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Comment · 1 year ago
The cruelty is the point
Comment · 1 year ago
Banning phones is the practical policy. Schools could not police the myriad of apps and websites.
Comment · 2 years ago
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 denied by EU at the time, didn't materialise)

- we will have 'more trade' afterwards (fails to understand how trade works)

- we won't have to follow EU rules (in reality, we can't really diverge that much from how the EU works without incurring penalties)

- we won't have to pay anything to them / we hold all the cards / ... (we did pay for our liabilities and we definitely didn't hold the cards)

- we can become much more left wing if we leave the neoliberal EU (fails to account for the fact our country isn't particularly left wing overall)

- politicians will have to take responsibility/can't blame the EU (brexiteers keep blaming the EU even now, BJ et.al. have faced minimal or no consequences for their actions)

- we can fish again (ignores relative importance of fishing vs the actually productive economy, disregards that EU is a big market for said fish)

What do you suggest we engage with?

Comment · 2 years ago
XP x64 was a lovely desktop, and was essentially 2k3 desktop. Last Windows system I enjoyed using.
Comment · 2 years ago
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.
Comment · 2 years ago
Comment · 2 years ago
I suspect the “l” parameter is for observed latency as the client displays observed latency from the server.
Comment · 2 years ago
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 browser, not the other Firefox branded things).

Comment · 2 years ago
It's been a while but I used this with a USB to serial and a console cable for accessing Cisco switches/routers console.
Comment · 2 years ago
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

  $ ./bin/python
  Python 3.11.4 (heads/pypack1:6eea485, Jan 24 2024, 10:14:24) [GCC 11.2.0] on 
  linux
  Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
  >>> import platform
  >>> platform.processor()
  'arm'
Comment · 2 years ago
Comment · 3 years ago
There is the vim adventures site https://vim-adventures.com/ but it doesn’t sound quite like what you are looking for.
Comment · 3 years ago
Semi-literate programming?
Comment · 3 years ago
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' and competitive marketing was this good.

Comment · 3 years ago
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 long term net expense.

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