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- Comment on I get unblockable pop-ups from my carrier 3 hours ago:
Movistar is also O2 or Vivo depending where you’re from
I wasn’t in the market to switch carrier, but I’m definitely not gonna pick O2 next time now if this is what they do in other markets
- Comment on Keep them secret 4 hours ago:
They’re designed to have a case now
I don’t like it, but that’s why. You’re simply not supposed to use them without a case.
I will say though, I don’t know where you’re getting your cases from, but I swear by the Spigen ones, they’re usually £10-20 and I have bought one the day I buy a new phone for probably the past 10 years or so.
I’ve not smashed a screen since I started, I used to have to talk to insurance once a year before. That £15 every couple of years has saved me hundreds of pounds in insurance excess fees
- Comment on The ultimate check 7 hours ago:
That would not be mainline
Mainline basically means you’ve cloned the source from Linus’ repo, applied no patches to it (incl distro patches) and built that
- Comment on I want to go deep into the earth and be not disturbed by mortal men 7 hours ago:
FF1 is basically the Seinfeld of console (i.e. non tabletop) RPGs
Looking back at it from today doesn’t directly show how much the genre was defined by the choices it made
- Comment on "You're from where?" 1 week ago:
Probably because: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scunthorpe_problem
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
Little curious why this is posted in the UK community given it’s about Australia
- Comment on Everytime 🤧 3 weeks ago:
I’ve seen this sentiment a few times online, so I have to wonder how you all are preparing your tomatoes and the sandwiches that they go in? I just don’t seem to have this problem
Cutting them up wrong? e.g. halved/quartered cherry tomatoes
Is it a stacking order thing? e.g. maybe between slices of Gouda?
Overuse of condiments? e.g. too much mayo/dressing around them
I always season tomato slices before using them, as it’s obviously against the Geneva convention to not, so maybe that’s the extra friction the war criminals are missing?
- Comment on Delicious 4 weeks ago:
- Comment on I do this every time 4 weeks ago:
Welcome to the future
It takes some gumption, but you don’t even need to be in the same building if you try
- Comment on Burnham ‘personally intervened’ over possible early prison release of grooming gang perpetrators 4 weeks ago:
I mean, it would be a fairly stupid own goal with the daily mail and express if they did
- Comment on I can't afford a car 4 weeks ago:
Oh, is this the reason you lot voted him in again?
Fucks sake
- Comment on Guys, did anyone ask how we're supposed to get around on land? 4 weeks ago:
RA1 hellmarch echoes
- Comment on I do this every time 4 weeks ago:
Wait you guys are in the same room as the microwave when it dings?
- Comment on I think NAMBLA or some other similar org might buy them... 1 month ago:
As someone from the UK who works in software engineering, the combination of meanings is universally hilarious
- Comment on Modern Monetary Theory: Musk Edition 1 month ago:
Inflation is good for musk, it means his investments make more money
Let’s all not be naive here
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- Comment on [politics] I got co-kane runnin' around my brain, cocaine, runnin' 1 month ago:
Imagine referring to your dad by your surname
- Comment on Is Buying a Google Pixel with GrapheneOS Pre-Installed Dangerous? 1 month ago:
If you buy a phone that doesn’t come with the stock OS with a locked bootloader, just reflash as a precaution.
Identity theft is not worth saving yourself a half hour of messing about
- Comment on Behold, the future! 1 month ago:
I was gonna say, of all the big chains in America, Costco at least seems to try and be half decent to its customers and staff
- Comment on Are there any payment aggregators (Like Paypal for instance) that prioritize user privacy? 1 month ago:
The closest thing to PayPal in Europe is probably Klarna, albeit they put a stronger focus on their credit product, you can use it to just pay up front
- Comment on Posting everyday until my brother takes a shower day 355 1 month ago:
Anyone else see Vinnie Jones in lock stock?
- Comment on Why are so many new programming languages being developed? 1 month ago:
As others have mentioned Go and rust are nearly old enough to drink.
And the answer is pretty simple, if an existing language does something differently to how a group of people wants to work, someone will eventually write a language to do it that way.
There’s no single way to solve a problem, and that’s a good thing. If someone wants to whip something up quickly there’s a host of high level languages to do that in, it just probably won’t be especially quick. If you really care about performance, there are low level languages with varying levels of safety measures. Then there’s the whole code style thing, you might be a functional programming monk who is truly at home in APL, others may still long for something a bit more LISPy.
stuff that used to work fine in whatever old language it was in is now rewritten in a new language.
This is an illusion. If a project is moving from one language to another, that’s not a lightly taken decision, and almost definitely means they’ve had it with all the issues brought by the first language. I’m assuming you’re referring to the movement from C/C++ code to Rust that I’ve seen a fair bit.
This one particularly is because in C-like languages, any engineer will make mistakes, and those mistakes may never be obvious enough to be fixed. These kinds of mistakes are what cause those random crashes that never get fixed, but more severely, they often also give an opening for a security researcher (or someone more nefarious) to exploit. No one typically wants their software to be used for making people’s lives worse, so a lot of effort will be put into trying to catch those issues early, and manage the situation when one isn’t. With the advent of AI many projects have seen an exponential increase in the number of security issues they’re dealing with.
Or, they could bite the bullet and move to something like rust which keeps the performance benefits, but removes the ability to even make the mistakes in the first place.
- Comment on Any good tools for learning blind typing? 1 month ago:
Honestly, just type a lot and try to get it done quickly. I never did anything specifically to try and learn, it just happened naturally following that for me.
I’ve heard people have a lot of success with various typing games, there’s a few on steam now if that’s your jam. Glyphica and The Typing of the Dead are the ones that immediately jump to mind
- Comment on Fuck IMDB and fuck Amazon 1 month ago:
Letterboxd is pretty good, though it got bought by private equity a few years ago and they’re now trying to flog it off to Netflix or Paramount
- Comment on Fuck you Whatsapp 1 month ago:
I think you’ve got the power dynamic wrong here
If OP is having to contact loads of estate agents, it’s probably because they live somewhere with in-demand property.
That means those estate agents are going to have loads of potential people to sell to
Someone who wants to do something differently than everyone else is going to get a lower priority over someone who just does everything they are asked without question.
The estate agent doesn’t really lose anything by doing this, OP risks reducing their chances at getting a place, ostensibly one they need to live in at some point soon.
- Comment on Perception is everything. 2 months ago:
Oooh the beaver is half submerged, that took longer than I’d have hoped
- Comment on ...and then suggest something totally unrelated... 2 months ago:
And to save you jumping around different VPN countries looking for it:
- Comment on Good offer! Which one should I pick? 2 months ago:
I have something similar with my phone plan
My current plan includes unlimited everything and global roaming across basically anywhere I’ve ever visited (only had to get a separate ESIM once)
I’m regularly getting offers from them to switch to a plan with limits and more restricted roaming for only an extra 25% more a month…!
- Comment on Anon is a nostalgic gamer 2 months ago:
Mario kart 64
- Comment on If Steam were to shut down tomorrow how much money would you have lost in total on games / DLC ?? 2 months ago:
…erm
£12,898 according to SteamDB at today’s prices
In my defense I’ve had my account for 20 years and had humble bundle monthly/choice for like a third of that time, so the real number is hopefully not quite that
