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by djhworld 6y ago
> First, the banks actively filed these reports, so it's not like they were trying to hide these transactions. The ones they really wanted to hide, you won't find in these reports. The takeaway I got from the article was the ba
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It's amusing looking back at the failed ones, at the time it feels terrible, but as time passes it becomes an footnote of your own personal history. My favourite one was sitting in a conference room in a hotel basement being interviewe
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I'm 33 and will soon be moving back to my parents place in a different city. No point paying London rents for a tiny crappy apartment whilst WFH
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Really enjoyed reading this, thanks. Would be interested to see if the garbage collector has presented any problems when running in production
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I’ve recently started to get back into emacs and org, via doom emacs. Will see how it goes. How are people handling getting org files on multiple devices, with sync support etc. Dropbox?
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£200k a year you'll be very comfortable, and could probably get a mortgage on a £1million house depending on your deposit (downpayment)
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The checkout process of Amazon is good, the browsing experience...not so much
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Is there a resource that explains what const functions are and why you would use them?
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This is why I've been an Ocado customer for a long time, the automation + inventory management allows for a much more consistent shopping experience, I've rarely ever gotten substitutes in my order or food that is just on the brin
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Pretty cool. Instead of elastic search you could also use SQLite5 with its full text search support.
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Does anyone know if the new stuff touted over the last few years (servo, webrender etc) is going to make it into the mainline Firefox release? I moved back to Firefox back when they released Quantum and was really excited about the plans to
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Has AWS ever sunsetted a service? I know they deprecated SimpleDB but I don't think they ever actually shut it down for existing customers, that might have changed in the last few years though.
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Setup a pihole and point your iPhone DNS settings to that. You can use wireguard to tunnel to it when you are outside of your home network
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the 350 isn't factoring in the costs of calls/data etc. it depends on how long you want to keep the phone for. I bought my phone in 2017 ago for £400 and I pay £8 a month to a carrier to get an allowance of data + calls every mont
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Credit cards in the UK offer section 75 protection, so are definitely worth it for purchases over £100 https://www.moneysavingexpert.com/reclaim/section75-protect-... I use my credit card for all my purchases and pay t
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It's definitely sad, but nostalgia often is, I think the last time I had an Argos catalogue in the house was probably more than 20 years ago! It's a good time to retire the thing, less paper going to waste. Very warm memories of l
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> software are also competing against pen and paper, which are many ways stronger. for scratchy notes that you don't care about sure, but if you want to search, copy/paste, erase etc. physical notebooks are the worst. I was an
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The note taking service is on one of my raspberry pi's and exposes a HTTP API which the fuse driver interacts with. Could have used NFS or something to achieve what you've suggested, but this is the path I went down and seems to w
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I gave up with the commercial and open source offerings and instead just wrote my own solution. All notes are markdown, stored in a SQLite DB with full text search. It has a simple frontend and you can drag/drop images onto the editor
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You can withdraw them as cash, each bond is worth £1, although it takes a few days for them to send the money to your bank.
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https://www.spacejam.com/cmp/pressbox/credits.html Love the shout outs to the people who made the site
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I did something similar a year or so ago, a really fun and rewarding project https://djhworld.github.io/post/2019/05/21/i-dont-know-how-c... I didn't go as far as writing my own OS, but I did develo
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Assuming they build the new Macs around the SoC - does this effectively kill any hope of dual boot support for Linux/Windows etc. It's not just the ARM processor in there, those SoCs have a bunch of Apple proprietary stuff (inc. G
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I wonder if these intel based ones are going to be on the high end of the Macbook Pro lineup or iMac.
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Neat, thrown together Set implementation https://go2goplay.golang.org/p/FffAhV8aLyN
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Other people have reported that Firefox runs fine, so it might have just been my setup - I might have been a little hasty to write it off. I'll try it again at some point, but disable TreeStyleTabs, that might have been one of the caus
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I had zero issues with the Wifi, not tried Bluetooth so can’t comment there. I’m not sure if the lack of WiFi issues is because Fedora tends to stay pretty up to date kernel wise. EDIT: to clarify - I had zero issues with having to to anyth
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Tried it, just didn't feel the same for me. Admirable effort by the developers, though.
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It's been fine, I've noticed a significant different in performance between Virtualbox and VMWare Fusion - I'm not sure what VMWare are doing but their hypervisor makes VMs feel almost native in performance levels it's q
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TIL - thanks!

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