DoubleGlazing

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by DoubleGlazing 1y ago
London Stansted and Manchester (same owners) recently had "upgrades" where you have to walk along a street to get to the seating area and gates beyond. That street is narrow, long and forces you to pass every single shop in the de
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by DoubleGlazing 1y ago
Back in the late 90s when Ireland was starting to think about digital terrestrial TV a system called DVB-RCT was considered. Basically your receiver could also transmit back to the television transmitter. The system could handle thousands o
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by DoubleGlazing 2y ago
On a similar note one of my childrens friends absolutely loves the taste of Nintendo Switch cartridges and licks them untill the bitter coating wears off. His tastebuds must be wired different.
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by DoubleGlazing 2y ago
Unfortunately the GDPR is largely toothless if a company without an EU presence chooses to ignore it. I live in Ireland and my data is in the databases of several US data brokers. Thise conpanies can't be forced to to comply with the G
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by DoubleGlazing 2y ago
That's a ridiculous sum of money that could be better spent on much more worthy things.
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by DoubleGlazing 2y ago
If it weren't for homeschooling my autistic daughter would be spending her day in the headteachers office shaking and crying due to her cripping anxiety.
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by DoubleGlazing 2y ago
We are homeschooling our two teenagers. We live in Ireland which has a pretty decent education system and has a high percentage of students going on to third level education. The problem is that it is really bad at handling children who are
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by DoubleGlazing 2y ago
I'm willing to stand corrected, but I can't think of a single smartphone on the market from a reputable manufacturer that is sold with root access. If I want a smartphone I have to accept that the manufacturer will have the bootlo
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by DoubleGlazing 2y ago
My thinking is that if I have device that doesn't allow me root access, then what I have is more than likely a device designed to keep making money for the company that made it or wrote the software for it.
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by DoubleGlazing 2y ago
There's nothing wrong with wanting that, but as the author said those of us who want to opt-out should have the choice to do so. If I buy an iPhone, I should have the option to completely disconnect it from Apple and be able to replace
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by DoubleGlazing 2y ago
I agree, If I were an IT manager this sort of stuff would make me start looking at alternatives. If an app/pluging/package is maintrained and published by X, I want to make sure no one else can interefere with it - even if they ha
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by DoubleGlazing 2y ago
Being a savvy sports gambler will only get you banned though, the house always wins also applies to sports betting.
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by DoubleGlazing 2y ago
I live in Dublin where a lot of the tech developement centres for many online bookmaker and casinos are based. I have been approached by recruiters for some of them and even though they offer VERY generous packages I refuse to work for them
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by DoubleGlazing 2y ago
It was a sort of spin-off from an episode of the BBC pop-sci documentary strand QED. A few years before Threads they did an edition called "A Guide to Armageddon" in which they descibed in detail what would happen to London if a b
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by DoubleGlazing 2y ago
In the early 80s a couple of lads found the Derrynaflan hoarde. A collection of stunning religious artefacts dating from the 9th century. This resulted in a whole legal mess where they were demanding a payment from the state of what would b
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by DoubleGlazing 2y ago
But isn't that a direct by-product of Chrome being owned by Google. If Chrome was made by an independent company regulators couldn't care less if they disabled third party cookies.
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by DoubleGlazing 2y ago
Sky did a thing in the 90s called Intertext. You would dial a premium rate number and you would then be read out a page number. You went to that page and used your telephone keypad to do interactive stuff and the page would update in near r
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by DoubleGlazing 3y ago
I used to work in a building that was once a factory, the room I was in was once a break room. For years workers would come in for their lunch and lean back against the walls. Years of (probably Brylcreme'd) heads being placed against
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by DoubleGlazing 3y ago
There was a case a few year back around the time of the 2008 recession where a man in debt used the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act to earn a decent living from their aggressive/dishonest practices. I did try Googling for the story,
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by DoubleGlazing 3y ago
Leaving aide the software and abilities side of things, I wish devices with this form factor were still available. I used to own a Philips Velo, Psion 5mx and a Nokia Communicator. The keyboards were good enough be useful, great for typing
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by DoubleGlazing 3y ago
Ex-railway signaler here. To expand on the article the most fundamental principle in railway signaling is the block section. That is a length of track for which there can only ever be one train inside it at any time. The length of the block
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by DoubleGlazing 3y ago
I loved Computer Shopper. I regularly bought the UK version in the 90s just to gawps at all those adverts and dream about buying my ultimate PC.
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by DoubleGlazing 3y ago
I was wondering the same, because everything about this organization seems a bit iffy to me. Part of me wonders is there an ulterior motive to the campaign.
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by DoubleGlazing 3y ago
I find it interesting in these comments that there is a lot of discussion as to the pros and cons of the pledge that this website proposes, but very little discussion as to the motivations behind the people who operate the campaign. Looking
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by DoubleGlazing 4y ago
I had a few disc cameras in the 80s. My mother bought them for me because they were cheap and easy to use. It was a great concept in theory, but as the articles states the picture quality was terrible. Every picture I took was a little bit
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by DoubleGlazing 4y ago
In my experience the write a new test bit is where it all falls down. It's too easy to skimp out on that when there are deadlines to hit or you are short staffed. I've seen loads of examples where the tests haven't been updat
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by DoubleGlazing 4y ago
My wife is a speech therapist and has to buy in to various diagnostic systems e.g. TILLS, OWLS, CSBS. The publishers go to great lengths to make their particular test the standard in each particular area of speech therapy. Each test kit cos
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by DoubleGlazing 4y ago
For me I had one manager where every time he said "how long will is take?", I got that feeling of fear and dread in my stomach. I suppose the problem was that he wasn't asking for an estimate, he was asking for a specific dat
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by DoubleGlazing 4y ago
> Stop estimating. This! It's more or less impossible to correctly estimate how long it will take to develop anything but the most basic pieces of software, and even then you can't be sure. I've had so managers who just do
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by DoubleGlazing 4y ago
I've seen a fair few reviews for companies I used to work at where it was really easy to ID the reviewer as they were too forthcoming with details. Some people just don't see the potential dangers of posting negative reviews witho

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