Posts by werdsmith 7122 publicly visible posts • joined 16 Feb 2011
"Idiot Tax" was amusing at first but it's really really tired now. Ancient recycled old rubbish soon loses its comedy value and makes the writer look lazy.
Other banalities includes: "crysis", "popcorn", "goes up to 11", "rounded corners" and many more. I wonder if the people using these trites imagine that they are being witty and original when they put them into a comment.
Yes, I like it the way it is. Outages are rare for me (1 in 2 years) and I have a reciprocal deal with my neighbour - if he loses his ADSL or I my cable we can use each other's WiFi. He's been on mine way more times than I his.
I would prefer an excuse to sit in my garden, but last resort 4G hotspot will mean I never get that good fortune.
I was waiting for Macbook pro to ship with a working keyboard before buying, then WSL2 appeared and covered off a particular need on Win10, so I don't need to change yet. I will look again at Macbook pro when the ARM machines ship, and as you say, they've been shaken down in the wild a bit.
Apple is following linux which is already very comfortably available on ARM. It is inevitable that Win10 will follow.
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Under the English feudal system, serfs could be bought and sold with the manorial or church land they worked on, villeins could be bought and sold as individuals. Effectively slaves under another name and not free men unless they could buy themselves out.
I am very proud of the branch of my family that were dirt-poor country peasants in Bedfordshire. However, notwithstanding my DNA stock that came through enslavement, plague, famine, war and enclosures , I am considered to be part of an imperial tyrant people. How about that?
I do recall Joey Deacon at school. Impersonations of him were aimed at anyone who become the target of ridicule and the name "Joey" became an insult.
Sad, but kids and all that. Often it is low self esteem that causes some people to feel the need to put someone else down to feel better about themselves. I explain to my kids that this was the motivation for bullying, that they had something very wrong somewhere in their life. Could be some of the explanation for racism.
I did try out pycharm, but binned it quickly because it’s a fat bloated wallowing thing part coded in java.
Eclipse similarly overdone, so there is overhead wasted in messing with the ide.
I am increasingly drawn to lightweight, simplified tools that don’t get in the way.
The PPL training fleet is gradually being replaced by the modern machines, but there was something a bit charming about fiddling with carb heat and mixture. Although I do like the security offered by a BRS parachute and would enjoy going places in something like an SR22, all my hours for the last 4 years have been on a Super Cub purely for its charm and flying for pleasure appeal. If I could afford to fly a DH82 then I would.
I can't help thinking that the case for an electric engine would be a motor glider, could get away with a 10 minute battery.
The Guardian is not a reliable source for good information, it’s the the equivalent gutter rag to the mail for the other end of the political moron spectrum.
It seems that Dopey Bob was entrapped, having been invited by the journalists on the pretence of discussing some matters, but the plan was to create a story about an MP ignoring social distancing.
Bob was a dope for walking into it, but it locally it does seem to have backfired on the people involved. Hopefully the public are getting wise to and sick of the media ordure.
By the way, Seely is not in charge of the app.
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For full disclosure I'm not British, just a massive Anglophile being tested severely by the misguided filth being spewed in British public discourse.
The trick is to understand that what you read on public discussion forums, social media etc is not reflecting real life. Social media like twitter etc tends to attract comments from nutters and focuses them together making it appear that they are more prevalent than they really are.
Looking back at the Nokia 3310 HMD reboot, a 3G version followed the 2G only one after about 6 months.
Also the price was £49.99 but O2 were soon doing them for £20, which is where I got my backup phone.
2G phones are no good for Three already. Vodafone have suggested sunsetting their 3G in a couple years.
I think the medium of the web and social media exposes the nutters and the hopelessly thick and gullible for us all to see, but they’ve always existed. I think I preferred it when I didn’t know they existed. Ignorance is bliss.
Oh yes, the ignorant,
We asked Upton when we might expect to see a 16GB variant, but have yet to receive a response.
Didn’t ask in the right place, from the official blog comments:
“ I’m going to wait for the 16 GB varian to come out. I hope that it wouldn’t go above $100, fingers crossed.”
Raspberry Pi Staff Eben Upton — post author
28th May 2020, 5:39 pm
I think you’re unlikely to ever see this.
Abt was one of the more competitive drivers in Formula E real racing. I understand his stand in sandbagged a bit in finishing third, where he could easily have won but tried to disguise himself by hanging back. Real drivers would be able to spot the style of a real driver versus a gamer.
There’s a Johnny Cash song that describes how I got my first PC, for free. Complete with 20GB Seagate hard drive that I used run run a head parking command for before switching off.
“One Piece at a Time” 1976.
In all the years since, I’ve never purchased a PC for myself (excluding Raspberry PIs).
A cathode ray being pulled around by scan coil magnets is a fun thing to play with, strong magnetic fields in the vicinity of the shadowmask would leave the shadowmask magnetised in places and distort the colour into some pretty paisley like patterns. There was a technique involved waving a strong degaussing wand in a circular pattern whilst withdrawing it away from the screen front to fix it.
I really miss the fun I had working in my youth and wish we still did that kind of work in this country.
In my experience, my phone continues to work with data and voice when on the station platform with trains passing or seated on the train directly under these cables. I've not tried the compass there, next time I don't know when in the future, I will try it.
Aged about 10 or so we had a rail line passing the end of the school playing fields and on frosty morning we were guaranteed a show of fizzy blue arcs as the trains passed the spots where the cables are suspended.
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