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811.
by smcl 4y ago
Istanbul might not be an awful shout tbh, though if I was wanted internationally and I'd successfully entered somewhere Montenegro I'd probably sit tight for a while. It's a small country, but it's quite nice and you cou
812.
by smcl 4y ago
A breakaway part of Moldova, broadly aligned with Russia and/or the former USSR
813.
by smcl 4y ago
From the linked article: > While the court confirmed it had cause to believe the money in the bank accounts were the proceeds of drug trafficking
814.
by smcl 4y ago
Didn't know this, I always manually copied the video URL and appended "?t=XXmYYs" to it. Thanks
815.
by smcl 4y ago
> I do wish programming language pages would all just put a small code sample right there on their landing page Seconded. As someone who doesn't work with Fortnite/UE5 development I suspect this page isn't really meant for
816.
by smcl 4y ago
He’s becoming increasingly bizarre and hostile of late to the point where he was recently straight up describing how he wants racial segregation, quoth he: > I would say, based on the current way things are going, the best advice I would
817.
by smcl 4y ago
Was this not the guy who was trying to buy Credit Suisse?
818.
by smcl 4y ago
It sounds like the issue you have is introducing breaking or backwards incompatible changes at all while retaining the a similar name. Which is a fair point. I’m not sure what would help in that case other than using something else than “.N
819.
by smcl 4y ago
Haha :D Honestly though, if creative writing and absurd humour was the goal, they absolutely nailed it. I was particularly impressed with the onomatopoeia of the first “spoink” definition
820.
by smcl 4y ago
There are bullshitters in the real world, but for the most part they tend to just say "I don't know" in a really convoluted way. They won't, for example, completely fabricate entire concepts and speak confidently and in
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by smcl 4y ago
Another good question would be - if you were Microsoft and wanted to plan a roadmap to take the .NET ecosystem forward from a couple of separate implementations (Windows-only .NET Framework, Cross-platform Xamarin) how would you go about th
822.
by smcl 4y ago
Not Northern Europe, but Czech Resident here. There has been an explosion in house prices here, a truly wild one. I bought my place for 3.6m CZK about 7 years back and according to a recent valuation practices is "worth" nearl
823.
by smcl 4y ago
I follow Lina, Alyssa and Hector from the Asahi team on Mastodon and all three were great choices to follow. They all post interesting stuff regularly, and Lina in particular is great. She regularly livestreams her coding sessions, announci
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by smcl 4y ago
If that's what will bring you happiness, then don't let anyone stop you. However I just want to give you a little nudge, to think about if you really have no time outside this pursuit of wealth to enjoy yourself. You're onl
825.
by smcl 4y ago
This is the same as me. I switched from Twitter to Mastodon, use the platform less overall but am happier as a result.
826.
by smcl 4y ago
No, there's no need to apologise! That region is now a very strongly Czech-identifying one, but before the end of WW2[0] had a significant German minority who quite possibly bootstrapped the Pilsner style. So I don't think singl
827.
by smcl 4y ago
> German ... pilsners [Cries in Czech] I jest of course :) The ležák beers that are most popular in Czech Republic (Pilsner Urquell in Bohemia; Radegast in Moravia/Silesia) are veeery nice, but they're probably not a huge d
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by smcl 4y ago
They often do. So while you can buy "cask strength" whiskies at 50-ish percent (iirc last SMWS one I had was ~60% which was ... a little much), scotch is usually bottled at 40-44% (40% is the legal minimum). As to why they don&#x2
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by smcl 4y ago
> My scotch drinking friends think it antithetical to add a splash or even drink on the rocks. In the world of Scotch, much of the more annoying, judgemental things come from people who are either inexperienced or who want to project som
830.
by smcl 4y ago
That is a really interesting factoid, I hadn't ever really thought about how many might be kicking around at any given time. Cheers for sharing, I wish I could reciprocate but my brain is mush at the moment :D
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by smcl 4y ago
Shame, I was expecting to see large or small boulder there: https://twitter.com/SheriffAlert/status/1221881862244749315
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by smcl 4y ago
Yeah we hunted them pretty horribly for a long time so their population now is a fraction of what it once was (10-25k vs ~250k). But since it became illegal to hunt them in the 1980s it seems like they're recovering slowly, rather than
833.
by smcl 4y ago
Well the subject matter is someone baking a cake for “pi day” - I think colloquial English is probably fine in this context :)
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by smcl 4y ago
I'd say Nuitka or Cython are maybe the more common ones when talking about this. IronPython is/was interesting in that instead compiling to python bytecode or machine code it targetted the .NET CLR, and iirc I saw some kind of JIT
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by smcl 4y ago
I think it can vary greatly in Europe, though. I know my friend (in the 2010s) had a bit of a culture shock trying to deal with how old-fashioned banking was in Italy, having previously only lived in the UK. And it goes both ways, there are
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by smcl 4y ago
Correct, reddit has been up and down pretty regularly and has had its own share of problems like the irritating web interface and the nagging to user their iOS/Android app. Twitter had a terrible time coping with growth in the 2010s an
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by smcl 4y ago
I remember it came out at the same time as GitHub copilot and a lot of people here said we might need to confront the idea that some development roles may not be long for this earth.
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by smcl 4y ago
> chauvinism sells better than compassion. I was trying to make sense of this sentence and only understood you were upset with me once I read my comment back. It looks like you’ve parsed what I said as “we should only issue visas to Ru
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by smcl 4y ago
Yeah I had read that a good number of anti-war people had gone there both before and after mobilisation. In fact I was watching a video by the youtuber "nfkrz" (from Chelyabinsk, left after the invasion and now lives in Tbilisi) w
840.
by smcl 4y ago
Yeah fair, I didn't think about that as our "request stops" are usually further out of the city centre (where they're actually further apart) and trams, trolleys and buses tend to stop at every stop closer into the cit

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