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samwhiteUK··on Ticketmaster will pay $10M for hacking rival ticket seller
This title is ambiguous. Sounds like they're offering a bounty
samwhiteUK··on Curry Triangle
Agreed. The Wolfram page is crap compared to Wiki
samwhiteUK··on In Pictures: How much plastic are you eating?
"Using the findings, Reuters news agency reported we ingest the weight of a 4×2 Lego brick in plastic in a month. In a year, that amounts to the plastic in a firefighter’s helmet."

A firefighters helmet has the same amount of plastic as 12 Lego bricks? Bullshit.

samwhiteUK··on Players Blame Skill-Based Matchmaking for Losing in Call of Duty
This article is hard for me to follow. Basically, players were happy to lose when they thought it could be due to people being better than them, but aren't happy to lose when it's someone who's at their skill level playing.... better than them?
samwhiteUK··on Bluetooth Attack Can Steal a Tesla Model X in Minutes
So Tesla aren't using certs to sign the updates to their keys. That's fucking ridiculous.
samwhiteUK··on FreePN: Open-source peer-to-peer VPN service
Semantics. It's not FreeVPN (the organisation) who are throttling or bottlenecking you, it's the node you're connected to.
samwhiteUK··on Teaching our five year old to code by cheating
Yeah, question 1 it gave me was "What is 0+1?" and then it told me that 1 was the right answer, when that's what I typed. A few questions later and I thought "hmmm... something is up here"
samwhiteUK··on Apple iPhone SE 2020 Camera review
The Pixel is Google's flagship android phone, there's no argument to be had here
samwhiteUK··on Has GitHub been down more since its acquisition by Microsoft?
This is a thinly veiled advert, and tells you literally nothing concrete, apart from Github's status page is updated more. The article even admits this!
samwhiteUK··on [dead]
Posts like this are going to make people think "Oh, it's fine, I read online that we won't be as bad as Italy, so I'm going out"

Not cool. Just do as you're fucking told.

samwhiteUK··on GM’s Former President Calls for the End of Car Ownership
Fuck off and let me buy what I want.
samwhiteUK··on Counting in the wrong language
Forgive me if I'm missing something obvious - do you have a way of remembering them? Otherwise they're all just single digits regardless of language.
samwhiteUK··on Moto Razr 2019: A foldable smartphone with no display crease
How many phones have you snapped in your pocket?
samwhiteUK··on Recursive Mono and Sans, a free variable type family
I'm on Firefox 70.0.1 on Ubuntu 16.04, and the only thing I can change is the size, and the light/dark. Nothing else makes a difference. Shame.
samwhiteUK··on [dead]
Anyone got a mirror?
samwhiteUK··on AirPods Pro
FWIW, I've tried to set up one pair of Airpods, and they were broken right out of the box. Wouldn't pair with anything.

So that's a 1 in 1 failure rate ;)

samwhiteUK··on Calculus for the Curious
Holy, commas, Batman
samwhiteUK··on Teaching Rats to Drive Tiny Cars
"Teaching Rats To Drive Tiny Cars Helps Them Relax, Scientists Discover"

Yes, but the rats might be thoroughly stressed out

samwhiteUK··on NordVPN confirms it was hacked
So what does this mean for an every day consumer? I had been debating using the 30-day money back guarantee as I realised I didn't use it as much as I thought I would. I want to stay protected on public Wifi. Added anonymity occasionally would be good too, as well as accessing US Netflix from here in the UK.

Now my 30 days is up. What would be the best course of action? Should I email and say that I'm not comfortable being their customer any more, and asked to be reimbursed? Carry on, for my use case? I'd never connected to a Finnish server.

samwhiteUK··on Samsung: Anyone's thumbprint can unlock Galaxy S10 phone
Very good. Took me a second.
samwhiteUK··on Dyson has scrapped its electric car project
I don't know if you've used a B&O TV lately - crap
samwhiteUK··on Dog Ownership and Survival
The way you say that makes me think you underestimated having a dog, or somehow think that your dog in particular was hard work..
samwhiteUK··on iPhone 11 Pro Camera Review
Erm, the numbers he/she is quoting are video framerates
samwhiteUK··on Oh shit, my weekend project turned into an App Store Best New App (2018)
Sounds like you need a new laptop
samwhiteUK··on Stop Infinite Scrolling
And then you click to go back and it doesn't resume where you were before, and instead dumps you right back up at the top, with none of the previously loaded content available.
samwhiteUK··on 'It's crazy': Chase forgiving all debt owed by its Canada credit card customers
How's that similar?
samwhiteUK··on India Launches Chandrayaan-2 Moon Mission on Second Try
Yes thank god for the Avengers movie, that will really help further society.

Why do people keep producing loads of different movies when they could collaborate and just make one massive movie and then we wouldn't have to bother any more?

samwhiteUK··on India Launches Chandrayaan-2 Moon Mission on Second Try
Think about what you're saying here. Doesn't this fact just make the Avengers movie seem COMPLETELY ridiculous in terms of cost? I think it's a perfectly valid comparison.

You know when people spend 300 grand plus on a car, and people say, "Think what else could be done with that money". It's like that

samwhiteUK··on Raspberry Pi 4 Review
Not trying to rub it in, but in Cambridge I can just walk into the shop and pick one up! ;)

So there are plenty out there, I'd chase yours up

samwhiteUK··on Nerve transfer restores hand function, elbow extension in paralyzed patients
BIC lighter
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