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by cjs_ac 2mo ago
GDPR requires websites to get user consent before doing sketchy shit. You don’t need a cookie popup if you’re not a scumbag.
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by cjs_ac 2mo ago
Not sure what the point of this is. Why would you need to personalise your payment reminders? If you're sending enough of them out that it's worth automating, you could just write some form emails and automate them yourself. Xero
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by cjs_ac 2mo ago
SRM 2387 pairs well with a cup of ISO 3103. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_3103
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by cjs_ac 2mo ago
I expect that this is mainly due to AI and hardware. The US is about to lose its status as the world’s biggest agricultural exporter to Brazil.
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by cjs_ac 2mo ago
Adding to this, US foreign and military policy is increasingly chaotic, so other countries are quietly disengaging, and tariffs are slowly unravelling the US’ trade relationships. The American people voted for Trump twice : Trumpism is now
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by cjs_ac 2mo ago
I live in rural England where the road network is medieval, lane markings represent the opinion of someone who’s never driven a car and getting personal with a hedge is just part of letting an oncoming combine harvester pass. These anti-col
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by cjs_ac 2mo ago
> The picture above is a clue. In the 18th and then 19th century there was a sequence of taxes on glass. Most famous of all is the window tax of the 18th century which, in fairness, wasn’t primarily a tax on glass. It was mostly a tax on
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by cjs_ac 2mo ago
It was designed by the Road Research Laboratory and has been measured to have better traffic throughput than the conventional roundabout it replaced.
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by cjs_ac 2mo ago
These were used in Australia on the Newnes railway line. Newnes was a shale oil mining town; its history is particularly colourful because its remoteness made it difficult to import sufficient food for the town's population. https:&#x
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by cjs_ac 2mo ago
I started self-hosting my email server earlier this year. I use maddy[0] as my email server and route outgoing mail through MailPace[1] to avoid being memory-holed (despite having SPF and DKIM set up correctly). My reason for self-hosting i
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by cjs_ac 3mo ago
I think Dualit targets about half of these market positions.
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by cjs_ac 3mo ago
> When Deckers, the company behind fleece-lined UGG boots, recently took Quince to court over its lookalike boots, it tried to bar Quince from referencing “dupe culture” at trial. > The bid failed, confirming that “dupes” and “dupe cu
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by cjs_ac 3mo ago
As someone with many heretical opinions, I’ve found it very easy to avoid accusations of heresy by just shutting up. The right to free speech is not an obligation to speak freely. As a software engineer, my colleagues don’t need to know my
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by cjs_ac 3mo ago
Everyone agrees C has problems, but there’s no consensus on what those problems are. People build ‘better Cs’ to solve the problems they see in the language, and offer them to the community for the benefit of those who share their tastes.
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by cjs_ac 3mo ago
There's a pretty good depiction of them in David L. Robbins' Last Citadel .
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by cjs_ac 3mo ago
Dave Plummer is the software engineering equivalent of the Navy Seal copypasta.
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by cjs_ac 3mo ago
TBF, some Australian accents put a rising intonation at the end of sentences, as though the speaker is always asking their interlocutor for approval. Just another thing that's reminiscent of Clive James' remark that too many Austr
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by cjs_ac 3mo ago
Come on mate, you can't go around implying that you've actually read the legislation. This is HN, you have to blindly trust what the free speech absolutists say about it.
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by cjs_ac 3mo ago
A more serious case of unsportsmanlike conduct that was (and still is) within the Laws of Cricket: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bodyline
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by cjs_ac 3mo ago
IIRC, their operation relies on enormous vacuum tubes that the BBC can’t get replacements for any more.
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by cjs_ac 3mo ago
One of the things I've noticed here in Britain is that journalists don't even try to make sense of events, and instead the 'analysis' is just the opinions of uninformed bystanders.
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by cjs_ac 4mo ago
You chose to buy the car with the big blind spots. You’re responsible for checking your blind spots, by moving your head as necessary. This is part of the driving test. Your poor consumer choices do not absolve you of your responsibilities
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by cjs_ac 4mo ago
It will matter to you when you’re sentenced, though. Speaking as a fellow immigrant, your attitude is what gives immigrants a bad name worldwide.
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by cjs_ac 4mo ago
> Those A pillars are MASSIVE liabilities in the UK where people just hop right out onto "zebra crossings" expecting the right-of-way to be yielded to them. Those pedestrians do have the right of way; you need to have another
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by cjs_ac 4mo ago
> Sorry. You can refuse the covid vaccine, but that won't stop everyone else from blithly accepting it. I agree with this part, but then, I personally don't have a problem with everyone else giving up their privacy. > Then o
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by cjs_ac 4mo ago
There’s also a lot of bureaucracy involved in participating in the gilt market directly, rather than using an intermediary. https://www.dmo.gov.uk/investor-information/retail-investors... I don’t think the Treasury rea
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by cjs_ac 4mo ago
The headline is a reference to the phrase ‘bread from air’, which was used to describe the applications of the Haber process.
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by cjs_ac 4mo ago
To be (slightly) more charitable to the genre and to AI, self-help books are a blog post's worth of content padded out to look worthy of the sticker price, so LLMs provide a fair bit of value in extracting the signal from the noise (as
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by cjs_ac 4mo ago
Are you the Sisyphus of goalposts or something?
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by cjs_ac 4mo ago
You know perfectly well what I meant.

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