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by avh02 9y ago
My favourite thing has demonstrating to people how complicated it is for me (non-EU/UK) to go just about anywhere from the UK as a base (brexit makes no difference to this). I originally wanted to live/work here, to the extent of
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by avh02 9y ago
you might find the following fairly interesting: https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2017/sep/01/home-office-... as a third-worlder, I've started to keep a running spreadsheet of all visa fees (and
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by avh02 9y ago
You can add doha to that list, they often do security screens but not always... An hour has been hurried/comfortable connection time multiple times, even made 50 minutes a few times. YMMV.
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by avh02 9y ago
I get that, but even mid-2000s consumer cars have position sensors on the steering wheel and very accurate rotation sensors on each individual wheel (mainly for stability control), I'm sure some combination of this would allow them to
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by avh02 9y ago
Any ideas if there's some regulation stopping more accurate methods of figuring out where they are on the track than through such a strange system? It would not be my go-to method of navigating a track.
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by avh02 9y ago
as cliche as this answer often is: I miss the food and drink most - never quite had anything like it since i left (e.g: bartending just doesn't seem the same on average anywhere else I've been). so I last 'permanently' l
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by avh02 9y ago
built a slack slash command to spew out excuses (inspired bigtime by giphy) - mainly because I was unemployed and wanted to learn how the slack APIs work - https://xqz.es - I put a blog post together covering how it came to be [
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by avh02 9y ago
you just linked back in to the ntsb report - clipboard mistake?
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by avh02 9y ago
to follow up on depth (not just from a difficulty point of view), if care isn't taken - i'd assume that once there's a pathway to the surface, the water pressure would push the air out and drown him. I also assume they'r
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by avh02 9y ago
>Mr Hancock said: "All this means that while we can enjoy the freedom of the web, the UK will have the most robust internet child protection measures of any country in the world." This had me chuckling - I grew up in the Gulf r
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by avh02 9y ago
I miss my 920, it was such a beast
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by avh02 9y ago
I can't say this often enough: http://pre-commit.com (minor disclaimer I've contributed a hook but not major source)
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by avh02 9y ago
man, provide some context so poor people like me don't flag your comment then feel stupid and unflag them. context: see other comment https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14777935
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by avh02 9y ago
googling for solutions/patches/fixes for ubuntu don't seem to yield much (though that doesn't give me much confidence). I wonder if it's just drowning in the noise about android/ios
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by avh02 9y ago
>A bullet killing a person is the 'law of physics'. It doesn't mean it can't be outlawed. Illegal or not, it actually still happens, this is a fact that can not be argued. Pretending that making it illegal automatical
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by avh02 9y ago
I've started using backblaze's b2 for this sort of stuff
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by avh02 9y ago
Korean airlines decades ago had a huge issue with copilots not speaking up to captains when concerned. While not embarrassment - there was a lack of speaking up. IIRC they forced cultural change in order to make it less of an issue. edit: n
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by avh02 9y ago
Some would say you're half way to building what you want... Launch and sell!
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by avh02 9y ago
Abuse of power and being unreasonable are not good traits in any branch of law enforcement (which is where I assume this officer would end up if not at the border).
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by avh02 9y ago
With FB you're the product, your data is milked and sold. Have fun with your "free" social network. What a poor example of what you consider the viable alternative.
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by avh02 9y ago
you may be a fan of tree-style tabs - used to do me well when i used to be on FF - you get a sense of how you got somewhere. I use vivaldi now - and while i have tabs on the left - i do miss tree-style features.
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by avh02 9y ago
that example (while i was reading the book) kind of stuck out with me - I think of it almost as preventative maintenance or good software dev practices - you'll get crap from others for 'wasting' time on it, but they don&#x27
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by avh02 9y ago
the wiki reference talking about rafting photographers ([1] for convenience) using this is pretty cool - gives you a (somewhat sensationalized) sense of the the reliability of the pigeons. [1] - http://origin.denverpost.com/
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by avh02 9y ago
that link should be https://www.fastly.com/about/careers
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by avh02 9y ago
to be fair, AlephGarden did say during an earthquake. Telecoms, Hospitals, etc, perhaps wouldn't be happy with being out for the time taken for an earthquake to blow over. Plus aftershocks when damage control is in progress.
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by avh02 9y ago
Doesn't exactly answer the question as stated, and you seem to not be on the same boat - but I'd like to contribute a flipside story for anybody interested: I tried to get one together at my last job - got all the way through lega
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by avh02 9y ago
ah, I had a feeling one of the more common methods did... i even checked the curl man page but not wget's :(
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by avh02 9y ago
not worth a PR (cos it's opinion and a specific application), but if you have aria2c on your machine you can do something like: aria2c -i permiturls.txt to download file lists.
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by avh02 9y ago
clickbait title intensifies.
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by avh02 9y ago
not a very active user but will get notifications: @ahayrabedian, email's firstname.lastname@gmail.com (you can gather those fields from the twitter profile :) ) I mean, like i said, i've kind of left that behind me (only worked t

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