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by takno 10y ago
Got one of those for wine yesterday - get the initial cheap (but not free offer) purchase, and then only through well-learned suspicion do I check through enough to realise they've auto-enrolled me on a £25/month subscription. On
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by takno 10y ago
I cancelled Audible online. I was still annoyed because I signed up for the free month through a couple of clicks on a kindle and then because it isn't integrated with the Amazon account I forgot about it.
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by takno 10y ago
There were a whole selection of reasons for delay, including repeatedly giving the wrong address to the courier and continuing to use Yodel years after it stopped being funny. You are basically heavily dependent on your location relative to
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by takno 10y ago
Surely it would be trivial to get a nice reassuringly high reading on the meter by including lots of references which were irrelevant but easy to access. If you were careful to heavily reference uncontroversial statements they wouldn't
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by takno 10y ago
Prime in the UK is next day, and whenever they miss that they give you a free month of prime, which was essentially getting me prime for free. I gave up in the end because the waiting in was getting too expensive
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by takno 10y ago
They lost me from Prime when they started doing ads before the programmes and messing up every other delivery. If they want to lose the hundreds of pounds of orders I continue to make, and the hundreds more pounds of AWS spend, they have ce
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by takno 10y ago
He's interested in transport, so he's the kind of guy who is useful as a transport minister. Otherwise he mostly just votes with the whips and doesn't seem to have much focus on anything. I'm not sure that's really
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by takno 10y ago
It may be cultural thing, but in the UK tech scene at least even if people are flexible about pepperoni it's mostly because there is a large and delicious range of meat-based pizzas to split the vote. The representative who orders just
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by takno 10y ago
One of them was my grandmother
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by takno 10y ago
I'd probably put down that I'd been working on an Antarctic research vessel. If I put down whatever generic name they actually do use most employers would probably assume I'd been a deckhand on a cross channel ferry or someth
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by takno 10y ago
The vote was well covered in the British press, and the people I know who voted were neither kids not anything other than completely serious about the name.
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by takno 10y ago
You say "at best a handful" like there isn't a meaningful difference between "2" and "3 or 4". The US is deeply unusual in their persistent two party system. Germany probably has nearly as many voters (giv
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by takno 10y ago
I don't remember quora coming up in search results for me recently at all. I kind of assumed they were dying. Seems not
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by takno 10y ago
I'm actually not sure the VM is making that much difference, which is surprising, although it's pretty much only running nginx, and having all the bare-metal virtualization stuff enabled has helped a lot with performance. This is
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by takno 10y ago
I'd definitely be tempted to just dump that computer into a cupboard and remote into it from the laptop
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by takno 10y ago
My laptops at least for the past 5 years have been fine with Ubuntu - much the same battery life as windows, and with a little tweaking quite a lot longer. I'm currently getting 7 hours out a commodity Asus with a couple of dev environ
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by takno 10y ago
I'd guess that Firefox is a fairly good candidate for this kind of packaging just because it has relatively few external dependencies, and lots of Mozilla-specific dependencies which are rarely used by other software
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by takno 10y ago
I never moved to mint, but I did recommend trying it to some people who really didn't like unity. I pretty much stopped doing that when they had the security issues last year. Is that what is prompting you to look at switching back, or
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by takno 10y ago
I'd at least want a discount for the ugly slide template and terrible use of apostrophes
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by takno 10y ago
It's bizarre to even write this slide. Everything in it (the slide, not the presentation) becomes fairly much a reasonable insight if you just say family instead of wife or girlfriend. Hell, even partner would do.
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by takno 10y ago
The phone is beautiful, but the OS is a weirdly ham fisted attempt to make android look like iOS. In the case of notifications for example they've restricted them to a single line and no in-notification buttons. Then they've added
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by takno 10y ago
I'd go back to a feature phone rather than locked into Xiaomi. Even with access to the Google apps it's a disaster area
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by takno 10y ago
Amazon's android fork is desperately bad irrespective of their app store. If you aren't primarily using the device to consume Amazon content it is essentially useless
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by takno 10y ago
Agreed. I'm not really seeing that much similarity in the products at all.
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by takno 10y ago
That was well after he quit Twitter over another unrelated bashing he got
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by takno 10y ago
If you shared why it was relevant to the discussion and what it was people would likely be more positive
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by takno 10y ago
Since when did Acquiring McAfee ever make sense for anybody?
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by takno 10y ago
For me, maybe 30%, mostly because I have a computer in front of me for coding most of the day anyway. For my brother's family it's nearer to 90%. He still has a PC for work, although it is on about a 5-7 year replacement cycle, an
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by takno 10y ago
There exists a political climate where any negative effects are seized upon as evidence that cannabis should remain banned, however inapplicable (for example because they are a small study of chronic users after a week's withdrawal). I
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by takno 10y ago
Wordpress only sucks if you don't configure it for the expected traffic. At scalability anyway.

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