teh_klev

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by teh_klev 6y ago
Then I think you should read my post again. It's pretty clear none of what I said was to be taken literally . If that's the case then you're suggesting that the average US citizen's ability to perform reading comprehens
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by teh_klev 6y ago
Unsure if /s or a smiley needs to be appended to your comment ;) I hereby invoke Poe's Law.
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by teh_klev 6y ago
Likely spam originating from AWS IP addresses.
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by teh_klev 6y ago
I ultimately got booted off twitter for a tweet that said: "Dear @AmazonUK AI, please kill yourself now". This clearly wasn't aimed at a human but their Artificial Intelligence. Attached to the tweet (to provide the tweet wit
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by teh_klev 6y ago
Heh...I never even noticed that before, thanks!
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by teh_klev 6y ago
I'd like to watch these and appreciate you've put a decent chunk of work into the content. But...as a desktop user the video player only has two screen sizes...too small to be readable and full screen which is pretty useless becau
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by teh_klev 6y ago
Ah, ok, that would explain things. :)
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by teh_klev 6y ago
> It reads like it was written by someone who hasn't fully mastered English English is my first language, I didn't find the writing that terrible. It's certainly no worse than the standard of output from most large news o
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by teh_klev 6y ago
That's what she writes in the article.
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by teh_klev 6y ago
> makes it sound way too much World War I kind of cold leadership with no rational reason. The sentence says "physical contact". You can be a warm, friendly and supportive leader without touching people.
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by teh_klev 6y ago
That looks more like a task bar to me, and in the open Write document on the right it mentions "Rudamentary[sic] taskbar" which is what it's likely referring to.
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by teh_klev 6y ago
> After @sprig, I took off and traveled the world. Apart from the spelling, where do I even begin with this last tweet? I'm sure that most right thinking folks know what I mean. Edit: just to clarify, I'm looking at the optics
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by teh_klev 6y ago
Hi Adam, hope you don't take it personally. If it was a FOSS project you'd probably get away with it (see: GIMP, Mastodon), and it'd be funny but might attract "the wrong crowd". For a commercial product I'd de
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by teh_klev 6y ago
And I thought my mind was a sewer :)
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by teh_klev 6y ago
I'll just come right out and say it without any passive aggressive bull, but your product name is terrible. The first thing I that popped into my mind was "Meat Butter", then Lard and then Last Tango in Paris. Revenue generat
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by teh_klev 6y ago
I have my copy from before the days when they tarted it up to add to the Developmentor series. I kinda miss Don Box doing his thing, quite an entertaining showman (who remembers Box sitting in a bath on stage talking about SOAP?) and tremen
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by teh_klev 6y ago
> subscription CD based library Back in the 90's I used to be the custodian and curator of our great big box of MSDN CD's ensuring that updates and replacements were properly seen to. Oh the memories :) In fairness you didn&#x2
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by teh_klev 6y ago
I'm with A&A as well and since the mid 2000's. Despite being on Universal Credit due to my freelance biz going down the toilet due to Coronavirus, I'll do my absolute best to stay with them even if it means living off of
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by teh_klev 6y ago
> a "secretive procurement process" for the UK app, which sounds a bit worrying Sadly this is unsurprising and par for the course for the UK government these days.
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by teh_klev 6y ago
I'm genuinely amazed he's not been found burned to a crisp in his workspace. The same goes for Photonic Induction, how he's not burned down his street, let alone his house is a miracle: https://www.youtube.com&#x2F
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by teh_klev 6y ago
That's very well done, and not unimaginable either.
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by teh_klev 6y ago
Probably old news but Boston Dynamics' "dog" products were the inspiration for the killer robot dogs in the "Metalhead" Black Mirror episode: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metalhead_(Black_Mirro
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by teh_klev 6y ago
Once upon a time a UK model train manufacturer had a warning inside the box of your new loco or rolling stock that said something like "Do not dismantle out of idle curiosity". Some people despite the warnings and consequences can
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Make your 404s into 302s(4042302.org)
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by teh_klev 6y ago
> As long as it's on Apple hardware, I don't see the issue at work. Sure as long as it's stable and actually supported and doesn't live in Apple's realm of "experimental". > Virtual machines on Apple
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by teh_klev 6y ago
> You mean as a hobbyist? Yep. I had a much longer comment about this, then grew tired of writing up the caveats - because HN :). So, me neither, not if I relied on it for revenue generating work.
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by teh_klev 6y ago
The twitter account @CasioMaths seems to the be last remaining active Casio calculator twitter account (appears to be UK based) I can find. I've already tweeted them to point out the error of their ways. Perhaps others could follow sui
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by teh_klev 6y ago
In real life, does anyone care?
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by teh_klev 6y ago
I have three Dell 24" panels dating from 2005/7 ( 1 x 2405FPW and 2 x 2407FPW). They're not really what you'd call "high contrast" these days given their age.
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by teh_klev 6y ago
For me strong contrasts, especially on dark backgrounds, give me retina burns and eyestrain. I find pastel shades more comfortable. That said the grey text on white fad that happened a few years ago was a very silly idea. I guess everyone&#

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