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KJKingJ

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About KJKingJ

Security Engineer with an interest in all things infrastructure related - be it technical or physical!

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    Comment #32976474

    Or £8,800 if you choose the "Great Northern and Thameslink" only one rather than the "Any Permitted" one. The former lets you travel on the same services as the latter as well as i…

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    Comment #32037012

    Not quite - the screenshots being circulated show an account with a different name that visually looks quite similar. Instead of a lowercase `l`, the suspended account has an upper…

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    Comment #22907971

    If you use the element [0], then you can specify a MIME type on the srcset. Browsers will then use this to load an image they support - so if you have a set of pictures with a MIME…

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    Comment #21815688

    > Note: this is not a great idea; trains release less than a third as much co2 as a truck and electrifying cross country rail would be very expensive. You need extremely high volta…

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    Comment #20624322

    > In Europe, you take the train and there is literal farm land in between stations. This is quite literally my commute. On the way home, I depart from a central London station and …

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    Comment #19674592

    Very much so. Sure, the headline speeds of 5G are nice (and indeed currently with the right 4G deployments and equipment, you can certainly get some phenomenal speeds today), but l…

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    Comment #19371183

    For an elderly relative of mine who no longer has the physical dexterity they used to, this has been a killer feature of voice assistants for them. No longer do they need to fiddle…

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    Comment #19327429

    So a trolleybus[0], but for personal vehicles? [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trolleybus

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    Comment #17401533

    One of the 'campaigns' in Left 4 Dead 2 involves driving a car that is on display in a mall through the doors. At speed. http://left4dead.wikia.com/wiki/Dead_Center

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    Comment #17318426

    Delivery. Although it's a fairly new concept with US grocery stores, supermarkets in the UK have offered delivery to your door (or even a place of choosing inside your house/apartm…

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    Comment #17312202

    > The problem is that you can't use public transport for ... for disabled people Wait what, why not? If anything, public transport is the sole means of transport for many people wi…

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    Comment #17312107

    Indeed, wider tunnels make maintenance much easier, and also allow evacuation of the train via the regular side doors rather than through the cab door.

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    Comment #16912379

    > and no sign of IPv6 on mobile networks Not quite true - EE (so one of the 'big four' providers rather than a small MNVO) has IPv6 support. Right now, my phone has an IP address a…

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    Comment #16710499

    Not the parent, but the US-based Financial Services company I work for also does a 3 month training scheme for their new graduate hires. Better yet, they brought all of their gradu…

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    Comment #16562629

    Looking just on the London Tube and Rail map[0] alone, there's plenty of both odd and amusing station names (East India! Cockfosters! Cyprus! Barking! Elephant and Castle!), and ma…

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    Comment #16562618

    You might find the 'multireddit' functionality useful - it combines multiple user-defined subreddits in to a single 'front page' to browse. For example, I follow the 'it_resources'…

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    Comment #14307928

    You can indeed do this with Sleep as Android - I use it in combination with a Pebble Time to feed Sleep as Android accelerometer data (for sleep phases), and then the watch vibrate…

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    Comment #14086400

    Have you come across LibraryThing before? From what you're looking for in terms of tracking, list management etc it should meet your needs. The only bit i'm not sure about is the a…

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    Comment #13599123

    > At my company we just set everything up using cloud-config. A systemd unit boots the kubelet on each server, and static k8s manifests are loaded by the kubelet to run the rest of…

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    Comment #13382984

    I often use subtitles (often in ASS/SSA format) on content i'm streaming from Plex and have no issues changing the subtitle format mid-stream - if the subtitles are being burnt in …

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    Comment #12396954

    Have you given "Notification Center for Pebble" a try? It bypasses Pebble's native notification system by using a custom watchapp and a phone companion app. Compared to Pebble's na…

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    Comment #12043988

    They also have their "SoYouStart" brand which sits halfway between their Kimsufi offerings and their normal OVH offerings. It's also worth checking out online.net - like OVH, they …

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    Comment #11892468

    The DLR and Jubilee lines are automated. The Northern and Central lines were automated within the last few years. The Victoria was automated since it first opened in 1968. Once the…

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    Comment #11830608

    Heh yeah, it's a bit of a contradictory term, but it's the only 'generic' way to describe it that I know of. Most of them are branded with the store's name with a suffix like 'loca…

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    Comment #11830204

    Mine are always one off orders. I'll log on, choose an hourly timeslot for delivery and then browse down a list of products i've purchased before (both online and instore) and chos…