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by gib444 2mo ago
I also suffer from this! But it's called growth. You will not improve language skills if you are too afraid to practice them And in my experience, us Brits, and USA folk, we tend to be quite understanding of broken English
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by gib444 2mo ago
Q: How can we achieve world peace? HN: I'd wager that with $20 in LLM tokens ... Cracks me up every time lol
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by gib444 2mo ago
Same. I visit my family in London and my sleep improves because of no hay fever. Though then I get black boogers, horrible chalky hair, a renewed sense of misanthropy etc
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by gib444 2mo ago
The clue is in your name
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by gib444 2mo ago
Right. They are the law - they help write them
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by gib444 2mo ago
The UK SMS decision also perhaps shows a misunderstanding of the British public these days: I had never smelled so many BBQs the day after that alert was sent and I'd heard similar reports of people being rebellious, fireworks etc Yes,
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by gib444 2mo ago
30p back in the early 90s, I should have specified... The shop also sold more expensive things like small appliances and hand tools etc
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by gib444 2mo ago
> The one kind of physical shop I really miss is the kind of place where you can buy one screw, nail or picture hook etc. So much nostalgia for these shops. A man with a posh, sparkling clean apron knowing exactly what you need or mean.
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by gib444 2mo ago
Data protection laws are at best grossly insufficient, at worst a lie
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by gib444 2mo ago
Long time Fastmail customer here. They need to stop their recent trend of breaking their UI, especially in backwards-incompatible ways. They recently recently removed app-based font size from the backend (but just for mobile), and released
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by gib444 2mo ago
"it's just marketing everyone does it"
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by gib444 2mo ago
Haha people have put up with a LOT of price rises the past 5 years in many industries, validating many company's pricing strategy, over and over
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by gib444 2mo ago
Ah ok, when you wrote we had the money I thought that you meant what you wrote, ie we had the money, from existing income. Last time I checked our expenditure is at least in part covered by income and not solely printing money.
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by gib444 2mo ago
> Oh, you have the money. Oh OK. What can be cut in our current spending?
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by gib444 2mo ago
> but wonder what is on European minds UK here. It really feels like this year has been a massive wake-up call, a follow-up to the one of 2022 (and 2018, 2019, 2021...) Some fire services have had their busiest months on record this year
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by gib444 2mo ago
That doesn't take away from the fact "I agree" etc can be displayed prominently and often is. "I agree" isn't outlawed
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by gib444 2mo ago
Because it works (AIUI "I agree" gets people to give explicit consent with good success and the subscribe modals are quite effective too)
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by gib444 2mo ago
For one of the three yup
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by gib444 2mo ago
It's cute people think the UK has this level of influence over the USA Like, pick a side: are we the tiny backwater micro state on the verge of bankruptcy with no standing in the world, or are we a hugely influencial world power direct
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by gib444 2mo ago
I thought we took pint servings very very seriously in the UK?? Are you saying there is widespread fraud of a pint measure? Should I take a measuring jug with me next time?
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by gib444 2mo ago
But your car now has Bluetooth and a reversing camera and that's easily a £10,000 value add so it all balances out !
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by gib444 2mo ago
And hosted on US infrastructure, satisfying the "or" clause in their post
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by gib444 2mo ago
It's success, just not what you consider success.
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by gib444 2mo ago
The cope just keeps coming!
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by gib444 2mo ago
Is someone keeping a list of the excuses and varying instructions on how to hold it right? It would be fascinating historic documentation
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by gib444 2mo ago
What a wild, fascinating and, as a Brit, a rather satisfying read. So much luck, intelligence, perseverance and engineering. I believe still today we have some of the world's finest radar and navigation tech etc?
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by gib444 2mo ago
pass score of 52%*
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by gib444 2mo ago
> People seem to think a German passport is handed out easily now. It isn't. You have to prove you paid into the social system for at least five years. You have to pass the citizenship test. You need German at B1 level. You need a s
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by gib444 3mo ago
Agree but the parents want the hardware for the kids' safety, and it has to be a smartphone specifically so the parents can GPS track them and to do facetime calls to prove they're OK...
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by gib444 3mo ago
You were brave, but nothing can stop the inevitable downvotes lol

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