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by adwww 6y ago
What happens to all your connections if you stop owning Apple devices? Sounds like a nice way to keep you locked into a very expensive ecosystem.
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by adwww 6y ago
Using the Lastpass accessibility service on Android only works about 40% of the time for me. Over half the times I go to use it I sit there trying to trigger it a few times, then give up and have to go and copy / paste the password fro
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by adwww 6y ago
Jira is a pain, but at least it's a known pain and a semi useful skill you can take with you when you leave that company.
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by adwww 6y ago
It doesn't help that the Markdown flavour is not standard, and is different again from most other Atlassian products.
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by adwww 6y ago
On the other hand, it's probably boosted the value of more remote homes in otherwise desireable areas that have previously suffered for local employment opportunities. In the UK that might include beautiful countryside in places like W
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by adwww 6y ago
My UK employer has closed the office and tried to sell us our own redundant desk chairs...
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by adwww 6y ago
Childcare arrangements.
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by adwww 6y ago
I don't know if that's true though. Your standalone plot is surely worth more in an area that more people want to live in, and where developers could potentially buy it off you to subdivide and turn into multiple homes?
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by adwww 6y ago
Years ago I chuckled to myself when I selected Admiral from a dropdown when buying tickets for a gig. Tickets arrived fine, went to gig, etc. But the events company must have sold my data in a big way, because for years later my parents con
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by adwww 6y ago
Something to do with volume limits versus weight not being in it's favour IIRC. That is, you'd fill up it's max weight limit way before filling the empty volume inside the plane with most normal cargo.
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by adwww 6y ago
Does 300k buy talent and experience, or 60 hour weeks and people with no outside interests? The best engineers I've ever worked with were definetly not making that sort of money, mostly because they were the sort of people that didn&#x
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by adwww 6y ago
The UK was 17.5% VAT for years.
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by adwww 6y ago
There was a study on UK cycle commute accidents recently. Commuters over several years who cycled, were 44% more likely to be hospitalised than other commuters. However...! This cycling was associated with some quite dramatic health benefit
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by adwww 6y ago
Doesn't Oxford just automatically boost all bachelors to masters a year after graduating though?
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by adwww 6y ago
At my software company I think we have more physics graduates than software engineer or comp sci. We use mostly Python and Go btw, which I think might affect things a bit. Graduate schemes for those computing degrees tend to be at big corpo
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by adwww 6y ago
The creator of PHP's Xdebug (Derick Rethans) unsuccessfully stood for local elections recently. I can't think of many others though!
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by adwww 6y ago
ML is fine for liquids, but you wouldn't (or shouldn't) measure flour in ml.
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by adwww 6y ago
There are at least 3 cargo bikes doing the school run at my daughters small primary now. Not in London.
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by adwww 6y ago
> It's so much easier in the US. If you're an individual it's going to be taxable income, but there's no up-front paperwork to do In the UK it's even simpler if you are recieving less than £1,000 a year in donati
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by adwww 6y ago
Glad to help. Perhaps this is an American thing then? It would raise eyebrows at least in the UK.
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by adwww 6y ago
> Stereotypes of blacks Black people. "Blacks" sounds totally dehumanising.
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by adwww 6y ago
Only times I've used it was for occasionally needing to touch SQL Server. That was a few years ago, there might be better ways of interacting with it now.
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by adwww 6y ago
Your comment made me look how old my current laptop is. "Mid-2014". It's still as powerful as any of the current Apple laptops - progress has been slow these last 6 years.
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by adwww 6y ago
The cabinet was picked entirely for their blind loyalty to brexit, rather than any competance. They can barely collectively tie their own shoes, yet suddenly they are responsible for managing the biggest peacetime crisis in our history.
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by adwww 6y ago
Except this one.
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by adwww 6y ago
When shopping though those newsletter sign ups often give you 10% off.
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by adwww 6y ago
Here in the UK the union leaders manage to look like tits all on their own. I'd love to have a workable union system for tech workers here, but I just don't see what they offer unless you can persuade meaningful numbers of your co
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by adwww 6y ago
It quite litteraly is a way around tax in the UK at least. Corporate tax on profits earnt through patents is less (10%) than ordinary corporation tax (19%).
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by adwww 6y ago
Some of the backlash could be a bit justified, but the various 'green' groups campaigning against it are strangely silent about the Silvertown Tunnel or the £27bn road-building programme...
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by adwww 6y ago
> I don't know of any infrastructure projects of reasonable size in Wales or the South West One of Europe's largest construction sites is currently in Somerset - Hinkley Point C.

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