Posts by Graham Dawson

Re: We know how this goes...

Then Mark Watney uses parts of it to grow potatoes.

Re: Yes, I have been to places like the one described

Combine it with "moist" for added disgust.

Re: Meta-Information

No you can't. At best that would be considered hearsay and not admissable as evidence.

Surely you can't be serious.

Re: A big blob of passwords are found...

A big encrypted blob.

Re: Hospitality sector had it coming

Mortgage brokers exist for people like me, who don't have the time to go dredging through the myriad offers on the market to find the one that both fits my circumstances and is actually affordable.

Let's not forget cannon fodder.

War's never been so much fun since.

Re: Chicken drumstick

Just the contents.

Re: Free advertising

IT'S WHAT PLANTS CRAVE!

Re: "could we visit it?"

I thought it was a step to the right.

Re: Welp!

Oh no, they built the wall.

Les parisiennes were using it as a toilet within a day.

Felt like something Steve Bong would have written

Re: I once trialled a ruggedized laptop

Surviving a trip to Liverpool would be more impressive, but recovering stolen property over there is difficult, to say the least.

@korev

Still stings...

Re: Just a beer?

No, you contended that emoji was a word invented by kids with fragile egos and no knowledge of history. You've had it demonstrated to you that this is false, but rather than accept your mistake, you've insisted that you're actually right anyway and that anyone who disagrees with you is also either a safely dismissed child or somehow mentally deficient and in need of your special brand of education (like Jimmy from all those old information films - don't think I'm so retarded that I don't get your sly little joke). Your entire argument is ultimately "I don't like this word that the kids today are using, so I'm going to make shit up to dismiss it and treat anyone who disagrees like they're an idiot".

You're allowed to not like the word, that's absolutely fine, but maybe, instead of patronising and demeaning everyone who disagrees with you and dismissing the more popular word because of "the kids", you could act like the adult you claim to be and accept that your opinion is a clear minority.

Emoji won. It's as simple as that.

Re: Pedantry @W@ldo

That's low frequency as defined by the ITU, for terrestrial radio transmissions, which specifies frequency definitions for a very narrow band of the full EM spectrum. In astronomy, everything with a longer wavelength than infrared light is low frequency EM.

@face-to-face

Because that's so easy when I'm here and the wife is in Scandinavia.

Re: Not gonna touch it.

More money for me, then.

Typescript is quite literally the only microsoft spewing I use at this point. It's better than javascript.

Admittedly, this isn't saying much... but still!

Re: "get" - I'm good

Australia seems to think so.

Re: Are you watching this RCL?

Tell him to flash debian or sailfish. It's a world of difference.

They went a bit crap. I used to have a few domains with them, but after a bunch of unnecessary "upgrades" to their control panel made everything difficult to find, rising prices and an increasing likelihood that t hey'd just straight up ignore technical support problems, I decided to shift somewhere else.

At which point I discovered that they'd made moving domains away from them immensely difficult, as in "nearly tempted to let the things expire and risk re-buying them from the scalpers" difficult.

They were bought out by some company that saw a cash flow with an inbuilt customer base and wanted the money for itself.

Joke's on them I guess.

How well does it handle phone calls with sailfish?

Clean commits are what I'm thinking of

Re: Please no v5, stay on v4.x.x forever?

"Major version X (X.y.z | X > 0) MUST be incremented if any backwards incompatible changes are introduced to the public API."

if linus adopted this, we'd be on kernel version 300 by now

Re: Specific Energy

Coal plant ash contains significant quantities of uranium and thorium (and other heavy metals), which are naturally present in coal.

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/coal-ash-is-more-radioactive-than-nuclear-waste/

Jokes on him, I took a self defence against fruit class

Re: I hope Space X aren't deliberately dumping these at sea because it's cheaper to.

More likely they want to concentrate all their resources on testing the faring capture without the distraction of having to land a stage as well.

Re: I'm guessing

Nearly no innuendo, I guess?

Re: Bad example

All true, but when it mattered, he held to reproducibility, empiricism and questioning consensus, all of which is the foundation of the scientific method.

Re: I actually thought of that...

"What I ended up with instead was random room noise activating the thing and running programs, somewhat randomly."

And nothing has changed since.

Wagner would be right out.

Re: But mah gunzzzz!

No no, they want to keep the guns in the country.

@AC Re: I hope you bought some Ely Gin while you were there

>apparently that damage was done by the earlier iconoclasts after Henry VIII's reformation.

Which just goes to show, you can pick any era you like and someone will be destroying every beautiful thing they can find.

@Anonymous C0ward

The difference is that the money changers were charging people to buy special temple money that could only be used to purchase animals for sacrifice in the temple. They were emblematic of the corruption of the temple, acting to prevent people from atoning in a place where they should have been free to enter without hinderance. I'm not sure that the church requires a special scrip for sacrificial gin. Not now, anyway.