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by teh_klev 4y ago
How do you know that he wasn't already being compensated well enough?
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by teh_klev 4y ago
Yeah I know, it's a bit of a mess.
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Holey moley, that's just plain cruel.
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The article title is misleading, but it does mention in the body of the story that: "The reasons for the disconnection are not clear, as Yandex is not currently on sanctions lists, but its news and blogging services, as well as a seni
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by teh_klev 4y ago
Shared web hosting is still a big thing outside of our developer bubble. PHP is 99.9% guaranteed to be installed in these types of offerings, or it's a one click install on your control panel page.
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by teh_klev 4y ago
> It's always been Maslow's Hierarchy to me. Same here from when I was in college in the 80's.
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by teh_klev 4y ago
> I had an impression that the most used method for putting out the burning oil wells is TNT You're not wrong. The technique was pioneered by Red Adair who was quite a famous firefighter with a speciality in blowout fires: https:&#
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by teh_klev 4y ago
Really sorry, I don't normally nit pick spelling and grammar, but it's "en masse" rather than "on mass".
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I agree, the $1T figure seems a bit fantastical.
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It's very El Reg in style: https://www.theregister.com/2022/04/25/surface_laptop_studio... Though sadly they seem to have dialled back their headlines.
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by teh_klev 4y ago
> IIRC the only option at the time for running JS on the server was Rhino Not really true[0]. You could run server side JavaScript with JScript[1] on IIS as far back as the days of IIS 3.0, circa 1997. JScript is ostensibly JavaScript an
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by teh_klev 4y ago
I'm fairly certain Amazon and Shopify understand this problem well and that their stats (~70% of carts are abandoned) are reasonably faithful: https://pay.amazon.co.uk/blog/how-amazon-pay-addresses-cart-... https
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by teh_klev 4y ago
Thank you! Can I send you a coffee/tea/something on Kofi or whatever?
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Ask HN: Website with fictional case reports of alien and paranormal encounters
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When I crossed into my forties a couple of friends were insistent that I do "a big thing" of clay pigeon shooting, go karting, overnighting in a rented a cottage, get all the guys together etc etc. I point blank refused, I was goi
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by teh_klev 4y ago
Why not? They might use it to experiment with different techniques to bend wood, test structural integrity of different joint types, well anything.
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> I've never understood why fiddling with IT equipment in your home is considering a "home lab" since you aren't necessarily creating anything To paraphrase the first item in the HN guidelines: "anything that gra
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by teh_klev 4y ago
> The older generation I'm genuinely curious as to what you consider is "The older generation".
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Glasgow's M8 (incomplete) ringroad is famous for its ski-jumps to no-where and ghost junctions and sliproads. https://www.roads.org.uk/articles/glasgow https://www.scottishroadsarchive.org/m8 Ther
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by teh_klev 4y ago
You can still probably produce a unique and good "craft" product even using spirit from large scale spirit producers such as MGP. In Scotland it's not uncommon to see "independent" bottlers. These are specialist com
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I'm maybe kinda lucky in that my dad worked in the business for ~40 years, from lowly warehouseman all the way up to distillery manager. I also worked as a warehouseman and in the filling store filling casks in my early twenties for a
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by teh_klev 4y ago
Sure he can be "odd", but I find him entertaining all the same. And as with all things "internet" don't rely on the word of one person. I'll address your price of whisky comment in reverse: > then another th
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by teh_klev 4y ago
> I'd say that's simply not true, at least for my "enthusiast" circles. 40% whiskies are becoming increasingly rare in those groups. Go into pretty much any supermarket (certainly in the UK) and 40% ABV is universal s
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by teh_klev 5y ago
> Of course, the key is that you can have both with the right transportation options. I agree, but even then I'm pretty much done with cities and that benefit would be wasted on me :)
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by teh_klev 5y ago
> As for socializing, I find that very reductive to think that "the people you work with in an office are great for socialization". Nope, I don't choose those people, so I'd rather invest my time socializing with peop
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by teh_klev 5y ago
> more leniency to take a walk or bike a bit The company I work for will happily let you do this even after already having had your lunch break. As far as they're concerned as long as the work gets done they don't care that muc
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by teh_klev 5y ago
I'd disagree with all of your points. > No one builds rapport through zoom meetings. I joined my present company in 2020 and had no problems building a rapport with my fellow workers via Teams. > People have forgotten how to hand
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by teh_klev 5y ago
I think it kinda depends on your age. When I was in my twenties and thirties, and despite being a country lad, living in cities was highly desirable and I had a lot of good times and made some great long lasting friendships during that peri
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by teh_klev 5y ago
>>> There's also the problem that the old rail is just one set of tracks, and so another set would be needed anyhow. >> How often is this done? > Beats me. With modern tech, how hard can it be? All that's need is
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by teh_klev 5y ago
That's a fun read. I always wonder if these seasteader types take into account really bad storms. Those pod things look like they'd be washed away in an instant once the weather really got going. I especially liked the buying a pi

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