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by heurisko 5y ago
I live in England. Our cities are walkable, but they are often a nightmare to commute to by car (and bus, train, even though this is getting better). What I think would work in American suburbs is light rail/tram systems. They aren&#x2
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> I'm not sure reverse engineering Windows stack on Linux is very effective way of spending our civilizations engineering resources. I don't think it is a question of a pool of resource that can be reallocated, however, as in a
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I was pro-lockdown when we didn't have the vaccine, but don't know if all the measures the UK took were necessary to contain the virus, or if, on balance, certain policies didn't cause more harm than good. For example, public
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In the UK, lockdowns doubled mental health referrals amongst young people [1] and there was a sharp increase in alcohol related deaths [2]. I hope they don't return, given we now have a vaccine. I also doubt their efficacy, with cases
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One the most frustrating things to me, and I say this as as a Southerner, was why they decided to build HS2 first, instead of linking up Liverpool, Manchester, Leeds, Sheffield first (HS3). Then building HS2 if it was necessary. But now the
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I switched from chrome to firefox on Android for this reason. It is behaviour that has earned many recent one star reviews. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.android.ch...
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In addition to Matt Hancock, there was also the case of exemptions from quarantine for UEFA football VIPs. [1] I think it's right the UK is returning to personal responsibility, especially as many of the rules haven't seemed to be
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I think a Google search for "clean energy ETF" yields some good results. I wouldn't say I am 100pc invested in clean energy ETFs, but do hold them for ideological reasons.
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One of the stories I often hear, is that people have decided to move house to the countryside, as they are now able to work remotely. I don't know how true this is: are these people not concerned if their employer decides to reopen off
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Originally the front light was a Paperwhite-only feature, until it was also introduced to the basic Kindle range. It's reasonable to have the wish that color temperature might be similarly introduced to a basic model, when the other fe
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The UK has heavily invested in new nuclear, Hinkley C, in a addition to offshore wind schemes. If anything, I am surprised that climate change is being treated as seriously as it is in the UK, from both sides of our political spectrum.
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If one is not able to work in the industry oneself, there are also clean-energy ETFs that one can invest in, to support companies working on clean energy, which can manifest similar optimism by-proxy.
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If open offices were kept to the same atmosphere as libraries, I don't think there would be such an issue. But it's truly bizarre that they're not, and companies think that is OK to put people in an environment that is the co
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That's not completely true. Over its evolution, PHP has removed some functions completely to provide better and more secure functionality, such as mysql_* in PHP 7.
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I'd much prefer mock Georgian than Brutalist. I'm someone for whom Southbank and the Barbican are architectural monstrousities, who piggy back on London's success, rather than contributing to it. Concrete + England's mar
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"Please do not use the App" is forbidding use of the app.
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The problem is, is supposedly, upvote = adds to the conversation, downvote = detracts from conversation. In reality, upvote = I agree, downvote = I disagree. However I don't think anything can save twitter from being a toxic platform.
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mRNA based vaccines such as Pfizer do not change your DNA. https://fullfact.org/online/rna-vaccine-covid/
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I think the underlying assumption here, is that it is better for your job prospects to agree with something you know is wrong, in order to avoid confrontation. I don't think this should be the default recommended advice. It could just
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> Anyway, there was only 1 proper solution to this: I had to answer what they thought was correct. I think it was a poor solution. There are ways to respectfully disagree. "I really think I'm right on this one. Since it's
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It looks like tmpfs is Linux-only feature. Otherwise I have a single docker-compose.yml file that sets up postgres using "Docker for Desktop" on Mac and Windows and works natively on Linux. CI (Linux) uses the same docker-compose.
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I can infer what it means, however only the following sound idiomatic to me as an English (UK) speaker. "I'm pushing for better design". "I'm rooting for the home team."
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If speed is one of the things holding you back from testing with the native database, running the database data on a tmpfs mountpoint is worth looking at. https://vladmihalcea.com/how-to-run-integration-tests-at-war...
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I always go further and use the same database for my tests e.g. use postgres rather than H2. It is easy enough to setup and tear down using docker.
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I don't think it's less secure to use a Javascript library from a CDN if you use https://www.srihash.org . If the CDN server is compromised and the library edited then the resource no longer loads.
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> pulling for better design. That doesn't sound idiomatic to me, as someone in the UK.
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I am a fan of Amazon's digital products and devices (the Kindle e-reader, Fire TV), but have noticed I buy fewer and fewer physical products from Amazon. This is in part, because of ideological reasons, but also because other online sh
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I like brew, but am ever aware of the risk of supply-chain hacks, such as https://brew.sh/2018/08/05/security-incident-disclosure/ . It's one of the reasons why I like Ubuntu. Of course, there is als
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I don't think this is the primary point of the article. And I don't think it is a case of "bottom line up front", either, which applies to synchronous or asynchronous communication. I think, if anything, the colleague is
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It's not a hope, it's reality in other countries, like the UK. We banned letting agent fees charged to the tenant. Miraculously, landlords didn't find paying £250 for a contract renewal value for money. Rents continue to go u

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