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by fy20 2y ago
This 100%. If you are going to include a GitHub link, then you NEED to have at least one project that shows you know how to code. All I see is forked projects and themes. That reads to me as someone who is trying to BS their way into a job.
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by fy20 2y ago
I wonder if anyone called Yasir (male Arabic name) has been upgraded, due to the name being interpreted as Sir Ya.
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by fy20 2y ago
I think the UK could be taken as an example here. For the past couple of decades internet access at home has usually been provided over copper phone lines. That infrastructure was originally laid across the country by BT, which was governme
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by fy20 2y ago
Oh wow, this resonates so badly with me. This guy must be my Malay / Aussie doppelganger. My company has the same bullshit, but we have terrible coffee instead of terrible tea. I used to buy my own on the way to the office, but now I&#
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by fy20 3y ago
Are you describing Europe? Our taxes definitely feel like they are going to the "regime", making politicians and the wealthy richer, not the everyday worker.
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by fy20 3y ago
I had LPG installed on my car last year. For the fuel prices in my part of Europe, I calculated it would pay for itself in less than 10,000km. LPG is lot simpler than CNG or Hydrogen as the fuel can be stored at room temperature in liquid f
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by fy20 3y ago
In my country it's pretty common to remap and modify the ECU settings. For €100 you can have someone remap the fuel injection system to give you more power for less fuel (VW are notorious for this, you can easily get 25% more power), o
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by fy20 3y ago
(In the US) In my part of EU the cost of getting 10kW of solar installed has gone from around €7000 in 2021 to €2000 or even less today. That is after government incentives, but the incentives have not changed during that time - it's a
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by fy20 3y ago
Is there a technical reason why this can't work with Apple's Find My network, or is it just that they don't want to work together? Using the "Unknown Trackers" feature my Samsung phone can scan for nearby AirTags an
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by fy20 3y ago
I went to a high school that specialised in foreign languages. During my time there I did 6 years of French and German, and 1 year each of Japanese and Spanish. And I can speak none of those. Maybe in German I can just about order a coffee.
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by fy20 3y ago
Welcome to the future of racial / political / ideological / social status segregation. On platforms like Facebook or YouTube where the feed is algorithmically generated and you can't easily view a filtered list of topics
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by fy20 3y ago
Plants still have the same issues with shortening telomeres, but their mechanisms for repairing and maintaining genome stability are much stronger than in mammals. So if you were to take new growth and graft the same variety of apple tree f
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by fy20 3y ago
> then its thoughts would take thousands or millions of years to process This reminds me of "The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy", where pan-dimensional beings waited 7.5 million years for their first super computer to tell the
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by fy20 3y ago
The part about the countdown clock for delivery dates is interesting. Amazon is not in my country, but Amazon DE does ship here for not too much. It's often cheaper and sometimes even quicker to order from Amazon DE than a local e-reta
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by fy20 3y ago
Thanks ChatGPT!
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by fy20 3y ago
I am in Lithuania (EU) and when I had solar panels installed on my house, I got them installed and manufactured by a local company - whose factory is less than 10 miles from my house. I got quotes from a few companies, and this was was more
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by fy20 3y ago
For anyone in Europe wondering what commercial options there are for this, the answer is KNX. It's existed for more than 20 years and maintains compatability with old equipment. In my country basically every new commercial and multi-re
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by fy20 3y ago
The article doesn't mention it, but how are the coordinates of property boundaries recorded in South California to take into account the drift? In my relatively tectonically stable country there is a single coordinate system for the wh
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by fy20 3y ago
Fillings and crowns are also subsidised by the NHS: https://www.nhs.uk/nhs-services/dentists/how-much-will-i-pay... I live in an EU country where this is not covered by the state health service, so everything is d
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by fy20 3y ago
> shelf lives are massively extended. I think this would be a good thing. 50 years ago many fruits and vegetables had a lot shorter shelf life, however that has been greatly extended due to selected breeding. For example tomatoes used to
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by fy20 3y ago
YC S24: Tinder for Parrots
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by fy20 3y ago
The switch from plastic to "biodegradable" materials for food packaging will probably be shown to be a grave mistake in the future. Natural cardboard will quickly loose it's strength if exposed to hot oily food, so they are u
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by fy20 3y ago
I read Atomic Habits late last year and it didn't really resonate with me. Maybe I just had too high expections of it, as basically everyone says it's a must read. This year I've read "The 12 Week Year" and it click
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by fy20 3y ago
That's sounds pretty terrible... In my Eastern European country the SLA from the (state owned) power company is no more than 6 hours of down time per event, after which they need to pay compensation. Within highly populated areas it&#x
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by fy20 3y ago
I've bought a lot from Amazon Warehouse and never had this. I have had products that don't work though. I'm guessing they break after a while and people buy a new one, then return the broken one. This is a bit pointless thoug
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by fy20 3y ago
The part about springs is interesting because all the sofas I've owned in the past decade have used foam, and I don't miss springs... When they are new maybe it's ok, but over time they wear out and the sofa becomes really no
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by fy20 3y ago
I own a 2010 Prius and I've had to replace the brake pads more often than a regular car because of this, around every two years or 20k miles. I've had to replace the brake rotors twice over 80k miles, as the pads rusted and then w
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by fy20 3y ago
What's the difference between a company in India, and a US company full of H1-B workers from India?
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by fy20 3y ago
This is basically how houses in central Europe work. The walls and floors are built with masonry (bricks or concrete) and wrapped in a thick layer of insulation. This results in a building with a very high thermal mass. The result is that i
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by fy20 3y ago
My primary YouTube experience is: a) Browse when I have a few minutes, and add interesting videos to Watch Later b) Watch them in the evening when my family has gone to bed. I don't watch everything the same day, so over time it builds

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