almightysmudge

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by almightysmudge 10y ago
Whoops, so you did.
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by almightysmudge 10y ago
Very nice. Did you look at http://ncase.me/sight-and-light/ at all?
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by almightysmudge 11y ago
Turns out "lent" is actually the past tense of "lend". Not sure where my head was this afternoon.
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by almightysmudge 11y ago
I've heard "lent" but never "lended". "I lent a pen off him", "he lent me a pen". Could be a Northern thing though.
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by almightysmudge 11y ago
Even the install is a mishmash of voodoo and arcane knowledge. Horrible horrible thing.
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by almightysmudge 11y ago
Stuns me that someone thought this would be a good idea. Oh hey my free USB device helpfully made me go to a webpage without warning and without permission, these guys are wizards and deserve my custom.
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by almightysmudge 11y ago
Pedantic, but that's not a TRS connection.
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by almightysmudge 11y ago
It'd be perfect if the Z-index updated for card last selected. It looks like they're z-indexed in a specific order at the moment?
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by almightysmudge 11y ago
She wanted to encourage competition, but that competition never arrived, so we still have a shit infrastructure and an ineffective monopoly essentially?
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by almightysmudge 11y ago
Or if we want to go really outrageous, a division of BT still controlling literally every new home install of telephone lines, often with engineers not turning up, or not being trained to do the job they've been sent to! (As above, t
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by almightysmudge 11y ago
Lucky they nipped that one in the bud, eh?
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by almightysmudge 11y ago
Maybe someone can explain the decision in principle to me here, because I don't understand how the deliberate retardation of network infrastructure is beneficial to encouraging competition. I get that the entry costs to the market wou
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How Thatcher Killed UK Superfast Broadband(techradar.com)
25 points by almightysmudge 11y ago|15 comments
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by almightysmudge 11y ago
Personal opinion of course, but even if you don't like The Oatmeal, a comparison to Buzzfeed isn't really appropriate, they're very different animals. One's a comic written, drawn and published by a guy, the other is a c
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by almightysmudge 11y ago
That's a very odd question to ask. I mentioned a distaste for him, not any sort of active upset. Kim Jong Un (deliberately avoiding reductio ad hitlerum) has done nothing to me personally, and I have to say I'm not a fan. Edit: I
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by almightysmudge 11y ago
I'd suggest reading any of his biographies or watching Pirates of Silicon Valley. My problem is not with Apple at all, it's with the man himself.
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by almightysmudge 11y ago
I have absolutely no love for the man, but he had some amazing visions of the future back then.
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by almightysmudge 11y ago
It was a light hearted comment from the outside perspective, not a genuine accusation of mental health problems ;) Cycling in the Netherlands is actually lovely. Flat land, well maintained cycle paths, and beautiful countryside. Plus the th
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by almightysmudge 11y ago
I love the Netherlands, but cyclists there are absolutely crazy, and in incredible quantities. Of course, it doesn't help that I'm blind on my left side and the only Dutch I know is "Sorry, ik sprek gein Nederlands".
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by almightysmudge 11y ago
Wouldn't there be a comma if he was sitting in the kitchen? Isn't there an old adage as well, "don't end a sentence with a preposition"? edit: Apparently that's an old wives tale, the preposition one.
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by almightysmudge 11y ago
It would ruin the point of the bot a bit if it was only entering local, claimable competitions wouldn't it? Hugely localising the data it's gathering.
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by almightysmudge 11y ago
I was in a bit of a mood with it when I commented, but for good reason. A couple of the problems I've had :- When the battery drained, it refused to boot past the "cyanogen" boot screen. Twice. A common problem that required
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by almightysmudge 11y ago
If it's anything like the Oneplus One it's a buggy ill supported piece of crap.