BucketsMcG

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by BucketsMcG 2y ago
Nothing is rare on the Internet. It's a pet bugbear of mine.
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by BucketsMcG 3y ago
Maybe he wants to learn, or maybe he's a psychopath trying to upgrade his human emulation software so he can get out sooner. Even experts find it hard to tell.
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by BucketsMcG 3y ago
1) Most of uk.gov is actually designed and built in-house. 2) Germany, as a nation, got to about 1991 and collectively decided "This is nice, let's keep it like this". Even the most technologically progressive regions of Germ
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by BucketsMcG 3y ago
Actually at the time Ford's in-car entertainment was more integrated than most. Unlike others, they fitted own-brand audio systems which were either non-standard shapes and hard to replace, or they were built in entirely. I think what
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by BucketsMcG 3y ago
Can't tell, sorry, the cache service provider doesn't supply that info.
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by BucketsMcG 3y ago
We use it on our rinky-dink ecommerce site, and it represents 40% of requests at the moment. HTTP/1 and HTTP/2 are at 30% each. Our users skew a bit older, and definitely aren't techno-savvy (one scrolled past all the product
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by BucketsMcG 3y ago
Humanity goes extinct if sustainability and climate change don't matter. And so does a lot else. We've already ensured through our actions to date that what remains of our time on this earth will be miserable, but we might still
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by BucketsMcG 3y ago
Now watch as cities suddenly split into multiple municipalities of 74k people...
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by BucketsMcG 3y ago
Is this the same vision stack that was pulling up ahead of stop signs in some places because the signs were bigger than it expected? If it can't make sense of something as simple as that, why would I trust it with hazards? https:&#x2F
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by BucketsMcG 3y ago
I've heard many an anecdote of soldiers deployed for months in male-only settings who could smell that a woman had arrived on base. They weren't able to describe what they smelled, or how they knew it was a woman, but they just
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by BucketsMcG 4y ago
That's right. Liberating, isn't it?
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by BucketsMcG 4y ago
...He/she posted on the World Wide Web, invented by a Brit in Switzerland. There's a fair chance you even used an ARM-powered device to do it. Also British. Tesla, of course, based their first car on a Lotus. British.
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by BucketsMcG 4y ago
Oh no, it's absolutely by design. It's a factory for producing broken people capable of committing atrocious acts of cruelty for the Empire. Now there is no Empire, they've turned on their own people.
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by BucketsMcG 4y ago
My school wasn't English, or as elitist as Eton, but each year on Remembrance Day they would read the names of every pupil who died in the two world wars. Took quite a while.
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by BucketsMcG 4y ago
As somebody who's been through a similar-but-different dual citizenship thing: it's just a bit of paper. You're still you, in all your wonderful complexity, and you can feel like any nationality or combination of nationalitie
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by BucketsMcG 4y ago
This is super cool, but the first thing I wanted to do was cast it to the Chromecast plugged into my hi-fi. It seems casting isn't available yet - do you have plans to add it? It would make this a total winner for just playing music in
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by BucketsMcG 4y ago
Sorry, you're way off there. My ancient car has a gigantic 90 litre fuel tank. At 720g / litre, that's 64.8kg. And that really is a huge tank - most cars are more like 40-60 litres. The engine, meanwhile, well it depends what
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by BucketsMcG 4y ago
All sorts of reasons, but it's got a lot to do with packaging and handling. Generally you want the weight distribution of the car to be 50:50 front:rear for optimal handling. A car will handle great if you can put the engine and transm
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by BucketsMcG 4y ago
Questlove does a lot of things, and invariably does them very well. But it's not about what he thinks.
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by BucketsMcG 4y ago
I rented an electric VW Transporter recently (think it's the same van as the Mercedes Sprinter), and it really felt like the future. It was just so nice to operate. Smooth, quiet, tons of torque, and will probably beating day after d
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by BucketsMcG 4y ago
Even a light dog can put a surprising amount of pressure through its feet if it wants to. Tiny paws mean it's all concentrated in a small area. My 10kg dog feels like he weighs a ton when he puts his front paws on me and leans into it.
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by BucketsMcG 4y ago
It would allow nature to begin to recover from the damage we've been doing to it for thousands of years. Besides increased biodiversity being an inherently good thing, it would also reduce flooding and erosion, stabilise weather system
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by BucketsMcG 4y ago
After the Windsor Castle fire of 1992, they rebuilt the wooden roof of St. George's Hall without using a single nail, screw or drop of glue. They had a hard time finding people with the skills and knowledge to do it, as it's prett
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by BucketsMcG 4y ago
I don't think there's any doubt that many tech companies are hideously, bafflingly over-staffed (3000 people working on just the music functionality of Alexa? What could they possibly be doing?). But maybe take a bit of time t
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by BucketsMcG 4y ago
It's really not. Earth's generally full of holes big and small. Water isn't.
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by BucketsMcG 4y ago
Maybe your experience maps to the 0-100 Fahrenheit scale, but mine certainly doesn't. Temperatures where I'm from are typically 5-25C, 0-30C at the extremes. So 41-77, or 32-86. So how's Fahrenheit a more useful scale there
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by BucketsMcG 4y ago
Interesting choice to name it after a Berlin park known for being full of drug dealers, muggers and ne'er-do-wells.
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by BucketsMcG 4y ago
Sorry, what? How does blockchain get your kitchen through its safety inspection, to choose just one example?
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by BucketsMcG 4y ago
Tesla faked swappable batteries to con millions (billions?) in carbon credits out of the California state government, if we want to talk about environment scams.
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by BucketsMcG 4y ago
I love this. I propose we henceforth judge all phones by the sporran test.

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