nmstoker

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by nmstoker 6y ago
Have heard of a case where US companies are exporting the cuts to their international staff, even to locales where it isn't necessary (eg UK where staff could be furloughed largely at government expense)
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by nmstoker 6y ago
Anther exception being if you're a public sector employee, there are certain accommodations made for living in London: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/London_weighting
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by nmstoker 6y ago
I'm pretty sure this would be illegal in the UK, the job pays what it pays and where you live shouldn't be a concern of the employer (the exception being if they base you abroad and you get relocation taken into account).
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by nmstoker 6y ago
Well spotted. However technically they are correct, it is not a shameless plug!
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by nmstoker 6y ago
I see, so typing entries is purely a Covid-19 reaction? Sorry, hadn't appreciated that earlier. Definitely feels like something to keep after things go back to closer to how they were.
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by nmstoker 6y ago
Clearly needs to be solved and fast, and I have huge sympathy for those affected. However to me the more interesting point is why anyone would want to submit a handwritten script when they could type it. Not to sound like an old foggey, but
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by nmstoker 6y ago
Seems effective, despite bringing to mind a robotically efficient recreation of the senile dog and the poor sheep in Far From The Madding Crowd!
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Robot dog tries to herd sheep(bbc.co.uk)
2 points by nmstoker 6y ago|1 comments
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by nmstoker 6y ago
How complete are the articles that are returned? Last time I looked into RSS news feeds a lot of sources would just put abbreviated / teaser content in and then try to get you to click through to the story on their site. That obviously
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by nmstoker 6y ago
Saw your YouTube videos a few days ago and was very impressed. Clearly you can't give away too much on your "secret sauce" but is there any insight you could share on two questions: 1. Do the individual voice talents need to
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by nmstoker 6y ago
Wow, that is fast! I was just getting over how messed up the screen protector looks and realised I'd have to restart the video because you'd finished!
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by nmstoker 6y ago
I get your point that there's clearly further to go, but it's not that unusual to need to know something relevant like this if installing from a source that's not your OS app store. After all, we often expect Windows users to
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by nmstoker 6y ago
Yes, I wonder if this is genuine or some strange attempt at pseudoscience click bait. They do not mention any potential mechanism whereby criminality could be triggering an observable change. And it's not clear to me how a human could
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by nmstoker 6y ago
Sure it's valid but that doesn't mean it's not ambiguous. All it would take is an initial clarification (once near the top) that they're using "email" to mean "email address" and not "email conte
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by nmstoker 6y ago
Why is the company that had the breach managing the payments? Surely it should be neutral third party who then just passes on the final bill.
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by nmstoker 6y ago
Seems like it has plenty of potential. Not sure if I've been unlucky but the terms I searched and found (eg "economic") did not come up in the audio for quite some time after I played the sample. Is it meant to start the audi
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Lenovo is joining Dell in the “OEM Linux Laptop” club(arstechnica.com)
5 points by nmstoker 6y ago|0 comments
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by nmstoker 7y ago
Here's the link to the survey results: https://www.surveymonkey.com/results/SM-67XBXHYX7/ It's a shame that they did not record/release data on the number of children the respondents have, as this i
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by nmstoker 7y ago
Agree. They act like they're doing it for public benefit and connected with academia but without being clear if they're a commercial offshoot or charitable or something else. They are accepting donations in a way that implies they
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by nmstoker 7y ago
Yes, that would be a better user experience as: 1. not everyone will think to use quotes 2. it would probably be more resilient to minor user errors too (eg if it had been misused misheard as The Book of Way you'd still have a fair cha
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by nmstoker 7y ago
Although search within apps can be even worse. I was looking through Google Movies the other day for the film 2001 and instead it swamps the results with those from the year 2001 - one could argue that there are lots of people who are massi
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by nmstoker 7y ago
You mean more stylish?!
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by nmstoker 7y ago
This looks like it could do with a video - the description and screenshots appear to give a sense of what's going on in the app but actually showing people would be much better - unless you want to rely purely on the kind of people who
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by nmstoker 7y ago
Fear and Greed do not seem opposites so having them as opposing ends of a scale feels odd. Is this a convention used in markets commonly?
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by nmstoker 7y ago
The author writes well. Slightly off-topic compared to the iPad piece but the story about his time in a glider in the Yorkshire dales is a cracking read: https://thinkfractional.blog/a-day-to-remember/
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by nmstoker 7y ago
This is timely, given people using similar (but less effective) background techniques in Zoom et al. It's especially impressive in the video clip where she shakes her hair, with no obvious flaws in the background replacement.
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Background Matting: The World Is Your Green Screen(grail.cs.washington.edu)
10 points by nmstoker 7y ago|1 comments
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by nmstoker 7y ago
That definition misses a significant portion of the commonly used meaning: someone who is unpleasant (as in mean, annoying) For instance: stop being such a git - this is not imploring someone not to be stupid, it's saying don't be
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by nmstoker 7y ago
And it got posted here too: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22693172 (which has a more authoritative link than my original one)
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by nmstoker 7y ago
Interesting you should mention this needs, as there's something that integrates Mycroft that just came up in one of my feeds: Plasma Bigscreen from people involved with KDE: https://www.forbes.com/sites/jasonevange

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