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by mathieuh 7y ago
Yes, in the UK most professional jobs will offer private health as a benefit, plus NHS rules for getting on lists for operations are pretty fair, essentially if you can prove it’s affecting your life you can get operations for lots of thing
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by mathieuh 7y ago
Yes, we sent Vehicle Examiners round as mystery shoppers. A lot of people seem to have this impression that MOT garages are all dodgy, but they get caught regularly. The machine learning piece of work on MOT is probably of a similar size to
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by mathieuh 7y ago
Implemented this on the UK’s road worthiness test system. We check for things like tests being completed in two seconds, dodgy pass rate etc. We actually had a leaderboard of the dodgiest garages when I was working on it
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by mathieuh 7y ago
Have you ever played an individual sport like tennis? I get a similar feeling, especially when you’re just in the zone and you can’t seem to make a mistake. Very therapeutic.
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by mathieuh 7y ago
I’m pretty sure the proximity sensor activates as soon as the call comes in, so the screen would be disabled until you take it out of your pocket.
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by mathieuh 7y ago
It’s just taking a materialist view of the world. E.g., a Marxist would argue our culture is shaped by the prevailing mode of production. Anarchists would also say that any hierarchical structures are imaginary. It’s not really nihilistic,
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by mathieuh 7y ago
Hah same here. Half the time I ask someone to pair with me it’s because I simply cannot muster the motivation to do anything for whatever reason. I find I go through a couple of weeks of this a couple of times a year, I guess you’d call it
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by mathieuh 7y ago
You can continue to use messenger if you deactivate it. I used a Selenium script I found on here a few weeks ago to delete everything I’ve ever added to Facebook and then deactivated my account. I don’t appear if you search for me, and I do
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by mathieuh 7y ago
This is just complete passive aggressiveness... just tell them to piss off (or some variation thereof), no need to do all this weird sarcastic stuff
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by mathieuh 7y ago
No, this is just a reformulation of the same old facile "if you're such an anti-capitalist why don't you move to the DPRK" comment
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by mathieuh 7y ago
Well the source is winds blown in from North Africa so you’re not wrong
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by mathieuh 7y ago
All I ever see is people in US TV saying “sir” and “ma’am”, is this inaccurate? I’m from the UK and similarly don’t believe in titles and I have never used or heard these words used in my life
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by mathieuh 7y ago
I would find somewhere else to work if I had ethical concerns over what they were asking me to do. For example, the UK’s department of work and pensions was a contract the company I work for had at the time when there was a huge furore over
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by mathieuh 7y ago
There will still be some lag between initial release and govt response. C.f. The War of the Worlds broadcast
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by mathieuh 7y ago
Yeah I don’t think I’m unique amongst “hackers” in that I have many disparate interests, and generally enjoy reading about something new, regardless of what the topic is
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by mathieuh 7y ago
OK I suppose that is more likely, but I still think this is easily-avoidable through process. If you're closely-enough involved with a ticket that you were going to be the one merging it, I think it's reasonable to expect that you
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by mathieuh 7y ago
I honestly can't say I have ever had this problem. I also don't understand how you could forget to revert the revert? And why would new commits matter? Sure you may have conflicts, but you would have had them anyway if you hadn&#x
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by mathieuh 7y ago
You can just revert the revert commit.
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by mathieuh 7y ago
Its being open source isn’t mutually exclusive with its not adhering to the standard
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Consulting or Con-$Ulting(hackernoon.com)
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by mathieuh 7y ago
“John, where Jane had had ‘had’, had had ‘had had’; ‘had had’ received the better mark”. And now ‘had’ has lost all meaning for me. I forgot which verb it was conjugated from for a second there
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by mathieuh 7y ago
As an employee I go to work to sell my labour. I am incentivised to get the best deal possible for my labour. I am not there to worry about big picture things, that’s what someone else is selling their labour for. Anything that rational peo
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by mathieuh 7y ago
The UK has a Crown Prosecution Service which is a public service responsible for bringing charges against people. It’s not up to HMG.
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by mathieuh 8y ago
I haven’t seen an email with images in years because I always use clients which allow disabling auto-loading. If I get an email with images it’s usually an email I didn’t want and I block the sender shortly thereafter. Real people don’t ten
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by mathieuh 8y ago
Aren't US cops afforded any personal input? I've been stopped in the UK for something I probably should have been arrested for, but the cop said he was just going to let me go because I was nice to him ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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by mathieuh 8y ago
It would blow through your allowance if you downloaded something at that speed, constantly. Maybe other people understand it differently but I’ve always understood those ads as like ads for a top speed on a car. You’ll never go that fast no
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by mathieuh 8y ago
Security and ease of use are kind of orthogonal I’m not saying this shouldn’t be a thing, but it requires more thought that just giving users root
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by mathieuh 8y ago
I can superimpose my mind’s eye’s image over the images coming into my eyes, I can interact with these imagined things and make them do whatever I want. Requires a conscious effort for complicated things, but generally holding something in
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by mathieuh 8y ago
Doing that would slow me down, my textual thinking is obviously much faster than my visual thinking (or it’s just because I’ve never practised this) I just tried to imagine the layers of the app I’m working on as a stack of blocks and it fe
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by mathieuh 8y ago
I can see a ball of plasticine revolving, changing shape and shaping colour at the same time very strongly with my eyes open, I can move it around the room, bounce it on my hand etc., yet I still can’t draw for shit. I can’t even draw the l

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