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by sefrost 10mo ago
FYI - https://peepshow.gifglobe.com/
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by sefrost 11mo ago
Have you ever considered a “partial pass”? Perhaps it would be an easy cop out of making a decision if you had to choose something outside of pass/fail.
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by sefrost 11mo ago
I believe this is the best example of the problems that can be caused: https://x.com/TristanACooper/status/1194298167824650240 Open both images and compare. The visual joke is completely ruined with the cropping.
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by sefrost 11mo ago
> There's no easy way out of this. One generation will effectively have to give up their welfare, but nobody wants to do this (understandable). The UK cannot afford to be the welfare state it wants to be. It can be done over a perio
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by sefrost 11mo ago
Actually once you are back in your home country (or in fact any other country) you can pay an optional £180/year to buy a full qualifying year. Anybody who ever worked in the UK can do it and you don’t need to have ever been a citizen.
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by sefrost 11mo ago
The economic situation in the UK has become bizarre. I would recommend interested HNers to read up on the State Pension Triple Lock; and the various income tax cliff edges as some key examples. With respect to the income tax, it is possible
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by sefrost 1y ago
You are right from a technical point, I think, but in reality - how would one begin to make that change?
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by sefrost 1y ago
Is it because of the "winner takes all" and "lock-in effects" of being the first to market?
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by sefrost 1y ago
Reader mode seems to still work if you have a div with article text in it. I would be interested to see a comparison of what works and what doesn’t if such a reference exists though!
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by sefrost 1y ago
It seems to me that most semantic HTML has helped third parties extract data from web pages for their own use. Perhaps if you are an important primary source of information like a government service that could be useful if it helps you adva
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by sefrost 1y ago
I wonder how much it would cost to buy every book that you'd want to train a model.
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by sefrost 1y ago
I started my career in the UK around 2010 and it could have been normal banter at that point but I feel workplace relationships have generally become more corporate and risk-averse since then and it wouldn't be acceptable in most offic
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by sefrost 1y ago
WhatsApp does appear to only have access to a subset of photos on my iPhone. The UX is a little clunky because you have to “add” a new photo which it can then access, but I prefer the privacy of it.
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by sefrost 1y ago
I feel that I understand the leverage paradox concept, and the induced demand concept, but I don't understand how they are the same concept. Can you explain the connection a little more?
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by sefrost 1y ago
I like using LLMs and I have found they are incredibly useful writing and reviewing code at work. However, when I want sources for things, I often find they link to pages that don't fully (or at all) back up the claims made. Sometimes
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by sefrost 1y ago
Thank you!
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by sefrost 1y ago
Photoshop does not allow you to edit currency images. https://go.photoshelter.com/brands/blog/photographers/blog/t...
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by sefrost 1y ago
Yes exactly at 100k you lose free childcare. It’s not a taper you lose the whole thing. Here’s an explanation of the figures: https://www.thetimes.com/business-money/money/article/high-i...
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by sefrost 1y ago
It is only a matter of time before they attempt to regulate VPN usage. Here is an article written by a British MP hinting at that: https://www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/news/opinion/columnists/onli...
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by sefrost 1y ago
That's an interesting way of looking at it thanks for sharing. In that way it's similar to Google paying to be the default search engine in Firefox or on iOS. They _did_ have the best search engine at the time but they still paid
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by sefrost 1y ago
My work Mac regularly pops up an alert box claiming that Slack is “trying to install a new helper tool”. I have no idea why or what it means. I asked IT how I could verify it was legit and they didn’t know. I often wonder if this could also
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by sefrost 1y ago
Maybe the reason your comment has been downvoted is because people on HN aren’t aware of the intersection between UK employment law, specifically independent contractors substitution rules, delivery apps and modern slavery. An easy to follo
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Asda's tech separation from Walmart nears £1B as delays mount(theregister.com)
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Reanimated 4 is new, but also familiar(blog.swmansion.com)
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by sefrost 2y ago
Do you happen to know why? The other replies are all providing a narrative that it is related to the new US administration, but as you say it wasn't very clear who would win until the results were counted. So if it's been happenin
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by sefrost 2y ago
Could you explain what that means in layman's terms?
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by sefrost 2y ago
Does anybody know why that is? I was under the impression UK staff are cheaper than US staff.
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by sefrost 2y ago
I have 20 years left on my mortgage on a one bedroom apartment so I would very much hope this is not my last software engineering job!
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by sefrost 2y ago
I remember being able to have the live football scores over the top of any TV show. Most of the Ceefax/Teletext page would be 'transparent' with only a small box on the bottom of the screen showing the live updates. Is it pos
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by sefrost 2y ago
Yeah that's a more accurate way of phrasing it. Sentiment's the same though imo.

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