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by dcminter 1y ago
Setting aside the scam aspect, I find it depressing that places that used to be visa free for residents of certain countries have now instituted visa-but-not-a-visa with a fee across the board. Visiting the US from the UK I used to have to
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by dcminter 1y ago
Same. Now, however: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44955159
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by dcminter 1y ago
The Sinclair QL was a 68k machine, not an 8-bit (and famously what Linus Torvalds had before he got a 386 based PC). Edit: 8-bit data bus though, which I didn't know until reading up on the Motorola 68008 just now! Trust Uncle Clive to
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by dcminter 1y ago
Speaking for myself I'm static or death, BUT I can see how one might come away scarred from C++ and conflate static with the wild degree of ceremony and clunky tooling. Nowadays the better static languages do a lot of type infererence
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by dcminter 1y ago
I've always been given to understand that making a small fortune (out of a large one) was the main goal of owning a bookshop. I'd try that :)
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by dcminter 1y ago
Plausible, yes. Most of my cohort are fans of the late Humph & the gang. Barry Cryer, of course, wrote for a lot of other comedians so gags often originate from or propagate via him
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by dcminter 1y ago
I'm fairly sure I heard a version of this pre-2000 about someone opening a cheese shop called "Cheeses of Nazareth" :) Sadly it was verbal so I don't know the exact provenance, but I'd bet it was abstracted from a B
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by dcminter 1y ago
In the term "conman" the confidence in question is that of the mark, not the perpetrator.
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by dcminter 1y ago
One might even call them illuminati? :D
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by dcminter 1y ago
High tide is around a third (like the other day with the new tlChatGPT release) but it's mostly down around the current level. I knocked this together to explore just this thought: hntags.com
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by dcminter 1y ago
Essentially off-topic but while that's my perception too, actually there are only 3 out of 30 front page stories on AI at the current time, so it's more like 10% It's definitely the most consistent topic but there's a
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by dcminter 1y ago
British English speaker here (southern demographic) - I'd say "to" but "and" doesn't feel wrong so I think it's pretty prevalent. I'm curious how common it is in Indian English.
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by dcminter 1y ago
> 2) if you have thousands of applicants for a position, and probably a dozen stand out by passing a really tough bar, wouldn’t you want to find those dozen? It's a reasonable assumption, but you might not. If the role doesn't
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by dcminter 1y ago
This reminds me of one of my favourite exchanges in a detective story: 'Dear me!' said Miss de Vine, 'who is that very uninspired young woman? She seems very much annoyed with my review of Mr. Winterlake's book on Essex
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by dcminter 1y ago
I've just left somewhere that was using Workday. It was terrifically bad in an already outstanding field of ghastly Enterprise abominations.
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by dcminter 1y ago
You're answering a question that OP did not ask.
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by dcminter 1y ago
Location: Stockholm (remote or hybrid) Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: No Technologies: Java, AWS, Linux, technical writing Résumé/CV: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dcminter/ Email: dave@paperst
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by dcminter 1y ago
"Collapse" is a strong word and even narrowed to "American" society I'm not sure what you would count as collapse. I don't think it's impossible that America could lose it's economic advantage withi
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by dcminter 1y ago
Which society did you have in mind? But if you mean globally then definitely not.
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by dcminter 1y ago
I hope this is a joke, but unfortunately it might not be. A growing number of actual practicing lawyers have got themselves into serious legal trouble by using AI to draft legal documents. You are not going to do better than them; you are g
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by dcminter 1y ago
Upvoted, but just in a friendly "hello, I recognise myself in this comment" sort of way :) I currently have a little stack of index cards with in-play projects scrawled on them and at the end of the year the plan is to weed those
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by dcminter 1y ago
I think the downvoting on you is a little harsh. TFA does allude to it, but doesn't explicitly answer your question. I presume the implicit answer is here: > With growing customer enthusiasm, we were increasingly getting questions
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by dcminter 1y ago
Oxide, at least for an outsider, looks like a company that channels some of the spirit of early Sun Microsystems (I'm aware of the connections of course). I'm quite envious of those who work there - I hope the demands of big money
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by dcminter 1y ago
Ha, I wrote this the other day: > I think it’s part of the procrastination cycle; buying a domain name feels like progress towards the goal, but is incredibly low effort, and thus feeling like I’m making progress I wander off and get att
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by dcminter 1y ago
Yeah, I'm considering a pi500 as a similar alternative. I need to check the weight, but if it's low enough and they release a version with m2 I'll surely try it.
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by dcminter 1y ago
The use case for me is mostly hotel stays. When travelling for fun I don't particularly want the weight (and risk) of packing my laptop, but I would like to be able to play movies and music on the hotel TV. With a cheap light keyboard
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by dcminter 1y ago
If they've ever done that then I've never noticed it - and mine doesn't claim to be unlimited.
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by dcminter 1y ago
Because it's inexpensive and I'd rather pay marginally over the odds than ever have to think about it (I'm not even sure there was a cheaper plan).
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by dcminter 1y ago
One does find it occasionally. My mobile phone plan (in Sweden) currently says that I have 774G left of my 25G/month quota for example :)

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