nick_riviera

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by nick_riviera 12y ago
This has plenty to do with the article, you know if you read both. Popped up to explain myself. It appears that certain themes on HN attract down votes rapidly. Such as: 1. Criticising Apple's policy on repairability. 2. Suggesting tha
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by nick_riviera 12y ago
Thanks for a constructive and well thought out reply.
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by nick_riviera 12y ago
One question to bear in mind when doing this sort of thing: just because it works in SPICE doesn't mean it's going to work as intended when you build it. SPICE is very ideal world. That may or may not invalidate this approach. S
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by nick_riviera 12y ago
Fair points. Regarding your latter points, I assume you have never talked to NHS mental health staff who have to deal with addicts on a regular basis? Not a pretty job and actually puts you right in there to see the effects in action. I fea
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by nick_riviera 12y ago
Doesn't that depend on how far my neighbour is away? Perhaps we have 500m long gardens... The analogy is valid as is "pissing over my fence onto my head", "kicking a football through my greenhouse", "catapultin
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by nick_riviera 12y ago
Isn't prevention better than cure? People keep saying "prohibition didn't work" but I'm hard pressed to find a conclusive paper on the subject. Perhaps you could enlighten me? Edit: Ask for proof/sources = down
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by nick_riviera 12y ago
I purposely avoided explaining it to demonstrate a point: the average user doesn't know this or understand it. They understand the outcome only. Sorry, you are 100% correct with the SSID vs MAC. If I'm in my car with the handset e
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by nick_riviera 12y ago
Very much so. Isn't public health about reducing avoidable risks and keeping the population healthy?
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by nick_riviera 12y ago
1. Yes I do think that it should be made illegal on the basis that it causes a number of deep social problems in the UK. If you've ever seen an English town after closing time, you'll know what I mean. 2. I completely agree with y
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by nick_riviera 12y ago
You are quite clearly an absolute dire example of a complete fucking moron if you think that smoking weed doesn't affect your driving. It affects your judgement, your motor skills, slows your reaction time and so can the withdrawal sym
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by nick_riviera 12y ago
Actually I'm half German and half English so that's a bit of a hard one to answer isn't it? Do I support Europe or do I avoid getting my family killed by the German authorities for refusing to fight the other half? War is ugl
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by nick_riviera 12y ago
Well I'll add one more: The physical and mental health problems and associated healthcare burden. This is not insignificant and totally shrugged off by the "pro-legalisation" side of things.
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by nick_riviera 12y ago
Yes I know this is idealist. I'd like people to act responsibly and consider others but to be honest this is beyond a not insignificant proportion of the population. I live in the UK. This class of drug is banned and it should stay so.
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by nick_riviera 12y ago
Let's use an analogy: What if someone was burning a tyre in my neighbour's garden directly affecting my health?
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by nick_riviera 12y ago
Strangely enough I get the same from £1.75 T-shirts off Amazon and they fit better and last 4 years longer than the expensive Gieves and Hawkes (tailored) shirts I had a few years ago... I think this is all YMMV territory and subject to mys
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by nick_riviera 12y ago
Actually yes it does know I stopped at both of those location. 1. The BP garage has a wireless AP with a known SSID to them. Location services uses this, the cell network and the GPS to build an accurate location. There are no other wireles
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by nick_riviera 12y ago
I admire your stance on this. I too would do the same if drafted for national service. I'd rather sit in a prison than fight because someone told me to. I'd defend my country at the border but nothing more. If I don't have th
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by nick_riviera 12y ago
No. Small technicality here. How comfortable you are has a real effect on how you perform. How you present yourself is someone else's problem. If it is a problem for someone else then they are affecting how you perform.
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by nick_riviera 12y ago
It's at the forefront of people's minds at the moment so it is written and posted about frequently and people are interesed in historical articles as a baseline. It's good that we're thinking like this. It's simpl
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by nick_riviera 12y ago
Perhaps not yet but they have amassed all the data the author describes and much more. For example, I just drove half way across the UK. Google knows that because I was using Google maps. I stopped at Pizza Hut. Google knows that. I stopped
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by nick_riviera 12y ago
No. Use what you are comfortable with. There is a cost incurred for changing (time) that may or may not have a sensible return as an editor is a very personal thing to choose.
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by nick_riviera 12y ago
My point exactly. To make a rational judgement about a statistic we need statistics (plural) otherwise it's an isolated piece of data.
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by nick_riviera 12y ago
Inner system effect for you that is. I don't really want masses of extensibility but what I want is something that works out of the box, is understandable and doesn't require masses of customisation that I have to drag around with
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by nick_riviera 12y ago
Unless you need neither at which point less is more.
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by nick_riviera 12y ago
How many times does a drone (operator) not locate the person? All statistics are relative to something unless there is a political spin. Edit: add operator in brackets.
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by nick_riviera 12y ago
Until it goes wrong or you have to delve into elisp or you get carpal tunnel... After 20 years of switching back and forth I decided I wanted an extensible editor not a programming language with an editor built in. That's worked well f
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by nick_riviera 12y ago
The bit that gets me is that I have as shonky and relatively unreliable internet connection and work from home. This is not an issue when my toolchain sits locally. I really couldn't risk using an entirely online service for direct pro
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by nick_riviera 12y ago
Isn't that still forwardly deterministic i.e. you can apply the same algorithm to it but at a higher resolution?
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by nick_riviera 12y ago
How do you propose adding music to your iDevice like that? Not all things are equal on iOS which is my point above.
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by nick_riviera 12y ago
This problem is solved pretty easily: 1> Buy a shit Nokia, use the 2 pin charger. TBH if it goes flat it won't charge off USB anyway. Then use a microSD for transferring music/photos. 2> Buy an Android handset with USB OTG.

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