Nursie

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by Nursie 5d ago
> That's just not true. It's right there in the article, in the postwar years the UK was reliant on imported Canadian and other wheats, the process allowed the UK to use its own wheat. "Artisan" bread was not a thing
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by Nursie 5d ago
You can buy non-chorleywood bread from bakers and from most supermarkets in the UK (look for their 'sourdough' loaves, some might even give a fermentation time) But French bread is still particularly good somehow, there is just n
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by Nursie 5d ago
> This article makes it sound like a good thing At the time, it was, it allowed the country to feed itself on (largely) its own wheat. They didn't know it could contribute to IBS, they did know there was national food security at st
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by Nursie 5d ago
The reality is that the process is used all round the world these days (as covered in the article), not just in Britain, and its done that by being fast and cheap. It's also doubtful that it's any worse for you than American super
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by Nursie 7d ago
I was hoping we might get multi-day battery life this iteration. Fast charging is almost as good. I think it might be time to upgrade from my series 8.
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by Nursie 7d ago
"Lotes" as we used to call it in my first job. Yes, it could do all sorts of things, but it never seemed to do any of them well , and it was a horrible email client. Perhaps it was revolutionary in the 80s, but by the 00s it was
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by Nursie 8d ago
Ha, East Coast I’m guessing, it’s only just turned beer o’clock here in WA ;) Although at least partly that’s due to late meetings with people in countries further west still.
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by Nursie 8d ago
> another example of our government latching onto a juicy trending topic and doing the bare minimum Say it ain't so! For those not following Australian politics, this is the theme of our times. Find a big issue that people want some
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by Nursie 8d ago
> American internet companies start to make the judgement that supporting EU/ANZ countries with difficult legal/tax requirements is a net cost and stop doing it, just IP-blocking those countries for the lowest legal risk Produc
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by Nursie 8d ago
The answer/comeback is "popular with whom?" Most of my crowd seem to have left them behind because they went from a tool where I could see what my people were up to, and maybe the odd update about a band or a business I was i
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by Nursie 11d ago
And many people wouldn’t want to host in America because the first amendment doesn’t really protect you from the whims of the US government, which at the moment are pretty fucking random, and the US government gives itself rights to access
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by Nursie 12d ago
Might also mark you out as a certain age if not from the right region - I’m familiar with it as a word for “a bit rubbish” because of listening to Mark & Lard’s late night show on Radio 1 in the 90s
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by Nursie 12d ago
Yep, and there are a variety of other schemes like OpenID Verifiable Credentials which allow you to prove things like age without giving away everything, too. Collecting images of people’s ID is outdated and really shouldn’t be done.
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by Nursie 12d ago
Which has now also been declared a terrorist organisation by the US, I believe, off the back of that.
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by Nursie 12d ago
That’s not what the new schemes are about, and they aren’t going to be based on a qr code you can just copy, no. If you’re genuinely interested, look into things like OpenID credentials systems, and similar standards like w3c verifiable cre
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by Nursie 16d ago
> Electroconvulsive therapy uses much larger electric shocks but, administered safely by a clinic, is extremely safe, has relatively minor side effects compared to e.g. SSRIs, and is very effective for severe depression. The evidence bas
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by Nursie 17d ago
> Do you think the people who would have been renting those properties simply vanish? Disappear from the rental market? Actually yes, entirely unironically. We even have evidence of this dynamic in Melbourne. When various tax measures we
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by Nursie 17d ago
Err .. Maybe? The big coalition in Australian politics, the LNP, has been integrated enough (in most states) to share a platform and field single candidates, giving people that choice ahead of time. We haven’t had a post-election coalition
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by Nursie 17d ago
As a Brit, I certainly think it’s a problem, because as you say, you can end up with a government with a large majority of seats based on a small proportion of electoral support. I much prefer the ranked choice system here in Australia. I’m
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by Nursie 17d ago
> I think you're being revisionist Do you believe that either Leave.EU or Farage’s circus had the power to make a binding exit plan? How? What powers do you believe they had to do so? > It's not about the people in power, it
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by Nursie 17d ago
> What's shocking of course is that the Brexit vote didn't end up the same way ("ok the vote passed but it can't be done anyway"). There was an attempt. A campaigner managed to get the courts to issue a verdict t
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by Nursie 17d ago
Actually that was by design of the anti-Brexit faction. Before you get ranty at me - I voted remain. But your comment is revisionist. The pro-Brexit shysters were not in power. After the referendum, whichever way it went, the pro-Brexit peo
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by Nursie 17d ago
Just as well I’m not arguing for rent control or any particular policy then isn’t it? I’m pointing out that the “it’s my property I can do what I want” attitude needs to be balanced with public needs for housing, because society isn’t purel
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by Nursie 17d ago
In a city or country with housing shortages or a very tight market, that’s asking a lot. People need homes, and there is a balance to be struck for the public good.
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by Nursie 18d ago
This was not argued well during Brexit (what was?) but it was an issue there. As much as Brexit didn’t fix anything for anyone, I do believe the EU operates far too much in the interests of fishing boats and far too little in the interest o
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by Nursie 20d ago
To me it always meant needlessly complex and overspecced for what's needed. I think probably due to Java's enterprise years. Why solve the problem directly when you can abstract everything away into FactoryFactoryImplementationInt
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by Nursie 21d ago
I was one of them, but I don't think IBM hasn't innovated, my contention is more that they have de-emphasised software and hardware in favour of services, and they've moved away from consumer-facing activity to be entirely B2
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by Nursie 21d ago
Sometime in the 90s they decided that becoming a services and consultancy provider was more important than being involved in large-scale commodity hardware or really anything else. Over three decades they've exited commodity hardware (
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by Nursie 22d ago
> Xiamoi is some random chinese company That might be the funniest thing I read all day. Xiaomi is a massive company that makes all sorts of things, including a lot of pretty high-end mobiles, and has an annual revenue in the order of 75
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by Nursie 22d ago
"I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it." "Also no you can't stand on my lawn or borrow my megaphone"

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