teh_klev

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by teh_klev 4y ago
In the UK (still part of the European geographical area despite the Brexit foot shooting), employers pay a "National Insurance" contribution over and above the employee's salary i.e. it's not deducted from your salary. E
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I managed to get a free paper copy as well. It lives in my bathroom library and gets opened now and again. Back in the day we used SourceGear for our source control which worked well enough for our needs. Oh the days of exclusive file check
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The Firefox implementation is clunky. If they fixed that then I'd readily switch to FF.
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"Inspired" doesn't mean you do the exact same things, sometimes you introduce your own ideas, not all necessarily good :) The residual oil remover mentioned is just a fancy name for lens cleaner that you can pick up in most s
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It's like looking into the Total Perspective Vortex.
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This is futile. There's these services called VPN's that let me exit my traffic into the US.
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> Even better, do these things with someone else Sure but that's missing the point of the book.
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> but at some point they broke raw socket support Sockets are a transport layer feature e.g. TCP or UDP. ICMP works at the network layer and has no notion of sockets.
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I bought Hounds of Love when it came out. It was rarely off of my turntable, and I still have a regularly played CD in the car. It kinda makes me a bit sad when an album as special as that (for me any way) is appropriated by advertising age
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Because not all of us are musicians and it's interesting to understand how a piece of music was composed.
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Try reading the twitter thread: https://twitter.com/mattzollerseitz/status/15419944294053314... https://twitter.com/mattzollerseitz/status/15419944294053314...
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by teh_klev 4y ago
This seems to be the source material: https://www.datagenetics.com/blog/march42014/index.html Vox re-heating a gizmodo article[0] which re-publishes (with permission) the one above. [0]: https://gizmodo
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> Next topic: why does no one wants to date me? > Sex appeal and all that That's just nonsense. My wardrobe value has never exceeded ~GBP250. I buy new clothing probably once every 2-3 years and even then the average spend is aro
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by teh_klev 4y ago
Same situation here in the UK. - 2018: 16.75p/kWh + 5% VAT - 2021: 20.9p/kWh + 5% VAT - 2022: 27.99p/kWh + 5% VAT And there seems to be no end in sight. To add insult to injury my energy supplier also bumped the "Standin
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Well this is giving me some serious nostalgia flushes. I think one of the first web pages I viewed was the "Fun with Grapes" page on my Windows 3.0 machine running Trumpet Winsock[0] (or maybe KA9Q[1] which I remember using around
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The original scheme in the UK was called the Mail Order Protection Scheme (MOPS).
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Looking at that is giving me a mild dose of trypophobia, even with just one opening.
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> Shame its behind a paywall, this is an interesting sounding article. https://archive.ph/q7MmG
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I know and realised after it was too late to edit. And I used work in radio and should know better. Sitting here with bright red shame-face :)
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Ah, ok, fair enough. If I could I'd edit to say "less often". I didn't think, in my five or so years of watching his work, I'd seen a digital caliper set in his hands.
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by teh_klev 4y ago
Adam Booth, abom79 on YouTube appears to swear by his Starrett collection of instruments. I've also never seen him use a digital calibration/measuring tool, everything is precision mechanical. https://www.youtube.com&#x
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by teh_klev 4y ago
You clearly have an axe to grind and there's no point in me wasting more time discussing this with you. Good night, and good luck.
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> I hope you are right because he's got quite a bit of power these days. Oh c'mon. The guy is just a YouTube celeb like hundreds of others and easily disposable, what is this "power" he wields?
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> Maybe, but those WAN show lectures are often starkly mirroerd[sic] by strongly worded submarine advertisement playing as segments on his various shows. Every one of their videos clearly mention who the sponsors are i.e. the "spons
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> And he's clearly someone you can buy demonstrated by his flip flopping AMD/Intel/NVidia praise. He gives praise where praise is due, that isn't bias. Many times on the WAN show he's reminded viewers and especia
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> His style turned me off in the beginning, but now it’s just kinda become his shtick. I started listening last year and I too was initially put off by his "broadcast" (sorry, ex-radio bod here) style, but I've come to app
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> Who has the time to listen to a 2-3 hour podcast? You don't need to listen to them all at once. I'll usually listen over a couple of days. And I'm glad someone like Fridman doesn't feel bound to constrain the length
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> and even the author of this piece is celebrating that. I don't think so. Read the last part of that sentence which I've emphasised in italics. "So if you work in any sort of tech or digital related role, and the work you
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> it's a better feeling to think that you now understand the gears of history through this new lens This is the thing, there's no harm in reading something like this where the author may be "pushing a narrative", but
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I was watching the promo video thinking this was a very wholesome game, until I saw the electric toaster sitting in the bath :)

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