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by bartread 3y ago
Yeah, I'd call normal anywhere between 3.5 - 5%, with session beers being anything < 3.5%. Anything above 5% is strong and where, 15 years ago, beers used to top out at around 6.5% in your average supermarket (Carlsberg Special Brew
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I think that is an important point but, with that said, I'd suggest that perhaps the reason Anchor were struggling is they didn't really innovate. Rather they rested on the laurels of that 127 year heritage. Certainly a very per
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I'm sure it exists in management culture, but I'd argue that existence isn't universal: only one data point but I've been a manager for a long time now and, very much because I think it's a ridiculous construct, it
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by bartread 3y ago
I never really saw the "factory" analogy of software development: it just makes no sense, unless you look at your CD pipeline and think that's your whole process and where most of the work happens. The very definition of a fa
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by bartread 3y ago
It wasn't just this though. Japanese (and later other far eastern countries') cost of labour was far lower, so they could build a better product at a lower price point than American manufacturers. That's not to say that lack
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by bartread 3y ago
Yeah, I particularly enjoy being able to sneak up on people in a giant estate/station wagon.
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This is one of the most retrograde pieces of legislative nonsense imaginable. Just when significantly cutting noise pollution from motor vehicles in urban areas is finally within our grasp we toss it away by forcing them to make stupid and
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> it isn't fun to tell people "no". It gets even less fun when they won't take no for an answer and want to argue with you about it: it sucks up time and energy you may not want, or even have, to give. It becomes unne
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by bartread 3y ago
GarageBand was always pretty decent on iPad back in the day, at least as a scratchpad for ideas. But yes, this is exciting. I'd quite like to see something like Ableton or Bitwig make its way onto iPad as well.
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> So you're mad that the regulation doesn't personally take your specific situation into account? There are millions of iPhone users in the UK. It seems unlikely that I'm the only one with a bunch of soon to be useless cab
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by bartread 3y ago
I recently bought an Apple TV. It's a great device, but comes with a remote that's USB-C charged. That's fine except that it doesn't come with a USB-C cable, nor does the device have a USB port that could be used for cha
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by bartread 3y ago
It is indeed. Not my bag at all but I've edited my original comment because a lot of the stuff further down, RPG references aside, is decently written, and there clearly is some compassion there. Severance terms are, as these things go
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by bartread 3y ago
"We are changing the shape of Shopify significantly today to pay unshared attention to our mission." What a way to lead, and what an absolutely grotesque euphemism (not to mention a barbaricly tortuous use of English). Why do comp
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UK competition watchdog to launch review into AI(bbc.co.uk)
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by bartread 3y ago
> It puzzles me when people use YouTube for learning. I'm not saying that high-quality educational content doesn't exists on YouTube, but in my experience, it's rare to find a video that explains a concept better than a bo
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by bartread 3y ago
This is really great context - thank you for posting, because it's incredibly informative. I should also say that I use Open AI products and am overall an advocate of them. However, with that being said: - I regard it as 100% disingenu
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by bartread 3y ago
Did the same for Xbox as well: that was lossmaking for years, if I remember correctly. And yet now, and for a long time, they've had a very successful business. One thing I'll say for Microsoft: they really know how to commit. Doe
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by bartread 3y ago
Same. I got rid of my Amiga 500 back in 2002 and have regretted it pretty much ever since. I bought an Amiga 1200 before the pandemic but, whilst it's a great machine (and obviously more capable than my old A500), it's not the sam
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by bartread 3y ago
I'd go further and say that they're actually the bane of my existence when I'm looking for help/pointers on, for example, Windows issues. Inevitably somebody will have posted the same issue on one of the public Windows s
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by bartread 3y ago
Yeah, it's very much Alex Jones's favoured tactic as well. I think the Gish Gallop is one of those situations where it's entirely valid to deploy an ad hominem - and the more ruthlessly, the better - since the only viable and
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by bartread 3y ago
It's not a new idea at all - certainly a lot older than 2013. This adage, and variations of it, get attributed to Mark Twain and Winston Churchill, amongst others: "A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance
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by bartread 4y ago
I don't disbelieve you but I'll bet you any amount of money that the number of cyclists per capita is far higher in Cambridge than it is in Newcastle. That disparity in itself will change the behaviour of motorists: I'm used
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by bartread 4y ago
> Many car drivers are also dickheads Yes. I know. If you actually read what I said carefully you'll note that I said some portion of the population : a very general statement which is inclusive of both cyclists and motorists. I am
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by bartread 4y ago
Yeah, but The Netherlands isn't Cambridge, UK. For one, The Netherlands has great cycling infrastructure, at least places where I've been: Cambridge, UK doesn't. Again, from what I've seen, cyclists in The Netherlands te
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by bartread 4y ago
> > "[whatabout cyclists who break the law]" Your attempt to classify my post as whataboutism is in incredibly poor faith. I'm very pro-cycling, but it would be foolish to ignore the very real and observable safety conc
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by bartread 4y ago
Yes: Cambridge, UK.
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by bartread 4y ago
> Isn‘t the same statement true for car drivers? In theory I agree with you, but in practice the behavioural differences are noticeable, at least in Cambridge. One example (admittedly anecdata from somebody who spends a lot of time on th
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by bartread 4y ago
Whilst I'm overall in favour of promoting cycling as a way of getting around, in preference to motor vehicles, I'm not sure I entirely agree with "safer". I live in Cambridge and have lost count of the number of times I&
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by bartread 4y ago
Ah, Lutz, original author of .NET Reflector. I didn't know he was into making games too. Used to play this back in the day on my ZX Spectrum. It's such a simple concept but, if you're not paying attention, it's way too e
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by bartread 4y ago
Ah, yeah, I've had something similar to that situation as well: I worked a place where you could see the different layers of technology, like different strata in rocks (or layers of lava, to use your metaphor). You could see the SQL Se

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