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by wlll 8y ago
I remember once someone saying something along the lines of (and I'm paraphrasing) "Amazon aren't the cheapest retailer out there, but they want you to believe they are". It's a similar situation with AWS. They&#x27
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by wlll 8y ago
I think "entering in a few details about 10 years ago into Mail.app" is a little hard to describe as "maintain". I have to go to far more effort for my email accounts that are still web based, having to sign in every so
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by wlll 8y ago
> communal kitchens and/or canteens for when you dont have time to cook That's kind of what restaurants are now, along with takeout.
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by wlll 8y ago
Best way to keep your online data safe? Never go online!
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by wlll 8y ago
I'm not and never have been a professional chef either. > Its hard because its not a sustainable place to put someone in to tell them they should be cooking more and then telling them to only cook the relatively limited palette pres
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by wlll 8y ago
There are far greater issues at stake before we need to remove kitchens from people's houses and implement public canteens. Plastic, palm oil, excessive meat consumption, proliferation of cars, climate change etc. etc.
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by wlll 8y ago
Only if you count cooking to be work.
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by wlll 8y ago
> Cooking is hard I strongly disagree here. Or rather, I disagree that one sort of cooking is hard, and that's "normal" everyday cooking. Cooking restaurant dishes is probably hard, but that's fine because you probabl
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Struct-uring your [Ruby] data(caiustheory.com)
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by wlll 8y ago
> presumably most would have been scuttled or headed for South America by then. My presumption (and I don't know, I'm guessing) would be that most uboat crews would want to go home and would surrender to the (preferably non-Rus
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by wlll 8y ago
> we know how bad general code quality is in commercial vendor firmware, it's not surprising to see this Quite. My experience of firmware is that it's usually total junk, from Internet connected web cams, to HTTP routers, to ba
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by wlll 8y ago
Not really, no. > Modern websites can prefetch all possible links on the current page you're seeing. I'm not sure I actually want that to happen. > Then when you click on any link will render that page instantly. Check out s
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by wlll 8y ago
I read somewhere that (maybe just one?) airlines had tightened up the rules around this sort of thing and it's much harder to do now, but maybe I misread…
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by wlll 8y ago
Near Manchester, UK. Most of the flights I get are to the US, so BA or AA and I can use my BA number on both airlines. That said, when I need to get a flight somewhere else and there's no BA or AA flight convenient I just get the fligh
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by wlll 8y ago
I guess I just treat Airmiles/Avios as irellevant compared to the actual benefits which are skipping queues/extra bag if I need it/lounge access at silver. Maybe one day I'll book a flight with Avios, and when I do I&#x2
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by wlll 8y ago
Flipping this round, as a user heavy use of Javascript significantly reduces my enjoyment/increases my frustration of the web. I get that some tools work better when written as SPAs, but most stuff, like my bank, news sites, most stu
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by wlll 8y ago
I signed up for the BA frequent flyer program and "cognitive load" really didn't ring true for me. Basically, I add my frequent flier number to the booking form online and that's it. When I hit Bronze (it's a couple
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by wlll 8y ago
I mean, it sounds a lot like you're complaining about other people's free speech. People campaigning to have have someone censored is still free speech, even if you don't like it.
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by wlll 8y ago
There's a good video on why any computerised or electronic elements in the voting process are a bad idea here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w3_0x6oaDmI
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by wlll 8y ago
> One thing I've always wondered is why electronic voting machines aren't code reviewed AT LEAST as much as slot machines. One reason could be if the people who would legislate on this benefit when voting machines don't wo
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by wlll 8y ago
> It's no wonder I've spent several days feeling like I got nothing done. I did a lot of unwinding hidden dependencies, but very little of it was actually writing code. Oh man, this really resonates with me. So much of my work
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by wlll 8y ago
This was such a total balls up that I wonder a little bit wether they did it on purpose so people wouldn't take them so seriously in the future.
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by wlll 8y ago
It seems you've been triggered. Perhaps as a vocal minority pushing an agenda, apparently all the time ("since forever"), who has taken offence at someone elses free speech you should just use the block button that you have.
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by wlll 8y ago
I've owned an oculus rift DK2 and have owned a Vive since the pre-order days and as far as I can tell VR is almost entirely not driven by porn. The problem is you can't just simply film a scene (be it porn, regular film, or some
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by wlll 8y ago
While there are people putting out papers that suggest that what we are seeing is the result solar cycles, and perhaps the overlaying of multiple solar maxiuma, eg: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii
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by wlll 8y ago
You can play the game though. It's nowhere near finished, sure, but I've put way more hours into Star Citizen than I have some other games.
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by wlll 8y ago
> Journalism isn't vital to democracy. It didn't exist in the democracies of ancient world ( greece or roman empire ). The Roman empire was (according to my limited research) a republic, not a democracy as you might imagine one
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by wlll 8y ago
Yeah, I'd wondered wether it was written by him.
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by wlll 8y ago
That seems far fetched, and also pretty entertaining. Far better than my old housemates who would fuck in the kitchen and throw knives when drunk.
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by wlll 8y ago
It's pretty easy to find scientific papers that make the claim that solar variation is likely to make a small difference compared to human cause climate change. > Any reduction in global mean near-surface temperature due to a future

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