losttourist

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[–] losttourist@kbin.social 2 points 8 months ago

I enjoy Sara Cox's evening drivetime show. I sometimes wish I didn't, but when you're doing yet another 4-hour slog up the M1/M6 in evening rush hour traffic it's perfect company.

And Zoe Ball can be OK in the mornings, although I'll often tune into something with a bit less chatter unless I'm feeling particularly enthusiastic. Other than those two shows, R2 doesn't really do it for me. And yes, Jeremy Vine is utterly off-putting.

[–] losttourist@kbin.social 3 points 8 months ago

Linux doesn't really know about drives, it knows about partitions and mount points.

Obviously this is a simplification, but in general it's close enough. It also could well be your problem - timeshift doesn't know or care that /boot is on the same physical drive as the rest of your system: if it's a different partition, it's separate.

[–] losttourist@kbin.social 3 points 8 months ago (1 children)

It's a little more than 100€

It's half as much again! If your budget is that flexible you really should have mentioned it in the original post so that people could give you a wider range of options.

Translate it up by a couple of orders of magnitude and you get "I want to buy a car, I have €10,000 to spend" ... "I found one for €15,000, it's a little bit more but ..."

[–] losttourist@kbin.social -4 points 8 months ago (4 children)

Why not? What's different about chicken meat compared to, say, beef or lamb, which most people like to cook so it remains at least a little bit pink (i.e. raw inside).

[–] losttourist@kbin.social 6 points 9 months ago

Which would be what, exactly?

Literally the next line on the image tells you what:

"This includes: disability, pregnancy/maternity for the purposes of the mobility assistance use case."

[–] losttourist@kbin.social 8 points 9 months ago

It's a great story. It's also completely Fake News. DIdn't happen at all.

[–] losttourist@kbin.social 35 points 9 months ago

Legally a citizen (assuming born in the US) because lack of paperwork doesn't change the law - but with no way of actually proving it.

[–] losttourist@kbin.social 31 points 9 months ago (5 children)

Without a published POC there's a slightly longer window before clueless script kiddies start having a go at exploiting the vulnerability, though.

[–] losttourist@kbin.social 2 points 9 months ago

It's a very flexible language so can find a niche almost anywhere. I know of fintech companies that use it extensively for their back end data processing systems, and I've seen some really interesting stuff done with Clojure and Apache Kafka. They're a good fit for each other - Clojure, as a lisp, is optimised for processing infinite lists of things and Kafka topics can be easily conceptualised as an infinite stream of data.

Also, when combined with Clojurescript, it provides a single language that can be used full-stack, so could drop in anywhere that you might otherwise use Node.

But I think one of the best things about it is the way it forces you to re-evaluate your approach to development. It's a completely functional language so you have to throw away any preconceptions about OO and finding new ways to resolve old problems is one of the things that should be a joy for most developers, even if it has no practical application.

[–] losttourist@kbin.social 11 points 9 months ago (3 children)

Give Clojure a go.

It's a modern variant of lisp that runs on the JVM and has deep interoperability with Java, so you can leverage your existing knowledge of Java libraries.

But as it's a lisp, it will have you thinking about problems in a very different way.

[–] losttourist@kbin.social 3 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Not really a viable solution for many scenarios though. What if your PDF has half a dozen pages, your answer becomes really tedious. And in a lot of cases a PDF with forms is expected to be sent back to the person or company that created it once the fields have been filled in. They're not likely to want to receive a bunch of JPEG screenshots instead.

[–] losttourist@kbin.social 40 points 9 months ago

From the sidebar

Posts must be relevant to operating systems running the Linux kernel. GNU/Linux or otherwise.

Nothing there saying it's specifically for Linux News.

 

In the dropdown next to my username at the top right, it looks like I can filter the view of magazines by Subscribed / Moderated / Favourites / All.

How do I set a magazine to be one of my favourites?

 
 

As with many other subreddits, /r/LegalAdviceUK (which had been dark since the start of the blackout) has been sent a thinly-veiled threat by Reddit.

So they've reopened in order to start moving the entire community of 810,000 subscribers to somewhere else.

As you can imagine there are a number of legal professionals who moderate that sub, and they really don't take kindly to being threatened. They sign off their reopening message with "Fuck /u/Spez and long live John Oliver." but for the real fun you might want to look up a very famous British legal case they reference, Arkell v Pressdram 1971.

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