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by youngNed 4y ago
-- edit, parent post has been edited to be less confrontational making my post somewhat redundant.
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by youngNed 4y ago
Added to that, the country is literally shitting[1] itself. Its really weird living here at the moment, its like some kinda of cautionary fable about the monster that made everyone impose trade-sanctions on themselves, but none of the tow
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by youngNed 4y ago
I have been thinking about this more than can be healthy recently. In my kids school there is an open yard, through an open gateway, into another open yard in front of the school ┌─────────┐ │ │ │
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by youngNed 4y ago
Sure, i use epy[1] and every month i d/l my books from amazon that i have bought, dedrm[2] through calibre and save the epubs to a folder. Its not a particularly arduous task. When i want to read i have an alias setup along the lines
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by youngNed 4y ago
Weird rant. Dvb standard are handled by itc/ofcom in the UK, but isn't handling of the radio spectrum handled by government everywhere? FCC handle dvb in the US, no?
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by youngNed 4y ago
And similarly some are moving back for a reason. Signal to noise on modern web is frog boiling[1]. RSS, newsboat, w3m, mpv on an old thinkpad - i'm not advocating going full Stallman, or that everyone should do it - but when i want t
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by youngNed 4y ago
> very behind the 8ball in this space if... This doesn't make sense. Being 'very behind' the 8ball is no disadvantage.
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by youngNed 4y ago
I can only imagine its akin to the reaction a British person has when they see an American pluralise Lego Whilst is a perfectly cromulent word in British english
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by youngNed 4y ago
I got made redundant in 2008, i signed up for unemployment benefit (UK) and part of the requirements was i had to attend a cv writing one day workshop, in the basement of a particularly dingy pub. The guy leading it was spectacularly useles
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by youngNed 4y ago
No, pretty sure they spell it chaztized /s
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by youngNed 4y ago
> Meta does have thousands of competent engineers, ensuring their data remains exactly where they want it to be do they, aye? https://www.datacenterknowledge.com/security/meta-probe-533-...
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by youngNed 4y ago
I judge people on whether they prefered Sensi or KO2. I am judging you. Kick Off 2, at least on the Amiga was sooo much better. With Sensi, if you run down the pitch, slightly off centre, strike with after touch to the other side, you woul
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by youngNed 4y ago
Rob, i mean this with the greatest respect, but when someone approaches you with a worry about drinking too much, saying 'have you tried just drinking less, i don't drink as much as you and its fine' is really truly awful adv
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by youngNed 4y ago
I was last in the Old Man & Scythe[1] about 15 years ago. It was one of those weird and wonderful cider places. I had a couple and became slowly aware that i couldn't actually use my legs anymore. Pretty sure at least one other p
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by youngNed 4y ago
this might be a good place to ask: is there any tool out there that can help with json to normalised tables? I know that many databases can store json, but i often have api's that i would like storing in tables, and feel that 'spl
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by youngNed 4y ago
> The point was that the BBC writer of this article should already be aware of Gaelic languages. Ah yes, i see that now, TY for pointing that out (i would imagine that the writer is not a 'BBC writer' but a freelancer, but yes
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by youngNed 4y ago
> take note British Broadcasting Corporation https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize <-- Gàidhlig / Gaeilge / Cymraeg language options available Gàidhlig - https://www.bbc.co.uk/alba <-- a tv ch
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by youngNed 4y ago
i like this line: > You can find people who could barely add and subtract yet have the ability to recite various player and team statistics. because it calls to mind a scene from 'the wire', i think a lot about: https:/&#
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by youngNed 4y ago
this 'people are rich because they are smart' is not a take i expected to find on HN. Its not quite as damaging as 'people are rich because they work harder' but its really not far off
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by youngNed 4y ago
Facebook is leaking.
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by youngNed 4y ago
I fully intend to. I have a few arguments to have with a few others before i get to him though, he's far from the worst.
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by youngNed 4y ago
It takes a special kind of arrogance to believe that you can rewrite the 10 commandments. But to rewrite them, see them there on the screen and not realise you have done it, in a much more inefficient way, and also much, much worse. Thats
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by youngNed 4y ago
this, the fact thatit is just markdown files means i can add images in the app, should i need and i can use this to add a quick note from the terminal function qn () { date_today=$(date +%F) year=$(date +%Y) month=$(date +
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by youngNed 4y ago
i'm going to guess its a Thinkpad, x200? t410? maybe even an x61. People (myself included) still use those, not because they do anything more in particular, but they feel great to use, nicely weighted and a stunning[1] keyboard [1]y
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by youngNed 4y ago
hey thehodge, good to see you and a great looking site. I hate to be that guy, but you might want to rethink putting irish theatres on the UK page: https://www.dresscircle.co.uk/theatres/cock-opera-house-cork
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by youngNed 4y ago
> The Plague Dogs I think a LOT of UK school kids were truamatised by this, a lot of teachers, saw it thought 'oh, same author (Richard Adams) and director (Martin Rosen) as Watership Down, lets stick the kids in front of this whi
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by youngNed 5y ago
"Let's irritate everyone by denying them making their own choices" thats an incredibly strange take, like that is literally the complete opposite of what is happening
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by youngNed 5y ago
tl;dr: Google the thing you want to learn about.
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by youngNed 5y ago
This thread has been a real eye opener for me. I'm not sure that many people realise what economic sanctions mean, as I replied to someone else on this thread: "As a result of sanction orders, we have blocked multiple financial in
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by youngNed 5y ago
Apologies for any confusion, I wasn't implying, I was *stating* that you have no idea what economic sanctions are. "As a result of sanction orders, we have blocked multiple financial institutions from the Mastercard payment netwo

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