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by tompagenet2 4y ago
Because he's always been an insecure child, who says what he thinks will make him popular or stand out to a group of acolytes. Sometimes that'll work for a while, sometimes it'll really help, but over time you get more cocksu
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by tompagenet2 4y ago
Replying in good faith: yes! Two! And having them has made me all the more committed to not owning a car as I try to minimise how much I destroy their future.
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by tompagenet2 4y ago
There's a huge jump there. I don't agree that the average person donating to Wikipedia through these ads thinks they're donating to "ensuring there's an environment of well educated people", above and beyond pr
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by tompagenet2 4y ago
This is an organisation that seems to endlessly increase its costs when what I think many of us want is the ensured stability of Wikipedia. This does not cost $150m a year.
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by tompagenet2 4y ago
I get where this comes from, and there's truth in it. But if you want to speak with people and connect with them (especially on longer journeys rather than a seven minute Tube journey) do try it. I regularly speak to people on train jo
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by tompagenet2 4y ago
Because the Elizabeth line trains are so long this trick would allow very long "underground walkways". I walked the entire length of the train yesterday in about the time it took me to get from Liverpool Street to Whitechapel. I&#
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by tompagenet2 5y ago
Are you sure? This page [1] says this is not the case [1] https://support.signal.org/hc/en-us/articles/360007061452-Do...
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by tompagenet2 5y ago
Yes. You can (and sadly do) receive spam SMS. Google Messages is quite good at spotting them
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by tompagenet2 5y ago
Some hopefully useful thoughts. Well done for launching. * users of photo sites are justifiably worried about how this business is sustainable (or will everything just get deleted). What's your plan? * Add Creative Commons licenses * h
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by tompagenet2 5y ago
Is this normalised at all? It always seems to look like a map of where cities are, although there are some interesting trends, especially if you pick surnames that have more recently become prevalent in a country.
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by tompagenet2 5y ago
That's a valid view point. We don't watch TV (as in me and my wife) so it seems odd for us to encourage our children to do something we don't. I'm sure your experiences were formative (I watched a reasonable amount of ki
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by tompagenet2 5y ago
8 year old and 5 year old. Same for both of them. No TV. 25 mins each of video games every other day. We occasionally (maybe once every 6 weeks) watch a film together at the weekend. No tablets. Perhaps once a week they might ask to use the
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UK to overhaul privacy rules in post-Brexit departure from GDPR(theguardian.com)
96 points by tompagenet2 5y ago|65 comments
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by tompagenet2 5y ago
I get wildly different results for London (7 hours+) and my postcode in inner London (Wood Green area) (2 hours ish). I also get the 7 hour result if I enter "Wood Green".
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by tompagenet2 5y ago
Wow - this sounds amazing. How does one set it up; does it automatically occur?
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by tompagenet2 5y ago
Hey, PhotoStructure looks amazing. I'm intrigued. How and when does bitrot detection work? I couldn't find it on your site. I spend a decent amount of time making PAR2 volumes so I can detect failures as I've not come up with
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by tompagenet2 6y ago
Genuine question from ignorance. Is this related to this work at CERN? https://www.theguardian.com/science/2021/mar/23/large-hadron...
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by tompagenet2 6y ago
I know this sounds implausible, but I find Bing image search so much better than Google.
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by tompagenet2 6y ago
Asked out of genuine inquiry and curiosity not to bait (I know it can be difficult to tell online): The referendum was simply to add the words "The building of minarets is prohibited" to the constitution. This only affects someone
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by tompagenet2 6y ago
The banning of minarets is a data point against this liberty.
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by tompagenet2 6y ago
Are they uncommon now? Gotorazor makes a very good point that portable electronics might be plugged in in more places, and therefore you're less likely to ensure every one of these sockets are surfer protected. But my desktop PC and my
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Facebook oversight board will ask to see algorithm(theguardian.com)
5 points by tompagenet2 6y ago|2 comments
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by tompagenet2 6y ago
This seems like a (perhaps deliberate, but I'll assume good faith) misunderstanding of what "safety first" means. It doesn't mean we should prioritise any safety improvement above any other objective. It simply means tha
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by tompagenet2 6y ago
Could the cat wear one of those magnetic collars that allow access through a cat flap, and that magnet be the issue?
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by tompagenet2 6y ago
I totally agree with this, and it marks the first series for me a bit. The setting and concept are great, but Joe is a pastiche and until they calm his character down he's not very believable. He gets too much screen time and the expen
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by tompagenet2 6y ago
Maybe, I don't know anything about it, but let's engage with curiosity and evidence here rather than simply referring to a point as "kids level"
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Microsoft apologises for feature criticised as workplace surveillance(theguardian.com)
352 points by tompagenet2 6y ago|174 comments
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by tompagenet2 6y ago
On this thought, why is the concern about 5G rather than existing mobile networks and existing fixed-line networks (Huawei kit is common in both)? Is something different about 5G or the UK implementation of it?
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by tompagenet2 6y ago
I do wonder whether video calls have become the next reading, television or video games - this horror that will destroy people's brains. It all feels rather reactionary. Surely different forms of communication work for different people
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by tompagenet2 6y ago
I think the author is noting that, as with Dropbox, video conferencing isn't new (Skype has it), it's just then when the chips were down and millions of people needed it Zoom seems to have worked better for more people than more e

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