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by wlll 7y ago
Interestingly this has started happening on my mac, as of a few years ago. Obviously unrelated to Linux.
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by wlll 7y ago
It really bugs me when people put stuff on the Internet like this, an International network of often English speaking people many of whom don't live in the USA. It happens all the time. "Series X to be releaesd next month", &
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by wlll 7y ago
I once read a sci-fi book that featured a metal eating organism that was released as a weapon. Yeah, whenever humans engineer something to fix something else we've broken in the complex system that is earth, it seems like there's
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by wlll 7y ago
They're likely not doing it on purpose, they'll be losing staff to Corvid-19 and/or self isolation. My kids school, due to close on Friday, was planning to shutdown by year anyway as they were running out of teachers who were
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by wlll 7y ago
How so?
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Git tip: committing with verbose mode(tekin.co.uk)
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by wlll 7y ago
> Apple really needs to spend a whole release cycle just fixing existing bugs instead of making new features. I would pay proper old-school Mac OS release prices for this upgrade.
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by wlll 7y ago
I figured it was a resource starvation thing. Didn't look into it once Firefox cured the issue,
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by wlll 7y ago
My problems are mostly around external monitors too. I have the new 16", but I had issues on my 2014 MBP running mojave too. I have two external monitors, an Apple 27" and a Samsung 32. Sometimes the mac won't wake up my Sams
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by wlll 7y ago
It was interesting to watch the fall of Blackberry. My take was that they released a product that in a lot of people's eyes was inferior to the iPhone, so they had to come up with a differentiator. There wasn't really any area tha
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by wlll 7y ago
It was discussed here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22238335
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by wlll 7y ago
I had a 2014 15" (maxed out spec). I wanted a replacement so bought and returned the 2017 MBP because it was just not very good at all ( https://blog.willj.net/2017/08/14/why-i-returned-my-macbook-... ). I
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by wlll 7y ago
> It's not an insecure protocol. What is insecure, in every single example I've seen in this thread and in the article, is the bad defaults of browsers executing javascript automatically. Without that terrible design choice, pr
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by wlll 7y ago
> hopefully Corbyn will soon put an end to all of that. Unfortunately it is very likely that this will never happen. Realistically we're getting Boris as the next Prime Minister. To be clear, I don't want this, but Corbyn getti
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by wlll 7y ago
Nothing about this sounds like it is to protect people, and everything about it sounds to me that they are just trying to minimize the selected groups.
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by wlll 7y ago
A couple of thoughts: 1. In the UK the number of people with private medical insurance was (a couple of years ago) around 12% (according to one source). I don't know anyone who has it personally, I don't (and I can afford it). Do
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by wlll 7y ago
I used to work in an old mill (NW UK) converted to industrial units and we got to the top floor using an old lever operated lift. The lever had three positions, up, down, and stop. The door was a couple of sets of sliding gratings. I seem t
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by wlll 7y ago
This was something that worked on pay phones (in the UK at least) to get free calls. I think it was around the 70s/80s? I can't remember the exact mechanism, but something like the coin unlocked the dial, so if you didn't nee
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by wlll 7y ago
> the 2014-2016 range, when growth stops on that graph That graph is "artistic" and doesn't represent reality. Check out this earlier, far more reality accurate graph: https://web.archive.org/web/20170
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by wlll 7y ago
> They went from a typical SaaS freemium offering 3 or 4 priced tiers based on some level of use, and a small "forever free" demo tier for freelancers, right up to something like $199 or $250 a month for everyone. I think it wa
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by wlll 7y ago
For context, I worked there while it was the original Basecamp and stayed past the Basecamp 3 launch. I left ~4 years ago. This doesn't ring true to me: > …went all corporate and introduced enterprise pricing at about 10x the previo
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by wlll 7y ago
An older version of the graph gives more detail: https://web.archive.org/web/20170701044638/https://basecamp.... The two upticks in account numbers were when new versions of the products where released.
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by wlll 7y ago
What sort of resources are there? I wasn't aware of any.
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by wlll 7y ago
They're mostly AIS receivers for the smaller vessels rather than tranceivers, but yes, that is true (for a boat the size I'd estimate this was it likely had a tranceiver). You also can very easily turn AIS off onboard if you don&#
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by wlll 7y ago
Yacht nav systems can log where you have been, but a small minority of ships will permanently log their location somewhere publicly accessible. To get the data you'd need to get onto the yacht to access the nav system.
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by wlll 7y ago
Chelsea tractors
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by wlll 7y ago
At some point I suspect laws will change if self driving cars become good enough. I don't know where the liability will lie, perhaps the car manufacturers, or the insurance companies.
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by wlll 7y ago
I think it depends who was legally in control of the vehicle. I assume (and I relise it could be different, but this is just creating a model) that the safety driver would legally be considered to be in control of the vehicle, and as such r
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by wlll 7y ago
Yeah, lots of sites are GDPR compliant, it's just more noticable when the hard to understand cookie pop up is used.
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by wlll 7y ago
Cynical me could imagine the conversation might go something along these lines: Alice> We want to do a thing, and we want everyone to do it without being able to realistically avoid it while still saying "we gave them an option&quot

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