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by ssl232 15d ago
Tell me about it. It stopped me ditching ever more privacy invading Android for iOS. How has it taken this long?
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by ssl232 1mo ago
> 1296 PRINT "THIS PROGRAM REQUIRES ADVANCED BASIC -- USE COMMAND 'BASICA'":COLOR 15,0,0:FOR I=1 TO 9000:NEXT: RESUME 1298 TIL there is an “Advanced Basic”. I hope the naming was tongue in cheek.
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by ssl232 3mo ago
I’m the same. I once suggested on the Transport Tycoon forums that there be a mechanism for curated sets of NewGRFs that work well together to be selected from the main page and was resolutely told that it’s up to the user to put together t
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by ssl232 6mo ago
Next in Ofcom’s authoritarian sights: YouTube.
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by ssl232 9mo ago
I play the national lottery in the UK mainly because of the good causes it supports. Athletes competing in the Olympics for Team GB for example receive significant funding from the lottery. I see my ticket as a charity donation with the add
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by ssl232 11mo ago
php.net was great for this back in the 2000s.
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by ssl232 1y ago
The iPhone did everything the Nokia 3310 did, better. Electric cars do not (yet) do better some things hybrids do, such as being able to be fuelled with 400+ miles of range in 5 minutes. I’m nowhere near the point of wanting an electric car
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by ssl232 1y ago
Some supermarkets in the UK (e.g. Waitrose) literally just pick items already out and on display in the local store to give to delivery customers. So you’re getting whatever is at the front of the shelf in your local store, which is the lea
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by ssl232 1y ago
The greatest downside to online grocery delivery is that you can’t then do this.
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by ssl232 1y ago
This is because space is _stiff_. Recall Hooke’s law from high school physics. The k constant represents the stiffness of the object. A rubber band is about 50. A sky scraper, about a million. Space? About 10^46 if I recall correctly. So it
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by ssl232 1y ago
> EDIT: Why is there no Cockpit Video Recorder? The days of limited storage are over. Pilots unions are dead against it.
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by ssl232 1y ago
Thank you. I found this years ago and look it up every time I’m working on a Raspberry Pi project. Keep up the good work!
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by ssl232 1y ago
I guess landing fees add to the $100?
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by ssl232 1y ago
Agreed, FreeCAD 1.0 is finally almost usable and supports assemblies. My main issue with it is that the bill of materials tool was DOA but it’s fixed in the main branch. There are still lots of quirks but these can be learned in a few hours
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by ssl232 1y ago
Wasn’t there a rumour that the next iPhone will be foldable?
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by ssl232 1y ago
Agreed. Generations of students had their degree classifications determined by a small number of final exams under exam conditions. Why did we move away from that, opening up all of these routes to score degree grading in non exam condition
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by ssl232 1y ago
Ah yes it was Sofort, not Klarna.
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by ssl232 1y ago
In Germany, paying for goods online using Sofort (direct bank payment, not buy now pay later) literally involves typing in the same credentials used to log into online banking, that’s your account number, branch and PIN, followed by scannin
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by ssl232 1y ago
Related to this, does anyone know why <h5> and <h6> are smaller than <p> by default? I asked this on Stackexchange years ago and didn’t really get to the bottom of it: https://stackoverflow.com/questions&#x
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by ssl232 2y ago
Anyone know how to copy and paste without formatting into Outlook for Mac, without having to click the tiny dropdown box it creates when pasting formatted text? Outlook appears to have no setting for this and also ignores the key combinatio
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by ssl232 2y ago
> to the point America made a sport from moonshine running cars Huh, is that NASCAR?
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by ssl232 2y ago
I’d normally be inclined to agree except they went to the effort of getting my video evidence, which gives me hope this did actually end up getting fed back.
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by ssl232 2y ago
I had the same issue when a driver let themselves round the back of my property, opening a latched gate by squeezing their fingers through a gap in the gate, then trying to open a door at the back. The door happened to be a bedroom with en-
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by ssl232 2y ago
> Maps cover the spatial side of war, but in addition it's difficult to follow the timeline. I'd love for there to be an OpenStreetMap style history project with a slider to change the date, allowing users to fill in battle lin
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by ssl232 2y ago
The article doesn't quite mention it, but today marks exactly 50 years since the Health and Safety at Work Act came into force.
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1960s tragedies triggered a life-saving law(bbc.co.uk)
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by ssl232 2y ago
> they can be demanded by the police and are not protected by the fifth amendment *Within the USA.
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by ssl232 2y ago
They say in the article the encryption passwords are stored off site, presumably in Switzerland where their HQ is. Switzerland does not have any law compelling handing over passwords as far as I am aware. They also say the logs on the (encr
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by ssl232 2y ago
> And that game only ends when you step foot at the plane. Actually, it ends only when you're off the plane at the destination. They continue to try to rinse you of your money on board with scratch cards (gambling), overpriced food
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by ssl232 2y ago
I recall a pattern they used to use, probably illegal, when paying for a flight quoted in a foreign currency. Ryanair would "helpfully" offer for you to pay in your own currency with their awful exchange rate, with the option to i

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