digikazi

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by digikazi 2mo ago
I'm assuming it is quite nice, but terrible adverts popping up all over the place and distracting from the overall experience, so I only skimmed through it before I closed the window (on a work computer hence no adblock!) Here's
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by digikazi 7mo ago
My last tablet was a Nexus 7, so I wouldn’t know ;) But on a more serious note yes, I agree with you. Tablets - absolutely great for the use cases you mentioned, for everything else I want a proper keyboard, etc.
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by digikazi 7mo ago
Maybe. When a decent Chromebook is £697 ( https://www.johnlewis.com/lenovo-chromebook-14m9610-laptop-m... ) it doesn't make economic sense to get one.
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by digikazi 7mo ago
I wonder if Apple is positioning these to counter Google's Chromebooks? The pricing makes sense, especially as lately I've seen some pretty expensive Chrome devices: £500 - £700... which is not that far off from base Macbook Air,
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by digikazi 7mo ago
Currently working my way through Melvyn Bragg's back catalogue of In Our Time. https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b006qykl/episodes/player Also from the BBC, the 13 Minutes series (?): https://w
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by digikazi 8mo ago
I have no idea why you’re being downvoted, since what you say is objectively true.
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by digikazi 1y ago
Bizarrely when I do that it tells me “uBO Lite is not supported by this version of Safari”. On an iPhone 13 with the latest version of iOS. I’m very new to the Apple ecosystem so it could well be that it’s meant to work on a laptop/des
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by digikazi 1y ago
That's genuinely awesome! I've been wanting to do something like this for a long time! I don't have a background in coding, rather I'm just a humble engineering tech but this sounds like something I want to learn and sin
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by digikazi 2y ago
This was talked about on here just last week: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42999044
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by digikazi 2y ago
Sadly Libgen seems to have been down for the past couple of months, there is some discussion whether it will ever come back or not.
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by digikazi 2y ago
That exactly what I was going to say: what makes him think that a HDD bought in 2013 and buried in a landfill site since then will work when its plugged in? Personally I have my doubts - as per Nursie: It's gone mate.
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by digikazi 2y ago
In my case, out of nostalgia for the Google of old. I paid for a Pixel phone and was very unimpressed with the experience, so much so that after a lifetime on Android I went and bought a brand new iDevice. Oddly enough I found Google Fit to
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by digikazi 3y ago
That was my experience as well. Generally speaking the Pixel 7a is a competent phone with one (big) flaw. The battery life is truly terrible, and the charging speeds are glacial. I was honestly expecting more, especially as its advertised a
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by digikazi 3y ago
I do as well, which is why when I went to Athens for two weeks last September, I very much looked forward to lots of smoky old orthodox churches. Alas, it wasn't to be: the vast majority of churches I saw looked brand new and as if the
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by digikazi 4y ago
That's very true. Luckily I am not, and so I can enjoy cheese in all its forms. As to whether it's "good for you" or not... I suspect moderation is the key word here.
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by digikazi 4y ago
NATO was quite happy to bomb Serbia and Libya, to name but two.
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by digikazi 4y ago
As somebody who has lived in that neck of the woods, I would want nuclear weapons and war in general to stay very, very far from my shores. Equally I would want the current combatants to take a step back and have a grown up discussion about
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by digikazi 4y ago
Yes.
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by digikazi 4y ago
...having a bath with water warmed on the stove in huge pans. Equally good memories :)
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by digikazi 4y ago
The hot water was "scheduled" - usually twice a day. I don't remember that well as I was quite young at the time, but I think I was meant to be on for a couple of hours in the morning and another couple of hours in the evenin
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by digikazi 4y ago
Technically you don't need a degree to be an officer in the UK: you only need A Levels (finish high school) to go to Sandhurst and begin officer training. In reality however something like 98% of Sandhurst applicants are university gra
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by digikazi 5y ago
UK: England
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by digikazi 5y ago
Your experience sounds similar to ours. We're an engineering company in the UK; in better days we paid £3,000 for 1,000 chips. Today we paid £58,000 for the same amount.
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by digikazi 5y ago
(To quote Speer: "I didn't know, I could have known, I should have known." He's been vilified but I haven't seen anything to paint him as a liar as far as this is concerned.) Read Gitta Sereny's "Albert S
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by digikazi 5y ago
Exactly! I have enough of tech at work - in my down time I don't want to read about more tech, I want to read stuff that's engaging, interesting, unusual and thought-provoking. In this respect HN doesn't disappoint. I also co
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by digikazi 5y ago
Fair point
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by digikazi 5y ago
A noble sentiment but I found that nothing polarises opinion quite as much as the Israeli/Palestinian conflict. Technology aside, it's a terribly sad situation with no easy solution in sight. ...and to play devil's advocate:
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by digikazi 5y ago
Why wouldn't you take your child on BART? I'm not looking for an argument, I'm genuinely curious. I live in the UK but I've never visited the SF area.
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Amazon will not sell books that 'frame sexual identity as mental illness'(bbc.com)
59 points by digikazi 6y ago|160 comments
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by digikazi 6y ago
Reading books that are unrelated to what you do for a living is not a waste - not in my opinion at least. The stuff you read "for work" will undoubtedly increase your technical knowledge and make you a better software engineer, bu

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