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by funnybeam 2y ago
Thanks for linking that. I’m a big proponent of using ISO 8601 but had either missed or completely forgotten about it specifying a format for intervals. Note that ISO also permits a double hyphen as the interval separator which is hugely pr
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by funnybeam 2y ago
Jonathan Livingstone Seagull Never entirely sure why I love it so much. First read it as a child when I hated apparently similar books - stories that seem written to speak to an adult’s idea of a sweet and innocent childhood - but it would
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by funnybeam 2y ago
Terrorism is attacking civilian targets in order to create political pressure from fear. War is attacking military targets to reduce the enemy’s capability to wage war against you. Civilian target = terrorism Military target = war There abs
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by funnybeam 2y ago
> So devs decided they could do it themselves (with better tools). And failed. Other people’s jobs always look easy from the outside
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by funnybeam 2y ago
Employees can already search through everything _they have permission to _ Copilot only has access to whatever the user has access to - it uses the same permissions. The copilot bots in the article are slightly different from normal copilot
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by funnybeam 2y ago
Employees can already search through everything. Copilot makes it easier to find things but it runs with the user’s permissions and obeys the existing access rules
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by funnybeam 2y ago
No, French is badly pronounced French - the English (Norman) versions are often closer to the original pronunciation
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by funnybeam 2y ago
We need more air conditioners because of global heating - a problem exacerbated to some extent by air conditioners themselves
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by funnybeam 2y ago
I’ve had several companies, including cyber insurers, ask for specific password expiry policies and when I’ve gone back to them explaining that we don’t expire passwords and referencing the NCSC and NIST advice all of them have accepted tha
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by funnybeam 2y ago
Kitchen appliances and furniture basically work on multiples of feet. 1 foot = 30cm, so the reason the standard appliance is 60cm is because that’s the metric equivalent of 2 feet
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by funnybeam 2y ago
And is exactly what’s being done to the NHS now
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by funnybeam 2y ago
A5 north west of London and the A2 running south east of London
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by funnybeam 2y ago
True,me too. But now that copilot keeps popping up on the other side, that’s starting to feel cramped too. I used to put the task bar vertically down the side of the monitor as well for the same reason but Microsoft won’t let me do that any
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by funnybeam 2y ago
“less cluttered than ever before while computer monitors are larger than ever before.” Less cluttered but with more white space, especially in the vertical direction which is particularly cramped since the change in monitor aspect ratios so
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by funnybeam 3y ago
So, de-googled then. You're using a different App Store/sideloading and disabling a load of the functionality in Google Maps (GPS is kind of useful for navigation) As I said, this isn't an option for most people.
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by funnybeam 3y ago
Really? Google doesn’t know your GPS location or what apps you’ve installed? How does Maps and the Play Store work then?
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by funnybeam 3y ago
Presumably you are using a de-googled Android phone then? For most people, the choice is between giving that data to Apple or giving it to Google. Personally I am more worried about an advertising company leaking/misusing my data than
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by funnybeam 3y ago
Yes, all phonetic alphabets come from the same root - the Greek alphabet - it has only been invented once. There are many other writing systems but they tend to be pictorial or syllabic. https://www.britannica.com/topic&#x2F
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by funnybeam 3y ago
FTP support was removed from Explorer years ago I thought?
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by funnybeam 3y ago
Recently watched it. There are about 2 instances of incredible sexism throughout the whole series but the rest of the time it’s extremely egalitarian. The first episode in particular was so badly sexist that I nearly didn’t watch the rest
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by funnybeam 3y ago
It’s fairly strongly implied that humans wiped themselves out on earth - the last transmissions Alpha receives as it moves away are not promising and encounters with various god-like aliens suggest that the moon base humans are the last of
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by funnybeam 3y ago
Alice in Wonderland Syndrome As a child I used to get “trapped” in the corner of the room - I’d be lying in bed and my consciousness would get locked in to the corner where the walls meet the ceiling. Felt like I was pushed hard into the c
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by funnybeam 3y ago
“ businesses and their relationships with consumers” Sounds like spam to me
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by funnybeam 3y ago
Yep. Mopads from 2000AD (the comic) - they saw it coming There will be thousands of them circling the M25, crawling in and out of BritCit to drop off and collect their commuter residents
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by funnybeam 3y ago
Many of those French words in English though come from Norman French which is very different to the modern language. French having also undergone a major vowel shift as well as dropping pronunciation of some final consonants so that some of
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by funnybeam 3y ago
This is why I only read Hacker News these days.
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by funnybeam 3y ago
The thing I keep reminding myself is that most people don’t actually vote conservative, it’s just our skewed voting system that makes them appear to have vastly more support than they really do. And the post 2019 Conservative Party effectiv
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by funnybeam 3y ago
Accelerando by Charles Stross covers this well http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/fiction/accelera...
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by funnybeam 3y ago
Theoden also had given up hope until Gandalf shook him out of it And the defenders at Minas Tirith, Saruman, even the elves - the whole lot of them in middle earth have given up hope. Despair is one of the key themes running through all of
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by funnybeam 3y ago
That graph shows iPhone sales year on year. I’d be interested to see recycling stats as I know Apple will recycle iPhones for free but I couldn’t find much with a quick search. How many Android devices are still in use after 7 years? And re

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