sincarne

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by sincarne 6mo ago
Looks great; love the concept and the design. Reminds me in a way (conceptually) of a DOS program I used to use when I was at my desk more. It’s called Carousel, it’s one-file-per-day as well, but multiple topics which you rotate through (h
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by sincarne 6mo ago
I hadn’t thought about it before, but you’re right: the grocery delivery folks in the UK were always quite cheerful! We used Ocado mostly, and their drivers were always happy for a chat while unloading.
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by sincarne 9mo ago
I’ve been using a DOS editor called Carousel. The “carousel” bit is that you can cycle through a number of files in named directories. Every day you start with a new file named by date. https://partytimehexcellent.itch.io/ca
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by sincarne 11mo ago
It’s been excellent for me. I recently had an issue with my Yolink notifications being marked spam and phishing. I raised it with support, they immediately escalated, and it got sorted quickly.
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by sincarne 1y ago
Something is up with your web page. It stutters when scrolling, and crashes my tab. I’m using Safari on an iPhone 14 Pro running iOS 18.6.2 (22G100). No content blockers or extensions.
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by sincarne 2y ago
I turn 49 tomorrow, and my kid’s next birthday will be her 11th. I have a lot more spending on her ahead!
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by sincarne 2y ago
I don’t know that they’d need to be, though. British-style baked beans come in tomato sauce. I just checked my tins, and they’re 36% tomato according to the ingredients list. Unfortunately they’re not that cheap anymore. We pay over CDN$2+t
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by sincarne 2y ago
Wholeheartedly agree. I much prefer the pre-David unknown origin Alien. And the Dark Horse era space jockeys over the engineers.
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by sincarne 2y ago
> "Xenomorph" is not any sort of official in-universe term for these things In his briefing (about 23 minutes in in the Disney+ version of Aliens), Gorman says “all we know is there is still no contact with the colony, and a xe
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by sincarne 2y ago
Give Whisky a shot. Yeah, it’s a 20 year old game, but I was able to get Half-Life 2 running at 1080p with all settings maxed on my Mac Mini. The only slow down I experienced was when a bunch of barrels exploded at the same time. https:&#x
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by sincarne 2y ago
My grandad worked on a computerized press in this era. He primarily printed short-run text books for southern Ontario universities. Whatever markup they used had a syntax that allowed emboldening and italicization, but you had to specify th
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by sincarne 2y ago
Much of coffee's flavour comes from a balance of acids and oils. These, particularly the oils, are sensitive to temperature. But unless you're drinking your coffee all day, you're unlikely to notice it. Real spoiling sets in
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by sincarne 2y ago
You misunderstand. The previous comment was about public defenders, not defence contractors.
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by sincarne 2y ago
I lost out on a front end job about 15 years ago because I marked up a business’s open and close hours in a table during a coding test. I was told that my skills were clearly out of date.
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by sincarne 3y ago
There was some discussion of text-based news sites on HN a while back. You may enjoy the coverage. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35313232
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by sincarne 3y ago
I just moved back to Canada from the UK. In the UK we got our milk from a local dairy in glass bottles with a wee foil tab on the mouth. Occasionally the magpies would get to it before we did, and we had a couple bottles go bad in a heat wa
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by sincarne 3y ago
My first real exposure to Lua was as the configuration language of imapfilter. Absolutely loved both. https://github.com/lefcha/imapfilter
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by sincarne 3y ago
I used to set my laundry to run so that when I got up in the morning it would be ready to hang or run through the dryer. When my old machine broke the landlord replaced it with this garbage Beko that locks the door during the delay period.
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by sincarne 3y ago
Highly recommended. They used to have a gaming-focused satellite in the Grand Arcade. It’s gone, now, but I heard a rumour they may bring it back in the summer.
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by sincarne 3y ago
At the Code Club for which I volunteer the next step is Python. We use the Raspberry Pi projects[1] which use the Tinker[2] repl. [1] https://projects.raspberrypi.org/en/projects/about-me [2] https://tr
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by sincarne 3y ago
I volunteer for a code club, so maybe I can help you out. I’m not sure what I’m missing in your issue, but Scratch scripts run continuously once the green flag is clicked. You can stop execution programmatically using the stop() block. htt
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by sincarne 3y ago
I bought a couple of the Budget Bytes ( https://shop.budgetbytes.com ) meal plans a while back. They're not fantastic if you're outside of North America, but I was able to make them work. Haute cuisine it ain't, but
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by sincarne 4y ago
The elitism is in calling what is absolutely the largest market for gaming "wannabe". I have sunk tonnes of money and time into gaming, and I spend a lot of time helping friends get familiar with games so they can play with their
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by sincarne 4y ago
Well, we're halfway there. "Last year, cassette sales grew 28% to 440,000 units, up from 343,000 in 2021." https://www.hypebot.com/hypebot/2023/01/the-cassette-comebac...
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by sincarne 4y ago
This announcement falls into a category I like to call “we are closing to serve you better.”
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by sincarne 4y ago
Tax deductions for charitable donations are not a thing everywhere in the world. Here in the UK it kind of is, but the charity has to claim it, ands back 25p on each £1. But more to your point: I have six committed monthly donors for the PT
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by sincarne 4y ago
Until you have a kid in school, and then it’ll pick up again.
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by sincarne 4y ago
I don’t have that on this particular site, but in my experience that particular defect is caused by a browser plug in that blocks cookie banners or newsletter pop ups. Try disabling them and reloading.
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by sincarne 4y ago
My family and I were on a “star safari” last night, and our guides gave us a Google Maps location for a parking lot on a volcano. Google struggled, as did Here. Organic Maps? No problem! So thank you; you’ve set me up with my new offline ma
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by sincarne 4y ago
Apple very publicly refused to unlock the phones of the San Berbardino shooters, and consistently refuses to back door their phones for law enforcement. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FBI%E2%80%93Apple_encryption_d...

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