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by oldcynic 8y ago
Hard Won Recruiter Bullet Points: Never, ever, give out a contact unless you want to burn that contact. That means no references until offer, no answering the mid-conversation "oh, I forgot, who's (CTO|your manager) there",
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by oldcynic 8y ago
They nearly all pull stunts like that.
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by oldcynic 8y ago
Most plastic waste is from weekly groceries. No one in their right mind would make a special trip to take the junk back, simply take a black sack with the previous week's garbage when next going shopping. It would be no additional cost
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by oldcynic 8y ago
> magically appeared on the internet just a few months ago You mean like everyone else just after they join reddit or HN? Same for blogging - there's plenty blogging and YouTubing under some cute handle rather than their given name.
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by oldcynic 8y ago
Going entirely on memory, so I may have misrepresented a bit or been out of order. I seem to remember there's an initial automated sort and wash before shredding to remove dead mice, contamination from single stream recycling, assorted
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by oldcynic 8y ago
You'll never waste as much as is used in plastic recycling either. The number of separate hot and cold washing stages is quite astonishing.
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by oldcynic 8y ago
A Kickstarter opportunity for some sort of fashionable IoT enabled moustache drinking shield.
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by oldcynic 8y ago
There's no mention at all of the "universe is a simulation" theory in the article, unless I managed to skip a paragraph. So title is entirely clickbait, surely? It's not "We're Getting Better at Universe Simu
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by oldcynic 8y ago
I wish this myth would die, or we fully priced-in the externality cost of plastic recycling. Look into the roughly 15 step process of recycling those cheap plastic bottles, including pressurised steam, abrasive steps, cold and hot water, an
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by oldcynic 8y ago
Ridiculous isn't it? We even kept milk bottle tops and handed in the aluminium foil, and the daily milk was delivered in an electric vehicle. Bottles got reused enough times (a little less with milk bottles) that older Coke, other pop,
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by oldcynic 8y ago
Targets the wrong place. It may reduce contamination of recycling streams, but does nothing to encourage less production. Perhaps a combination approach: $5 for a pack of small bin liners, or return your waste to the shop for free. If Tesco
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by oldcynic 8y ago
A remarkably accurate summary of the mess we've brought upon ourselves. It very much is a game, or recycling theatre.
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by oldcynic 8y ago
Couldn't agree more. From a usability perspective peak Windows was 7. Despite years of use I still dislike Windows insistence on extreme flatness, and still find it counter-productive. Even with the huge gain from WSL and some other
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by oldcynic 8y ago
More like it spoils the layout of 99% of documents. It works perfectly well for really simple stuff. Like letters and a little bit of what-if doodling in the spreadsheet.
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by oldcynic 8y ago
> It did not achieve its goals, because companies "implementing" the law have different things they want to achieve. If this is what we think the law has become, we're screwed. Not just on privacy or dark patterns but gene
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by oldcynic 8y ago
Interesting, thanks, that clears up some of mystery from the Windows side of things. Explains why so many came in who clearly had experience, but were missing most of the ++ part. Course back then STL (mostly now the standard library) was s
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by oldcynic 8y ago
Glass bottles survived typically 25-50 round trips during reuse, sometimes much longer if there was a deposit paid. Plastic as used in milk cartons is extremely easy to spoil causing the recycled batch to be worthless. To avoid this the was
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by oldcynic 8y ago
I would say "it depends". Just as poor programmers came later from Visual Basic, or MSVC++ (somehow we went through a phase were everyone coming for interview with MSVC++ actually had C with classes, and for a while it was a warni
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by oldcynic 8y ago
All to make it a game of skill and not run an illegal lottery. I assume Ofcom or IBA before them put no effort into enforcing so the programmes just felt free to turn it into a lottery with a question only the dog will get wrong. In the old
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by oldcynic 8y ago
Returning out of bounds pointers will do that. Was more impressed by the range of errors in his 4 line examples - the sort of thing you'd expect from a struggling student not a tutor or author. :)
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by oldcynic 8y ago
Make sure to click the link at the end of the article for code samples with potential for Segmentation fault:core dumped in 4 lines. Even more concerning is the book seems to have some positive reviews on Amazon(!), and just one shredding i
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by oldcynic 8y ago
You get the free Martin Baker Tie and pin[0]. You probably get classed unfit to fly until medical exam. If you were flying one of the 60s fast jets you may lose a kneecap on the way out. Then you get the enquiry/court martial. [0] htt
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by oldcynic 8y ago
Selfish and unfair of them? Is that not just as selfish, if not more so wanting to save you some pain whilst they must keep theirs - for your or society's convenience? Would you restrict loved ones from risky activities for the same re
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by oldcynic 8y ago
Including shipping is indeed useful, but I was calling out changes, and as you say they've done that forever. Just about every change they've made in the last half decade that I can think of makes it less friendly. I would be su
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by oldcynic 8y ago
First persuade Matt to leave the BSD world, or Linus to leave Linux... Not happening in my lifetime I think.
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by oldcynic 8y ago
> If everyone went veg, we would need more farms right? Fewer, or have some spare to cater for growing population. Farmers currently growing grain for animal feed could grow other things instead. Veg perhaps?
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by oldcynic 8y ago
Dasani and Aquafina are quite literally tap water, filtered, but not boiled, then bottled with a trace amount of salt added. So for most people with safe municipal supply it's a complete waste of money no matter what Coke's market
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by oldcynic 8y ago
Most of their UI changes have been user hostile or added dark patterns. For instance where once you got local items and sellers by default, now it defaults to international and you have to change a setting to exclude overseas sellers. Almos
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by oldcynic 8y ago
Quite, but it may turn out to be a great filter that no species, alien or terrestrial, has yet got past. Thus there may no end of life out there but none that has advanced far enough to be noticed. Perhaps we'll be the first, though I
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by oldcynic 8y ago
Meh. Much more likely they, and we, don't make it past planetary overpopulation, climate change or any of the numerous other self-made catastrophes.

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