darreninthenet

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by darreninthenet 2y ago
As a consumer in the UK, I would wholeheartedly recommend Amex... they've always taken my side and even actively argued my case against "rogue" retailers and companies whenever I've had a problem... their customer servic
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by darreninthenet 2y ago
I already have a great social life outside of work... I don't need or want one from my work colleagues who are likely to be much more transient than my "real" friends anyway
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by darreninthenet 2y ago
I actually meant from Reddit as they hold a monopoly on online forums imo, but I'm no expert in this, was just wondering
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by darreninthenet 2y ago
Isn't this monopoly abuse?
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by darreninthenet 2y ago
In my experience shit managers have a really hard time understanding and appreciating the effectiveness of WIP Limits and it creates pressure on teams to break them, at which point Kanban snaps in terms of both predictability and delivery.
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by darreninthenet 2y ago
Simple - Kanban when implemented properly in teams works brilliantly, Scrum when implemented properly in teams works "ok" and then tends towards Kanban as the team strives to modify it to work better. Solution - always start with
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by darreninthenet 2y ago
The behaviour of a credit card company would vary enormously around the world though, for example in the UK credit card providers are jointly and severely liable for any action brought against the merchant (ie if they won't do anything
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by darreninthenet 2y ago
I've lived with my (now) wife for 18 years and been very happily married for 14 years, and we've managed our finances exactly like this. It's just been much easier for us, and we both have very different approaches to balanci
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by darreninthenet 2y ago
This is coming around full circle to the early days of the internet when people had toolbars installed on their browser that displayed adverts and they slowly earned pennies for the time they spent browsing (and seeing the toolbar adverts).
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by darreninthenet 2y ago
The justice system is regional, spread around the country there probably weren't so many in one place that somebody might question it but then it's also for the court to only consider the evidence in front of it. Only the Post Off
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by darreninthenet 2y ago
But some people demonstrated they could achieve that without physically meeting over Covid... mandating it as a "sheep dipping" approach is old fashioned and thoughtless. For me I don't need it, and I've proven that agai
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by darreninthenet 2y ago
I'm not sure it's an introvert thing... I've no desire or need to go to the office, I have many friends not at work and have no need for the false "socialising" you get in the office environment
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by darreninthenet 2y ago
In my last job (10,000ish employees at a UK financial services organisation) we worked at home for the whole of the Covid period... apart from one small team in the whole organisation (which soon got dealt with as they were basically just s
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by darreninthenet 2y ago
It used to be irritating when cash was king but now I use card for 99.9% of everything it doesn't really make much difference to the way I see prices. Purchased a couple of ice creams at a small museum cafe yesterday and they only took
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by darreninthenet 2y ago
What connectivity will it have? Specifically asking about iCloud and Dropbox...
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by darreninthenet 2y ago
Not defending DDG or anyone here but it depends on the cause of the outage... is it something broken in Azure (for example) that's causing it? As has been pointed out it's still possible to search with Bing (both directly and thro
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by darreninthenet 2y ago
LHR (Least Hallucinated Response)
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by darreninthenet 2y ago
I host mine on (the rather very good) omg.lol and they send me a weekly reminder via email... I can even update it by replying to the email using markdown https://darreninthe.net/now
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by darreninthenet 2y ago
I suppose yes a smart watch in a "dumb phone" body with a basic screen and dial pad, and all it links to is messages and calls, no other notifications or ability to interact with any other functionality.
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by darreninthenet 2y ago
What I really want is a dummy dumb phone that's a Bluetooth controller for my smartphone so I can call and text from it but have no other distractions. There's a little flip phone Bluetooth dialler thing that pops up on ali etc qu
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by darreninthenet 2y ago
Depends what you mean by European... UK men's clothes are the same side (both before and after Brexit )
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by darreninthenet 2y ago
Apparently so, check out: gopher://zaibatsu.circumlunar.space:70/1/ They have a Tor link on their page
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by darreninthenet 2y ago
Prestel was my first online experience, over a 1200/75 baud modem (I just missed the acoustic coupler era, this was mid-80s) and led me onto dialing up many BBSs... much to my fathers gnashing of teeth when the quarterly British Teleco
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by darreninthenet 2y ago
The BBC version was a small square of "static" broadcast in the corner of the closing credits of the Micro Show and you put and square plastic box (you could get from the show, I can't remember if you had to pay for them or n
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by darreninthenet 2y ago
And if they want it read, they need to write something to read... this experimental blog has made four posts, the last one in January.
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by darreninthenet 2y ago
Perhaps like they did for their silicon on desktop, they are going for performance parity with a fraction of the power requirements? Power supply driving all those GPUs is currently most AI companies biggest costs IIRC
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by darreninthenet 2y ago
Some of this depends on your ecosystem as well... my iPhone has smooth integration with my desktop (iMac)... I also have VLC on my iPhone... the thing that bothers me the most are the audio things you mentioned and the web browsers. When I
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by darreninthenet 3y ago
What books would people recommend starting with by this guy?
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by darreninthenet 3y ago
Is there a Mac version or do you run it on Mac under Wine/Crossover?
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by darreninthenet 3y ago
Think my brain just exploded

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