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by ck425 6y ago
How is the touchpad? Every non-apple touch pad I've ever used has bee terrible.
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by ck425 6y ago
I'll plus one this and recommend you also try doing things outside of class. Uni is an amazing time to try a load of hobbies and new non-academic skills. I personally did a ton of theatre and event planning for fun at uni and learned a
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by ck425 6y ago
This is bad advice. Pitch does seem to be something you have or not (research suggests most kids are pitch perfect and lose it to various extents) but the other parts of singing well are highly technical skills and a teacher will help signi
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by ck425 6y ago
Find a teacher. Generally as a rule Classical/Lyrical/MT styles require more technique than Rock or Jazz (they require technique to not hurt themselves but the style aspect is personal and harder to teach) so I'd recommend ge
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by ck425 6y ago
This is an issue I've had. I've been reconsidering and exploring career options over the last year. Atm I can't act on anything but I've all the time in the world to dwell on it. It's incredible frustrating and caus
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by ck425 6y ago
Even if you don't have those living alone is a different but also difficult situation.
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by ck425 6y ago
It's worth looking into make support groups. There's various movements starting up support groups for men run by men, who are trying to break that stigma. I don't know where you are based but have a Google and you may find a
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by ck425 6y ago
That not true for everyone. I live a 1.6 mile walk/run to work so my commute is 35 min a day and free.
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by ck425 6y ago
This. I live alone and after 5 weeks my mental health has deteriorated significantly. This is not a situation that can last as is till 2021. We'll have a suicide and mental health crisis.
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by ck425 6y ago
Video chat isn't the same. I've been using it a lot and it's isolating. There are plenty of studies showing that biologically it's inferior. Also my main hobby is musical theatre, most of which only works in person, so t
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by ck425 6y ago
I was the same until about 5 weeks in, then the isolation got to me and I reverted to food and sleep to manage my emotions and I wiped out all my progress in two weeks. It's important to remember that this is not a normal state of affa
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by ck425 6y ago
I get why folk deals desire this atm but honestly I'm sick fed up of multiplayer games, or worse always online games.I miss the days of single player story led games. Yeah they still exist but not as much as they used to and it seems l
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by ck425 6y ago
Very good summary. I still think DP-3T is far preferable due to privacy and the ability to more easily implement it. It'll also get more data as more people will actually use it.
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by ck425 6y ago
There's a difference between being satisfied with the healthcare it provides and loving the NHS. People in the UK love the NHS as a concept and an institution, even if we're still often critical of the quality of service provided.
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by ck425 6y ago
The harm that a developed surveillance state can do is incredible. See China. We need to balance saving lives from corona with potentially saving lives or quality of lives from privacy abuse. It's a slippery slope argument and those ar
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by ck425 6y ago
What's important now is that we raise awareness of this so we can pressure NHSX to change their plan. If enough people refuse to use a centralized system they'll change track.
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by ck425 7y ago
There are just a lot of chippies run by Italian families, particularly in Glasgow. As a general rule they tend to be better than most chippes. The often have Italian names, are family run and do pizza & pasta as well as chip shop food.
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by ck425 7y ago
It's definitely more Glaswegian than generic Scottish but it's also definitely accurate!
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by ck425 7y ago
Apparently "good cunt" is a New Zealand thing too. I was wonderfully surprised when a Kiwi friend declared me a good cunt.
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by ck425 7y ago
Where in Scotland were you? Quality varies everywhere in the UK I find but if you want a proper good chippy either go to a real Italian chippy or one of the Fife village chippies.
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by ck425 7y ago
No true Scot bothers with airs and graces.
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by ck425 7y ago
Are you comparing them to fries? Chippy chips and fries are two different things
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by ck425 7y ago
Folk say c t all the time. I went to a very international uni and was shocked by how offended Americans and English folk got by it. Americans also got weirdly offended by saying f k. That made working with them at the start of my career s
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by ck425 7y ago
There's scope within tech. I recently moved to the NHS as a software engineer and it's amazing the amount of low hanging fruit there is. The main issues are politics and the fragmentation of existing tech but if you're an eng
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by ck425 7y ago
Are those jobs in specific industries? Like financial tech jobs.
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by ck425 7y ago
It's definitely at an advantage over systems like the US, but the NHS is far more federalised under the hood than you might imagine and there are lots of countries where the government or other regulators can take control of private he
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Ask HN: Which non-technical skills are important for Software Engineers?
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by ck425 7y ago
Thanks for sharing, I'll definitely read that. How do you balance between the threat being real and the anxiety not necessarily being helpful? I can think of many situations where my emotional reaction to things are the correct reactio
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by ck425 7y ago
There's a lot of research to suggest that this is why kids from lower social-economic backgrounds have lower levels of self-control. They're so used to negative outcomes that they've been neurally trained to immediately take
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by ck425 7y ago
Is 15 days holiday considered a lot?! In the uk the legal minimum is 28 days but most tech jobs have around 30-35 plus the ability to buy more.

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