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by gbuk2013 2y ago
Cyberpunk Edgerunners was good, Made in Abyss was too but I have to say it got borderline too depressing for me by the end of the last season. OPM I really can't stand - dropped it just after a few episodes. :) Hai to Gensou no Grimgar
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by gbuk2013 2y ago
Still working my way through season 3 so may change my mind. :) Any recommendations?
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by gbuk2013 2y ago
This is heavily biased by my preferred genre of anime but here are some my favourite more recent anime series off the top of my head: Full metal Alchemist: Brotherhood https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fullmetal_Alchemist
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by gbuk2013 2y ago
TIL thanks :) Interestingly, "for of" iteration works on the whole character, so must be some magic going on under the hood.
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by gbuk2013 2y ago
No, JS strings are UTF-8: > '蛋糕'.substr(0,1) '蛋' > '蛋糕'.length 2 > Buffer.byteLength('蛋糕') 6 You do have to be careful when working with binary data (e.g. streams
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by gbuk2013 2y ago
If you want to be pedantic then multi-byte string !== UTF-8 support. ;) Consider the intended purpose of the language and then consider whether the abstraction offered is appropriate. IMO in the case of PHP and UTF-8 it is not. In my specif
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by gbuk2013 2y ago
https://phptherightway.com/#php_and_utf8
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by gbuk2013 2y ago
It’s 2024 and PHP still doesn’t natively support UTF-8. :(
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by gbuk2013 3y ago
No it’s not - we’ve done this many times in London in all sorts of places, chains, small restaurants and even a very fancy restaurant (the waiters there looked positively happy when we asked). We don’t do it often only because we don’t over
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by gbuk2013 3y ago
#5 is definitely suspicious reasoning - no surprise it is being appealed in the courts. That said, having read a little about this colourful persona, I have to admit my thought was “good job, he deserved it” although I know I really shouldn
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by gbuk2013 3y ago
I apologise for being pedantic (I am a programmer with a law degree and so have twice the inclination to be): can you provide specific examples of the FA law being interpreted in “surprising ways” especially in light of the GP concerns abou
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by gbuk2013 3y ago
As per the page you linked to, FA law applies only to this who engage in “political activity”, which most people (regardless of the country) tend not to do.
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by gbuk2013 3y ago
agree to disagree ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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by gbuk2013 3y ago
I think it still qualifies - in the guidance doc (and a related doc focused on tracking cookies) the focus is on the purpose of the cookie - the intention is to avoid tracking the user - a session cookie that is specifically for remembering
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by gbuk2013 3y ago
As long as it’s implemented as a session cookie (or local storage as IIRC it also behaves as a session cookie) it should not need consent (as per 3.6 “UI customisation cookies” of https://ec.europa.eu/justice/article-29
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by gbuk2013 3y ago
While it would be silly to claim that software engineering is the most demanding profession, there’s more to the work hours than the time spent in front of the screen. In my personal experience a lot of time is spent working “in the head” t
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by gbuk2013 3y ago
While I agree that commit message could benefit from punctuation for readability, the change diff itself seems quite reasonable.
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by gbuk2013 3y ago
The BBC article on the subject mentioned somewhere around £100M of legal fees that were incurred in this case, so the damages are just the tip of the iceberg of what the newspaper company is on the hook for. The UK legal system damage calcu
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by gbuk2013 3y ago
There is airport-style baggage screening misery on Eurostar for several years now - classic case of “this is why we can’t have nice things”.
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by gbuk2013 3y ago
You can catch these with Node but I wouldn’t do it - if it’s not explicitly handled then it’s either a bug or something really bad happened and the app needs to get alarm bells ringing.
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by gbuk2013 3y ago
She left the college about 10 years ago. At the time all she used was a smart whiteboard - the 2 different colleges she worked at had different brands with different software interfaces on her PC and this was a real pain she said - just as
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by gbuk2013 3y ago
She used to teach a foreign language, so there was only one other teacher and yes management really was a problem. :( Good to hear that things have improved - it’s been about 10 years since she moved on to teaching privately.
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by gbuk2013 3y ago
Anecdotal experience: my mom used to teach some adult classes in a UK college and while she loved the work she ultimately left because for every hour of teaching she had to do 4+ hours unpaid work (lesson plans etc) and prepare for endless
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by gbuk2013 4y ago
> queue does not mean async model “Message queues implement an asynchronous communication pattern between two or more processes/threads whereby the sending and receiving party do not need to interact with the message queue at the sa
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by gbuk2013 4y ago
And what happens if your request modifies state but the response is not received?
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by gbuk2013 4y ago
If you have a queue then you have async model. As an example of a failure scenario, how does your system distinguish between a request timeout, a response that didn’t get sent back because of network failure and the consumer crashing and lo
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by gbuk2013 4y ago
Moving to async model adds new set of operational challenges as well as some interesting failure scenarios. (Edit) Also, in practice you would need at least one more system to enqueue request into the broker, as the latter would typically n
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by gbuk2013 4y ago
(Native Russian speaker here) I don’t really agree. The “t” and “ch” require very different tongue and jaw positions and combining them is awkward and would require a vowel in between when used in a real word. English speakers are perfectly
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by gbuk2013 4y ago
From a hiring perspective there are tools available. I work for a startup that is selling a CRM to addresses all of those pain points. We have many large customers and were recently valued >1B. We have several competitors that make the s
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by gbuk2013 4y ago
Hmm, the way I see it is that this only makes a difference if your "more work" is async, in which case I would consider if the function needed refactoring instead - not possible to say with toy code of course. Something like:

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