futurix

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by futurix 1y ago
While our construction costs are indeed ridiculous, this number is incorrect. It hard to decipher which £1.2bn figure you are actually talking about - but none of them are for just planning (for reference: the contract for the northern conn
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by futurix 1y ago
Stunning! I'm not a driver, so it won't be easy to organise - but it is on my list of places to see before I die.
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by futurix 5y ago
At least in Germany public transport reaches into very deep countryside and it is used widely everywhere. This is certainly not about just supporting urban transportation.
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by futurix 6y ago
I can partially understand this, as my family is from ex-USSR country (also went through repressions on one side) and we all shudder at the mentions of 'socialism' and 'communism' too. However it doesn't take a lot
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by futurix 6y ago
I love searching for very American-looking fire hydrants or pedestrian crossings. Great case of US cultural imperialism - I suspect that the developers didn't even think it might not be the same thing abroad.
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by futurix 6y ago
TV+ is a special case, because the trial period (1 year) is longer than the non-trial payment cycle (1 month). Apple Music pop-ups are annoying, but I only saw them after some iOS version updates. There's also a setting to hide Apple M
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by futurix 6y ago
You are holding it wrong TM. But seriously, I realised that I need to hold it in a way that is different from all other mice I ever used.
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by futurix 6y ago
Worst mouse I ever tried. But at least they learned for it and current Magic Mouse is a delight to use (on macOS).
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by futurix 6y ago
Well, the difference is that German manual tends to work in the end. Certainly worked for Coronavirus (so far).
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by futurix 6y ago
An actual blur that directly modifies multiple pixel values cannot be reversed. Things like swirls and motion "blurs" potentially can be - but I wouldn't even call those blurs as they are more of a directional transformations
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by futurix 6y ago
This is gross generalisation - I know many workers who are hired on H-1B who are getting same (good) pay and conditions as locals. Cut off the abuse, don't shut down everything for everyone.
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by futurix 6y ago
My copy of Charles on iOS disagrees.
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by futurix 7y ago
Thank you!
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by futurix 7y ago
Provided that next election is still happening.
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by futurix 7y ago
The real issue here is not Caucasian skin tones vs everyone else but instead light skin tones vs dark(er) skin tones. So Chinese government won't have an issue with current facial recognition tech.
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by futurix 7y ago
No. What I’m trying to say is that any comment on a public forum does not exist in a vacuum and acquires additional properties based on where and when it is posted.
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by futurix 7y ago
The analysis might not be false - but it sure is dismissive. Dismissiveness that jars with the stated dislike of 'pretension' and that makes the poster sound pretentious themselves.
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by futurix 7y ago
Yes, EU is the cause of all British ills... </sarcasm> Or perhaps it was the usual incompetent planning of the owners of TSB - banks splitting up is not a new or impossible thing, you know. And complexity of IT systems is the mos
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by futurix 7y ago
Paranoid scaremongering.
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by futurix 7y ago
Your description of European trains is rather pessimistic and negative. UK train network is not perfect, but generally is in a decent state of repair. It does receive large amount of investment regularly (less so under Conservatives but sti
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by futurix 7y ago
We migrated from the age of IE shells (2000s) to the age of Blink shells...
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by futurix 7y ago
It would if he's actually extradited to US.
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by futurix 8y ago
Your example might be seen as an advertiser trying to capture a nascent market (which it actually seems to be).
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by futurix 8y ago
You forget that we don't have a colonial empire anymore.
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by futurix 8y ago
Investors already voted against pound (look at the exchange rate). Brexit shown them that U.K. is no longer predictable and stable. And since after Brexit it will be equally expensive to move funds from Eurozone to U.K. or to any other coun
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by futurix 8y ago
No fiber? How do you poop??
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by futurix 8y ago
No, it's only scary if you bought into pro-Brexit propaganda. Just like people say America instead of USA - they might say EU instead of Europe.
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by futurix 8y ago
"One" - sure sign of a branding failure.
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by futurix 8y ago
Sketch heavily uses macOS specific APIs for drawing, hardware acceleration, widgets, etc - I'd imagine Windows version would be a nearly complete rewrite with much higher subsequent development costs.
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by futurix 8y ago
I use Safari and Safari Technical Preview as 2 semi-containers (TP uses it's own storage for everything, but still syncs with iCloud).

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