IneffablePigeon

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by IneffablePigeon 3y ago
Don’t read blogs if you don’t want opinions, is my advice.
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by IneffablePigeon 3y ago
Painkillers are sold in packs of max 16 tablets in the UK (almost always 500mg for paracetamol, 200mg for ibuprofen). In addition they must be sold in blister packs not bottles, and all shops will only allow you to buy two packets per trans
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by IneffablePigeon 3y ago
> most people don’t have mortgages Most people do either have mortgages or pay rent which pays their landlord’s buy to let mortgage on the house they live in. Mortgage rates and rents have both spiked very sharply. Along with energy bill
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by IneffablePigeon 3y ago
Yes because there are no hurdles or downsides to moving halfway across the world.
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by IneffablePigeon 3y ago
Except in France the bread is pretty cheap even from an independent bakery because there’s one every 50 metres so the competition keeps the prices down.
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by IneffablePigeon 3y ago
This is pretty much the same attitude which leads to kids being wrapped in cotton wool, ferried everywhere in giant SUVs and never let outside to play. I find it a bit sad.
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by IneffablePigeon 3y ago
I mean it was actually this forced change that made Apple finally upgrade from the USB2 speeds they were stuck on until now for this connector. Ironically Apple are also demonstrating on their laptops exactly how you might keep the current
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by IneffablePigeon 3y ago
Good news for Rider I guess
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by IneffablePigeon 3y ago
This is _exactly_ why it is important. Most of what you write will be skimmed or not read at all. The only way to increase your odds is to make your writing engaging (to improve chances of it being read) and clear and concise (to improve ch
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by IneffablePigeon 3y ago
I bought an m series device to replace my windows desktop mostly for efficiency reasons. It saves me hundreds a year in electricity costs at the moment (quite literally, I calculated it beforehand and checked real usage afterwards). It also
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by IneffablePigeon 4y ago
Individual engineers who start multi million dollar businesses also prove over and over again that they need those “worthless” other business people by immediately hiring them once they get to a certain size. Not to mention that the enginee
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by IneffablePigeon 4y ago
Union types are a gap, although records and switch expressions will get you much closer than was previously possible. Object literals are a thing, they’re called anonymous types. You just new them up. And functions can be passed around as f
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by IneffablePigeon 4y ago
Alternatively, the slight variation where even shipping good clean robust code was easier in the old days because the product was much smaller and didn't have years of accrued product and technical decisions to work around or unpick, a
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by IneffablePigeon 4y ago
The “it’s really hard” argument isn’t a very good argument in my opinion? If we hold reproductions of a single repository to a certain standard, the same standard should probably apply to mass reproductions. For a single repository, it’s yo
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by IneffablePigeon 4y ago
I stayed at a rural Airbnb that had it in place of a wired connection. It was pretty good for download (100mbps fairly consistently) but the latency jitter and upload speeds made it almost unusable for video calls and it did cut out for a m
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by IneffablePigeon 4y ago
I found the source article much more illuminating: https://lab.sciencemuseum.org.uk/colour-shape-using-computer... I don't find the headline graph that convincing. Firstly, it's only based on items in this museum&
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by IneffablePigeon 4y ago
EMI gives both tax advantages and means you owe no tax when being offered the option. 50k as a lump sum would be taxed as income (so, fairly heavily). 50k in shares might attract a similar tax bill to be paid directly by the employee far in
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by IneffablePigeon 4y ago
One could argue it makes even cheaper options like walking and cycling into more palatable alternatives. In any case, the vast majority of people in London use public transport to get around. I'm not sure how it works for tradespeople
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by IneffablePigeon 4y ago
I mean, I do see where you're coming from, and I have in the past second guessed some medical advice and asked if they'd considered a particular diagnosis I had a hunch on. On the other hand, they're a professional and they&#
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by IneffablePigeon 5y ago
Indeed, but (arguably) exact volumes are not exact quantities for non-liquids
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by IneffablePigeon 5y ago
I think 75-85% of the bikes I see around here (UK) still have rim brakes not discs. They're cheaper.
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by IneffablePigeon 5y ago
I have no idea, but at a guess, I suppose the number of people in the country _with easy access to the sports_ is the more important number than the raw population. There's 300 million people in the US but how many of them have access
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by IneffablePigeon 5y ago
Not sure how you make this more obvious, perhaps I'm just slow today, but I failed because I didn't twig that when I got a letter in the right place it would make the right hand number go _down_ as well as incrementing the left nu
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by IneffablePigeon 5y ago
ITER was planned in part through early results from JET in the 90s - but they more recently replaced the inner wall of JET to match what ITER will use, which was a good choice according to models but this gives empirical confirmation that i
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by IneffablePigeon 5y ago
I mean, both? I think the vast majority of people I knew (UK, in my 20s) knew that the main reason we were locked down was to minimize the risk of the NHS being so overrun it couldn't perform basic healthcare. Of course personally we a
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by IneffablePigeon 5y ago
Amazon basically does this, I think? As a consumer, I hate it, because I end up with a huge box and loads of useless paper whenever something isn't the right aspect ratio for one of the standard boxes. Obviously for distribution of sto
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by IneffablePigeon 5y ago
I'm no expert but my understanding is that unfortunately there is some correlation between transmissibility and severity of disease, because one of the ways it can become more transmissible is to reproduce in your cells faster so that
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by IneffablePigeon 5y ago
Perhaps not for free, but it's not unheard of for labor unions to negotiate temporary lower wages in order to try to save the viability of a business that they want to keep working for.
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by IneffablePigeon 5y ago
Perhaps it, or some larger subset of companies, should? Co-operative style employee ownership is one way of achieving something along those lines.
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by IneffablePigeon 5y ago
Equity is always worth _something_ if the company doesn't fail. At some point investors want to make some money back, whether that's through a sale of some sort or just through dividends. I do agree those are quite different beast

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