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by s_dev 3y ago
Obviously the cash isn't free and will be claimed back. The story here is a bank who has made a series of poor tech choices going back decades starting to catch up on itself. Bank of Ireland has shockingly poor tech infrastructure both
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Free Cash in Ireland, at Least for a Moment, Thanks to a Bank Glitch(nytimes.com)
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by s_dev 3y ago
It's insane he could have cashed out as a billionaire and lived the high life for the remainder of his life but doubled down instead and is now facing a stretch in prison. I'd also like to put my hand up and say I was one of those
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by s_dev 3y ago
Found the Civ VI player. I can hear that quote in Sean Bean's voice: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kqX-6L80sP0
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by s_dev 3y ago
Only a computer can get stuck in a loop or a person who is insane. It's not like if you ask a person to divide by zero they will fall in to a coma or sit there computing. I 100% believe that ChatGPT can output absolute garbage but for
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by s_dev 3y ago
I really don't get this dependence problem. People want information to be 100% accurate? This is the internet -- lies and false claims are the standard. It's up to individuals to corroborate that the info they're looking at i
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by s_dev 3y ago
While truly awful that she died the real story is the police chief with sexual harassment allegations raiding the paper that was going to publish these allegations.
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by s_dev 3y ago
I can't read this comments as anything other than virtue signalling. You can call Mark Shuttleworth an asshole and still use Ubuntu without being a hypocrite.
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by s_dev 3y ago
The car industry in Germany already makes a huge number of chips for cars -- they just aren't as sophisticated or as small as the ones made in Taiwan suitable for personal computers so by your own logic they have followed the South Kor
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by s_dev 3y ago
What about the vast energy required by fabs? Do you have a special tax to reinvest and maintain the grid or do they pay the same rates as a normal Arizona grocery store? Texas is hardly a paragon of a stable grid given the blackouts the pas
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by s_dev 3y ago
Copyrights only generally only start getting entertained if money is being made from it. It might be copyright infringement to post brand logo to a forum but it wouldn't be pursued. Make that forum the forums icon and start generating
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by s_dev 3y ago
Obesity is always medically related as there isn't a single medical phenomena that isn't made more complicated by obesity.
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by s_dev 3y ago
He's basically a hardcore version of Julia Evans who also does great learning content for techies.
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by s_dev 3y ago
No mention of the dramatic difference between certain news websites not having intrusive pop ups due to GDPR. Which should be mentioned any time this debate pops up.
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by s_dev 3y ago
>isn't that a little bit your fault? If I invent a Sports game and someone falls playing it -- am I also responsible? Certain structures have expectations e.g. a bridge should not prematurely collapse. A skyscraper should not fall o
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by s_dev 3y ago
I don't think I earn enough to be filing taxes in the US and there is an earned income threshold around $100k which I'm well below.
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by s_dev 3y ago
> > Basically everyone who utters the question “.. but how technical are they?” in that particular tone of voice is a shitbird. I don't see the problem here either. Sounds like somebody overheard that comment and had no real answ
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by s_dev 3y ago
Dual Irish/US Passport holder here -- if I wish to emigrate to the US do I have to do anything other than buy a plane ticket?
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by s_dev 3y ago
It's a thread -- not a single tweet.
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by s_dev 3y ago
Sounds like somebody cut corners to the point of it being illegal. Not saying it didn't happen certainly a chancer was operating that boat.
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by s_dev 3y ago
There are rules about when you can empty those bilge tanks -- you don't do it when docked and you don't do it when travelling up a river with people swimming in it.
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by s_dev 3y ago
Belgium wants to give kids beer to keep them off sugary drinks: https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/12248/belgian-plan-give-... They tested it out and the test was successful. The kids preferred beer to sugary dri
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by s_dev 3y ago
Ejecting means turning the project in to a native project i.e. one that can be opened and edited with Xcode or Android Studio. This is in contrast to an IPA or AAB file which can be deployed to a device or distributed to an App Store.
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by s_dev 3y ago
Why would a English literature expert be expected to be on top of the cutting edge of science? Why is Anna Karenina a great novel?
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by s_dev 3y ago
Isn't Camereon a submersible expert as well as filmographer? With experience directly related to exploring the Titanic?
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by s_dev 3y ago
Is the lesson here is that problem solving typically requires more willpower than intellect?
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by s_dev 3y ago
The front page material does look startlingly less 'interesting' than it does normally. I think reddit will be die the same way 'The Simpsons' died -- we all know seasons 8-13 are the by far the most critically acclaimed
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by s_dev 3y ago
Limiting screen time for kids under ten is a bad idea?
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"The heaviness of being successful was replaced by the lightness of being a beginner again, less sure about everything. It freed me to enter one of the most creative periods of my life." - Steve Jobs on being fired from Apple.
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by s_dev 3y ago
How many subscribers is medium sized?

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