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Re:Ask HN: Who Is Firing? on Thursday April 16, 2020 @06:45AM (#22888047)
This is not true, the guidance is: "one form of exercise a day, for example a run, walk, or cycle - alone or with members of your household" There is no time limit on how long you can be out exercising for.
Re:A man who ran out of air at the bottom of the ocean on Monday June 03, 2019 @07:16AM (#20082013)
This is not entirely true, not all agencies teach a Controlled Emergency Swimming Ascent (CESA). From memory the only one that teaches this is PADI.

Most don't as this is not a very effective or safe way of getting up once you get bellow a few M of water.

Most agency's will teach you to do an Alternate Source assent where you come up breathing of your buddy's air source, as this allows you to come up at a safer and more controlled rate.

Re:The heroes of the Thai cave rescue on Wednesday January 30, 2019 @09:14AM (#19035146)
Id say it comes down to the way cave diving in Briton is largely different from that of mainland Europe. So even on site the British cave divers would see the approach as different to the Europeans

In Briton cave diving is largely done to move between flooded sections of dry cave, so most cave divers are dry cavers first, and diving is just used to bypass sumps.

Also most British cave diving is done solo (so without a buddy that most systems recommend.) in quite tight conditions.

Caves in mainland Europe tend to be larger and the diving philosophy is different. There you will find team diving prevalent.

so the minority of users, seeing as 2/3rd of the population don't live in a Urban and suburban area.

I live in a Rural area in the UK, i have a 20 mile commute to work, and its 6 miles to the nearest city. There is 2 bus services that run though the "town" I live in both run one an hour and take about about an hour to to get anywhere useful.

I would be unable to work, and get around without a car, I live where i do because it was one of the few places i could afforded to buy a house in the area that I live, that was also close enough to where i work.

If they want to get rid of fossil fuel cars, then by 2040 they need to have far longer range than they do now. To me that seems to be far more important than public transport.

Re:How Video Games Changed Popular Music on Wednesday July 01, 2015 @12:04PM (#9812845)
There is a podcasts dedicated to video game music, called sound of play.

you can find it here: http://caneandrinse.com/category/sound-of-play/

One of the guests they have had on is a composer who was influenced by his love of video game music, and listing to the podcast has made me appreciate how much amazing video game music is out there.

If you have an engineer set up the router, they may just click though the screen as part of the set up, or bypass the traditional set up to save time.
If it is his home broadband, why not get your client to speak to sky and opt-out of the adult blacklist.
Re:The Dyslexic Programmer on Thursday June 12, 2014 @08:41AM (#7883022)
im a dyslexic, and i started at uni doing a programming degree, I then switched off it (not due to my dyslexia, but lousing a passion for it once I was no longer doing it for run.)

I had no problem programming with dyslexia, as I found after repeating world long enough i learnt them (and being form the UK, a lot of programming terms are spellet incorrectly anyway.)

When it came to documentation it just took me a bit longer to insure that it was readable by everyone else on the team. But that's something that is done for any job i do.

I'm sure they everyone on a team you work for loves the fact you a condescending and see that someone with a disability is lower then you, and is not capable of doing the job as good as you.

I have seen plenty of code, and comments that was done by people who don't have dyslexic that is a mess. Bad coding is not just the domain of people who are unable to spell.

Sorry but Coke didn't make Santa read and round, the character had been depicted like that before. While they did popularise this, and has gone on to inspire the popular image of Santa, so say they created it is going a bit far.

http://www.snopes.com/holidays/christmas/santa/cocacola.asp http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/7152054.stm

Re:OpenSUSE 13.1 Released on Tuesday November 19, 2013 @11:28AM (#6762238)
Opensuse technically has two rolling models, The first being Factory which contains bleeding edge software that will is considered to be unstable. The second is Tumbleweed which just pushes updated Stable software.

Factory is manly for developers to test on and isn't rely for day to day use.

Tumbleweed can be used for day to day use, you just have to be aware that things can break.

I wouldn't say there was any social engineering here, they asked for some detail's the hacker was able to give them.

This just highlights the problem of having accounts that rely in the same email address that are used for identification.

Also im not sure how the author experts someone to add 5 temp accounts to bypass the Microsoft support, when you would need to have the password and have logged in to add them. In which case there already in the account and wouldn't need to contact Microsoft. (unless there is a way to add Skype contacts without being logged in.)

Re:Amazon Pricing Error on Wednesday March 27, 2013 @08:37AM (#5449005)
IT's not Amazon selling the item directly, its from the Amazon market place. Which makes it likely that when ever the merchant put in a price they made a mistake.
Re:The Humble THQ Bundle on Thursday November 29, 2012 @03:00PM (#4849925)
As fare as I remember the 4th indie bundle didnt have donations for EFF, as the charity are generally voted for by the developers.

also they have done none cross playform bundles before (with some of there android bundles.)

why not take this for what it is, the chance to pick up some decent games for cheep, and supporting eather a charity or a struggling games company who make some good games.

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