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by bb101 2y ago
I tried to go back to using an old but trusty iPhone 5 in 2018. I found that I couldn't get a signal in half the locations I used to get signals fine previously. Technology had marched on, and so had the mix of 2G, 3G and 4G bands. Giv
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by bb101 3y ago
Our legal systems have already become like this. Only those with the knowledge on how to navigate the system or those qualified to interface in the expected protocols have any hope of achieving results. Super-corporations are now just the n
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by bb101 3y ago
I do wonder if there is any overlap between the Culture novels and The Algebraist. I seem to remember mention of aHumans and rHumans in both -- a fascinating idea really.
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by bb101 3y ago
Works perfectly on Mullvad Browser, Firefox and Safari. Remember: friends don't let friends use Chrome.
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by bb101 3y ago
Hands down the best TV show I've ever seen, and so well matched with Max Richter's soundtrack. Very much looking forward to the last season.
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by bb101 3y ago
I can't help but think the other parties would put forward better policies that don't alienate the electorate nor swathes of international business. Some would say the current conservative cabinet are the low-grade remnants of the
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by bb101 3y ago
The current conservative government is on its last legs before being banished for at least a decade. It appears they already have their eyes on the lucrative private sector and are willing to vandalise the UK with little thought to public p
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by bb101 3y ago
Any mention of Frontpage should come with a trigger warning! After all these years, I still haven't forgiven Microsoft.
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by bb101 3y ago
"Now there's a design that POPS!" https://theoatmeal.com/comics/design_hell
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by bb101 3y ago
Interesting. A real life example of latency and half-life[1]. [1] https://slimemoldtimemold.com/2023/04/25/n1-latency-and-half...
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by bb101 4y ago
"banished handguns so you can no longer protect yourself..." I think this view has been quite comprehensively debunked by now. I for one do not want to live in a country where most people have access to handguns.
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by bb101 4y ago
Andy Weir's short story "The Egg" deals with similar topics. https://www.paullowe.org/the-egg/
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by bb101 4y ago
Field 6 "sharedfromaid": "aid of the sharer's Site/Secure Note" is unencrypted. The hackers will be able to infer relationships between Lastpass users. Field 10: "genpw": "Is an auto-saved genera
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by bb101 4y ago
1Password also uses a secret key in addition to your master password to encrypt your data. You enter the secret key when setting up the account on a new device. So a hacker would have to get hold of the encrypted data, together with the sec
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A Pomodoro timer app helped me regain my focus(theverge.com)
3 points by bb101 4y ago|0 comments
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by bb101 4y ago
It seemed to me to be a handbook on how to conduct a revolution. Much as Heinlein's Stranger from a Strange Land was a handbook on how to start a religion (hello Scientologists).
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by bb101 4y ago
I agree. There are some playlists and songs I only listen to in the gym, and similar songs constantly float to the top of Spotify's recommendations for me due to gym being 3x week. I did consider creating another "gym-only" u
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London’s climate ‘will resemble Barcelona’s by 2050,’ study reveals (2019)(nationalgeographic.co.uk)
4 points by bb101 4y ago|1 comments
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by bb101 5y ago
Perhaps as technology progresses, we'll see the equivalent of Neal Stephenson's Young Lady's Illustrated Primer from his book The Diamond Age . The primer is an AI-backed story interface, designed to teach and entertain a
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by bb101 5y ago
I do feel sorry for her in a way. She was riding a treadmill of expectations. Started off slowly, probably thinking "yeah, we can do this" and by the time the treadmill was moving at light speed, it was too late to get off. Even T
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by bb101 5y ago
Another dark pattern is listing a page of products, and marking one as "Sold out". Makes one wonder how much stock is left of the other items, and when those might also become sold out.
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by bb101 5y ago
I had a similar experience in Washington. Amex had an international courier deliver a new card within days. In the UK, the three companies that won't lose my custom (unless things go very downhill) are Amex, NFU Mutual and firstdirect.
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by bb101 5y ago
People with higher incomes can afford Amex's Platinum card, which includes good travel insurance, good customer service, access to a good hotel booking program, airport lounge access, boosted status with a few airlines, etc. Most place
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by bb101 5y ago
That's where effective legislation and regulation can play a role. It's not as if other parts of the same bank aren't making money hand over fist.
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by bb101 5y ago
Looking through our history, it looks like us-east-1 preëmptible VMs were a flat 30% the cost of non-preëmptible VMs. So in the worst-case scenario, we'll be paying 10% more for the same product, but also potentially saving up to 19% i
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by bb101 5y ago
I find GCP's UI easier to use than AWS' by orders of magnitude.
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by bb101 5y ago
From https://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/instances/preemptible : "Spot VMs (Preview) are the latest version of preemptible VM instances. Preemptible VMs continue to be supported for new and existing VMs
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by bb101 5y ago
It doesn't seem to be. MWB's location for me is much more accurate, I'm thinking Google?
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by bb101 5y ago
And our reality would segue into the storyline of Threads. The 1984 BBC film should be mandatory viewing for all people in positions of power. The bombing is only the start of the horror. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vgT4
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by bb101 5y ago
The servers come across more as dining consultants or even storytellers. I have a feeling this may be a feature of American fine dining. In Michelin-starred restaurants in the UK and France, I've found the service to be very discreet

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