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by adwww 7y ago
> Any legit person building a legit bot would know to fake the agent string. What, that's totally backwards. Anyone using a bot to do things that might get blocked by publishers fakes the string, legit purposes should really show wh
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by adwww 7y ago
At my last work I was a developer occasionally doing things with their AWS account. I now run a large application mostly built in GCP and also now replicated in Azure for various compliance reasons. So although my experience with the 3 clou
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by adwww 7y ago
Iceland the country has sued Iceland the British supermarket several times over various trademark and naming issues.
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by adwww 7y ago
Because it's not an honest comparison. A £500 bike is still a relatively budget adult bike, and an ebike is a relatively luxury product still and is probably more comparable to a £1,000 normal bike. Decathlon (giant French sports chain
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by adwww 7y ago
Pay €500 million and wait 7 years for SAP?
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by adwww 7y ago
Although a lot of London's accents are currently blending into MLE - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multicultural_London_English
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by adwww 7y ago
That would be nice... but councils can only increase tax by <2% per year, and most of their revenue comes from a 'grant' by central government, which has been cut ~40% in the last decade.
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by adwww 7y ago
This reminds me of how my city managed to secure money for a world class concert hall by claiming it was just a multipurpose hall that _could_ possibly be used for concerts. I've submitted the story here https://news.ycombin
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by adwww 7y ago
Relevance... tonight the UK leaves the EU. Also I suspect people hear will enjoy the slightly underhand way the project managed to secure the funding.
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How Birmingham council bluffed European Commission to build Symphony Hall (2014)(business-live.co.uk)
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by adwww 7y ago
You could also claim it was quite a coup by the UK to get the US to spend trillions subsiding a VSTOL aircraft for the RN.
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by adwww 7y ago
I'm actually surprised that many people read blogs still. I used to spend a lot of time reading a long list of blogs I enjoyed, but I never really got over Google Reader being killed off. I tried a number of other RSS readers and aggre
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by adwww 7y ago
> could be broken up by one informed individual coming to clear up misunderstandings Brexit proved you wrong. People don't want facts.
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by adwww 7y ago
I have a pair of Trickers boots with a rubber sole that give me and everyone who touches me massive static shocks when I'm in the office. It never happens anywhere else, so it must be something about the office carpet, and maybe inadaq
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by adwww 7y ago
Tim McGraw manages this in The Blindside. That man hasn't done a day's hard work in years.
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by adwww 7y ago
Boarding can't normally happen while the plane is being refuelled, which means passengers boarding the plane is the last thing that happens before the plane is ready to take off. That means the faster they can board passengers, the soo
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by adwww 7y ago
Lots of European airports (including LHR) do this - air bridge to the front door and steps to the back door.
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by adwww 7y ago
Also in the emails, a discussion about renaming MCAS to make it seem like it was just a tweak to existing control software, rather than a new feature needing documentation and training....
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by adwww 7y ago
The further down the PDF I go, the more I agree with you. Here's another one of his quotes: > There is absolutely no reason to require your pilots to require a Max simulator to begin flying the Max. Once the engines are started, the
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by adwww 7y ago
I was so disappointed to abandon Ulysses, but immediately felt better for it. That book sat on my bedside table for months, making me feel bad for being unable to finish it, and giving me absolutly zero joy while I was reading it.
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by adwww 7y ago
I nearly abandoned it, but somehow slodged on, and on finishing it, it suddenly became my favourite book (much to my surprise).
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by adwww 7y ago
15 years of software engineering experience, and I don't know how to ask a question on SO without having it shut down as non-constructive, or that I should have used one of the 300 odd ultra niche sister sites. Most vendors and librari
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by adwww 7y ago
My memory is fuzy on the details, but I think this is something to do with Mad Cow Disese (BSE) being caused indirectly by the old practice of feeding food waste (containing meat) back to animals as pigswill. When this was banned suddenly t
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by adwww 7y ago
The new Austrian embassy in Jakarta is Passivhaus certified, a first for that climate. http://www.passivhaustrust.org.uk/news/detail/?nId=527
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by adwww 7y ago
Or fit heat pumps instead of gas boilers. The cost difference isn't that much and would come much lower if they were sold in greater numbers.
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by adwww 7y ago
More like, Boeing wins a contract for a new military aircraft the Airforce didn't know they needed.
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by adwww 7y ago
Depends how you handle your PRs. If you squash and rebase within Github or similar, no problem. But ideally interactive rebase before you push your PR and tidy up all those commits into larger topical ones. Eg. "DEV-1 - Write tests for
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by adwww 7y ago
Code comments have a habbit of getting lost during future tidy ups or refactors. If the code is that unclear it needs a comment, refactor it into a named method, where the method name describes exactly what it's doing.
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by adwww 7y ago
Maybe they should write a petition or something. That ought to work right?
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by adwww 7y ago
Even in a cold war scenario though, I can't imagine that army was ever intended for anything other than defending Turkey and looking after their own interests. They have successfully played the west in exchange for a few US air bases.

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