KJKingJ

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by KJKingJ 4y ago
Or £8,800 if you choose the "Great Northern and Thameslink" only one rather than the "Any Permitted" one. The former lets you travel on the same services as the latter as well as intercity services operated by LNER. They
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by KJKingJ 4y ago
Not quite - the screenshots being circulated show an account with a different name that visually looks quite similar. Instead of a lowercase `l`, the suspended account has an uppercase `I`. In many fonts, these end up looking quite similar.
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by KJKingJ 6y ago
If you use the <picture> element [0], then you can specify a MIME type on the srcset. Browsers will then use this to load an image they support - so if you have a set of pictures with a MIME type of image/webp and others with ima
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by KJKingJ 7y ago
> Note: this is not a great idea; trains release less than a third as much co2 as a truck and electrifying cross country rail would be very expensive. You need extremely high voltage for long distance transmission, which is incompatible
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by KJKingJ 7y ago
> In Europe, you take the train and there is literal farm land in between stations. This is quite literally my commute. On the way home, I depart from a central London station and after about 20 minutes, I'm passing through farms an
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by KJKingJ 7y ago
Very much so. Sure, the headline speeds of 5G are nice (and indeed currently with the right 4G deployments and equipment, you can certainly get some phenomenal speeds today), but like all major network upgrades the primary benefit for typic
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by KJKingJ 8y ago
For an elderly relative of mine who no longer has the physical dexterity they used to, this has been a killer feature of voice assistants for them. No longer do they need to fiddle with awkward buttons to change the radio station or find ou
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by KJKingJ 8y ago
So a trolleybus[0], but for personal vehicles? [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trolleybus
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by KJKingJ 8y ago
One of the 'campaigns' in Left 4 Dead 2 involves driving a car that is on display in a mall through the doors. At speed. http://left4dead.wikia.com/wiki/Dead_Center
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by KJKingJ 8y ago
Delivery. Although it's a fairly new concept with US grocery stores, supermarkets in the UK have offered delivery to your door (or even a place of choosing inside your house/apartment etc!) for over a decade. I just place my order
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by KJKingJ 8y ago
> The problem is that you can't use public transport for ... for disabled people Wait what, why not? If anything, public transport is the sole means of transport for many people with disabilities. I'm not going to claim that al
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by KJKingJ 8y ago
Indeed, wider tunnels make maintenance much easier, and also allow evacuation of the train via the regular side doors rather than through the cab door.
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by KJKingJ 8y ago
> and no sign of IPv6 on mobile networks Not quite true - EE (so one of the 'big four' providers rather than a small MNVO) has IPv6 support. Right now, my phone has an IP address assigned out of EE's 2a01:4c8::/29 net
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by KJKingJ 8y ago
Not the parent, but the US-based Financial Services company I work for also does a 3 month training scheme for their new graduate hires. Better yet, they brought all of their graduates worldwide out to the same place - so we've now got
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by KJKingJ 9y ago
Looking just on the London Tube and Rail map[0] alone, there's plenty of both odd and amusing station names (East India! Cockfosters! Cyprus! Barking! Elephant and Castle!), and many that are pronounced completely differently to how
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by KJKingJ 9y ago
You might find the 'multireddit' functionality useful - it combines multiple user-defined subreddits in to a single 'front page' to browse. For example, I follow the 'it_resources' multireddit created by anothe
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by KJKingJ 9y ago
You can indeed do this with Sleep as Android - I use it in combination with a Pebble Time to feed Sleep as Android accelerometer data (for sleep phases), and then the watch vibrates for an alarm - falling back to an audible alarm on the pho
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by KJKingJ 9y ago
Have you come across LibraryThing before? From what you're looking for in terms of tracking, list management etc it should meet your needs. The only bit i'm not sure about is the ability to subscribe to new releases by an author a
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by KJKingJ 10y ago
> At my company we just set everything up using cloud-config. A systemd unit boots the kubelet on each server, and static k8s manifests are loaded by the kubelet to run the rest of the k8s components as pods. This is the exact same metho
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by KJKingJ 10y ago
I often use subtitles (often in ASS/SSA format) on content i'm streaming from Plex and have no issues changing the subtitle format mid-stream - if the subtitles are being burnt in because the player (e.g. Plex Web or mobile apps)
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by KJKingJ 10y ago
Have you given "Notification Center for Pebble" a try? It bypasses Pebble's native notification system by using a custom watchapp and a phone companion app. Compared to Pebble's native notification system, Notification C
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by KJKingJ 10y ago
They also have their "SoYouStart" brand which sits halfway between their Kimsufi offerings and their normal OVH offerings. It's also worth checking out online.net - like OVH, they also have a decent range of decently-spec&#x2
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by KJKingJ 10y ago
The DLR and Jubilee lines are automated. The Northern and Central lines were automated within the last few years. The Victoria was automated since it first opened in 1968. Once the sub-surface signaling upgrade is completed, the Circle, D
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by KJKingJ 10y ago
Heh yeah, it's a bit of a contradictory term, but it's the only 'generic' way to describe it that I know of. Most of them are branded with the store's name with a suffix like 'local', 'express' o
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by KJKingJ 10y ago
Mine are always one off orders. I'll log on, choose an hourly timeslot for delivery and then browse down a list of products i've purchased before (both online and instore) and chose which ones I want to be delivered. It takes abou
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by KJKingJ 11y ago
There's also CF.lumen [0], which I have running. It works best if you are rooted and can install the display driver. However, on non-rooted devices it behaves in a similar fashion to the other night time colour shifting apps. [0] http
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by KJKingJ 11y ago
ATP ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automatic_train_protection ) is present on some Great Western trains, and TWPS ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Train_Protection_%26_Warning_Sy... ) is present on some