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Comment on Ministers set to ban single-use vapes in UK over child addiction fears in ~health
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Comment on Please suggest me some books from past decades and centuries that are not widely known classics but you value and would like people to discover in ~books
Leon Link ParentIt's interesting you mention that. It's genuinely a beautiful story but I always assumed it was quite well known. I would second the recommendation.It's interesting you mention that. It's genuinely a beautiful story but I always assumed it was quite well known. I would second the recommendation.
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Comment on Introductions | June 2023, part 1 in ~talk
Leon Link ParentI saved the tildes website as a home screen app icon. You can do with android/Firefox, I'm not 100% sure what elseI saved the tildes website as a home screen app icon. You can do with android/Firefox, I'm not 100% sure what else
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Comment on Confused, uncool, and nowhere to scroll: The internet has become hostile for millennials like me in ~tech
Leon Link ParentMillennials are just turning 40 by the way. That doesn't detract from your main point, but we have been old for a while now!Millennials are just turning 40 by the way. That doesn't detract from your main point, but we have been old for a while now!
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Comment on The superheroes are the villains in Amazon's dark comedy 'The Boys' — Is it any good? in ~tv
Leon Link ParentI think so yes. I watched it all over the weekend. It was enjoyable and very well made. It missed the mark on what it could have been. That doesn't make it bad by any means, but it feels like...I think so yes.
I watched it all over the weekend. It was enjoyable and very well made. It missed the mark on what it could have been. That doesn't make it bad by any means, but it feels like something really amazing just slipped through it's fingers.
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Comment on Which films would you consider essential to have watched to be a well-rounded person? in ~movies
Leon Link ParentShaolin Soccer was so much better than I expected!Shaolin Soccer was so much better than I expected!
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Comment on Linux gaming finally doesn't suck! in ~games
Leon Link ParentThat's interesting. I've used Linux as my main desktop for years and recently had to use a MacBook for work. I found it awkward and different. Mainly because I didn't know the keyboard shortcuts...That's interesting. I've used Linux as my main desktop for years and recently had to use a MacBook for work. I found it awkward and different. Mainly because I didn't know the keyboard shortcuts and there was no preinstalled command line package manager.
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Comment on What's in a name? Patience Phillips' Catwoman in ~movies
Leon Link ParentYeah but Mis-Teeq - Scandalous is still a tune.'We need to appeal to teen demographic more! Teens like that "street" "b-balls" thing, right? Put a scene of that in there!'
Yeah but Mis-Teeq - Scandalous is still a tune.
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Comment on Changes made to Linux's Code of Conduct in ~comp
Leon Link ParentI can understand that.I'm not sure I can fully agree with this, for one because in my experience people like the author, that is to say trans women, do have enemies who do want to see trans people ejected from the FOSS community for a variety of reasons.
I can understand that.
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Comment on Changes made to Linux's Code of Conduct in ~comp
Leon Link ParentThe author of this code of conduct tweeted this relatively recently. https://twitter.com/CoralineAda/status/1041441155874009093 I can't help but feel that her motives are more geared towards...The author of this code of conduct tweeted this relatively recently.
I can’t wait for the mass exodus from Linux now that it’s been infiltrated by SJWs. Hahahah
https://twitter.com/CoralineAda/status/1041441155874009093
I can't help but feel that her motives are more geared towards "winning" against a perceived enemy rather than trying to improve things for all. In fact, the tone really does suggest "smug asshat"
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Comment on Changes made to Linux's Code of Conduct in ~comp
Leon Link ParentThe Contributor Covenant has a ton of baggage and drama associated with it. I particularly empathise with this point of view from when the author attempted to get it applied to Ruby.The Contributor Covenant has a ton of baggage and drama associated with it.
I particularly empathise with this point of view from when the author attempted to get it applied to Ruby.
Given a choice between only two extremes, I'd far rather have Linus Torvalds telling me
I'm an idiot and my code is shit, than exist in an offence-taking culture where various
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Comment on Desk setup / Battlestation Thread. in ~comp
Leon Link ParentI recently acquired a Macbok and the brew repo has been a god send.I recently acquired a Macbok and the brew repo has been a god send.
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Comment on How To Choose The Perfect VPN in ~tech
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Comment on How To Choose The Perfect VPN in ~tech
Leon LinkThis is just affiliate marketing attached to a crappy article. It offers no insight to the quality of any of the services advertised, it's just a series of paragraphs lightly explaining what a VPN...This is just affiliate marketing attached to a crappy article. It offers no insight to the quality of any of the services advertised, it's just a series of paragraphs lightly explaining what a VPN does in various word orders.
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Comment on CD Projekt RED - Cyberpunk 2077 Gameplay Reveal - 48-minute walkthrough in ~games
Leon Link ParentEqually so, no single person of any group gets to decide what the entire group finds offensive. We can't speak for anyone else but ourselves, or perhaps our very close circle, but even that isn't...Equally so, no single person of any group gets to decide what the entire group finds offensive. We can't speak for anyone else but ourselves, or perhaps our very close circle, but even that isn't a certainty.
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Comment on Facebook is being eclipsed by its youthful rival Snapchat in ~tech
Leon Link ParentIn my experience (in the U.K. at least) Facebook is used as an address book of sorts to keep in contact with folk known in real life. Real names are used, you might have your gran or old...In my experience (in the U.K. at least) Facebook is used as an address book of sorts to keep in contact with folk known in real life. Real names are used, you might have your gran or old university friends on there.
Twitter is used more frequently to contact people not directly known for more "online" conversations. It would be more usual to add someone on Twitter that you'd never met, celebrities, politicians, journalists, random people that look like they have a similar interest and so on, perhaps using an online handle rather than your real name.
This by definition includes more tech type people as they are more so the type of person to maintain primarily online relationships. But it also includes heavier internet users who aren't necessarily interested in tech. I wouldn't say it splits between blue and white collar workers necessarily.
All of that being said, the pattern I've described has become less true over the past couple of years.
-edit Or what StellerV said, which I would have seen before I wrote that if I hadn't sat with the response window open for an hour.
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Comment on What computer/programming/etc. project are you working on this weekend? in ~comp
Leon (edited )Link ParentI've always worked with companies that deal with technical support in some capacity. A lot of resource is allocated to finding exact what causes bad sentiment and drives contacts. I'm hoping to...I've always worked with companies that deal with technical support in some capacity. A lot of resource is allocated to finding exact what causes bad sentiment and drives contacts. I'm hoping to use NLTK to sift through contacts to determine causes.
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Comment on Skim reading is the new normal. The effect on society is profound in ~humanities
Leon Link ParentThis topic appears to be in vogue at the moment. Maryanne Wolf suggests reading more books.This topic appears to be in vogue at the moment. Maryanne Wolf suggests reading more books.
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Comment on The 'football' tag in ~sports.football
Leon Link ParentUS football looks a lot closer to Rugby (to my untrained eye)US football looks a lot closer to Rugby (to my untrained eye)
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Comment on Skim reading is the new normal. The effect on society is profound in ~humanities
Leon LinkTL/DR I kid, of course. I'm interested in the difference between reading on a Kindle compared to a paperback. I'd always assumed it was the proliferation of very small texts combined with awkward...TL/DR
I kid, of course. I'm interested in the difference between reading on a Kindle compared to a paperback. I'd always assumed it was the proliferation of very small texts combined with awkward scrolled reading that caused comprehension issues.
I tend to send any long-form material to my kindle via the document service or Instapaper and read them in batches which has always felt much more "book like". Perhaps that isn't the advantage I'd envisioned.
I vape myself (to quit smoking) and I find it an effective tool, the NHS says it's safer, but my own experience says the ability to reduce the nicotine strength as you wish is a very effective method of tapering.
All of that being said, disposable (1 or 2 day use?) lithium batteries are a blight, just make them refillable and put a charging port on it. Obviously they won't sell as many which I assume is the reason those features were removed to begin with.