tinbucket

Weight is not a factor for home energy storage, there is no need for lithium cells.

That depends on your living situation. I live in a third-floor apartment, so weight is very definitely a factor.

That said, I thought that the rule in the UK was generally that the loser pays the winners costs

That’s generally true… but only happens after those costs have been incurred and probably paid.

There’s no guarantee the party suing will be able to cover their own costs and the defendant’s costs. That leaves OP on the hook for defence costs with the hope that they might get them back after a successful and likely expensive defence.

In that situation, I can understand why OP wouldn’t want to take the risk.

It’s great for you that you can move on so quickly, but I think it’s a mistake to assume others can or should. Your experience is not the same as others, and your situation isn’t either.

In my case, I have pets and a young child living with me. The dogs may get over the violated sense of safety quite easily, but my little girl likely wouldn’t. It’s imperative to her healthy development that I be able to provide her a safe, secure place to live that also feels safe and secure.

Call me selfish but that overrides my concerns for the chaotic state of other peoples’ lives: their problems do not entitle them to harm my family.

Traditionally you have both: haggis, neeps, and tatties (potatoes).

I wonder why they’re using Gateron switches rather than Cherry ones? Is it just about cutting costs, or is there a solid technical reason for using clones rather than the originals?

I’m the opposite: I trust others to do it better than I can.

Can you explain a bit more about what you mean by “way more nuanced conditions about what exact font to load”? I’ve tried both approaches recently and found using Google to be quicker and less work, but didn’t find it more nuanced or specific. What have I missed?

Quite the contrary. I work in a call centre and we’re intensely stressed by the constant, microscopic surveillance. Everything is watched and logged and can be used against you, and the targets they measure you against creep ever higher.

I use Freelists for a tiny mailing list I run and I cannot recommend it highly enough. Setup is a little strange, and some of the admin settings aren't entirely intuitive, but when it's up and running it's excellent.

I'd be the same as you. All of my hobby sites combined probably get 1,500 views a month. I'd happily pay the $5 to cover that.

I adore, and extensively use, Cloudflare's free services for a couple of hobby projects. I hope they don't substantially change them post-IPO.

They've been specifically bred to exaggerate characteristics that are not healthy. The predominant result is brachycephalism which causes breathing and heat regulation issues amongst other things. This is also why they can't give birth naturally.

Thanks -- didn't spot that typo.

What basis do you have for concluding it was an anti-trans false-flag operation in this poster's case? Nothing in their post would lead me to naturally reach that conclusion. Downplaying or instantly dismissing this kind of anecdata as the result of a "false flag" is naive at best and dangerous at worst.

Speaking from my own experience, I've seen a lot of stuff on Tumblr that leads me to think there's a very active, very angry, very threatening trans lobby on the platform. I've seen repeated threats of violence and worse from trans-identified individuals directed at feminists who want maintain female-only safe-spaces. These posts are rarely taken down and the community will often rally against the "TERFs" being threatened ("Trans-Exclusionary Radical Feminists").

I know one woman who'd posted about keeping changing rooms for females separated on a sex basis. Her employer and college were contacted repeatedly by a pair of people who said she was spreading hate-speech online. Their goal seems to have been to have her fired. These same people had been making threats of violence against her, culminating in a rape threat. At this point the police became involved and I'm not sure how it's since been resolved.

Obviously this is a tiny minority of people but it's a tiny minority that often aren't actively censured or disowned by the larger community, and whose extreme views are reinforced by a sympathetic echo-chamber of like-minded people. Some may be "false-flags", but I don't think they're in the majority by any means.

Yellowing in paper is a combination of factors, primarily cellulose content, acidity, and exposure to light, heat, and air. Decent bond paper from the 1980s will generally look just fine if it's stored in a dry box. It has a low acidity and will normally have a higher dag content do will age more slowly.

Exposing it to sunlight and/or excessive heat will cause it to age. If it's high cellulose paper, like a newspaper, it will generally yellow quickly regardless of the storage because newspaper is cheap and acidic and not intended to last.

I see this argument a lot on here, and while I agree with it logically and factually, it totally dismisses the human element.

Rice, beans, and vegetables are very nutritious and cheap but they're generally boring in comparison to a bag of Cheetos or a doughnut.

When you're dirt poor, you don't have many avenues to get a quick pick-me-up feeling -- so often that comes from junk food. A $1 burger is not as good for you as $1 of veg and rice, but it gives you more momentary pleasure and activates the reward centres in your brain.

Even as you eat it, you know you could be eating something more nutritious which would be better for you in the long-run, but you still eat it. Once you do it the first time, the subsequent times become easier, especially if it's loaded with sugar and you get yourself in a high/low blood sugar cycle.

I'm not defending it, and I'm not saying people have no control over themselves, but I just wish people would have a little more compassion and understanding when they go for the "beans and veg are cheap" argument.

In scenarios #2 and #3 very few people are winning. I think you'd be hard-pressed to get majority support against #1, which would be more generally beneficial for society than the other two.

I think the real product is the data of the person using the 'free' WiFi. The WiFi is a service designed to gain access to that product. In that instance, the data of someone spending £1,000 on a phone is more valuable than the data of someone using a PAYG iPhone 4S.

I remember this being a minor fad around this when I had my first, handcoded website hosted on the 5MB of webspace my dial-up ISP gave me. I'm pretty sure I heard about it from one of the other regulars on irc.scifi.com, the Sci-Fi Channel's IRC server that I used to frequent.

With a little cut-and-paste of some code from Swatch's website you could have a GIF 'clock' on your site that showed the 'internet time' to your visitors. Utterly pointless, but harmless fun.

Exactly this. I have a chronic wrist injury from a previous job. Physiotherapy hasn't really helped, and the only thing that does help when I have a bad day is naproxen (another NSAID in the same class as ibuprofen). I feel guilty taking it in the dose I do (1000mg/day) but it's the only thing that makes life bearable and makes me functional.

Nice collection. I'm jealous. I missed out on the 15C re-release when it was available. I don't really have a use for it, but I really did want one.

I've got a couple of 12Cs and an 11C. I use them occasionally, whenever I need to do some maths that's not complicated enough to warrant firing up Excel but too much for my feeble mental maths.

Interesting read and insight into a subculture I know very little about.

Looks like only a few of them are getting rich, and it isn't without its costs. Working seven days a week as a professional gamer is pretty brutal.

    > and it's got the sexual harassment aspect,
    > too. Many many female friends of
    > mine receive unwanted dick pics.

Really good share -- thank you!

Are there similar sites for other areas of interest, say history or science?

It will sound pat, but I think it mostly boils down to youth, inexperience, and privilege. When you're successful early, you don't learn some of the lessons that make you wiser.

When I was in my late teens and early 20s, I thought I knew best. I was arrogant far beyond my actual abilities and I hadn't stepped outside my comfort zone enough to realise it. It took me quite a few years, and quite a few setbacks, to realise how little I actually knew. I'm grateful for those knocks and those years; without them, I'm not sure I'd be the person I am today.

I hate to think what I'd have been like if I'd happened to be in the right place at the right time and had wild early success -- I'd probably have been unbearable.

I think another important factor for these clean eating bloggers is the echo-chamber they exist in. They're surrounded by people cheering them on and keeping out those who disagree. (Just look how the audience responded to the article's author and the sport nutritionist.) In that environment it must be very easy to believe what you're doing is absolutely right.

Unicomp, the company formed by a staff buyout of IBM's keyboard division, offer a real mechanical in Sun "UNIX" layout: http://www.pckeyboard.com/page/product/40PSA

It's a dream to type on and has the 'right' layout. It's not cheap or quiet, but it really is the best keyboard I've ever used. I'd kill for an affordable HHKB-sized Model M from Unicomp.

That's an option I've considered, but it's only really a temporary solution and might not be a viable one when I come to need a new laptop.

My 2009 machine probably has another year or two in it, meaning that a 2012 machine will likely be a minimum of six years old when I get it, which means it may only have a usable life of three or four years from that point on. Even being optimistic and assuming the hardware lasts 10 years from when I buy it, Mac OS support certainly won't.

The real kicker is that those are the last machines that I'll really be able to buy that meet my needs and preferences. Come 2022 or whenever it's time to upgrade again, I don't know where I go from that 2012 machine. I certainly don't expect Apple to have backtracked on their sealed-box design.

There's no easy answer really, and all of them involve compromise somehow. I'm now treating it as a matter of 'when' I switch, rather than 'if'. Maybe it's best to get it over with sooner rather than later?

I'd be interested to hear more about how that switch went and what obstacles you faced whilst carrying it out. I've posted elsewhere in this discussion that my intention is to do the same, for similar reasons.

(What follows is entirely personal and in no way an attack or attempt to demean anyone else's personal choices.)

I'm a longtime Mac user currently considering switching away from the Mac. I'm a little sad about it and I don't feel entirely like it's by choice, but it is what it is.

This switch is partly in response to the direction Mac OS is heading, but mostly due to hardware cost.

I genuinely dislike Apple's emphasis on thinness in their laptops. I genuinely can't afford to spend a minimum of £1,200 on a 13" laptop that's essentially glued shut and has no upgrade path at all.

Previous Macs have given me ~10 years of use each because I've been able to buy a configuration I could afford then gradually upgrade the RAM and replace the hard-disk as I needed.

Add to that the fact that the cheapest 15" laptop (the size I prefer) is £1,900 which is totally galling and puts it way, way out of my price bracket.

As a result, I'm actively looking for where to move when my current MacBook, a 15" from 2009, eventually dies. So far the best options seem to be a modern-ish ThinkPad, which I can get relatively cheaply second-hand and upgrade as I see fit. The ThinkPads are definitely not in Apple's league in terms of fit and finish but they're pretty hardy and give me options within my price range.

I'll be sad when I finally leave the Mac, but not heartbroken. There are lots of things I'll miss, but getting to know a new OS -- and hopefully switching platform for the last time -- will be an adventure.

IKEA does something similar to the Vitsoe called ALGOT -- probably not as fancy looking, but pretty neutral and versatile. You can buy sets or you can buy it in individual pieces and customise to your heart's content.

Just yesterday I put up some ALGOT shelves in my bedroom, and I'm planning a much more elaborate install in my home office too.