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by mrwh 4y ago
This is one of the many stark differences I found in moving from London to the Bay Area. In London and the UK in general no one wants to hire junior devs, the first job is very hard to get. The attitude is: I don't want to pay to train
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by mrwh 4y ago
Thanks! This is next weekend's project :).
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by mrwh 4y ago
How difficult is it to get up and running? Discworld 2 was a cinch - but then it runs on scummvm so of course it is (greatly entertaining game too). I've read that Noir really doesn't want to run on any modern machine.
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by mrwh 4y ago
I don't have access to the full article itself, but isn't it testing the difference between compulsory schooling and a bit more compulsory schooling, rather than some school or none? To be sure, education is wider than school, but
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by mrwh 4y ago
It's been many years since I last saw it, but I remember the first film in particular as being wonderful, yes. Hopeful and sad and luminously shot.
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by mrwh 4y ago
Er, because we behave the same way as we did thousands of years ago? It's the fact that so much of our behaviour is cultural that's made humans such a success. An obvious corollary is the importance of education.
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by mrwh 4y ago
Interesting article! It's probably a lack of imagination on my part, but how could this possibly work for any but a tiny minority of people? Or, worse, how could this not become a new form of indentured servitude? It does seem curious
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by mrwh 4y ago
True, and of course I'm speaking for myself here.
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by mrwh 4y ago
As someone who did have a cat in one of my online dating pictures, I can believe that both: a) having a cat picture decreases the number of matches, especially against having a dog picture; but also that b) it increases the likelihood of hi
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by mrwh 4y ago
Small Gods is the one I managed to get signed. A bookshop in Dorchester, and Pratchett gave an excellent talk before. I say "managed to get signed", though the joke at one point was Pratchett signed so many books, unsigned copies
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by mrwh 4y ago
Guards! Guards! is excellent. I'd vote for Wyrd Sisters too. Incidentally, I think the Wyrd Sisters cartoon is the most successful Discworld adaptation ( https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wyrd_Sisters_(TV_series) ). I
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by mrwh 4y ago
Wouldn't we expect tough economic times to equate to a rise in Bitcoin's value, if that is the hypothesis?
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by mrwh 4y ago
I'm inclined to agree. So clever, and yet what's the actual good of it? Feels like there's a crisis in our industry (talking of the wider software engineering world) of finding real, human problems to solve. And so we end up
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by mrwh 4y ago
Every bike I've ever owned was stolen in the end - the only exception being my current bike, and that's a matter of time. That's across four cities on two continents. Bike theft seems universal. Presumably, if you buy a secon
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by mrwh 4y ago
Agreed. The alternative to long-term planning is often a feeling of aimlessness, chasing the next incremental improvement with no idea of what, if anything, will be achieved. Useful fictions can still be useful.
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by mrwh 4y ago
According to https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benny_Hill , he died alone, which is indeed terribly sad. (But not penniless, far from it.)
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by mrwh 4y ago
Tangential, but thanks to my (hopefully brief!) post-covid loss of a sense of smell, the pretty good coffee I've got used to making currently tastes of the worst sort of freeze-dried dreck I grew up drinking. Bleughghhh.
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by mrwh 4y ago
Not sure if you'll find many Brits under the age of 60 trying to defend Benny Hill or make a case for his comedy. I'm in my 40s and I don't remember a time when he wasn't seen as naff, and from some distant time before c
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by mrwh 4y ago
I still remember watching the final episode at school, in the early 90s, as part of a history lesson on the First World War. The way it turns from a comedy into something that couldn't be more serious! - except, that seriousness was al
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by mrwh 4y ago
+1 scattered, too long, random, and I hope basically wrong. And yet, I'm sure I'll be thinking about it this weekend. (Now, how to get even with those who didn't read the whole article?)
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by mrwh 4y ago
Well that's a scary thought! It's been quite a while since I lived in London, but terrace houses barely converted into flats is my overriding memory.
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by mrwh 4y ago
Handsome watch!
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by mrwh 4y ago
I have a 1960s Omega that's honestly one of my favourite possessions. Nothing fancy, steel, handsome face. It's comfortable to wear, because it's a fraction of the size and weight of a modern status watches; and it keeps good
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by mrwh 4y ago
Interesting question, and interesting that so many people are giving variations of writer as the response. (Shades of, "If I weren't doing my job, I'd be doing my hobby"? Though that feels an ungenerous reading.) Me? I&#
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by mrwh 4y ago
Agreed re actively making a decision: my answer was mostly not to pull the lever, and if I analyse my feelings it's because then the results aren't my fault. Pulling the lever makes me party to the situation. Disagree re realism t
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by mrwh 4y ago
Have to agree! I'm not sure what I was expecting with Wheel of Time, but I wasn't expecting it to look so cheap. Also one of the central characters wears a pullover in early episodes that's definitely dry-clean only, and had
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by mrwh 4y ago
As someone in his early 40s, who plunged back into dating during covid after divorce, I guess I might be able to give a perspective from the other side, as it were? Or at least offer a few disconnected observations. 1) My dating age range w
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by mrwh 4y ago
+1 to this! I played it in French for this reason.
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by mrwh 4y ago
Another way of looking at it is that's even worse though. Today, it's very rare to have to deal with the death of a child; then, almost everyone had to go through that. And to say, "once you reached" should really be &qu
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by mrwh 4y ago
After a few poor experiences airbnbing in London I switched entirely back to hotels. The Airbnb experience was either: have your own place, but it's more expensive than even a nice hotel; or stay in someone's house who, when it ge

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