tweetle_beetle

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by tweetle_beetle 2y ago
Wasn't he effectively some version of upper middle class though? With enough money for servants and safely patronised, his time was protected from basic human needs.
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by tweetle_beetle 2y ago
VPS (even with a super basic CMS ready set up) and managed web hosting with integrated editor are completely different products. If you want to make comparisons, look at WordPress.com, 1mb.site, Wix, etc.
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by tweetle_beetle 2y ago
Let's be realistic though, it's nothing to do with the 'Silicon Valley mindset'. It's just the classical route to dethroning a poor-performing incumbant - hire good talent, throw lots of money at reasearch and stay
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by tweetle_beetle 2y ago
“That nobody had opened those filing cabinets for 50 years was because they were idiots and didn’t understand the archive’s value." But who is it valuable to? Ultimately a great deal of this is purely interesting to the increasing smal
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by tweetle_beetle 2y ago
I'm no expert, buy there also seems to be loads more stuff lying on the bottom of the shallow floor than I remember from previous Olympics. Not even sure exactly what it is - large white panels and other equipment that the swimmers don
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by tweetle_beetle 2y ago
The article doesn't go far enough back in time to flesh out quite how absurd the Cavendish story is as a tale of exploitation. After centuries of generational wealth transfer in the Cavendish family, it was developed by gardeners worki
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Tory MPs paid £100k of public funds to party's in-house web designers(theguardian.com)
2 points by tweetle_beetle 2y ago|0 comments
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by tweetle_beetle 2y ago
According to Wikipedia: his first noteworthy anti-corruption publication was in 2010, he was charged with corruption in 2012 with a 5 year suspended sentence, in 2014 he was placed under house arrest without due process or any access to fam
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by tweetle_beetle 2y ago
Where does this leave people who bought the IKEA Symfonisk range, which are effectively low spec Sonos devices made in partnership? I wonder if IKEA would honour returns on the basis of this change?
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by tweetle_beetle 2y ago
It's not as clear cut as you are making out and I would suggest that you are spreading your own misinformation. There have only been 3 year on year rises between 1980 and 2014 (increases of 0.1, 0.1 and 0.2 infant deaths per 1000 live
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by tweetle_beetle 2y ago
Publishing a book is selling your work to someone who effectively uses a shitty photocopier to sell lots of copies to lots of consumers (I'm aware that publishers can, in an ideal world, provide access to quality editors whose involvem
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by tweetle_beetle 2y ago
I persevered with your website because I am very interested in the ideas, but I have to say it was very hard going. Thousands of words about abstract concepts could easily be reduced to a few hundred or spread across multiple pages. The onl
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by tweetle_beetle 2y ago
A professional beggar, as you describe it, has little to do with modern slavery, as mentioned by the grandparent comment.
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by tweetle_beetle 2y ago
Makes the advertising in computer games of the past seem quaint. Oldest I'm aware of, though not exactly the third party advertising proposed by EA, is 7Up's Spot[1]. Must go further back than that though. [1] https://e
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by tweetle_beetle 2y ago
Do you have a source for this story? First I've heard of it and interested to know more
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by tweetle_beetle 2y ago
I wonder if BYOE (bring your own electricity) also plays a part in their long term vision? Data centres are expensive in terms of hardware, staffing and energy. Externalising this cost to customers saves money, but also helps to paint a gre
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by tweetle_beetle 2y ago
They have a link covering this in their footer - "Don't like our name?" https://porkbun.com/single-tear.html
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by tweetle_beetle 3y ago
You're not wrong, but probably applying a critique which is irrelevant to the product under discussion. I don't think potential owners of 'robotic pets' will be making purchases based on maximising payload capacity, or p
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by tweetle_beetle 3y ago
$100/year sounds like a lot to host a personal blog on a shared server (having "compute intensive backend" doesn't sound typical though to be fair). On some big providers like Hetzner, that would buy into their third tie
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Using accesskey attribute in HTML forms and links (2006)(jkorpela.fi)
33 points by tweetle_beetle 3y ago|12 comments
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by tweetle_beetle 3y ago
Siblings and I were given Castle of Doctor Brain at too young an age to make much progress. It took a long time for us to figure out the puzzle on the door to get into the castle, but it must have had some strong appeal for us to keep comin
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by tweetle_beetle 3y ago
Probably goes without saying, but Quest users are obliged to have a Facebook account. So that can't even be qualified with "if they have a Facebook account", the vast majority of users do. As far as I know, the original worka
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by tweetle_beetle 3y ago
I'd wager most parents would do their best to avoid a week away from home for work if it meant their partner looking after their baby solo.
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by tweetle_beetle 3y ago
If you are in the market for a current state of the art e-ink phone, would having to do a few taps a month genuinely stop you buying this model? Seems like a very minor inconvenience for someone who values an esoteric technology combination
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by tweetle_beetle 3y ago
That really is very fast! (I don't know if this is a known compromise of your technique (I couldn't find it mentioned), but I occassionally get a ring of varying thickness centred in the render with an inverted coluring to the res
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by tweetle_beetle 3y ago
> And wouldn't you know it, about 6 years ago, GM had moved to "hoteling" or "hot desking" with an intentional 90% capacity for the number of people assigned to the building Why do so many organizations seem to h
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by tweetle_beetle 3y ago
I suspect it's making use of the 'trusted personal advisor' connotations, similar to the metaphor of having a co-pilot if you will - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Privy_council
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by tweetle_beetle 3y ago
People have been doing that on public transport in London for 100 years https://web.archive.org/web/20110615070709/http://entertainm...
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by tweetle_beetle 3y ago
I'm confused. If you were trying to recreate the method you'd read about, then I'm not sure you can say it failed when you left out the crucial element - dedicating time to reading the document together during the meeting. Th
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by tweetle_beetle 3y ago
The clip is from Limmy's Show, an offbeat, and relatively niche sketch programme that was only shown at odd times on TV south of the border. It definitely isn't mainstream comedy and makes most sense in the context of the series a

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