bennysomething

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by bennysomething 4y ago
Can anyone explain how rare burgers can possibly be safe? I've always understood that bacteria that causes food poisoning lives on the surface of a steak hence rare steak is no problem. Mincing a steak would cause that bacteria to be t
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by bennysomething 4y ago
I'm not sure what your point is here.
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by bennysomething 4y ago
Where is the evidence that suppliers are purposely restricting supply? This would only work if there was zero competition for a product.
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by bennysomething 4y ago
It's still a first world problem being "annoyed" that eating out or getting take out is more expensive than it once was.
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by bennysomething 4y ago
It's exactly the same as the government not paying for cars. The UK recently privatised it's post office, there's lots of competition in its postal market (thank goodness). The UK railways where private before 1948, then nati
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by bennysomething 4y ago
There are a reasons I can think of for making money and charging for tickets: 1. The investment can come from the private sector, it takes the risk instead of burdening the tax payer. 2. Free rail for all burdens all with the cost of rail,
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by bennysomething 4y ago
It is common in UK to be salaried but on call on an hourly rate.
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by bennysomething 4y ago
Being on call should just be paid at the normal hourly rate. It's an outrageous setup up: we need you to available but don't want to pay you for it. I did it for a few years and it made me pretty depressed. By the end of it I stop
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by bennysomething 4y ago
Thanks
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by bennysomething 4y ago
Genuine question as I'm surprised by the Amazon comment given their well known interview process, are there really programmers there who can't program very well?
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by bennysomething 4y ago
What are the books called, I'd like to read them too.
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by bennysomething 4y ago
https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/910789.The_Elements_o... Also Google from and to Tetris as there are courses using the book called this. In fact that's what they were going to call the book.
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by bennysomething 4y ago
You say worse is done by corporations, do you have any examples?
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by bennysomething 4y ago
They are there to earn money for their share holders (which to be clear isn't just rich people, it's pensions including pensions for fire departments etc). They must act in their share holders interests. Cutting their fees with no
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by bennysomething 4y ago
Pc port of ocarina of time!? I'm off to Google that (I know mario 64 got ported...)
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by bennysomething 4y ago
That was the Blair governments terrible idea to give public funding to all religious schools. Coming from northern Ireland where segregation in schools is pretty fundamental to the divide, I couldn't believe the stupidity in implement
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by bennysomething 4y ago
https://justinmiller.io/posts/2020/06/17/project-386-part-4/ Just read your bit on how focused you felt using that. Very interesting! I still have my ATX big case pc and won't give it up for a
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by bennysomething 4y ago
Does each application implement its own tcp up stack? Or does dos have one already?
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by bennysomething 4y ago
I had a similar device for the snes, "action replay" cart. It explained how to figure out codes for yourself. Me and a friend spent a day trying to get street fighter 2 to allow us to play as boss characters (Vega etc). We got as
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by bennysomething 4y ago
That's a bold statement "most managers are morons". What evidence do you have for this? I've worked with some excellent managers.
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by bennysomething 4y ago
Programmers are paid the market rate for their field, level, geographic area. It's just supply and demand.
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by bennysomething 4y ago
That's a really good point. I never thought of it that way.
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by bennysomething 4y ago
I always remember that quote as well, the bored part of it really stuck with me. Unfortunately I smoked my first joint at 13, I'm pretty certain it damaged my short term memory. I think had it been legal I wouldn't have got hold
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by bennysomething 4y ago
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Tripp Had to Google that, though it does sound temporary?
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by bennysomething 4y ago
Yes I know but it certainly doesn't power tor, coming from Mozilla it seems a bit poor technically.
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by bennysomething 4y ago
How's does gecko power tor?
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by bennysomething 4y ago
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=fJosaT1sCfs Might be noticing key frame animation in 8 bit games. It can have a really nice subtle effect.
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by bennysomething 4y ago
There was an interview somewhere with lots of the street fighter 2 team, including marketers in America, the snes Japanese box art is really cool the USA and euro is awful. They felt that the manga style jap art work would put USA kids off.
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by bennysomething 4y ago
Well said
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by bennysomething 4y ago
Thanks for this

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