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The cruelty is the point

Banning phones is the practical policy. Schools could not police the myriad of apps and websites.

There was nothing coherent to understand. A rag tag coalition mainly built on delusional positions. - we can have all the trade benefits without freedom of movement (specifically d…

XP x64 was a lovely desktop, and was essentially 2k3 desktop. Last Windows system I enjoyed using.

What happened is that the remain side had to fight on the side of a reality that existed and the Brexiteers made up a fantasy future that has failed to materialise.

For more on how modern engines work (although the core idea of alpha-beta pruning [1] is still used) you can check out the chess programming wiki [2]. 1: https://www.chessprogrammi…

I suspect the “l” parameter is for observed latency as the client displays observed latency from the server.

A strange thing is you can specifically donate to Thunderbird, but not to Firefox. I never quite understood why Mozilla seems more interested in other things vs Firefox (the browse…

It's been a while but I used this with a USB to serial and a console cable for accessing Cisco switches/routers console.

Works for sure: $ file ./bin/python ./bin/python: DOS/MBR boot sector; partition 1 : ID=0x7f, active, start-CHS (0x0,0,1), end-CHS (0x3ff,255,63), startsector 0, 4294967295 sectors…

KDP from Amazon will always take a 30% or greater cut. https://kdp.amazon.com/en_US/help/topic/G200644210

There is the vim adventures site https://vim-adventures.com/ but it doesn’t sound quite like what you are looking for.

Semi-literate programming?

This is a competitive post par excellence, for politeness, accuracy and still doing a great job of demonstrating fly.io's key competitive points vs MRSK. I'd love it if all 'vs' an…

There’s a difficult asymmetry in that it takes much longer to build in house expertise that it does to privatise it. Privatisation also often allows a short term financial boost at…

M1/M2 Mac or a Raspberry Pi?

One suspects that even some of the people behind this effort are skeptical, when you read between the lines. As with the rest of crypto, 99% a solution in search of a problem. Bank…

Do your own research is in this case code for it hasn’t happened. The closest you can find is: - the hostile environment denying immigrants banking services (while an obvious injus…

Is there a good theme for KDE that hews closely to the w2k/w2k3 look and feel? I have fond memories of using wxpx64 which was basically w2k3 desktop edition.

Tridactyl does the job for most websites pretty well as for text heavy sites like documentation it’s very good. https://github.com/tridactyl/tridactyl

Neither on FF or Safari on Mac.

I pressure cook with the Instant Pot, as well as using it as a rice cooker (which I consider to be worth it in itself, we eat a reasonably large amount of rice). Best sources are t…

Gold is different to Bitcoin/Cryptocurrency in a few keys ways, not least of which: - it's a physical object - it has use value in jewelry - it has use value in electronics and oth…

I started using plex when my synology nas stopped supporting smb1 and Sonos doesn’t support anything newer. Do any of the competing solutions work with Sonos and have iOS and webOS…

How do I opt out of everything but my locally stored media?