DrBazza

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by DrBazza 3y ago
Crisps though! > Should space-time be shown to be quantum, the loser will give to each of the winners, one ITEM* of their choice. If the alternative hypothesis is deemed to be correct, the losers will each give 5,000 ITEMS to the winner.
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by DrBazza 3y ago
Totally agree. I was that age "a few years" ago, and I'm not playing working-hours-one-up-manship, but I was leaving the house at 4.45am, and getting home 7.30-8pm (London). That was probably the low point in my, and others,
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by DrBazza 3y ago
In broad strokes, it's just old vs new, and an age thing. I'll pick '40' as the mid-point: Old = over 40s (myself included) who are senior, their careers have been in offices and commuting, and still believe that '
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by DrBazza 3y ago
It was the peak of dotcom boom silliness. One of my friends worked there and said the company were beside themselves with glee that they’d bagged a six letter word dotcom domain name and had to use it.
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by DrBazza 3y ago
Actually I think you’re right.
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by DrBazza 3y ago
Sex and politics have traditionally been the two topics that are best avoided in social settings. It seems that tradition is gradually disappearing.
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by DrBazza 3y ago
Sometimes it just doesn't work. My favourite was Price Waterhouse changing their name to everyone's favourite day of the week, Monday. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/2163472.stm
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by DrBazza 3y ago
"insulation - noun [ U ] the act of covering something to stop heat, sound, or electricity from escaping or entering, or the fact that something is covered in this way" In common language usage, UK houses are insulated to stop hea
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by DrBazza 3y ago
1960s-70s: pebble dashing. 1970s-80s: stone cladding. 1980s-90s: cream brickwork, porticos 1990s-00s: boxes with white upvc windows, red tiles, garages 2020s: grey plague - grey windows, grey doors, grey plastic faux-wood cladding, gre
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by DrBazza 3y ago
Developers never have a problem selling as they know that people will always buy apartments in cities, it's the inside that counts. Adding fluff to the outside costs money, and in England these days, it's a race to the bottom to m
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by DrBazza 3y ago
Twitter/X enters the chat. I've deleted all social apps from my phone except Facebook, and the only reason I use that is to share photos with elderly relatives. At least I don't get unsolicited racism and gore in my Facebook
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by DrBazza 3y ago
And despite the above track record, he somehow managed to not accidentally buy Yahoo as well.
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by DrBazza 3y ago
Unfortunately we have the oldest railway in the world in continuous use, running mostly at capacity, with draconian planning laws, ridiculous land costs, population density, and a stupid general public. You'd be hard pressed to find an
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by DrBazza 3y ago
My usual comment, bury it deep with signs as we already do. If we've lost the ability to read signs, we've lost the ability to dig deep and will never encounter it. The risk of death from any form of nuclear waste is insignificant
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by DrBazza 3y ago
> Greta is not pro-nukes. Most of the environment activists are not. And we're reaping the "benefits" of the same people in the 70s campaigning against all forms of nuclear back then. So we built oil, gas, and coal power
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by DrBazza 3y ago
Named after Sir. David Attenborough no less. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-67382235
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by DrBazza 3y ago
Sometimes it just makes sense to explicitly type something so that a human can understand what is going on.
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by DrBazza 3y ago
That’s nothing. Here in Yorkshire we get up half a hour before we go to bed.
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by DrBazza 3y ago
> There's never been a worse time to borrow Maybe? In the 1970s in the UK we had double-digit inflation. It turns out that was the best time to borrow because (wage) inflation eroded the cost of mortgages within just a few years
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by DrBazza 3y ago
Rather unhelpfully, this Government decided to tax landlords on income not profit. Previously landlords could rent at £1000 pcm, pay their buy-to-let mortgage at £900, and get taxed on the profit of £100, at 40%, that would be £40. Now they
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by DrBazza 3y ago
The ianvisits site is the go-to for this sort of thing, from 5 days ago, the Grauniad is always a bit slow on the uptake: https://www.ianvisits.co.uk/articles/an-ancient-law-requires... Want to build a new market? Oh,
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by DrBazza 3y ago
I was looking for something like that because I recall Banks saying something along the lines of 'socialism wins' about his books: > The theory here is that the property and social relations of long-term space-dwelling (especia
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by DrBazza 3y ago
Absolutely this. Useless product managers adding custom fields and values that make zero sense. Developer issues (eg. github issues) aren't the same as helpdesk requests, and aren't the same as customer enquiries. Yet Jira happi
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by DrBazza 3y ago
Clearly you've never tried to format code in either an issue description or comment. And I can only guess you've never had a product manager justifying their jobs by adding in a bajillion custom fields and field values into an iss
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by DrBazza 3y ago
That’s a lot of words to just say build in a container.
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by DrBazza 3y ago
Correct. A large hill/small mountain's worth of debris hits the Earth every year. That includes micrometeorites that without an atmosphere, would pepper the Earth's surface. It's also the reason why any Moon base would
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by DrBazza 3y ago
I worked at "megabank" back in the early 00s, and we were one of the first purchasers of Jira.
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We're not called Treasure Island for nothing.
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by DrBazza 3y ago
Atlassian has always been "enterprise-first" as far as I know. I can only assume that their free-tier which I've rarely encountered in the wild, isn't that successful in terms of conversion to the full-fat product or is
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by DrBazza 3y ago
Most of those are Government funded, and Government caused. Want a NHS dentist? Ok, the Government finds another way to tax you to fund that. Now the Government taxes landlords on their rental income . Landlords exist the market en-mass

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