joncrocks

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by joncrocks 2y ago
Or it could be cheaper to make. i.e. It's cheaper per unit-airtime to have a small crew interviewing people for backstory (+ editing) than recording people doing the course. They can pad-out the expensive bit (holding the events) with
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by joncrocks 2y ago
Indeed, Optional<> was designed/intended to be used in this way. https://stackoverflow.com/questions/26327957/should-java-8-g...
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by joncrocks 2y ago
I guess this _might_ count, but the whole 'store within a store' tends to be a bit of publicity stunt. You can just bung the store owners a few quid, make some stands with your company name on it and send out a press release that
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by joncrocks 2y ago
> the ideal is not just having an app that generates a token but one that generates a specific type of token depending on what type of transaction you're performing and won't accept, for example, a login token when adding a new
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by joncrocks 2y ago
Does this imply that Facebook is required to provide free service to everyone? At what point are private companies allowed to decide how to charge customers for the services they provide?
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by joncrocks 2y ago
> Me A name I call myself?
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by joncrocks 2y ago
https://europa.eu/youreurope/business/human-resources/workin... - Colloquially known as the working time directive
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by joncrocks 2y ago
So that's your personal experience, but you can imagine that this might be different for different people. The point is that previously you had a choice over the amount of space you need at home, there are requirements for WFH. i.e. Yo
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by joncrocks 2y ago
Only that the current government can call it when it might be beneficial to them, i.e. if they think they are more popular now than they will be in the future/when it will be mandated.
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by joncrocks 2y ago
Indeed, the problem with lots of fallbacks is that they can invalidate user's requests for higher security. Security can sometimes end up being only as strong as the weakest link. Make the fallback too lax and you might as well not bot
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by joncrocks 2y ago
While it is a concern, I think all males 'get it' if they advance enough in years. I remember reading somewhere that if you biopsied those that died of 'old-age' then it would be present in some form. So it's not a
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by joncrocks 2y ago
There are some extra protections on credit card purchases that you don't get from buying things with cash/debit cards https://www.moneysupermarket.com/credit-cards/guide-to-credi...
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by joncrocks 2y ago
How can it outspend everyone in everything using relative numbers? Everyone has the same 100%, just distributed differently.
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by joncrocks 2y ago
Snaaake, snaaake.
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by joncrocks 2y ago
Had a similar bug in a production system about 10 years ago. Indexes got corrupted after some length of time. Only in production, couldn't replicate. A distributed system as well. We (mainly a collegue of mine) eventually traced it dow
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by joncrocks 2y ago
Cash flow is not just what is happening, but what will happen. i.e. the difference between when money goes out vs. it coming in. If you are selling widgets for $1.20 and buying them for $1, and they are delivered after you order them, you a
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by joncrocks 2y ago
The difference is that in the UK (where Hatton Gardens is), both Good Friday and Easter Monday are public/bank holidays. At least in the UK, it's one of the few times that there are a guaranteed 4 days of closures, given that Chri
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by joncrocks 3y ago
Also worth noting that in Norway, they will often have cars with engine block heaters ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Block_heater ), with associated plug points in parking spaces/places. Makes it much easier if the
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by joncrocks 3y ago
Indeed. It's like 'text file' - there are many ways to encode and decode these. Add another munging the to list, ids that 'look like numbers' e.g. `0002345` will get converted to `2,345`. Better be sure to pre-pend
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by joncrocks 3y ago
The rabbit hole is deeper than you think. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mens_rea FWIW, there are other examples of where securities laws where intent (which is difficult to prove) is needed in order to demonstrate a la
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by joncrocks 3y ago
How many planes were taking off in 1930 vs. today? If you bought a residence in 1930, are you never allowed to complain? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boiling_frog#As_metaphor
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by joncrocks 3y ago
Playing Devil's advocate, air travel is a much larger business than it used to be. Over time the number of flights, size of aircraft and time of flights can change. This can lead to increased disruption over time. It's not unreaso
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by joncrocks 3y ago
It's a bit more like 'possession is 9/10 of the law'. The "not your keys, not your coins" is more the fact that someone else holding your stuff happen to them and your stuff goes away. Or they never had it to s
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by joncrocks 3y ago
The only argument that holds water is that `in theory` anyone could generate the same information from what is publicly available, from first principles. It might be expensive to do so, but they could do it. Insider trading is slightly uniq
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by joncrocks 3y ago
Indeed, and actions assigned to accountable individuals etc. How to run an effective meeting is another topic entirely :-)
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by joncrocks 3y ago
Every meeting should have: * an agenda, so people know what is going to be discussed and the right people can be in the meeting, and how long it might take * expected outcomes - e.g. Are we just discussing something, are we deciding somethi
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by joncrocks 3y ago
I think the word is Cartel.
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by joncrocks 3y ago
I think this must have been dependent on the school/location as I was also in an RAF section and we flew in (small) planes maybe once a term. For maybe 30 minutes, and lots of waiting around, but was fun. Got to do a fair bit of aeroba
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by joncrocks 3y ago
There's also `nasal strips` - plastic strips with adhesive (like a plaster) to open up the upper-nose.
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by joncrocks 3y ago
To expand on this a little, there are operations that have slightly ambiguous meanings/can end up with different answers depending on your assumptions. e.g. If today is the 30th of January 2024. What is the date in 1 months time? Shoul

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