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by dave4420 4y ago
Thatcher survived an actual attempt on her life. Quite how Major made it through to the 1997 election without being sacked by his party or forced into an earlier election, I will never know. Even Blair spent 6 of his 10 years as PM being un
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by dave4420 4y ago
It’s an unofficial HN proxy, isn’t it? Not operated by HN or YC? Why does anyone use it?
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by dave4420 4y ago
Easily bypassed with incognito mode.
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by dave4420 4y ago
They’re known as books.
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by dave4420 4y ago
Depends what you mean by “xyz”. A cheaper part of your country? Yes. A cheaper country? It makes it easier emotionally for managers to take that step, but there are still time zone, cultural distance and language issues arguing against it.
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by dave4420 5y ago
Are you sure? My recollection is that hooks are not copied from the upstream repo, so cloning a repo would only cause the post-checkout hook to run if you had previously set one up on your machine.
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by dave4420 5y ago
Is it possible that the ads are served by Google, and that Google infers your devices belong to the same household because they share the same IP address?
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by dave4420 5y ago
> The internet should make your location unimportant Musk is paying attention to the world as it is, where location is still important. For example, London and San Francisco are still terribly expensive; if location was unimportant they
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by dave4420 5y ago
That’s a fair point. I don’t really agree with it, because - we will continue to fossil-fuel-burn ourselves out of the problem, climate change be damned - we’re not actually running out of coal or natural gas - even with oil, extraction is
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by dave4420 5y ago
We’ve had inflation and stuff before. What makes this time different?
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by dave4420 5y ago
What do you mean by “you won’t like it”? If self-hosting is the best option for you, do it. I won’t judge you. I just don’t want to take that option for myself, and I don’t want to be judged for it either.
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by dave4420 5y ago
You’ve got to trust someone. Do you trust yourself to host all these things more than you trust specialists?
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by dave4420 5y ago
1. This is Orwellian. 2. This seems unlikely to have any effect on the Russian government’s behaviour.
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by dave4420 5y ago
What part of https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sustainable_Development_Goal... does this Corbett guy object to?
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by dave4420 5y ago
If no-code is the future of programming, here are some pain points I have with existing no-code tools that they need to fix: - no automated testing - no deployments other than to production (to be fair Retool supports being deployed into tw
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by dave4420 5y ago
I mean virility, and I mean that they do it to appear virile, not that it means they’re actually good in bed. You see the same thing with men and gun culture.
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by dave4420 5y ago
You might interpret it as a sign of weakness. Some people seem to interpret using ridiculously overpowered weaponry as a sign of strength or virility.
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by dave4420 5y ago
Why do you need a reason beyond the one you started with: that they believe it is more profitable?
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by dave4420 5y ago
Will you support Russia when they invade your country?
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by dave4420 5y ago
Are you saying that Russia has not, in fact, invaded Ukraine?
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by dave4420 5y ago
Why would you want to prevent people from answering “yes” or “no” to a yes/no question?
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by dave4420 5y ago
Only switch your computer off when you go on holiday. Put it to sleep otherwise. Keep your IDE open at all times. Have it auto start when your computer boots up.
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by dave4420 5y ago
Who are “they”? What’s a “RAT” in this context?
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by dave4420 5y ago
If no consciousness existed, who or what would judge whether a statement was a fact?
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by dave4420 5y ago
If React doesn’t click for you, Svelte does, and you’re not looking to make a career out of it soon either way, just go with Svelte.
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by dave4420 5y ago
(July 2021)
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by dave4420 5y ago
Case classes in Scala? (Although traditional imperative classes are also available, so maybe this doesn’t count as encouraging your desired style.)
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by dave4420 5y ago
To be fair, Boris Johnson isn’t really Prime Minister, he just plays one on TV.
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by dave4420 5y ago
Wait, are you saying that the eruption today is as bad as the one that caused this?
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by dave4420 5y ago
It’s free software, so if you are not happy with the developer’s behaviour you are able to fork it and add these features yourself.

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