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by jsmith99 6y ago
In the UK, if you've had to work at home at all this year, you just tell the tax authorities online by ticking a few boxes on their website and they automatically adjust your PAYE code (what Americans would call withholding) so you pay
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There are superior VPS available for free in the 'always free' tier of GCP or Oracle Cloud. In the latter case you don't even need to set up a billing account, just provide a credit card for verification only, and you get 2 *
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A socketed CPU doesn't add much upgradebility if you have to stay within the same generation. I think a T530 can take a quad core ivy bridge but nothing newer.
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Using Firefox Android, I occasionally do need to retry sites in Chrome but rarely, especially in the current 'Fenix' version. On the desktop however, the only site I've ever had to retry in chrome in years is the browser ssh
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I think out of fear of making it seem a Photoshop clone they go too far in doing things a different way.
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The biggest thing missing is non destructive editing (eg adjustment layers). It's coming in GIMP 3.2 sometime in the future.
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I can't find any source for this 12MB limit? Backups I've restored (Android) seen to contain all media although I haven't checked in detail.
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Britain doesn't have a constitution. As the article alludes to, when Acts of Parliament clash with semi-constitutional items like international treaties, human rights laws, or ancient traditions, the courts will attempt to construe the
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That's the problem. This package is very similar to Microsoft's checkpoint package which is based on Microsoft's MRAN snapshots, and this package also uses MRAN. The article explains the difference is that this package allows
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MRAN takes daily snapshots, and is the repository powering this new package.
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The perfect is the enemy of the good. Many of these charities are technically irrational but realistically people are likely not to get involved at all otherwise. For example, many people donate food to collection bins for food banks, despi
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It says that for me too, so I tried 8.8.8.8 and it was rated as "100% abuse". I don't think this tool is very accurate.
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Yes and the GIMP devs are still hard at work trying to make GIMP use GTK 3... (beta recently released)
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Have GNU reinvented the Windows registry? Obviously the Windows registry works terribly in practice, but the idea of a centralised store seems to be coming back into fashion.
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That's the importance of regulatory harmonisation. Eg your laptop charger is probably covered in 20 different indecipherable logos showing compliance with every countries regulators, all of whom have standards at least 99.9% identical.
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The years are even worse for classical. I've just been told "You're stuck in the 1990s. Forget about Johann Sebastian Bach's Bach, JS : Sacred Cantatas BWV Nos 4 - 6 and move on."
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Google Photos isn't 'safe' or versatile enough to be a good location for your master copy. It works better as a convienient photo browser with some backup and sharing features. There is a rclone backend for Google Photos but
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Loved it, but I felt a large proportion of the 'bubble breakers for software engineers' are actually referenced quite often on hacker news. Not 'Taking charge of your fertility' though.
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Or perhaps that Chrome exploits are more useful? In fact, given Firefox's tiny market share (despite my efforts) I'm surprised the disparity isn't higher. Maybe it's harder to find Firefox exploits? It's more likely
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I assume its a holdover from the Government Secure Intranet that was designed in the 1990s by Cable and Wireless, one of the UK's main telecoms infrastructure companies at the time and which was only privatised in the 80s. C&W was
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It's not so much the cost, it's also the delay. At a 5% cost of capital, and a 10 year lag between R&D and final approval, your real cash flows are 40% lower due to the delay. At a 10% cost of capital, they are 60% lower. Sale
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Windows also supports copy/paste between devices, including Android phones (only some Samsung models so far).
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> Is it even possible to build a fusion bomb that's "low hundreds of kiloton"? Yes, and in fact most thermonuclear devices nowadays are in that range as its more efficient than a smaller number of megaton range bombs. Eg t
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The 2017 test had a yield in the low hundreds of kiloton, and is widely but not universally accepted as a thermonuclear test.
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My favourite was 'How can I help?' with response 'You are surely helping already'.
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This seems to be the same technology as Remoteapp, a windows/citrix system for streaming individual app windows over RDP, often from Azure, and which is built into windows. Several years ago I experimented with this, using the RemoteAp
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If the competitors have indeed been subsidised by foreign countries, that's a nice transfer of wealth from those countries to Britain, and, given the low historical success of government industrial subsidy, one that only the British wi
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What does this do that ublock origin doesn't? The FAQ explains the difference is that this extension makes 'clearer' your opposition to being tracked. I see there is a premium version planned but no indication of what additio
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They didn't complain when someone registered a company named ; DROP TABLE "COMPANIES";-- LTD It's been around since 2016. https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/c...
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I have ulcerative colitis so have had many many colonoscopies. General anaesthetic is never used in UK but twilight sedation is normal. I refuse this as (after an unpleasant gastroscopy) I can't stand having tubes stuck up my orifices

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