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Shit article. Basically it says, Gates has poured money into sanitation, and went to an expo.

No info about the technology, but there is mention of 5cents a day running cost. That's cheaper than my existing provider, so count me in.

Closing quotes were good.

“I never imagined that I’d know so much about poop,” Gates said in remarks prepared for the Beijing event. “And I definitely never thought that Melinda would have to tell me to stop talking about toilets and fecal sludge at the dinner table.”

Bypass the article.

They are such a pain point. Especially if you fill out a form accidentally, and have to go through the re-captcha again, and again and again for the most mundane of services.

Why in 2018 do we still have lousy file managers?

This link is so bare.

Can anyone improve on the horse's mouth: https://www.opera.com/mobile/touch , which also says practically nothing.

Opera seem to be great at adding features, and yet very poor at promoting them.

I find Gdocs hard, because I'm not used to it. So it's really a case of which tool you are used to working with and are proficient at.

People take to Wordpress relatively easily in my experience.

So I'm reading your plus point specifically as the collaboration support in Gdocs.

Context context, always good to add context.

I've had this issue with one email account that I use solely for a very busy email group. Occasionally there is no way at all to log in, as I have no tied phone numbers/email accounts. I think one question was, when did you create this account? Which of course, I have no idea.

Anyway that has put me totally off using gmail. I rarely have a phone too, so using a phone number for secondary authentication is a PITA.

I'd love to know more. If this is as simple as having liquid water pumped through tubing with algae this sounds great. How natural a system can this be? How pure does the water have to be?

Not to mention the magic drive train.

That's odd I noticed this on some vector art just two minutes before seeing this story.

https://www.cyclotricity.com/uk/custom/mix-match-your-own-co...

I just work with what I have, meal planning is too hard for me.

I totally grok this, he's not the first or last: http://www.kuriositas.com/2015/05/the-mystery-of-margate-she...

I cook from fresh every day. Now granted I'm not the fastest cook - but it can take anything from about 20mins to an 1h 30mins to prepare dinner. While I'm cooking I'm cleaning and doing other tasks. Left overs carry over to lunch or another evening meal.

If I were to use a frozen meal, I'd have to defrost, and then cook, and likely would want something alongside it - like veg or salad. Unless Chef Mike (Microwave) is employed. I find it hard to see this being that much quicker.

I've had one pre-prepared bought in meal this year. Most convenience foods like this have a strange processed taste - that isn't just salt. This is coming from someone whose sense of taste has been shot totally to pieces.

I have a Chromium install without an ad blocker. And it takes one bad out of control page with a shitty advert, to down my entire machine. Something like: outlook.com.

(Doesn't matter if I have 2 or 100 tabs if there is one bad apple.)

For perspective. I had horrible health that plagued me until I was about 20. Whether that's got anything to do with the butchering, I have no idea.

Some of it is about patting your own back just because you remembered something. Like when you laugh at a comedy routine when they resurface something they said ten minutes earlier.

But there is a way with the Internet by way of links, to build reference chains of information. If people adopted good referencing - at least we'd have a chance at weeding some of the crap out.

Slashdot used to have the 'witty' attribute that you could filter by. It's useful to be able to dump lame arsed attempts at facile humour. (The web seems to be riddled with it.)

I must admit although I do do a little bit of satire here and there, which is usually used as a gateway to acknowledge that someone else has followed something vaguely topical. I'm not really that big a fan of it. And when it comes to politics and world atrocities, we do 30mins of laughing, move along, but the problems remain. Sometimes I think it can even devalue a subject - or knock the wind out of anger and repellent sails. Or even just normalise something to widespread defeatist acceptance.

In my most paranoid moments, I feel it's just another state outlet for news and general disinformation.

I'd rather just have some grown up debate about the issues. Politics gets a lot of news/air time, but escapes critical thinking. Where are the good political pundits that do more than just regurgitate a press release?

Regarding the article though: I think it's always best to add some inflection by way of an emoji, ellipsis, exclamation mark, or some other context to avoid misinterpretation. It may take some of the fun out of it, but hey.

You don't have to misinterpret things to do satire.

I've noticed some unfair rot in Chrome. Like not being able to remove the start page without a plugin.

This could be a kind of git search hub.

This is in part some naming annoyance. Bitbucket let you once use your own domains for repos. Which was nice as you could migrate if you wanted.

The forks thing could be tackled. With a notification, something like I forked you. Or a code search engine which is clever enough to detect and link repos.

The user management gubbins, is the normal irritation of user management and access control.

The stars part is already a bit of a horror across all software - not knowing how to gauge the popularity and quality of a project. Nevermind searching for it.

I'm not the biggest user of these silo repos, but I do appreciate that thin barriers to entry, and improved usability or a good usability wrapper, is charming.

So some simple maths, today Shopify medium offering is £60 per month. So that's 20 months worth of subscription. Not including any payment tax.

£1200 for a 'finished' e-commerce site, with training and hosting, sounds fine to me.

It's a shame code doesn't drop into the public domain after a decade...

But windows must be a colossal mass of who knows what at this point. I'd be embarrassed to open that cupboard for all and sundry to inspect. And likely a double edged sword in terms of security.

Some people just enjoy taking opioids.

But the problem with opioids is that they are slightly moreish.

Isn't it a gnu? I like the logo/art.

Depends when you came, some folk are only just discovering online discourse.

I'm a member of 'a' forum, and it still fosters conversation. To me it feels similar to an old usenet 'channel'.

I'll admit it's not as zany and anonymous as it perhaps once felt. Back then we rather foolishly thought it was more ephemeral. I blush when glancing old posts. Such is - I guess.

I run Xfce on Debian, I have Gnome 3 in reserve. And occasionally try it out. I quite like the notification area/panel under Gnome. Font clarity seems a little different (better). Workspaces are okay, plug-able drives are handled well, network manager is pretty good these days, as it now has a CLI alternative. But I don't like the application launcher. Not a fan of scrolling through loads of icons.

Nautilus has got increasingly shitty. So there's less Gnome now in my Xfce.

I tried Win 10 recently, it was horrible.

In conclusion they all have warts. But Xfce is okay in a Win95 kind of way. It could be better.

Simple UI seems to always elude distros/desktops.

Many laptop keyboards I have had, have had failed keys, or trouble with crumbs.