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by brmgb 3y ago
> In the UK I think I'd have a hard time getting anything other than generic 'basmati' It’s relatively easy to find any kind of rice in countries with significant East Asian diaspora like England provided you are ready to
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by brmgb 3y ago
Well, yes, it obviously is and there is no need to go that low. Don’t you have a freezer at your place? Technically food in a cold enough freezer will never get uneatable. It is indeed flash frozen to preserve its texture. The issue is that
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by brmgb 3y ago
The answer is both of them together obviously. The dichotomy you propose doesn’t exist. Curriculum like most things are collective endeavour.
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by brmgb 3y ago
> Atomic bomb Mostly foreign Jewish scientists who were neither taught nor started their research in the USA and came because of the situation in Europe. Even Oppenheimer had to go do his PhD in Germany. > Hollywood Both the camera, t
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by brmgb 3y ago
> Interesting to read about semicolons improving comprehension -it felt like it had been decades since somebody had the courage to say so. (That said I write python un functionally and so am 4space tabbed to the max) I think it has a lot
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by brmgb 4y ago
> Another striking thing about Maigret is how much he relies on the police force around him. That's because he is a "commissaire", a superintendant, for most of the books. Maigret is in a lot of way the reverse of a hard b
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by brmgb 4y ago
> Wow. That seems such a sad and limiting way to live your life. Mostly true in my experience. I used to get away a lot more when I had a car and could just decide to hit the road whenever I wanted than I do now that I either have to ren
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by brmgb 4y ago
The slowness with which the biggest European cities with housing issues have tackled the problems of both short term rentals, second home ownerships and properties as investments tell you all you need to know about whose interests the main
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by brmgb 4y ago
> Some numbers represent real things. Like my little kid saw a pair of oven mitts and said 'two gloves'. Like, he was seeing a literal manifestation of two-ness in front of him - which is different than the logical idea of 1+1
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by brmgb 4y ago
TLDR: With interests rising and growth slowing down, it's getting harder for VCs to find capital. Therefore, some funds have stopped investing in new companies and are just managing their existing portfolio. These funds will most likel
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by brmgb 4y ago
> Have you tried it recently? I've always thought this but am now using it as my main DE (for the first time) & this seems to be entirely fixed. I don't need to try it. The pictures in this release annoucement display it ev
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by brmgb 4y ago
I think KDE fills a very peculiar niche. On the one hand, it's highly customisable and it's trying it's best to genuinely provide an interesting technical offering through flexible and useful tools. On the other hand, it&#x27
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by brmgb 4y ago
As someone who sadly has fairly regular sleep issues, I feel perfectly functional and reasonably productive on 6 hours of sleep a night. Yet, everytime I manage to regularly get 8, I feel so much better and am noticably sharper. My advice i
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by brmgb 4y ago
Same, I drink two to three doubles every day and regularly have to stop while traveling and I have yet to see any adverse effect. I also don't really get the whole energy boost thing. Coffee doesn't really seem to be doing anythin
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by brmgb 4y ago
The issue of India has always been that it has some serious cultural obstacles to overcome and very little interest in doing so. Society remains deeply segregated with the caste system being a drag on everything. Religious intelorance is ve
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by brmgb 4y ago
Yes, that's how most people use MS Teams. It's extremely useful. The sharing space for documents is good. Collaborative editing in Office is good. Conferencing is good. Presenting from Powerpoint is good. It's the same thing
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by brmgb 4y ago
We need a way to encourage innovation and patents do work for that. The issue is not patent per see, the issue is the US patent office. There is next to zero proper due diligence done for a patent to be awarded and there is no consequence t
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by brmgb 4y ago
Plenty of companies have the roles of technical leads and managers overlap which honestly can make a lot of sense depending of how your engineering org is setup.
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by brmgb 4y ago
> When that investor letter to Google ceo came out, I unfortunately suggested that maybe for a company like Google, too high salaries would bring people in who "work for money and not passion". Everyone works for money. That&#x
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by brmgb 4y ago
My experience is that customers want features shipped yesterday and the critical bugs affecting them fixed asap. Companies want money to flow in and penalities not to kick in. Refactoring serves neither of these goals so it's rightfull
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by brmgb 4y ago
> What changed since then? Microsoft invested $10 billion dollars.
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by brmgb 4y ago
To be fair, depending of the website, interactions with anonymous people on the Internet already sound like that and have for ages. Reddit would be a great exemple. On most popular subreddits, people will stubornly refuse to admit they are
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by brmgb 4y ago
> By the way, it was the border with Ireland that created issues, not the one with France As a French, let me tell you there were and still are plenty of issues with France too notably regarding fishing rights and border control. France
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by brmgb 4y ago
Switzerland has this weird relationship with the EEA where they want to be able to export easily so they align their laws but don't want to be a member so they have no say on what is done. > Brexit was a remarkably straightforward p
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by brmgb 4y ago
> That’s how the big players killed hardware startups in Europe. Sorry but if your quality process doesn't allow you to guarantee that what you sell will still work in a measly two years, you have no business selling it the first pl
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by brmgb 4y ago
No one uses the web app. You can obviously collaborate from the actual piece of software. Every discussion about Teams boils down to the same thing: software engineers needs when it comes to collaboration are low so they are happy using an
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by brmgb 4y ago
The idea is hilarious. GSuite is basically unusable. It's miles behind excel for anything serious and has no equivalent to powerpoint at all. Some of you don't understand you live in a very tiny bubble and entreprise needs are ver
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by brmgb 4y ago
Call me when Slack allows collaborative editing of powerpoint presentations and excel spreadsheets. I think there is little overlap between the part of the companies which benefit from Teams and the part that wants to use Slack.
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by brmgb 4y ago
Most definitely. I am French by the way but I think the French nuclear umbrella can be extended to the EU at least somewhat.
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by brmgb 4y ago
If your justification of NATO is their entirely illigetimate and overall worthless intervention in Kosovo, I don't think we will ever see eye to eye. The bombings were highly destructive and didn't solve anything. The war stopped

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