zimpenfish

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by zimpenfish 5d ago
No, and we don't really have a culture of cancelling things for people they say now, either, when it comes down to it because if that were true, Trump would not be president given his long history of [waves hands], a large number of Re
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by zimpenfish 5d ago
> The second-most prolific self references were blovating across all and any groups I felt like. Nothing has changed. I can take the moral high ground here because my bloviating was at least in relevant groups. But still, bloody hell, y
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by zimpenfish 5d ago
Alas, https://newsgrouper.org is not available from the UK (another casualty of the stupid OSA.)
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by zimpenfish 6d ago
> Once you get laid you are now you're in a pile of 100 other applicants equally qualified I'm assuming there should be an "off" after "laid"...
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by zimpenfish 6d ago
I use wraparound cable labels[0] which seem to work ok (although do end up sliding up and down the cable to some extent.) [0] e.g. https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0FQTX4MPL
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by zimpenfish 6d ago
The Treedix[0] can query e-marker chips. [0] https://treedix.com/products/treedix-usb-cable-tester-usb-c-...
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by zimpenfish 6d ago
I've got a Treedix[0] which does A, C to Lightning, mini-B, C, MicroB3.0, and Micro. Super handy for identifying the nonsense C-C cables you can chuck. [0] https://treedix.com/products/treedix-usb-cable-tester-usb
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by zimpenfish 6d ago
I went for a colour label system - one colour for type of cable (C-C, A-C, etc.) and one colour for capabilities (power, usb2, usb3, usb4+, etc.) Makes it super easy to find, say, a data microUSB (blue, orange) for the Audiomoth) or a simpl
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by zimpenfish 7d ago
My (simple, naive, etc.) solution is to ban young males from driving until they're 25. Immediate drop in the accident rate plus a clamour for better public transport / bike infrastructure that even the dumbest government couldn&#
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by zimpenfish 7d ago
> "cyclists don't follow the rules of the road" Boy, have I got news for him about car drivers...
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by zimpenfish 8d ago
Yeah, I'm interested but I'll definitely give it a year or two for other people to discover any durability problems before committing (plus it's missing a lens option compared to the 18 Pro but that's a minor quibble.)
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by zimpenfish 18d ago
> The country has a population of 349,000,000 people. There will be crazy incidents. By that logic, any country with a similar (or larger) population should have similar (or larger) gun deaths per capita as the USA, right? Take India - p
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by zimpenfish 18d ago
> I’ve lived in a bunch of European countries and in none would you be charged with murder in that situation. Presumably not the UK? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tony_Martin_(farmer) "Anthony Edward Martin was
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by zimpenfish 18d ago
> If someone comes through your home door guns akimbo in the US, blasting back is fine Unless that someone is a cop, of course.
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by zimpenfish 22d ago
And whose solution to "Is cyclospora a problem?" was to remove the monitoring and presumably stick their fingers in their ears.[0] [0] https://www.newsweek.com/donald-trump-cdc-food-net-monitorin...
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by zimpenfish 25d ago
To be fair, if I'm reading that right, the difference is "a small light patch on the middle spike"?[0] I can see people missing that easily enough! [0] Absent contextual cues about height, location, etc., which aren't o
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by zimpenfish 27d ago
No.
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by zimpenfish 28d ago
Yeah, Go people were always been perfectly capable of creating abominational messes before generics arrived. Once you've looked at an interface referencing an interface referencing an interface referencing an interface which is only e
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by zimpenfish 28d ago
I've missed something - what were you expecting from that code? Would anyone expect the `Burrow` inside the `Habitat` to be initialised instead of the top-level `Burrow`?
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by zimpenfish 1mo ago
I've seen those complaints going around but, to add a picoGladwell of data, I've not had any problems with fulfilling orders or anything like that.
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by zimpenfish 1mo ago
> The real hack to me is that anything which simply has Lock() and Unlock() methods is considered uncopyable. It's a shame they made them generic, taking no arguments and returning nothing; if they'd gone for `Lock(sync.LockTyp
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by zimpenfish 1mo ago
https://archive.ph/2VtHz
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by zimpenfish 1mo ago
> Even good human writers would probably struggle with this constraint. But that would be a fun writing exercise, I think. Thoroughly in the oulipo wheelhouse. Maybe generate a Markov chain table over all of Project Gutenberg and then s
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by zimpenfish 1mo ago
Blackberry got a whole bunch of things right but, alas, almost everything else was a bag of rusty spanners. I do still miss mine, though, slightly.
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by zimpenfish 1mo ago
> shut down people's connections until they removed their malware. Yes, in an ideal world, that might work but most people don't actually know they have malware. That's the point of the malware! And it's not like yo
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by zimpenfish 1mo ago
That's great until your device is weaponised against others (see: open HTTP proxies, open DNS resolvers, open SMTP servers, several billion IoT devices, and countless other examples)
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by zimpenfish 1mo ago
..."on Mars in a self-driving Tesla."
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by zimpenfish 1mo ago
I think there's also the "roll up a whole network at once" approach they prefer to take for things like this - hence nothing will happen for months/years whilst investigations happen in secret and then there'll be a
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by zimpenfish 2mo ago
> Google is able to have such an up to date place database because it relies on a large quantity of crowdsourced submissions Google denied our address existed[0] for years (which caused several problems with online shops that used Google
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by zimpenfish 2mo ago
> I have never seen them randomly arresting someone for no reason. Try the Instagram Reels explore feed. I see at least one US cop bodycam a week where they are blatantly abusing their powers over nothing.

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