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by itsthejb 4y ago
I’ve been experimenting with swift scripting recently. Whilst in theory it could be a great substitute for Python/Ruby for dev tooling in iOS teams, I’ve yet to find an IDE setup that’s satisfactory - Xcode needs to be tricked to get s
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by itsthejb 4y ago
Well this sure is a pretty fascinating case, if it proves to be true, which it _seems_ to be? One thing I'm not seeing mentioned here is discussion of the password for that wallet.dat. This reminds me of back during the 2017 bull run,
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by itsthejb 4y ago
Interesting side-point: I live in a rental only high rise development in London. When I moved in it was about half full. During the year it’s been almost completely rented out, and this is pretty obvious from the rapid increase of people in
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by itsthejb 4y ago
Is this the reductio ad absurdum of VC culture, whereby founders stop even considering that overall profit is (eventually) an end goal, and that VCs don’t pick from an endless money tree? In the case of FTX, some reports seem to suggest tha
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by itsthejb 4y ago
Better food, yes. But also LESS food. I know it’s controversial to say so, but getting fat is a result of _eating too much!_. Yes, calorie dense food sure speeds up the process, but at the end of the day it’s a deficit between calories in,
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by itsthejb 4y ago
It pains me to see other Brits of my generation using Imperial as the norm
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by itsthejb 4y ago
Seems from my outsider perspective that this kind of hyper-aggressive and combative tone is like a currency on Twitter… There seem to be those for whom the Twitter bubble is _everything_ (which would include Elon), and then you have the oth
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by itsthejb 4y ago
And if you, for some reason, happen to have a few sacks of Euros just, you know, lying around, Deutschland will quite happily accept that house purchase in good old untraceable cash. Freshly laundered
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by itsthejb 4y ago
It’s ok - they can now blame it all on BoJo, and rewrite the history books with themselves on the “right side”
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by itsthejb 4y ago
I’ve used Hinge somewhat. Regarding the roses, and the “premium profiles” (I can’t remember the feature name), I considered this a boon - if you’re a normal guy, those are the women you should _avoid_. Conversely, if you’re a woman who real
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by itsthejb 4y ago
This is so true. Long ago I had a telesales warm calling job for a mortgage product. The number of customers who had all their financial services from a single one of the big few (U.K.) banks was telling
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by itsthejb 4y ago
There is an example that always comes to my mind regarding this “logic”, and which I think used to crop up from other commentators around this. It’s potentially even more powerful since it comes from the other side of the political fence: T
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by itsthejb 4y ago
This is a very real problem! I didn’t actually work out the protocol here, seems tricky to ask for than a handful of people out, before you might get into trouble Alternatively, aim to make friends, and meet THEIR friends. This is always th
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by itsthejb 4y ago
Swing dancing is indeed a great one. Although I did run into the issue that, eventually it didn’t seem likely to REALLY be my thing, and for men there is actually a definite level of competitiveness to be aware of. That said, people were di
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by itsthejb 4y ago
“I went to THE post office”, “I went to THE train station”. These are typically used without context, and are exceptions that confuse learners, particularly those who are learning about articles for the first time. Regarding “I go to Church
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by itsthejb 4y ago
His late wife… she was however a pretty significant figure in modern vegetarianism
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by itsthejb 4y ago
Overseas investment in something so unproductive as housing is deeply problematic, yes
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by itsthejb 4y ago
The Silence of the Lambs. As someone who mostly reads non fiction, it’s been fun to rip through a real page turning classic thriller for a change!
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by itsthejb 4y ago
If you’re on regular docker and would like to go podman for rootless, you can take the middle step of migrating to rootless docker. Essential step, honestly - it’s significant work to get rootless working (but definitely worth it) Haven’t d
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by itsthejb 4y ago
This is called a “covert contract”. It’s perhaps the key part of “nice” behaviour that is everything but - you can’t tie someone up in a “deal” that they never agreed to. Even worse, punishing someone else for not keeping up their side of t
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by itsthejb 4y ago
I suppose it’s indicative of why the feature was removed, that I wasn’t aware of most of the features mentioned in the article
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by itsthejb 4y ago
The trick is to have a backup phone. I’ve been tending to keep an older generation iPhone, usually bought refurbished. I use it for run tracking, and have taken it on trips in the past as an “internet diet” device. It has access to my Bitwa
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by itsthejb 4y ago
Yes. Frankly, the continued over centralisation of the country around London seems to me to be the single greatest threat to the future prosperity of the country
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by itsthejb 4y ago
In Berlin, the inside smoking laws are pretty much never enforced. Some bars have dedicated smoking rooms, but many don’t. As for clubs, you can mostly expect smoking indoors. A lot of people smoke, so you _will_ encounter smokey environmen
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by itsthejb 4y ago
Throwing in my few pennies regarding my experiences living in cities. Having lived in a few well known places, with different urban planning characteristics: - Tokyo. Very praised for its successes, and there are quite a few: extremely libe
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https://apps.apple.com/gb/app/mealime-meal-plans-recipes/id1... Mealime. I can’t recommend it highly enough. I originally bought it because I liked the planned meals that have a nice overlap of ingredients, s
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by itsthejb 4y ago
Can confirm the usability problems - during the recent brief heatwave I popped into a local store to treat myself to a rare guilty pleasure of a McFlurry. After confirming, printer paper error pops up, giving the option to continue. Clicked
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by itsthejb 4y ago
Congrats to Airbnb for, a decade after they first became big, finally doing something to address the number one reason why the service leaves people with a sour taste, and at worst leaves customers in severe jeopardy General statement, othe
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by itsthejb 4y ago
Excellent comment. The audio in that scene is stunningly effective. I can’t think of any other gun fight scene in cinema that gets anywhere near close to that level of realism
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by itsthejb 4y ago
I’d warn the poster to be wary of descriptions like this of meeting “the one” - it seems already that she might be a bit too close to well marketed content that sells the dream of this experience of being a “lightning bolt from heaven”. Tha

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