TheGrumpyBrit

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by TheGrumpyBrit 1y ago
You can make the exact same argument about employers paying different rates depending on the country the employee is based in, and for all the same reasons. Is there a good reason why a developer in Thailand or India should be paid less tha
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by TheGrumpyBrit 4y ago
I'd disagree. The users of OPs tool certainly are, but it doesn't seem like that's the responsibility of the developer.
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by TheGrumpyBrit 4y ago
UK here, and we don't print return labels for Amazon. We just take the package to the local store, and they scan the returns barcode on my phone which then prints a shipping label right there, and also doubles as an electronic receipt
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by TheGrumpyBrit 5y ago
Dislike of a particular aspect of a product doesn't need to be concrete/provable - a vague feeling of "I don't like this so I won't use it" is all it takes. With Pocket in particular, the bundling with Firefox
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by TheGrumpyBrit 5y ago
In the early 00s there were a number of text services providing the same function. I got banned from one for the questions "What is the collective noun for a clitoris?" and "What is the resonant frequency of a clitoris?"
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by TheGrumpyBrit 5y ago
A net?
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by TheGrumpyBrit 5y ago
Great write up! While this one probably isn't for me, it's planted the seed of an idea. I have a new kitten who we've just started allowing free roam of the house at night, which is fine until dawn when she thinks we all need
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by TheGrumpyBrit 6y ago
...over multiple decades
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by TheGrumpyBrit 6y ago
Their long term product vision is based on an incorrect core belief.
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by TheGrumpyBrit 6y ago
This seems pointless. The fact that it's not primarily a chat app means nobody is going to use it for day-to-day messaging - you already have to have payments in mind before you start a conversation. So if you want to use it to request
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by TheGrumpyBrit 6y ago
For me, it's become too clunky for a basic blog, and the fact that it stores your content in a database makes managing it a pain. It ties me to Wordpress and only Wordpress - anything I want to do requires logging in and navigating the
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by TheGrumpyBrit 6y ago
I'm quite liking https://getgrav.org . With the admin plugin it's a neat combo of flat file and actual CMS.
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by TheGrumpyBrit 6y ago
Also, they're seedless grapes. Planting them would be kind of pointless.
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by TheGrumpyBrit 6y ago
Because there's a global pandemic in progress and it helps with contact tracing. Privacy concerns and public good are not mutually exclusive.
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by TheGrumpyBrit 6y ago
Sure, and when the entire business has the lease terminated because they failed to deal with this, they can all claim that society failed them.
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by TheGrumpyBrit 6y ago
Doesn't this effectively make all your number keys unusable, since they're now mapped to other functions?
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by TheGrumpyBrit 6y ago
If Alphabet just "decided" to shut down - i.e. they didn't go bust, they weren't attacked, they just woke up one day and said "We're ceasing trading with immediate effect"? In all likelihood, the internet
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by TheGrumpyBrit 6y ago
Hayne's manuals are always a traditional go-to: https://haynes.com/en-gb/baby-manual-3rd-edition
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by TheGrumpyBrit 6y ago
The problem is, we're not testing people until they're already in hospital. So that 4% mortality rate is very much skewed. The vast majority of people who show symptoms are just self isolating and getting better without ever being
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by TheGrumpyBrit 7y ago
> As someone who works in finance/banking, I can assure you that this is not uncommon. Your assurance is not reassuring.
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by TheGrumpyBrit 7y ago
I'm not 100% sure of the law, but I wouldn't expect that to make a difference. The manufacturer may not be legally required to include the document if the vehicle isn't new, but if they choose to include one, I expect that it
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by TheGrumpyBrit 7y ago
The Monroney paperwork is provided by the manufacturer as a legally binding assertion of the features the vehicle was sold with - there's a copy of that in the article.
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by TheGrumpyBrit 7y ago
I agree, but I do wonder if the developers ideology will make it unsustainable. I currently maintain two federated services - https://pixelfed.uk , which hasn't yet grown beyond a few people but costs next to nothing to host
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by TheGrumpyBrit 7y ago
Very early days yet, but I'm currently using Django for the API, and React to knock up a basic sample front end.
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by TheGrumpyBrit 7y ago
The fact that this was a lemon law buyback suggests to me that the original owner did pay for the feature, but then got a full refund. Tesla intended to restore it to standard features but accidentally sold it on before doing so, and in doi
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by TheGrumpyBrit 7y ago
Removing it after it was returned to them, and restoring it to a standard model as far as possible for maximum resale opportunity, fine. Selling it on to a dealer, including the additional features as part of the package, and then revoking
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by TheGrumpyBrit 7y ago
Which honestly doesn't sound relevant to the purchaser. My understanding is that the Monroney sticker stipulates exactly what features are included in the vehicle, as provided by the manufacturer. By purchasing the vehicle, the custome
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by TheGrumpyBrit 7y ago
It sounds like it was returned due to lemon law, which I imagine means the original buyer received a full refund. That's probably also the reason the feature was removed - they probably meant to disable it before selling it on. However
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by TheGrumpyBrit 7y ago
He purchased a car which was advertised as including autopilot. That sounds a lot like paying for autopilot to me.
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by TheGrumpyBrit 7y ago
I'm not familiar with US laws around these stickers, but that doesn't sound like a get out for Tesla. Not being legally required to provide a sticker doesn't (or shouldn't) change the fact that, if the manufacturer provi

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