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by efaref 5d ago
It also clouds disk usage stats, as a big chunk of your root device is taken up by the swap file. I'd rather look at `df /` and see the size of my OS installation without anything else. Partition resizing is not exactly difficult,
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by efaref 2mo ago
I guess the name is intending to evoke the "batteries included" metaphor, but it seems pretty terrible to me. If we're sticking with the crates/cargo metaphor, surely this should be called a "pallet".
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by efaref 5mo ago
NIMBYism and BANANAs are certainly a problem, but this is the planning departments themselves acting capriciously , failing to even apply the law correctly, or having extremely onerous requirements. This applies to individual householders
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by efaref 5mo ago
Great site. This data should really be more accessible. Planning in the UK is a total crapshoot, subject to the whims of the planning authorities. In our case, a simple rear extension and dormer loft conversion, similar to hundreds of thous
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by efaref 5mo ago
I wrote streampager a few years ago to scratch a similar itch. It works well enough for my own uses (and is/was used in library form as the built-in pager for sapling and jj). I think it still needs some work for more general use which
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by efaref 6mo ago
I don't believe demand for labour has increased. We used to force children as young as 6 to enter the labour force, and people used to work 6.5 days per week. Demand for labour has been in free fall since the 1970, evidenced by stagna
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by efaref 9mo ago
I don't know about mainland Europe, but in the UK it really was exclusively about CO2 emissions per distance travelled, to the extent that Vehicle Excise Duty (the annual tax you pay on a car) was defined in terms of g/km of CO2
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by efaref 9mo ago
The visual IDEs of the 90s (MSVC, Borland Delphi, heck even MS Visual Basic) were way more tightly integrated, performant and usable than anything we have today, despite running on hardware with a fraction of the power. It seems so bizarre
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by efaref 9mo ago
Or DNS. I think the article is just nonsense.
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by efaref 9mo ago
The love for diesel came from a catastrophic misunderstanding and the resulting belief that CO2 must be reduced at all costs . Diesel engines of the past produced slightly less CO2 per km than petrol engines in exchange for much worse ove
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by efaref 2y ago
I think this was just more of a function of technology. Good quality capacitive touchscreens only really started to become available in the mid 2000s, and even the early ones weren't that great (e.g. no multi-touch). Without this you&#
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by efaref 3y ago
The more I think about it, the more I come to the conclusion that the "middle class" was a fiction invented by the capital class to divide the working class in two and pit them against each other. If you or someone in your family
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by efaref 3y ago
We only know that they're good enough to be used for free, so all we can assert that their current value is $0.
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by efaref 3y ago
It always reminds me of the shade Apple threw at Windows Vista. Chickens came home to roost. https://youtu.be/8CwoluNRSSc
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by efaref 3y ago
When the smell-cartridge runs out, the audio and video mute too.
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by efaref 3y ago
> Unless those are actually padded to 32 bits in the VM or something. They are.
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by efaref 3y ago
> They conspired with a rogue hashtag ChatGPT thinks # is called "hashtag"? :(
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by efaref 3y ago
If they could get away with paying 10-20% less, don't you think they'd do it now in a heartbeat?
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by efaref 3y ago
Why would any insurance company insure against an inevitability?
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by efaref 3y ago
The legal limit for the security deposit is five weeks (or six weeks when the annual rent exceeds £50k). source: https://www.gov.uk/government/news/security-deposit-cap-redu...
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by efaref 3y ago
No. And that's basically the point of the concerns everyone has.
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by efaref 4y ago
There was also the Icelandic bank collapse, which was multiple banks totalling tens of billions of euros. I personally lost a large chunk of savings in that, and was eventually bailed out by my own government (i.e. my own tax money).
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by efaref 4y ago
For me it was the flashing terminal cursor.
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by efaref 4y ago
If we're talking TCO we need to calculate the TCO of coal and gas as including the cost of the destruction of the entire planet's climate.
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by efaref 4y ago
The real word here is "monopolisation".
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by efaref 4y ago
You also don't need to pay it to own a vehicle. You are allowed to own a vehicle without paying this tax as long as you promise not to drive it on the road (SORN). So by that logic it's not a vehicle tax either. Also, bicycles
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by efaref 4y ago
"Road tax" is a _tax_ you have to pay in order to use the _road_. It's the most natural name for it, which is why people call it that. Despite the words they use, it's not a vehicle tax: you can own a vehicle without pa
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by efaref 4y ago
> Issues of standards are not really depending on funding This is clearly not true, otherwise we could just cut all the funding and maintain the standards as they are.
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by efaref 4y ago
Phone charger regulations were based on the need to reduce e-waste caused by every phone having a different charger. I think the same principle could be applied here. Heated seats that can't be used are causing increased emissions as
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by efaref 4y ago
What's the one for third-party apps? How different is the wording?

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