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by ralferoo 2y ago
I worked in the UK at a FAANG, so I was on a different bonus system, but my US colleagues had a very significant lock-in. Both your starting bonus and annual bonuses were implemented in terms of share grants that vested at 25% each year. I
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by ralferoo 2y ago
I agree with the "taxes make the fiat currency" argument, but what you said isn't a good justification for it, because that third guy with the club probably isn't paying any taxes! Well, maybe sales taxes when he spends
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by ralferoo 2y ago
> It's not? What repo? https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux...
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by ralferoo 2y ago
I came across a reasonable amount of perl code that happily formatted the year 2000 as 19100. The functions that converted from seconds-since-1970 to a "human readable" parts returned a year relative to 1900. Most people would for
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by ralferoo 2y ago
> So, your comment is based on the premise of this being a discussion surrounding stable. It's not, so I don't know what to make of the rest of your comment on the basis of this incorrect premise. The repo is literally called &
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by ralferoo 2y ago
> They can and do break into premises That's fair enough to some extent. Not sure about the US, but in the UK they are also responsible for re-securing the access point when they leave, and I believe you can claim compensation for t
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by ralferoo 2y ago
Perhaps you might enlighten me how it's "very clear" from my opening paragraph that I don't understand the thread. Granted, the initial post could be interpreted a number of different says, but having read the whole thre
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by ralferoo 2y ago
This might be setting a new precedent though. I'm making assumptions here, but I'd have thought that search warrants were historically used at locations where the suspect lived / worked / frequented. Even at premises not
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by ralferoo 2y ago
I agree. If the author himself is telling people it's not ready for production, it doesn't really matter what bugs this code has, unless it affects other subsystems or is a dangerous regression from the previous stable release. If
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by ralferoo 2y ago
I don't think Linus is particularly concerned about bcachefs-tools, and whether a particular distributions ships with it or not isn't a concern for the kernel. Presumably though, distributions that don't ship the tools may al
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by ralferoo 2y ago
It's very clear from that thread that he doesn't understand the purpose of the stable branch. It doesn't mean "stable" as in "the best possible experience", it means it as in "this code has been teste
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by ralferoo 2y ago
> there is often enough time to stroll, but people rush because they want a seat. I'm someone who used to frequently catch the last train north to Birmingham on a Saturday night (9:40pm), and it was usually full and so some people w
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by ralferoo 2y ago
The Amstrad CPC used the 6845 CRTC and there were lots of other similar warnings about changing the vertical height too much or reducing the sync widths. At the time, people gave all sorts of dire warnings about the monitors being fried. Ye
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by ralferoo 2y ago
> that meant extremely early or late hours for me. Especially if you had asked deliberate questions to establish work-life-balance and they'd withheld this, I personally wouldn't have just agreed to doing it without discussion
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by ralferoo 2y ago
I feel bad for people in this situation, but at the same time I think it's kind of strange to allow yourself to be in this situation. Personally, I maintain a very strict separation between work devices and personal. Work email, slack,
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by ralferoo 2y ago
Sure, TSLA is 1.39% of the ETF I invest in. On the one hand, that's a low percentage, but on the other hand because I've investing in an S&P ETF for so long, it's significantly more than I'd like for a company run by
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by ralferoo 2y ago
The truly staggering thing about this "deal", IMHO, is that people were crazy enough to vote for it. Sure, you can argue a CEO deserves to be compensated for his work, but there has to be a limit on publicly owned companies. Vario
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by ralferoo 2y ago
It didn't seem to be mentioned in the article, but have these covers always been unsafe to handle, or has the problem got worse as the books get older and maybe the chemicals are more likely to leech out or be released as dust etc? If
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by ralferoo 2y ago
Maybe nowadays the authentic restaurants might be more expensive, but I think historically it's been the other way round. The authentic restaurants were cheaper and opened to support the local immigrant population who wanted they taste
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by ralferoo 2y ago
I don't think it's fair to say that Katsu is particularly a British fad. When I lived in London, we'd go to the Japan Centre, or a local Japanese takeaway that had much better sauce but less generous meat portions. But these
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by ralferoo 2y ago
Through most of my life, I have routinely used "they" when describing events to other people, even when I know the gender of the person concerned, because it's either not relevant to what I'm saying or I want to delibera
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by ralferoo 2y ago
More like a snail than a snake.
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by ralferoo 2y ago
I'm wondering what the ¬ operator was doing in BASIC. Line 25. At first, I was thinking it might be power, so that A and B should be the same but calculated differently, but the final output shows that B is a bit less than double that
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by ralferoo 2y ago
I've also never heard this term. Back when text interfaces for mail were the default, but they started getting "fancy" like elm, pine and mutt in the 90s, they were always called curses or ncurses interfaces. When GUIs became
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by ralferoo 2y ago
I guess you might be technically correct with that date being the official cut-off for pre-history, but the Romans who recorded successfully invading in 43 AD also recorded unsuccessful invasion attempts in 55 and 54 BC, so it's not en
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by ralferoo 2y ago
No, because as I keep saying, this kind of issue almost never goes to court in the UK because they know that a company needs to demonstrate a severe financial loss to override the employee's right to work for a company of their choosin
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by ralferoo 2y ago
My point was that the words are vaguer, and so less easy to comprehend. White is a colour, pink is a colour, green is a colour. Taking the words literally, everybody is a "person of colour". You can't directly intuit the me
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by ralferoo 2y ago
There's a lot to unpack even in this expanded question, and it's still not possible to give you the clear-cut answer you want. Firstly, the difference between client and customer to me is that a client is someone who you've b
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by ralferoo 2y ago
And I think I already covered that example. If the clients are already customers of the new company, then he can make them offers which he knows they would find tempting. There'd be nothing to suggest he ever did anything untoward, and
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by ralferoo 2y ago
It's interesting as I agree with the points the article makes, but come to the opposite conclusion. Euphemisms don't need to be changed, because it's not the words themselves that are a problem, it's the thoughts and ste

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