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Neil44

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About Neil44

Err and err and err again but less and less and less.

Recent public activity

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    Comment #49225929

    I graduated in 2000 and remember doing the oral defence. It wasn't a huge deal. You already have a personal relationship with your tutors and they are familiar with you and your co…

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    Comment #49131412

    My BYD doesn't do this.

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    Comment #49101956

    This is going to be used for cheating / hacking in games.

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    Comment #49035310

    Used for translation maybe? I tried to scan to see which plugins, but it had two responses for me, and the second one was 'off'

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    Comment #49034663

    Shows unavailable, last status update 30th April https://health.aws.amazon.com/health/status

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    Comment #48945695

    Yeah it's like I suddenly realise I haven't been thinking about the reading and I'm near the bottom of the next page somehow.

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    Comment #48908418

    That's true about the hot tub. We already have helicopters but I can appreciate there's room for the drones to be more pervasive because of their lower cost. Holding police to stan…

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    Comment #48903810

    In terms of photography there's no expectation of privacy in a public place. Maybe in some countries that's different but that's how it is here. If you take a picture in public you…

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    Comment #48897674

    Nobody's being punished, only (briefly) surveiled.

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    Comment #48897664

    How would this be different to following a suspicious car to see what it's intent is?

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    Comment #48892347

    Is it essential liberty to be able to run around doing crime without being surveiled?

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    Comment #48889483

    He had a lovely gentle demeanor about him. He was good recently in the Untamed series.

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    Comment #48889449

    I think the strategy in leaving Farage to only face Binface is that win or loose it makes Farage look like an idiot. He wanted to get credibility back by getting re-elected after t…

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    Comment #48539047

    "I identify as a nerd and think I'm virtuous, therefore other people who identify as nerds should be virtuous in order to validate me"

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    Comment #48446913

    Facebook stopped being good when they took away the order by most recent option IMO.

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    Comment #48444431

    No access to a network that's safe? Do you have a zero day on SSL we should know about?

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    Comment #48412346

    That's OK in menus and the OS in general but if you're working on a web app or big form tabbing through it can be a PITA.

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    Comment #48383287

    I'm having a Seal delivered next week, really looking forward to it. My friend went from a M3 to a Seal. She does a lot of miles. She says they trade blows, there's things that fel…

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    Comment #48368493

    It seems there's suspiciously little context available, yet here I also am commenting on a 'vaguepost'. I wonder if one day AI will be able to filter out vagueposts from my browser…

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    Comment #48353960

    There are numerous spaces and opportunities for you to express your opinions. In fact almost anywhere else (in the US anyway)

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    Comment #48353757

    It's not a direct threat but it is a passive one, it's also swearing and a contentious statement in a confined space where everyone needs to get along for the next N hours. They kn…

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    Comment #48333435

    I don't think it's productive to single out a specific company that's in this area. If they closed someone else would do it. If they don't execute well someone else will. It's the …

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    Comment #48292953

    I hate getting AI generated emails from people. They probably haven't even read or understood the slop they're sending me, the chances of them understanding and contextualizing wha…

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    Comment #48277692

    Yup. Let's see Kiras LinkedIN.

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    Comment #48245885

    We have a customer with a business in Uganda, we just give her the laptops and she physically takes them with her next time she goes there.