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by vr46 2y ago
Only two weeks ago did I use a script found as a Gist to delete all my Google reviews and attached photos, after a bad but genuine and factual review of mine, accompanied by photos as proof, was removed after the place complained. It’s bull
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by vr46 2y ago
I thought they did a pretty good job in getting shit back up and running by 6 that evening, I flew into LHR the next day with zero delay and zero hassle, so hats off to everyone.
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by vr46 2y ago
USB-C is a car crash of an implementation landscape, just because the interface is a single design, doesn't mean that you can rely on it. It is better than it was, but we've had several instances of issues with the USB-C, includin
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by vr46 2y ago
Not at the rate she is reputed to work. “Kemi Badenoch sounds like she's the reverse Tucci. Disgruntled aides are gossiping round the Westminster watering holes that she really doesn't like being asked to do much before lunch.”
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by vr46 2y ago
No dispute from me, simply pointing that the state itself pursues a different direction than most on this subject by separating the two things. On your final point, I think we may well be seeing a theocratic majority there quite soon, will
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by vr46 2y ago
This article underlines the point I made. Israel maintains separate data on citizenship and nationality on their population, and "Israeli" is not a "nationality" in that database. Of course Arab nationals of Israel have
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by vr46 2y ago
I think therein lies the complexity of the problem when the state itself maintains a population record where citizenship and nationality have been separated, and "Israeli" nationality does not exist, only "Jewish" exists
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by vr46 2y ago
No, not Dahl, the Royal Court - they had a character/villain in a play, Rare Earth Mettle, with a Jewish name, which I think is hardly the theatre's fault, and previously a play by Caryl Churchill in 2009.
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by vr46 2y ago
We could do with wider knowledge of a complicated man. My friend's husband wrote a fabulous play about a short period in Dahl's life centred around antisemitism, which was directed by Nicholas Hytner at the Royal Court. I suspect
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by vr46 2y ago
How is open-source supposed to compete without access to Apple's certificates? If you are constantly forced to override the warnings about unsigned software, assuming your system even allows you in the first place, how much friction be
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by vr46 2y ago
When you say "conventions", do you actually mean, "insanity"?
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by vr46 2y ago
Apple's CPU nomenclature is getting more deliberately confusing than BMW's.
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by vr46 2y ago
The US prices never include state sales tax IIRC. Maybe we're finally getting some parity.
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by vr46 2y ago
The proprietary tools were only an issue for people who needed the timeline. Games-wise, Both Actionscript 2 and 3 were perfectly usable without Flash. The MTASC compiler was a massive game-changer, and then Adobe released the AS3 compiler
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by vr46 2y ago
You need a non-UK card to use on your Apple Account to change its region.
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by vr46 2y ago
I found XMPP an absolute delight to work with and built all kinds of command-and-control messaging utils with it that allowed me the flexibility to use it as a chat service and RPC broker all at the same time, with bots as APIs. It was nuts
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by vr46 2y ago
I agree, I've tried every possible setup I could to get things running reliably for a client and ultimately just held up my hands and went, "exactly why are you not using a combination of Signal/Keybase/GPG" for you
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by vr46 2y ago
Indeed. My 1999 Crumpler is sticky, as are similar things from that era, but the clear windows on my ski jacket’s helmet cracked into pieces. My old 1980’s Walkman case did both on the same case with both materials as you suggested.
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by vr46 2y ago
You’ve not foolishly neglected a Billingham bag’s straps over 33 years, like I did. They need replacing now because they became so dry and brittle.
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by vr46 2y ago
Ok, I get it. Kinda makes sense for people who remember the originals and have money to burn, but clearly a different market to the cheaper UK paperbacks. The first 15 books are US$60, versus five via Kickstarter, and more expensive later o
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by vr46 2y ago
I have experienced too much degradation of both leather and plastic material over the last twenty to thirty years to know what's what, leather needs feeding and oiling to retain its properties, and plastic deteriorates in numerous ways
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by vr46 2y ago
This I absolutely do not understand when the publishers in the UK are printing the books for sale already. The vagaries of international licencing, no doubt. There are plenty of complaints about the standard of illustrations in the books, a
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by vr46 2y ago
Great memories of these, and the Sorcery Series, although I foolishly disposed or donated all of mine, including the Sorcery Spell Book. Ian Livingstone is a lovely man, too - he used to frequent the Square Enix office in London, and occasi
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by vr46 2y ago
Yeah, agreed, long time user, just let my sub lapse. I don't like VSCode like I did IDEA but all the features are there, and more, much more. The AI integration and choices (Cursor, Trae, RooCode, Aide, Windsurf, PearAI, etc etc etc) a
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by vr46 2y ago
I literally did not renew last month after twelve years of paying, and longer overall, and the UI was the last straw. I installed the "classic" UI plugin, but it's like you say, I know they're going to drop it. I figured
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by vr46 2y ago
I agree that there's a barrier, but it's not huge. Mastodon really could use some people versed in marketing and onboarding. People use email without realizing that it's decentralized, I tried to draw parallels between that
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by vr46 2y ago
Last weekend, I took an old cross-platform app written by somebody else between 1994-2006 in C++ and faffed around with it until it compiled and ran on my modern Mac running 14.x. I upped the CMAKE_CXX_STANDARD to 20, used Clang, and all wa
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by vr46 2y ago
Yet another shitshow-in-waiting. I know Mastodon isn’t as polished but leaving one frying pan to get into another is a lost opportunity. I failed to convince somebody to move to Mastodon recently.
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by vr46 2y ago
Intriguing stuff here from a geek perspective, as I have an X2 and am only plagued by a lack of gears. I would expect e-shifters to have been made reliable by the time the 3 series came out, I didn't realize they were that bad, especia
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by vr46 2y ago
ML doesn't work on a lot of cameras - yet. It's quite far behind the last generation of SLRs and stays away from the flagship models.

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