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by alexfoo 4y ago
There's a slight noticeable effect of tax-free allowances (or 0% band if you think of it that way). UK £100k gross income = £66,692.76 take home UK £80k gross income = £55,092.76 take home So that's a 20% cut in gross income for a
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by alexfoo 4y ago
https://layoffs.fyi/
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by alexfoo 4y ago
Not unlike how email was until Hotmail, for example, came along.
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by alexfoo 4y ago
Awesome game. Many (un)happy memories of breaking the microswitches in Quickshot Cobra joysticks playing this game. Or was that Kick Off 2? 15 years ago I stumbled across a "SENSIBLE 11" t-shirt in a shop in South Africa and only
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by alexfoo 4y ago
Do you mean 01-01-1970 or 01-01-1970?
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Zipcar Down
3 points by alexfoo 4y ago|1 comments
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by alexfoo 4y ago
Recent fun when the UK's Secretary of State for Culture admitted to sharing her password with relatives in a televised Government committee meeting: https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2022/may/19/n
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by alexfoo 4y ago
Nit: "...or example because it’s so fast, it’s often used in automated testing to quickly generate a whole lot of sudo-random GUIDs." ITYM: "pseudo-random" Although I do like the mash-up concept of "sudo random&quot
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by alexfoo 4y ago
[citation needed]
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by alexfoo 4y ago
Also on the Eastern side there's only a ferry to connect the North and South Circulars. And that ferry has quite limited operating hours and capacity. It's also very slow. To avoid the ferry you either need to come West a bit and
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by alexfoo 4y ago
Not sure where you get that RAM cap from. I have 32GB in my X1.
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by alexfoo 5y ago
It also appears in the novel _ Miss Smilla's Feeling for Snow_ by Peter Høeg.
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by alexfoo 5y ago
Two minutes with libgmp (most of that time trying to remember the function names) tells me that 1000!+1 is divisible by 6563
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by alexfoo 5y ago
Indeed, there's also considerable variability in the different lateral flow tests. If you don't read the instructions then you may not work out the differences when the next set come along. In the UK we have, amongst others I&#x27
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by alexfoo 5y ago
I used to have to deal with this at my previous job (including log4j). We were rarely vulnerable to CVEs mentioned by end users or pinged by our own internal tooling, but that wasn't the point. The customers (a large percentage of Fort
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High Court declares Uber business model unlawful(standard.co.uk)
3 points by alexfoo 5y ago|0 comments
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by alexfoo 5y ago
Yes. One HDMI 2.0 to give me 4K@60Hz and then one usb-c to HDMI (or is it DP) for the PiP. Only one input on this specific monitor can do 4K@60Hz, all the others are 4K@30Hz or good refresh at lower resolutions. Takes 20 seconds to enable t
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by alexfoo 5y ago
For screen sharing I use Picture-in-Picture mode of my 43” 4K monitor (Acer DM431K) to give me a separate 1920x1080 screen to share when required. That way it is at the right size and resolution for everyone.
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by alexfoo 5y ago
These types of puzzles can help educate people as to how things might need to be coded to work in more "real world" situations. At my previous job we used them as the basis for discussion and education amongst the team (hoping to
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by alexfoo 5y ago
Similar with giving up caffeine. Once I’d got past the headache phase I’ve slept so much better since then. It’s been ~15 years or so. Max one cup of caffeinated coffee a day if I go somewhere that doesn’t do decaf, any more than that and i
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by alexfoo 5y ago
I had the best of both worlds in my upbringing. My father knew Clive Sinclair thanks to the Cambridge tech/hifi scene at the time, and we also used to live near him in Madingley. Somewhere in my dad's shed there's a ZX81 with
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by alexfoo 5y ago
*FX 200,3 10 *MOTOR 1 20 *MOTOR 0 30 GOTO 10 And then leave the shop quickly as the BBC Micro's internal relay quickly destroys itself.
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by alexfoo 5y ago
It has to be submitted to HN at least once every 149 days.
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by alexfoo 5y ago
I'm glad I just started at 5 in that list. For me it's a Filco Majestouch TKL with Cherry Rex MX Silent switches. Relatively fast typist (130-150wpm) coding/emails most of the day. Anything louder just wouldn't work give
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by alexfoo 5y ago
It's commonly known as Pay And Dive In here in the UK.
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by alexfoo 6y ago
According to Ortex it's back under 100% float to loan.
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by alexfoo 6y ago
mikefax
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by alexfoo 6y ago
Or they're hugely Windows based (Exchange, SQL Server, AD Servers, etc) and the same exploit got into a huge number of diverse machines. Or shudder far reaching writeable network mounts.
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by alexfoo 6y ago
> Total speculation The link was updated more than 2 hours before your comment to a zdnet article that even mentions a WastedLocker variant.
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by alexfoo 7y ago
> can afford the luxury of having someone else to do it for them. Sure, but for my situation it works out that by cooking the majority of the time I'll be able to retire 1-2 years earlier. Save $10 a day on food most days ~= $3000&#

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