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by darrenf 4y ago
> Sadly, they seem to have completely gone from the UK - I can't remember the last time I saw a single starling here. They've definitely not completely gone! I live in the UK (in the Surrey hills), and see ~30-40 starlings just
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by darrenf 4y ago
A significant part of Yahoo!'s European and Asian sites had huge Perl backends. IMDb.
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by darrenf 4y ago
Kiwis are New Zealanders. That might be the first thing to learn! :D
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by darrenf 4y ago
If compression speed is lower, then it's slower. If compression time is lower, then it's faster.
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by darrenf 4y ago
I recall this from years ago, and had the Jason app on my phone for a while. The author[0] doesn't seem to have been active on HN or Github for 4 years or so, but a few interesting things came up over the course of a year, year and hal
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by darrenf 4y ago
Loved KITH. So happy it was broadcast in the UK back in the day. I still occasionally go back to watch The Chase[0], or Bad Doctor, or I Speak No English to this day. Haven’t seen the revival show yet, need to dig out some time to do so. [0
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by darrenf 4y ago
You’re right, of course. Consultation was the word I failed to recall. In both my redundancies, notice periods were negotiated because both employers wanted us to work longer than our notice. “We’re getting rid of your roles, but can you ju
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by darrenf 4y ago
To me in the UK, "fire" generally refers to letting someone go because of incompetence, bad behaviour, or whatever - the role will still exist but the individual is let go. In which case you're entitled to whatever your contr
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by darrenf 4y ago
Surely the question was aimed at @qwertox, not @_Microft?
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by darrenf 4y ago
> Originally I figured formatting to HTML, and then building a print-friendly HTML render would work. But this proved super challenging. [...] none gave me enough control to render just a single page of the original source file Nothing
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by darrenf 4y ago
Perl's re.pl exits on ^C too (as well as ^D). Ditto Clojure.
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by darrenf 4y ago
Sweatcoin are launching a token later this year. https://sweatco.in/
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by darrenf 4y ago
Ah yes, there’s council tax - but tenants pay that too, so it’s not a difference between the scenarios. Also I wouldn’t want or expect to stop contributing to local services just because I don’t have a mortgage!
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by darrenf 4y ago
I'm in the UK. AFAIK we don't have any ongoing property taxes to pay, at least not if I have bought the freehold. Leaseholders may have to pay ground rent, but that's often a peppercorn and anything above that is being legisl
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by darrenf 4y ago
I spent most of my 20s thinking, man, fuck home ownership, I'm gonna rent forever (to my knowledge, no-one in my family had ever owned; I grew up in charity housing and inherited nothing at all). Then I got booted out of a place becaus
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by darrenf 4y ago
> I remember a long time ago (25 years?) someone 'invented' a device where you plug your TV into it, and it has an IR receiver to go with it, you program it to respond to your TVs power button (on the remote control), and then
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by darrenf 4y ago
Took me a couple of minutes to figure out why it was failing silently for me - I have ssh aliased to `kitty +kitten ssh`[0], which is obviously incompatible with charm.sh powered ssh apps. :) Works fine with unaliased ssh, of course. Great
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by darrenf 4y ago
In my (biased) opinion Perl comes close to ideal with judicious use of Path::Tiny and Capture::Tiny.
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by darrenf 4y ago
It's much too reductive a framing, IMO. Public sector spending is not, majorly, an "outgoing" of "the UK" in any reasonably comparable way to an individual's spend - rather, public sector money generally fund
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by darrenf 4y ago
Back in the 1950s and 60s my dad was a parachute training instructor for the RAF. As well as teach others how to safely jump out of planes, he also basically did QA for ejector seats. His service ended when one such seat really wasn’t ready
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by darrenf 4y ago
I’m sure there’s an aspect of that. That said, I include in my claim a raft of friends I’ve had since my teens, or others met through football (UK definition; I’m a Brit in southern England) - many of whom live pretty different lives to min
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by darrenf 4y ago
> I was a bit surprised to see how most people I interact with over the age of 40 or so (my parents incl.) are pretty stubborn about referring to people based on what they consider right, like it’s some act of bravery to disregard how s
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by darrenf 4y ago
I was and remain delighted that Marmite XO went from limited run to regularly available.
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by darrenf 5y ago
So I changed jobs in May 2021. Had been a happy Intel mac user since the intel switch (my first Mac was a PowerBook). New employer supplied me an M1 MBP and I was fucking delighted, since I didn’t have the means to buy my own at the time. C
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by darrenf 5y ago
The roam has no Ethernet port. It holding a wifi signal has never been a problem (if I set it playing something, I can’t recall it ever having stopped) Someone else has contacted me privately and recommended I switch off private MAC address
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by darrenf 5y ago
I got one of these in December 2021 and frankly love it. Got fed up with being pretty much the only person on earth who had a shitty experience with Apple Silicon, so jumped back to Linux after 17 years away. I don’t use it as a portable, o
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by darrenf 5y ago
> In true HN fashion, first-mover / market-leader Sonos isn't even mentioned yet. I bought my first Sonos device last year, the Roam. Using it as a bluetooth speaker is fine and I love the sound and portability, but oh boy do I
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by darrenf 5y ago
In my former South- West London circles, "mentalist" rarely had the negative connotation you describe. More frequently it was used to refer to someone's (contextually) outrageous/daft/extreme behaviour. "You r
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by darrenf 5y ago
That would be a leading 0, not a trailing 0! :)
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by darrenf 5y ago
> Are there scenarios when either operator (cmp or <=>) works, but they have different behaviour? It being Perl, you can basically throw anything at either operator if you like. It's trivial to find examples where the answer

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