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by clappski 8y ago
Do you have any sources for what you’re saying? Specifically for your third paragraph.
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by clappski 8y ago
2 full racks of ribs will bring you pretty close: https://www.nutritionix.com/i/nutritionix/bbq-ribs-1-rack-12...
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by clappski 8y ago
That website is possibly the most beautiful and ergonomic website I've ever used.
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by clappski 8y ago
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/vote-leave-re... seems to have some details on the presumed effect on the way people vote.
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by clappski 8y ago
Because the current government only have a majority due to a confidence and supply agreement with the DUP, who would break off that agreement if there was a border between Northern Ireland and RoUK as part of the deal. Overall to Brexit sup
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by clappski 8y ago
Forced into remaining by a second democratic referendum, held due to the uncovering of lies and nebulous accounting of the leave campaign that the full extent of hasn’t been fully uncovered?
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by clappski 8y ago
Using the <iostream> stuff isn’t really idiomatic - on both modern and legacy code bases I’ve used operator<< overloads on custom types, but never called std::cout in a hot loop or used std::endl to do anything but actually flus
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by clappski 8y ago
That page is inspiring, for a commodity, open source and old software project everything is very clearly defined and the language is very definitive which I hope is indicative of the actual library quality (I’ve never used SQLite).
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by clappski 8y ago
My SO manages a popular bakery chain store down south. Being from Lancastershire when someone asks for a sausage roll she always has to ask for clarification (‘bread or pastry?).
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by clappski 8y ago
I have regular arguments with my SO over the technical differences between barmcakes and, what I call all small round bread, bread rolls. Never heard barm until I came to Lancastershire but it’s probably my favourite synonym for it. Get fun
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by clappski 8y ago
I bought a Nvidia/i7 XPS 15 in March and have never understood the coil whine complaints, yeah there is some but nothing too bad (comparable to my 2012 MacBook Air). Alternately everyone else has super hearing or I’m deaf, YMMV.
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by clappski 8y ago
I’m from Bletchley (and actually lived in a housing development built on some of the land that the trust that owned the park sold, inventively named Bletchley Park)! Historically (as in,5/6 years ago), Bletchley Park was in dire need o
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by clappski 8y ago
As another non-American, the ‘Latin America’ thing stinks of the ‘Oriental’ label that used to be applied to anyone from Far East Asia in the UK. I don’t understand why they aren’t just ‘South Americans’ or are addressed by their national i
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by clappski 8y ago
Because ultimately the executives are responsible for all the of decisions made in their area - superiors often need at least a layman’s understanding of the technical bits behind a proposal or an argument to be able to defend it to either
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by clappski 8y ago
The only place I’ve seen powerful/prosumer non-Mac laptops that you can play with in store in the UK are big department stores - e.g. John Lewis. Actually, PC World had demo machines out to play with last time I was in there, but very
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by clappski 8y ago
‘Europeans would be fucked’... as if there aren’t any successful or innovative European companies? Bare in mind that you probably use some sort of service to handle every time of payment, even if it’s a local sale (e.g. Stripe, VISA Pay&#x2
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by clappski 8y ago
You can get variable and fixed rate mortgages in the UK, fixed typically have higher interest rates but obviously variable can outpace it depending on markets.
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by clappski 9y ago
Is Cage's 4'33" unmusic? Are the birds, tweeting birds songs, unmusic? I think you're confusing only musical styles that you recognize as music for the whole world of music we are surrounded by.
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by clappski 9y ago
I think muddying the definition of art and the mechanics with which art is created doesn't do either justice. Art is simply creative expression - that Limbaugh quote could be seen as a form of art (although it's a very contrived e
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by clappski 9y ago
I think software developers have a very interesting relationship with the hiring process - there's an unspoken attitude that our skills are highly in demand, so therefore companies should be trying to hire us rather than us trying to g
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by clappski 9y ago
TCS supply L1/L2 internal support services where I work, and while the more senior members of the teams are very good at their jobs and take a proactive part in providing supporting, the ones who have been there less than 5 years (made
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by clappski 9y ago
They have their weird titles because they're a livery company, similar to the Worshipful Company of Marketors (marketors.org/). Perhaps one the day WCIT will get a Royal Charter as well. You can read more about livery companies an
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by clappski 9y ago
Does that really matter in the context of the Linux kernel, seeing as GCC is the only supported compiler currently?
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by clappski 9y ago
You definitely need to add a bunch of extra emacs configuration on top of the standard evil-mode stuff to get a fully intergrated emacs<->vim environment. On top of that, for most meta modes (e.g. dired, magit) you'll have to eit
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by clappski 9y ago
That’s as bad as saying OOP is the cure for all your problems! Learn all the paradigms and use them where they’re best used, don’t shun any or advise someone against it just because you’ve had a bad experience.
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by clappski 9y ago
100 cigarettes seems like a very low threshold, that’s 5 packs of 20, even moderate smokers (>10 per day) could go through 200 in a month.
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by clappski 9y ago
It depends on what work I’m doing - in the office I have a 32” and two 19”’s, when I’m remoting I use my T420 which has a 14” (I think). If I need to tail logs or remote onto a few servers the extra real estate is invaluable, if I have a co
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by clappski 9y ago
Everyone in the UK complains about the way the goverment run/fund the NHS, and the majority of the issues people have with the service are due to bad outsourcing choices or services affected by funding cuts. It's a big distinction
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by clappski 9y ago
Image Music Text is a fantastic read. It was one of my required readings at University, but would recommend it to anyone interested in Structuralism. My favorite essay was The Grain of the Voice, it expanded the ways that I thought about ho

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