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by vr46 6y ago
I worked as a part-time lecturer for one course, over two years, and I did it for the love of it, because I had to take time off my high-paying contract to do it, and it cost me thousands to do it. I don't regret it, and quite enjoyed
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by vr46 6y ago
I've been using the previous version for a while, and it's been way too complicated and confusing, so I'm happy to see that version 3 is addressing some of those issues. It's very ambitious and promises great things with
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by vr46 6y ago
This spells good news for electric cars, which seem to have far less sound-deadening material, and indeed far less of any material in the cockpit in order to keep a low weight. I’ve been in two Teslas and the noise is awful compared to my 1
844.
by vr46 6y ago
Agreed - there's been too many of this "write once, run everywhere" stuff going on and it always disappoints on user experience and performance. On top of that, native features vanish.
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by vr46 6y ago
Another problem is that for many years, a user will have been signing up to accounts with their gmail email address. If this address is locked, password resets become impossible. I'm hoping that address reuse never becomes a thing.
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by vr46 6y ago
That was me joking that it took about 10 years of convincing her to let me buy it, but only a few months of it actually being in the house for her to like it :)
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by vr46 6y ago
Good grief, the (moving) discussion is terrible and is not getting better. The maintainer looks embarrassed and is doubling down, has not had an opportunity to save face and this looks quite humiliating. Gah. We have to let people save face
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by vr46 6y ago
I finally managed to overcome the objections of Mrs VR46 and order some Vitsoe shelving for my office - she thought it was ugly - but after a few months (arguably 10 years) she changed her mind completely and thinks they’re great. I wish I
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by vr46 6y ago
I subscribed to Medium briefly during the lockdown and the content was truly, utterly, awful. Terrible writing drowned out the good and great, reams of tripe, inane nonsense everywhere, and advertised like crazy to me. After a few weeks of
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by vr46 6y ago
The response from The Intercept: https://theintercept.com/2020/10/29/glenn-greenwald-resigns-...
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by vr46 6y ago
Holy cremoly. I had appendicitis when I was about 7, back in the 1980s, it was awful and after surgery in an actual hospital with actual doctors I was still out of action for six weeks. I have no idea how anyone could be in a fit mental sta
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by vr46 6y ago
Feels a bit plagiarized from an FC article five years ago: https://www.fastcompany.com/3043041/why-our-brains-love-high...
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by vr46 6y ago
Very grateful for this work, will be checking it out ASAP. Pricing is on the high side, I would say, but the openness could make up for it.
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by vr46 6y ago
Buying expensive devices to immediately break them in order to make vanity videos and build a following is as conceited and frivolous a pastime as was ever invented. Many (wealthy or not) people are wasteful or negligent in the pursuit of p
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by vr46 6y ago
What an absolute legend, and what a game to do it with. Many a game did I play in my youth in the wee hours of the morning when most of the world was asleep. And I was RUBBISH, all the gear and no idea. This guy shames me into making more e
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by vr46 6y ago
I have officially given up on Adobe after 28 years, too. Even with the new features in Potatochop/Lightroom on image protection. I can't run my old software, or I can't obtain my old software, and CC is just a shitshow of pro
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by vr46 6y ago
I love this pencil so much that I have three, with different lead in each. It’s completely brilliant. And a bargain, or it was. I really like the venerable Pentel P200 series but I only use the 0.7 and 0.9 because there’s no Kurutoga.
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by vr46 6y ago
Optional makes the supply chain worse by having to make two types of box, two production lines. Or by adding them separately you end up with more packaging material and more transport expense. This is a good move for the environment, even i
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by vr46 6y ago
Yes, true, can something be slang if it's just old? "Dozen" is pretty old too, but is never used for money.
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by vr46 6y ago
Money slang finds its way into my speech when I'm chatting with mates from the East, we might be discussing buying a old motorbike or something and it'll be like, "yeah, it's not bad for a monkey, is it?!" or it&#x2
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by vr46 6y ago
Serverless just moves complexity around and makes some things a bit more awkward, like debugging and logging. You have to be all in on the platform. I’ve just taken over a serverless app after the lead left and there are so many moving part
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by vr46 6y ago
The golden rule: he who has the gold makes the rules.
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by vr46 6y ago
Brilliant, I ended up having to pay Alamy lots of cash earlier in the year to buy high-res artwork so I could print for personal use.
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by vr46 6y ago
Non-violence is only effective where the oppressor is vulnerable to moral pressure. In many cases, the oppressor is not. (Not stating my personal examples, too contentious, but I'm sure you could find your own).
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by vr46 6y ago
And he did it again during lockdown with his wife on YouTube, with the same guitar. Immaculately dressed, BTW.
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by vr46 6y ago
Ah man, their debut album stands out sonically to this day, it just blew a hole in the scene. RIP Eddie.
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by vr46 6y ago
Yeah, Sony too. I replaced my Bose with Sonys, not an upgrade in so many ways.
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by vr46 6y ago
Bose and Sonos have been playing fast and loose with user privacy and tracking data, so I wonder whether Apple are annoyed about that as well.
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by vr46 6y ago
Well, you say that but every time he wins a WC he gets a permanent €5M salary increase or something, so he's on some mental figure now and the only one that can ride that bike :)
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by vr46 6y ago
F1 is more interesting to read about than watch. Quick fix: limit braking efficiencies. The ridiculously short braking zones make opportunities for fighting very limited, so I’d love to see racers having to be more strategic in their drivin

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