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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Perhaps I wasn't paying appropriate attention but it also seemed unexpected to me. Everywhere has a background level of "we want more mods and admins" so it gets easy to ignore, and it feels like we've gone straight from there to "right we're shutting down now" without an intermediate "we're really struggling here folk and may have to consider shutting down if it doesn't improve".

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago

I think the first one I used, on loan over the summer from the college of FE that my Mum worked at, was an Intertec Superbrain. If not that then something from that era with a monitor and twin floppies all in one.

The first one I owned was a Sinclair ZX81, then a C64 shortly after it halved in price, then an Amiga. Coded the heck out of the 81 and 64 but not much on the Amiga. I remember trying out a C compiler on the C64 but there was so much disk swapping involved that it was just ridiculous and I gave up.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

He probably knows Amin Yashed

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago (7 children)

No don't take a help desk job, you'll be forever tarred as a support person who's at best a wannabe programmer.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago

OK, then what angle is it?

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 weeks ago (5 children)

if you drive too fast you’re not insured

I explicitly asked my insurance company (verbally, not a chatbot) about this last time I went to Germany. They said as long as I'm not breaking any laws, my insurance is valid. No speed limit means there is no "too fast to be insured".

[–] [email protected] 18 points 2 weeks ago

There's only one person whose opinion on that matters, and she's aged 30. And maybe your daughter too, but she set it up so that's unlikely.

You can always find a bunch of weirdos on the internet who'll be offended at you, no matter who you are or what you do, so it's never a good idea to not do stuff just because of that.

If you're worried if you ARE a creep then I'd suggest plugging "what it means to be a creep" or "what is a creep" into your favourite search engine and make sure your regular habits exclude whatever you find. Use several sources, not just the first you find, because not everything on the internet is true.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

OK. Walk in a straight line for a couple of metres and stop. Rotate left or right by exactly 90°. Now take a curved path in any direction.

Did you or did you not turn 90°?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 weeks ago

I don't see the point. Even on my monster screen they're only 6mm² so if it's anything other than simple line art it's just a small meaningless square of digital noise.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)
[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago

Oh I don't know. 1,3,5 and 6 resonate strongly with me for Visual Studio 2022. The only reason 4 doesn't is because instead of looking for a setting I DDG "how do I do X in VS2022"

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 weeks ago

What's orange and sounds like a parrot? A carrot.

 

Why do people keep adding this to their comments? Are they checking notes? Why do they feel the need to point it out if they are? Why are they saying they are if they aren't? It's like me adding "scratching head" to my comment, which I just did, but I have no idea why that adds anything to the conversation.

 

After taking part in James Hoffmann's decaf tasting project I'd like to have another go to see if I get better results. Also I've recently got a fancy temperature controlled kettle and I'd like to perform some side by side testing of the same bean at different temperatures. I've already found one bean that tastes better at 85°C than 96°C.

So I'd like to get some cupping bowls, and it appears there are two main kinds: ceramic and HDPE. The sellers of HDPE claim it's better than ceramic, but I'd like to know if that's really the case or if it's just self-serving marketing guff.

Just wondering what others use and if there is a preference either way. I'll be tasting at home on the kitchen table so I don't need them to be particularly indestructible. And as per procedure they'll be spending some time cooling off so "heat retention" isn't really that important (I think).

 
 
 

This relates to the BBC article [https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-66596790] which states "the UK should pay $24tn (£18.8tn) for its slavery involvement in 14 countries".

The UK abolished slavery in 1833. That's 190 years ago. So nobody alive today has a slave, and nobody alive today was a slave.

Dividing £18tn by the number of UK taxpayers (31.6m) gives £569 each. Why do I, who have never owned a slave, have to give £569 to someone who similarly is not a slave?

When I've paid my £569 is that the end of the matter forever or will it just open the floodgates of other similar claims?

Isn't this just a country that isn't doing too well, looking at the UK doing reasonably well (cost of living crisis excluded of course), and saying "oh there's this historical thing that affects nobody alive today but you still have to give us trillions of Sterling"?

Shouldn't payment of reparations be limited to those who still benefit from the slave trade today, and paid to those who still suffer from it?

(Please don't flame me. This is NSQ. I genuinely don't know why this is something I should have to pay. I agree slavery is terrible and condemn it in all its forms, and we were right to abolish it.)

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