deadcatbounce
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- Comment on New measures unveiled to crack down on subscription traps 1 day ago:
Quite so. There is an optimum time to renew as given by Money Saving Expert amongst others.
My point was to draw the mal insurance company practice within the realms of subscriptions so that it will be caught by the enquiry and anything that emerges from it.
- Comment on New measures unveiled to crack down on subscription traps 1 day ago:
With car insurance almost invariably automatically set to annually renew by the insurance company whether you want that or not, car insurance is a (disguised) subscription service.
Every money advice place esp Money Saving Expert dating look around annually, auto annual renewal should be illegal.
I f#@king hate that car insurance companies do that.
- Comment on Why do the majority of women still take their partner's last name? 2 days ago:
Because everyone knows who the mother is through birth and following months/years if they’re lucky, and the only connection a father has with his children is a last name.
It’s quite reasonable that mums want the same surname as their children so …
The trouble with that is that between twenty and thirty percent of children, depending on source, call the wrong person ‘dad’.
- Comment on Forget the paycheck, employees really want a raise in emotional salary 3 weeks ago:
What? You mean you don’t need a participation trophy for going to work? With a ceremony? And a comfort blanket?
"Hard times create strong men. Strong men create good times. Good times create weak men. And, weak men create hard times.” – G. Michael Hopf, Those Who Remain
- Comment on What is the argument for making poor/working class folks shoulder the burden of taxes? 3 weeks ago:
The poor should pay the taxes because “only the little people pay taxes”.
- Comment on YSK that there's a better index than the BMI to measure obesity called the Body Roundness Index 4 weeks ago:
Oh, ok. Thank-you.
- Comment on YSK that there's a better index than the BMI to measure obesity called the Body Roundness Index 4 weeks ago:
Thank-you
- Comment on YSK that there's a better index than the BMI to measure obesity called the Body Roundness Index 4 weeks ago:
Help me out here. What’s BMI2 - searching gives me computer related stuff and running “BMI weight” just gives old BMI stuff.
- Comment on Has anyone had success with debloating their Phones? 4 weeks ago:
Buy a phone that didn’t have to much bloat to start with.
One Plus was fairly clean, until watsit left to set up Nothing. Pixel is clean ish but you need a new launcher (hat tip Niagara).
For Christ sake don’t buy a Samsung. I thought that everyone knew that about Samsung. Smh.
- Comment on Thames Water nationalisation plan could move bulk of £15bn debt to state 1 month ago:
The whole idea behind PFI (or whatever is called now) is to move state debt off balance sheet.
There’s no way there isn’t going to be a PFI shitty (for the tax payer) deal involved. Probably with the same shareholders as the former Thames Water.
- Comment on Is it worth fresh installing Fedora 40 or just upgrading my existing installation? 1 month ago:
Don’t forget the inst.sdboot .
Fedora f41 is right around the corner, hang on a few days/couple weeks?!
- Comment on Best phone sync 1 month ago:
If you’re using Obsidian for free then maybe try the built-in link which you’ll find in the built-in options I think. It’s a cost option but cheap.
I’m not having problem with Syncthing, bar dealing with the stupid attempts to deal with deleted files that Android leaves laying around. I have
.stignorefiles with.trashed-*and.trash/entries on the Linux machine. Still having problems with_ed directories though and Syncthing conflict files when the sync isn’t fast enough when I switch between the two.Sometimes it takes Syncthing a while to work out the best route between the two nodes. Sometimes days. It used to send my packets to the internet before letting them back into the local network. Eventually it found a more direct route between them. I’m not sure but I think it has something to do with local IPv6; I’m talking out of my ass though.
I’m not affiliated to Syncthing or Obsidian besides being a happy user.
- Comment on Why is it a common insult for someone to say they slept with your mom? 4 months ago:
One in three is not one-in-ten one might expect. And it’s not hundreds it’s thousands of women making false claims for money against male victims.
We don’t have population (in the statistical sense) data to know for sure. Maybe the passport biometric data will eventually let us know for sure.
However, there are other individuals involved, usually in the act of conception, not just women.
“I’m on the pill/implant/coil … you don’t have to wear a condom. Take the condom off.”. A female paedophile teacher has just been jailed here because the baby made it kind-of obvious she was lying. Apparently she got pregnant whilst she was on bail with the same child.
- Comment on Why is it a common insult for someone to say they slept with your mom? 4 months ago:
My mom was like that. 🤣😂
- Comment on Does it seem odd to track my lifespan? 6 months ago:
Everyone does it. Every year of so we gather everyone we know together to commemorate.
- Comment on Conservative MP Daniel Poulter defects to Labour 6 months ago:
My bad!
- Comment on Conservative MP Daniel Poulter defects to Labour 6 months ago:
They’ve got another Tory leading the Labour party advised by Tony Blair (himself a Thatcherite).
Guido where are you now?!
In reality, he’s probably trying to save himself from the dole queue.
- Comment on Sunak to cite Britain’s ‘sicknote culture’ in bid to overhaul fit note system 6 months ago:
The Tories have gone out of their way to make working beneficial for people other than those actually doing the working. Some offshore toting moron called Dave decided that austerity was the way to go. So we did.
Everything I see around me reminds me of 1970s Britain when we were forced to join the EU because the country was bankrupt. They’re even advertising those chairs that are suspended from the ceiling, and everything is coloured brown again. “Abigail’s Party” will be coming to Netflix next week.
I write as one of Thatcher’s children who loved the 1980s.
I currently advocate Anarchy (using the formal definition of anarchy not what you imagine it is), or our mate Guido with a decent level of follow through.
- Comment on Princess of Wales says she is undergoing cancer treatment - BBC News 7 months ago:
Because he could be king far far sooner than he thinks.
- Comment on [deleted] 9 months ago:
Much better solution!
- Comment on ICANN proposes creating .INTERNAL domain 9 months ago:
Don’t follow. Help me out someone please.
The net runs on numbers. The numbers have to be translated into/from the DNS name to the numbers.
Nominating a DNS name as internal is doesn’t change the fact that we still have to, at some stage, find the (local) network mask that that it corresponds to.
What am I missing?
- Comment on Head of Britain’s police chiefs says force ‘institutionally racist’ 10 months ago:
It’s just a recent example instance of one of the search results.
You’re better off trying the same search and picking a few links to follow.
- Comment on Head of Britain’s police chiefs says force ‘institutionally racist’ 10 months ago:
Thank you kind netizen!
- Comment on Head of Britain’s police chiefs says force ‘institutionally racist’ 10 months ago:
Just run yourself a query “FoI uk police with criminal convictions”. FoI stands for “freedom of information”.
Eg. met.police.uk/…/serving-police-officers-criminal-…
You won’t be surprised to learn, from clicking a few of the results, that high ranking officers are convicted of serious crimes but are still great police officers.
Then, try the same query again with rape and sexual assault.
- Comment on If you had to choose one programming language that you had to use for the rest of your life, what would it be? 1 year ago:
That’s rather beautifully put and extra marks for p-h-t! 😁😜
I learned low level stuff to give prices to traders before the trading interval ended. I’m serious. Our four man hedge fund was under the wing of huge French bank. Pricing in the era was painful.
Asked for a price in the era used to take minutes for derivatives; I was told much faster wasn’t possible; that’s a red rag to me. I had no choice but to get dirty and go low level again.
The traders were old style barrow-boys, their like disappeared maybe a year or so after. Derivatives have a load of parameters that go with the actual price, “the Greeks”, and market traders easily remember sets of shopping lists and prices and quantities at the same time. They were a shoe-in before computers were actually useful on a trading floor.
I learned to program on a 6502 RISC chip in Acorn Assembler. I liked it because BASIC was shit in the era (GOTO Fcuk My Life), like it got much better … 🤣😂 Knowing how programs work allows me to try to make it faster. These days I ~think~ know compilers are smarter than me.
Rust appeals too for the time-travel aspect. I’d like to learn to write a threaded program. I would have loved to do that when back in the day, I always regretted the way it worked, but it was way beyond me 😭 .
I wouldn’t mind looking at my old original killer pricing program, I knew it could be optimised then, but I just didn’t have the time or the skills to go that extra mile. I regret that bitterly. 😡
If you get time, let me know of your (t)rust travels. Bon voyage.
- Comment on If you had to choose one programming language that you had to use for the rest of your life, what would it be? 1 year ago:
Probably Ruby. For some reason … no, that’s a lie … playing with Exherbo, Gentoo and Funtoo, but mostly Exherbo, made me loathe Python. However, everyone in the data processing arena seems to use it, so I’m bound to have to change my ways eventually! For Ruby read Python.
My days of needing high-speed low level languages are long gone. I learned C on Borland C++ back in 1990 to price derivatives on 386s. Loved it.
If I mess around with any language it’s for fun. I intend to commit suicide, when my time is done, by the percussive head trauma that learning Haskell will cause me.
- Comment on domain name with your own name? 1 year ago:
Use your surname with a personal domain. Then you can link up other family members to it. Eg. dave@cammeron.me . Otherwise you’ve got to have an email address dave@davecammeron.me which looks stupid.
Use your organisation as your work email. boris@megacorp.com, boris.bloke@megacorp.com bb@megacoro.com ceo@megacorp.com
You then separate the work and personal emails. Sending personal emails through a corporate server using the corporate domain is fair game to use in a court, you’re ostensibly representing the company and it’s not a personal email.
There are various hilarious stories about people losing rights to their name etc post internet era when their company was purchased.
Don’t try to run a mail server yourself, that became counter productive about the 2010s. I used to run servers easily last century when there was almost no-one sending email, then the sp-/sc-ammers ‘entered the room’.
Accidentally clicking on a wrong email on a unsecure environment can ruin your day if you’re tired and just keep clicking mindlessly.
Good luck. Especially if you have a popular surname that your family doesn’t own.
- Comment on Ex-PM David Cameron appointed foreign secretary in Cabinet reshuffle 1 year ago:
Liking your style, Derek.
- Comment on Non-native english speaker here. Need help with my work emails 1 year ago:
If there are multiple fucks, the apostrophe is after the ‘s’.
There usually are multiple fucks.
- Comment on Ex-PM David Cameron appointed foreign secretary in Cabinet reshuffle 1 year ago:
He wasn’t even a good PM, and now …
I’m still pissed that they/he screwed over the Alternative Vote referendum - a path to the Proportion Representation.
Looks like we’re heading to a zealous two party system, like the States to me. That’s never a good idea. The two parties are both trying to claim the middle ground but both are incompetent.
That doesn’t matter to them: in a two party system, not-the-other-one is a legitimate voting basis.