "to the power of", aka 2**1000 = 2^1000
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by swores 11mo ago
I get that the article is light hearted, but given how easy it is to confirm that yes cameras reading number plates is indeed how the system works, I don’t understand taking the time to write that article and not bothering to go further tha
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by swores 11mo ago
You’ve given numbers for how fast New Horizons launched, and for how fast Voyager 1 got thanks to the 1-in-175-years boost, but is there an easy way to actually compare them? IE either what speed Voyager 1 launched at excluding the gravity
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by swores 11mo ago
I’m not sure why you read their question as being either surprised or disbelieving? I’ve worked in marketing enough to know that all sorts of less-interesting data gets bought and sold, yet alone financial data, but even if limiting the con
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by swores 11mo ago
Agreed, just thought worth pointing out to anyone reading your comment that a game not being on Nintendo doesn’t necessarily mean that it’s not child-friendly (lots of people don’t realise that making a game work on different platforms invo
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by swores 11mo ago
It may be a good enough simple test, especially for huge titles like Roblox, but I’ve worked with game developers whose titles would have been allowed by Nintendo but who decided it wasn’t worth the investment to create a port to publish fo
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by swores 11mo ago
Time of day definitely plays a part, but there’s also luck/randomness to it. Even the same time and same day of the week there will never be exactly the same set of users online, and that’s even more true with regard to the users who a
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by swores 11mo ago
No, they just disagree with you.
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by swores 11mo ago
I’m pretty sure they are saying they want both that keyboard plugged in and MacOS rather than the limited iPadOS; not that they think MacOS is required to be able to plug a keyboard in.
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by swores 11mo ago
If it was a joke it went right over my head
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by swores 11mo ago
You most likely know and just suffered autocorrect, but given the context of using it to point out a similar mistake I feel the need to correct you: it should be “sic”, not “sick”. (For anyone not familiar: https://en.wikipedia.o
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by swores 11mo ago
And to be clear, that’s still true for selling services online to UK citizens who are also UK residents, it’s not a quirk of you having moved away from the UK - it’s just not true that you need a legal presence in the UK to serve customers
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by swores 11mo ago
Meanwhile my mind first jumped to the old, pre-USB connector used for things like keyboards and mice, and was wondering what wizardry they had built to turn a PS2 keyboard into a complete text processor!
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by swores 1y ago
Oops yeah I forgot to state that, thanks for pointing it out. There are cheaper options than Google Workspace (which is £11.80/month) for quality email hosts for your custom domain though - like FastMail (£4.50/month), ProtonMail
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by swores 1y ago
> it's that or buy your own domain and host your own email. Those aren't the only two options, there are two in the middle ground (and perhaps more that I'm failing to think of) that are well worth considering. Option 1:
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by swores 1y ago
The too-fast one in Paris was 12km/h, not 4km/h which would be OK. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moving_walkway#Trottoir_roulan...

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