hwntw

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by hwntw 4mo ago
I'd say it's worth learning new languages even purely for the sake and love of learning! That goes to both Rust and Zig, Rust is arguably more intellectually interesting, whereas with Zig you'll probably be writing useable ho
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by hwntw 5mo ago
The human body goes further than that too, when you're out jogging - as your foot approaches the ground for a stride, you slow the velocity of your foot downwards towards the ground so there's less of a sudden deceleration. Imagin
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by hwntw 1y ago
Where do you spend $21 for a loaf of sourdough?! My local baker sells a delicious loaf of artisanal sourdough for £4 here. Of course, the difference between sourdough and anything else is astonishing, I just can't comprehend someone ch
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by hwntw 3y ago
Would be a nice thought, but literally nobody means the descendants of the Britons where talking about being British. If they did, depending upon what that encompasses, then either large swathes of Scotland would be included (Glasgow is a B
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by hwntw 4y ago
Erlang might be slightly more obscure, but there are plenty of big household names using the language - Klarna, Bet365, and William Hill are all household names. And that's excluding the obvious cases of Ericsson or WhatsApp.
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by hwntw 4y ago
It's basically a guaranteed fatality at 45mph in any weight of car - lots of towns/cities are even reducing their 30mph speed limits to 20mph for that reason. If anything, I'd suggest doing 45mph on a road where there's
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by hwntw 4y ago
The FCA (one of the financial regulators) stepped in for the insurance market, which is why that change has started being made.
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by hwntw 4y ago
The main difference here is orthography as opposed to the actual pronunciation of the word - Welsh uses y and w as vowels, as well as multiple 2-letter clusters for a single sound (eg, dd is the same as one of the English th sounds, or rh a
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by hwntw 4y ago
In which case those countries can get a court order and have Cloudflare remove their services from that company. They're not endorsing a forum by providing them the same services they do anyone else, and it sets a very scary precedence
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by hwntw 4y ago
That might be highly location specific as well - ie, clustered around wealthy urban areas such as London. In Wales I've never seen such a card (although, certainly more than a few coral cards around!) Probably quite easy to saturate th
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by hwntw 4y ago
The title made me assume it was a reference to building your own x.org - alas! Nevertheless, a fascinating repository.
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by hwntw 4y ago
In my most recent role I wasn't on-call, but would keep an eye on monitors out of hours and if around, fix issues as they arose (I guess it was unpaid, but would just take hours off in-lieu). That's perfectly fine to me, I'm
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by hwntw 4y ago
So you're actually conflating two topics with that first sentence - since this is a topic from the UK government, we don't forbid alcohol consumption amongst children here (over the age of 5), only bar them from buying the alcohol