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Whoops, so you did.

Very nice. Did you look at http://ncase.me/sight-and-light/ at all?

Turns out "lent" is actually the past tense of "lend". Not sure where my head was this afternoon.

I've heard "lent" but never "lended". "I lent a pen off him", "he lent me a pen". Could be a Northern thing though.

Even the install is a mishmash of voodoo and arcane knowledge. Horrible horrible thing.

Stuns me that someone thought this would be a good idea. Oh hey my free USB device helpfully made me go to a webpage without warning and without permission, these guys are wizards …

Pedantic, but that's not a TRS connection.

It'd be perfect if the Z-index updated for card last selected. It looks like they're z-indexed in a specific order at the moment?

She wanted to encourage competition, but that competition never arrived, so we still have a shit infrastructure and an ineffective monopoly essentially?

Or if we want to go really outrageous, a division of BT still controlling literally every new home install of telephone lines, often with engineers not turning up, or not being tra…

Lucky they nipped that one in the bud, eh?

Maybe someone can explain the decision in principle to me here, because I don't understand how the deliberate retardation of network infrastructure is beneficial to encouraging com…

Personal opinion of course, but even if you don't like The Oatmeal, a comparison to Buzzfeed isn't really appropriate, they're very different animals. One's a comic written, drawn …

That's a very odd question to ask. I mentioned a distaste for him, not any sort of active upset. Kim Jong Un (deliberately avoiding reductio ad hitlerum) has done nothing to me per…

I'd suggest reading any of his biographies or watching Pirates of Silicon Valley. My problem is not with Apple at all, it's with the man himself.

I have absolutely no love for the man, but he had some amazing visions of the future back then.

It was a light hearted comment from the outside perspective, not a genuine accusation of mental health problems ;) Cycling in the Netherlands is actually lovely. Flat land, well ma…

I love the Netherlands, but cyclists there are absolutely crazy, and in incredible quantities. Of course, it doesn't help that I'm blind on my left side and the only Dutch I know i…

Wouldn't there be a comma if he was sitting in the kitchen? Isn't there an old adage as well, "don't end a sentence with a preposition"? edit: Apparently that's an old wives tale, …

It would ruin the point of the bot a bit if it was only entering local, claimable competitions wouldn't it? Hugely localising the data it's gathering.

I was in a bit of a mood with it when I commented, but for good reason. A couple of the problems I've had :- When the battery drained, it refused to boot past the "cyanogen" boot s…

If it's anything like the Oneplus One it's a buggy ill supported piece of crap.