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by m0nty 6y ago
I took my three-year old, intact bearded collie for a walk where we met a couple with a spaniel bitch. They carried on walking, and about 10 minutes later (when they were a good distance away) we let ours off the lead. He raced off towards
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by m0nty 6y ago
And immediately anyone mentions restricting traffic, they're all about the disabled, older people, ambulances and essential deliveries, when really all they seem to want is to drive their cars as often and far as they like, without res
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by m0nty 6y ago
> Why can't we, as a society, react with the same effectiveness to air pollution? In the UK at least, the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders (SMMT) is a powerful lobby group. Car sales are used as a key economic indicator. C
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by m0nty 6y ago
You can remove the alias later, email to that address will bounce. I do the same with my own domain on postfix/dovecot.
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by m0nty 6y ago
There's also a certain prejudice against people who do practical things, which I have certainly been aware of while working in IT.
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by m0nty 6y ago
There's nothing empirical about it, it's just that journalists are not bound to mention the Polish contribution when discussing Enigma, just as they don't mention many other nuances and wrinkles in the story. The histories (m
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by m0nty 6y ago
> even then they can't give credit where it's due You might as well say not enough credit goes to Tommy Flowers, a man I have always admired for his ground-breaking work building Colossus. https://en.wikipedia.org&#x
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by m0nty 6y ago
> Kellogg's says these lids will still produce the distinctive "pop" associated with the product. No it isn't. Is this "pop" really such a big deal that they've been holding back on the redesign for so
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by m0nty 6y ago
Shepard's Prayer.
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by m0nty 6y ago
> the bad connotation due to piracy made this protocol not standard Back when Resilio Sync was known as Bittorrent Sync, I proposed it as a file-sharing solution between multiple locations for the company I was working for. Immediately r
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by m0nty 6y ago
I had this happen when I put up some shutters in my room. There were about six ventilation holes at the top of each one, and the scene outside was projected onto my wall on a bright morning. It was unexpected, and unexpectedly beautiful.
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by m0nty 6y ago
But also "NDB is ideally positioned to contribute and lead change in this industry by addressing the primary bottleneck in EV vehicles, the battery, one that can last as long as the vehicle’s does." It's a curiously convolute
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by m0nty 6y ago
Most of the discussion so far seems to be that there's no way to get sufficient energy density to power electric vehicles. But what they say is it provides "28,000 years of battery life for cell phones, aircraft, rockets, electric
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Amazon TV adaptation of Iain Banks' Culture series is cancelled(theguardian.com)
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by m0nty 6y ago
Dramatic title for a post which basically says "use tmux".
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by m0nty 6y ago
I read the article with interest. Thanks for taking the time. My father-in-law forever refused to buy an upright freezer because "as soon as you open the door, all the cold air falls out." Which I now know to be only partially cor
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by m0nty 6y ago
I like the additional monitor on its side. Terminal window plus Telegram open in that, or a code editor with web browser on the horizontal screen. Even two 24" monitors side-by-side horizontal seems like a long way to go from one side
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by m0nty 6y ago
I wondered about that 'soccer' thing as well. It was always perfectly good English when I was growing up, and at school we used it to distinguish the game from rugby. The origin myth I heard was along the lines of 'I don&#x27
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by m0nty 6y ago
> On the whole the ‘z’ alternative has nothing whatever to do with America I was told that using a 'z' is old-fashioned, and using it or an 's' is optional - just be consistent. Only recently have I noticed a trend to
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by m0nty 6y ago
See also Tim Hunkin: https://www.timhunkin.com/94_illegal_engineering.htm
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by m0nty 6y ago
Sorry I missed your reply. My experience of cycling in the UK is many cyclists already go to great lengths to make themselves visible, and it makes no difference at all to close passing, etc. Hi-viz clothing, bright strobing lights - driver
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by m0nty 6y ago
Well, the thing about Google dropping products keeps coming up because ... they keep dropping products. I'm not sure every google-related thread goes that way.
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by m0nty 6y ago
So you're telling potentially distracted drivers that hey, it's OK to be distracted, the AI will take care of that for you? Like with Tesla's auto-pilot, it doesn't matter what the product manual says - too many drivers
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by m0nty 6y ago
The accuracy he gets from the most basic of tools is astonishing really. Knows his stuff and tells it well.
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by m0nty 6y ago
Someone mentioned Blender now has Sketchup-like facilities. Haven't yet tried it. https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=blender+vs+sket...
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by m0nty 6y ago
+1 for Ishitani and Pask, and thanks for the other links. If we're talking about boat-builders, don't forget Louis Sauzedde, who seems recently to have returned from a long hiatus: https://www.youtube.com/user&#x2F
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by m0nty 6y ago
The one thing I find (as a UK woodworker) when watching US or Canadian channels is (a) they all seem to have massive workshops, like size-of-a-barn massive, and (b) they have machines for everything . I could not tackle many of the project
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by m0nty 6y ago
If you mean "why do they prevent pasting?" -- because their talented and conscientious devs think password managers are insecure. I've tried emailing several webmasters about this but it's a waste of time.
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by m0nty 6y ago
I didn't realise :( He joins a rather long list of people from my childhood and adolescence who have suddenly been diminished.
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by m0nty 6y ago
My understanding is he didn't realise she was 15 and the marriage ended when he found out.

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