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by reallydontask 9y ago
I'm just pointing out that both effects are, at this point in time, just rounding errors
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by reallydontask 9y ago
I'm going to venture that it's not even a rounding error. In fact, in places it will likely have increased the CO2 emissions, again rounding error figures, due to the electricity generation mix and associated losses with gener
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by reallydontask 9y ago
My GF's VW Up! with a beefy 59 BHP is perfectly driveable. Sure, I do find myself shifting more than on my car and it won't push past 100 mph but it can comfortably do 80 mph on the motorway. It also gets about 60 mpg on regular u
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by reallydontask 9y ago
In my limited experience, it seems that C# and Java are big in corporate environments and SMEs but not so much where startups are concerned it's seen as a safe pair of hands not necessarily as something cool.
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by reallydontask 9y ago
I guess Uber loses money on each sale but makes it up on volume? :)
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by reallydontask 9y ago
It is my understanding that the DWP has brought a lot of its IT back in house. edit: I should say some as to be fair, I'm not 100% sure of the extend of this.
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by reallydontask 9y ago
shame that the instructions for verifying the update don't apply to Windows 10
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by reallydontask 10y ago
isn't this a case of survivorship bias? after all, just because it worked for you uncle and mother doesn't really mean that it works for anybody else.
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by reallydontask 10y ago
I don't doubt for a second that everybody gets lucky breaks. There is an issue of magnitude of those breaks, though
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by reallydontask 10y ago
I might be reading your comment wrong, but survivorship bias can lead you to do catastrophic things, that is the whole point of the comic.
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by reallydontask 10y ago
HRMC will actually tell if your employer(s) have screwed up and you're due a refund. I imagine that they will also tell you if you need pay more for the same reason, but that's never happened to me.
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by reallydontask 10y ago
it's interesting that traditional hard subjects seem to have this tradition of early morning lectures, at least in my experience. Flatmates doing Math, Chemistry and Physics and we all had early lectures. Chap doing Philosophy would co
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by reallydontask 10y ago
as English a name as John Smith
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by reallydontask 10y ago
On demand labour On demand skills higher skillset misallocation of internal resources internal politics hanging on to yearly budgets I could probably think of a few more Some of the above are perceived by PHBs types as there is always a fin
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by reallydontask 10y ago
I can't speak about gaming but for more general contracting the multiplier is 1.75 - 2.5x of a normal employee's salary There are a lot of reasons why employers hire contractors, some more valid than others. In my limited experien
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by reallydontask 10y ago
Not sure where you are based nor what your line of business is so it's hard to say whether your speaking in general terms or based on experience. I've never signed a gibberish contract of employment. This is not to say that I was
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by reallydontask 10y ago
Often these are conflicting goals too. If that guy hadn't shipped the kludge 10 years ago perhaps the company and project wouldn't exist today. On some occasions the company folding would've been a better outcome for ev
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by reallydontask 10y ago
Please explain what you mean by: poor people today, rich people 100 years ago, living standards. hard to argue with your statement, one way or another, if those aren't clearly defined.
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by reallydontask 10y ago
I guess it depends on the weather. I do get the feeling that roads are in worse condition here (Northern England) than they were back home (Southern Spain) but it's just that a feeling, on the surface it makes sense but not sure how ac
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by reallydontask 10y ago
I heard at a conference from some HP exec, that they sold loads of HP Integrity servers to Asian customers mainly so that they could host MS SQL Server on those big boxes, which I found surprising
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by reallydontask 10y ago
they also dodge the need to set up port forwarding, which is why we use it on our kiosks when the customers don't want to set up port forwarding.
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by reallydontask 10y ago
I'm an avid F1 follower and not a fan of electric cars but this article is so poor it's unbelievable. Let's compare worst case scenario for what we don't like and ignore all inconvenient facts for what we like. Lazy
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by reallydontask 10y ago
I spent countless hours of my PhD trying to get the White light continuum stable enough to do measurements with. Our laser wasn't powerful enough to use air as medium, so we would use sapphire (very good, stable and predictable), Calci
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by reallydontask 11y ago
it would be nice if it allowed to combine words from multiple languages. That's my technique on the websites that allow long passwords.
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by reallydontask 11y ago
One can easily see how this will end up being near universal as people will be charged a massive premium if they choose not to use tracking. It will be sold/marketed as a discount if you use it, of course, but it's the same. It re
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by reallydontask 11y ago
for some reason Going Forward always irritates, so that'd be my number 1.