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by alexfoo 3y ago
I do as the GP, autopay the minimum to avoid fines (not just interest) but then go in and pay the remaining balance before the end of the month. Autopaying the full amount would work 95% of the time, except when I put something like a big h
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by alexfoo 3y ago
Didn't know what NATS is, page doesn't explain it. Tried to click on the Docs link at the bottom of the page but that doesn't work. Stopped looking.
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by alexfoo 3y ago
Yes, long running joke in the old first days of email spam. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lumber_Cartel
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by alexfoo 3y ago
tinlc
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by alexfoo 3y ago
That map of European rail lines is woefully inaccurate. It probably shows only 5% of rail lines in London for example, if that.
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by alexfoo 3y ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33568994
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by alexfoo 3y ago
Absolutely agree. I did a 7 mile each way cycle commute in London for many many years. Absolutely loved it. Reliable, consistent travel times, and never affected by train/tube strikes. The number of times I was delayed by a puncture or
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by alexfoo 3y ago
No (well not in my case) as if I wasn't cycle commuting I'd be having a shower at home before going in to work. All cycle commuting did was move my shower from home to work, it doesn't add an extra shower and so doesn't
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by alexfoo 3y ago
Ah. Reverse Polish notation!
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by alexfoo 3y ago
> I await next week’s deployment. Feelgood-karma-whoring-post-as-a-service
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by alexfoo 3y ago
> Vs EMV-based systems like London where you have to stop and wait for the card reader Throughput depends on the people being ready. In London the TfL gates (both train/underground) have a delay on closing, so it's possible for
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by alexfoo 3y ago
Don’t give our idiot Government any ideas.
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by alexfoo 3y ago
He didn't get to 600K MRR by himself: " The highest headcount we had a at a particular time was 16 people - all remote " First hire came at "around 100 customers". So that was probably EUR10k/MRR given the aver
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by alexfoo 3y ago
#!/bin/sh
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by alexfoo 3y ago
_The Meursault Investigation_ is a worthy follow-up read to _The Stranger_.
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by alexfoo 3y ago
The irony is you can now read the reviews on Amazon and make up your mind if you want to but it, and then go buy it from somewhere else even, quelle horreur, a local bricks and mortar bookshop.
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by alexfoo 3y ago
I miss my shell account on jumper.mcc.ac.uk
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by alexfoo 3y ago
For me the first one that sticks in my head is the MCC distrib on ~10 floppies, with (I think) a bunch more for X. Definitely used 0.9[89] before that (late '93) but no solid memory of details. Kernel version 1.0.8 is burned into my br
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by alexfoo 3y ago
> 'git' means 'stupid person', not 'unpleasant person' Native English speaker (UK) and I've never heard 'git' used to mean 'stupid person'. I've only ever heard it used to mean
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by alexfoo 4y ago
Evoking strong memories of browsing Letraset in a shop on King St in Cambridge in the early 90’s.
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by alexfoo 4y ago
Argh. Bloody London Plane trees shitting their stuff into my eyes as I run or cycle beneath them. The goggles, they do nothing!
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by alexfoo 4y ago
> "© 2010-2023" In the bit of Big Blue that I worked in this is what we did. You only updated the later year if you made a non-insignificant change to a file. Fixing a simple typo in a comment wasn’t enough, nor was just reform
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by alexfoo 4y ago
Indeed. I definitely go through phases where I need a lot more structure in order to make things happen. Having an office just the right distance away to go to was a good target. I could either run or cycle to/from it. A public transpo
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by alexfoo 4y ago
Wow, you've completely misread/misunderstood my post. Little point in saying any more.
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by alexfoo 4y ago
For the sake of balance I'd just like to say that I agree with the GP on this. I miss my ~30 minute commute (by bike) from my old job. It provided good delineation between home and work, and 1h of good cardio a day meant I didn't
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by alexfoo 4y ago
For those that are wondering, 2,699,664 TiB (~2700PiB or ~2.7EiB). (I've assumed TiB over TB given they are the sizes reported by the drive manufacturer.)
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by alexfoo 4y ago
You Maniacs! You blew it up! Ah, damn you! God damn you all to hell!
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by alexfoo 4y ago
The omg.lol domain was registered on 2019-03-13. From then to now is 3 years 9 months and ~20 days.
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by alexfoo 4y ago
Are you thinking of metronidazole? It’s listed as an example of a drug that has the “disulfiram effect” when mixed with alcohol. See the “Similarly acting substances” section of https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disulfira
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by alexfoo 4y ago
I worked a 4 day week (although technically 33h in 4 days for a 4/37 reduction in base salary) for ~10 years. All for work/life balance due to having a young kid. Two days in the office, two days from home. Generally it worked ok

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