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by jlokier 4y ago
That's true, the state pension is tiny. So small it has to be topped up with other benefits if it's all you have, especially if you're renting as the state pension usually isn't enough to cover rent. Some people don&#x2
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Two things; 1. There are multiple implementations, written by different teams outside Ethereum Foundation, and the use of different implementations is encouraged. So Ethereum Foundation can't unilaterally change the code. Changes happe
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Example: Any object shared among multiple lists or other data structures at the same time, or directly pointed to by other objects, such that any of those views must reach the same cheaply mutable state. This includes objects in the object-
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This change doesn't affect Apple. Apple has a perpetual "do whatever you want" license because they were involved with ARM early on.
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Fermat's Last Theorem: Latin: Cubum autem in duos cubos, aut quadratoquadratum in duos quadratoquadratos & generaliter nullam in infinitum ultra quadratum potestatem in duos eiusdem nominis fas est dividere cuius rei demonstration
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I have two broken USB-C cables next to me. They just wore out and broke. They have only been used to charge my phone. To be fair, it's not the metal connector which broke, it's the plastic parts, but still, that's enough t
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Yes, for the same reason that advertising works.
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Some interesting anomalies that look like errors in the tables. E.g. setjmp() present in 32V, BSD3 and BSD 4.2, but longjmp() not present. That doesn't make sense and doesn't match their man pages.
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When embellishing your CV may be illegal(hartbrown.co.uk)
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FizzBuzz is a very small roadblock - a couple of minutes. If you have your choice of language, it'll probably take less time than thinking of a creative answer to a form question like "what do you find interesting about our compa
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> If you move a judgement call of that kind to after the offer stage, then the offer letter becomes a lot less meaningful. That may be true, but if a potential employer gets current employer references before any offer is made, the can
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Watch out if you have uploaded a music collection to Apple Music and are thinking of cancelling the service. Someone had a bad experience recently: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33309161 Last week I cancelled Apple
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> will probably be the future of computing I think you're right, but I think the key part of the tech is economic: their ability to deploy hundreds or thousands of instances safely shared by large numbers of replicated sites and app
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> Cloudflare workers are distributed through hundreds of locations, and thousands of servers. Doing that with Perl would have been impossible. No, it wouldn't, that's a misconception. The Perl system I described ran fine on ho
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Low density rented housing doesn't get things like solar either. In houses, even double glazing and windows that don't leak can't be counted on in my experience. I don't think I've ever lived anywhere as an adult
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To which I'll add that renters can't install those things even if they have the money, and people seem to be renting for more of their life than they used to. There's no shortage of articles about people being priced out of e
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Variety is good regardless. It's refreshing. Variety also tends to bring financial advantage, increased skills and exposure to new knowledge, a larger personal network in the same time, and if most (but not all) jobs are unsatisfying,
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It's similar to what I was doing 10 to 5 years ago but in Perl. Drop a file into a directory which is all or mostly static Markdown, HTML or CSS, but those files can contain markup to call other modules, as well as code files. The exis
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iTerm2 (a popular open source terminal emulator for Mac) supports this automatically for all TUI programs, by recognising the box characters. You select multi-line text inside the box and it behaves as if the box is a mini terminal. I don&
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On Android the Hacker's Keyboard does a respectable job for coding and command line. I use it on those rare occasions I need to use SSH from my Android phone. It doesn't adapt to the language being written, that's an interes
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I'm aware, because I read about these things in some depth, but not everyone knows about certificate transparency. Why would they if it isn't highlighted? As I said, it's not mentioned in the Certbot documentation. There&#x
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> I just mean 'sprints' and 'tickets' and 'points' and 'stand-ups' really. (Which I assume isn't what you're saying isn't that common, certainly seems it from.. HN I suppose.) Those
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Memristor and analogue processors to accelerate ML are doing this. Neural networks are ok with operations on noisy, analogue states. Analogue operations such as op-amp multiplication are more power hungry than individual digital gates, bu
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Because Google didn't rename to Alphabet. They created a parent company called Alphabet which owns Google and a bunch of other subsidiary companies, but Google is still itself and still wants to be called Google. Whereas Facebook made
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The very concept of "your organization" is not meaningful for some users. Even when working for a single client organization, I usually need VPN connections to my own servers at the same time - my own business is the second organ
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Companies that are very Scrum focused aren't actually all that common in my experience. If your job is depressing because of it, it may be time to look around. Remember to ask how the new place does things, so that you're not st
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Hostnames are still private information, for example they could be embarrassing and personal. In general private information should not be made public without knowledge and consent. They also sometimes reveal internal topology, which while
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I just shared a photo using the sequence you described from Android -> MacOS. Contrary to my sibling commenters, it did just work. A prompt appeared on MacOS asking if I wanted to accept the connection request, then asking if I wanted t
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Perhaps worth adding that right now, according to polls, a large majority of UK folks are labour-aligned, a complete U-turn compared with how they voted in the 2019 general election. The current prime minister was voted into position by jus
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Something I've really disliked in VR is when near a bush or tree full of leaves which are made of polygons hovering in space, or anything else with similarly zero-thickness objects. It feels like being near a bush of razor blades, and

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