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by adwww 8y ago
I was driving past on the motorway and remember nearly crashing in shock at the aggresive maneuvering of something so big - first time seeing either an airliner do a display, or the A380.
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by adwww 8y ago
I think this was actually a British rule, after MI5 disrupted a plot to bring down a transatlantic airliner with a peroxide bomb.
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by adwww 8y ago
Also training issue - according to a commentator on Radio 4 this morning, the conversion training for this aircraft is a 90 minute course run on an iPad.
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by adwww 8y ago
It's used by almost all UK banks as well, sadly. One of my accounts (First Direct) has max length of only 8 characters.
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by adwww 8y ago
"We can't give devs access to support, because [ZenDesk, FreshDesk, etc] costs 9 gazillion dollars per user"
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by adwww 8y ago
Now think how non-Americans feel when they travel to America. Tipping culture (alongside mass homelessness in some places) feels very awkward to me when I'm in America - I never know who I'm meant to tip, and a few times when I ha
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by adwww 8y ago
Costa coffee contains sugar too, 49300mg in a Chai Latte..
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by adwww 8y ago
I hate office aircon. There always seems to be a lag between hot weather starting and the ac getting ramped up, and the other way around, hot weather over, AC still on full blast. I keep 2 different jackets in my office locker to wear at my
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by adwww 8y ago
> life is probably better too What a fucked up assumption. Pay for skilled jobs is way higher in the US than almost anywhere else apart from maybe Switzerland or Norway, but quality of life is way more complicated than that. Not least be
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by adwww 8y ago
Amazon makes it so easy to buy stuff that I might buy some things that I would never have bought otherwise, but for the most part, money spent on Amazon is money that would have otherwise been spent in another retailer, who probably pays wa
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by adwww 8y ago
Fine, re-structure the tax system around income tax. But at the moment it means your local book shop pays corporation tax whereas Amazon doesn't. In the UK it's double broken, because shops have high rates of business rates (which
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by adwww 8y ago
I'm currently sat in a not particularly noteworth house in England built in 1770 that is apparently older than anything in 22 US states..! It's cool to think of former inhabitants hearing tales from the New World.
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by adwww 8y ago
> the BBC has said that when the LW transmitter valves fail they won't be replaced They better tell the Royal Navy - the broadcast of the Today Show on Radio 4 LW is one of the tests submarine captains supposedly use to detect if th
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by adwww 8y ago
Of old, yes - but I think the newer round of these are meant to go much further - eg. including a thermometer to measure body temperatures, etc. I think it was this article I remember reading a while ago that went into some of them... http
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by adwww 8y ago
> Why pointing "Northern" Europe rather than Europe in general ? I assumed because it's suprising how much worse the American diet is, even compared to countries with similar Western diets, incomes and lifestyles (UK, IE,
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by adwww 8y ago
There are a number of apps that go a lot further than this - aiming to either tell you the best possible time to concieve, or alternatively the opposite claiming to be a very effective contraceptive, just by tracking the days you shouldn&#x
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by adwww 9y ago
I don't think anyone read that title and thought a Swedish submarine actually sank an aircraft carrier 2 years ago and we've only just heard about it...
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by adwww 9y ago
Similar experience here - one thing I noticed, the yogurt pot that came with every single meal had a mis-matched lid and side label. They were literally the 'seconds' rejected from the consumer market. No pudding for you if you ha
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by adwww 9y ago
My MIL has not left the 70s and still does this. You can watch the discomfort on her face when she watches my 4yr old girl destroy good wrapping paper, or even rip open an envelope instead of saving it for re-use.
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by adwww 10y ago
I used to volenteer run a local branch of CodeClub in the UK - a supranational charity that produce their own courses based around Scratch, HTML / Javascript and Python. It was my first time doing anything like that and found that Code
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by adwww 10y ago
I've had conversations with recruiters where I've initially sounded interested, then changed my mind because it just sounds like too much hassle. They simply can't understand that I would give up when I realised there were th
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by adwww 10y ago
Presumably the UK's opt out of Working Time Directive - http://www.eurofound.europa.eu/observatories/eurwork/article...
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by adwww 10y ago
Ah, but just because you see Google ads, it doesn't mean that was all the website tried to serve. They probably ran a waterfall, asking AppNexus, Pubmatic, TradeDesk and 40 other ad providers for an ad at $5, $2, $1, etc. before giving
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by adwww 10y ago
That shocked me a bit too, but then... 'murica.
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by adwww 10y ago
Not on it's own. But muddying someone's character might confuse a jury in some otherwise mundane technical case.
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by adwww 10y ago
I feel like this movement would be more noticeable and eventually disruptive if it were... I don't know? Any other day of the year!
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by adwww 10y ago
I might change the order of beer, cat, dog, neighbours cat. But the last one is correct. And relative to the population, I love my job :)
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by adwww 10y ago
Likewise. Sure, I'd like to work for Google. But I also make good money Not working for Google, and getting non-google jobs is a simple matter of picking up the phone and calling one of a handful of recruiters I know. I guess I'll
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by adwww 10y ago
I "don't have anything to hide". But I can imagine some scenario where I am in a court and the opposing side have had access to my internet history. It wouldn't be very hard to paint me in a pretty bad light if you were
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by adwww 10y ago
Yeah caus everyone (outside of America at least) loves speaking out loud to inanimate objects.

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