teh_klev

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by teh_klev 4y ago
Tom Scott did a fairly decent video on this a few months back: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XxCha4Kez9c
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by teh_klev 4y ago
I think the notion here is that the corporations will be coming for the public lending libraries next, and it's not beyond the realms of imagination.
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by teh_klev 4y ago
> The US has effectively zero direct dependence on middle eastern oil due to domestic production and transportation costs For now and whilst those extraction costs are cheaper domestically. The US needs the Saudis as a backstop and for i
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by teh_klev 4y ago
> outsourcing a very large fraction of all manufacturing for half the world to a single non-democratic country doesn't serve our interests in the long run You do realise that a sizeable chunk of the world's oil and gas are sour
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by teh_klev 4y ago
> Yeah, uh, they are not Protestant. Oh, c'mon it's a joke. There was no such thing as a "Protestant" in Anglo Saxon times.
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by teh_klev 4y ago
Yes and kicks in at just over 43k :(
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by teh_klev 4y ago
That's for England and Wales. In Scotland it's different: Personal Allowance Up to £12,570 0% Starter rate £12,571 to £14,732 19% Basic rate £14,733 to £25,688 20% Intermediate rate £25,689 to £43,662 21% Higher rate £43,663 to £1
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by teh_klev 4y ago
No it's not, read the full advert: https://www.civilservicejobs.service.gov.uk/csr/index.cgi?SI... Location The post can be based in London (1 Horse Guards Road), Norwich (Rosebery Court) or Darlington (Feetham
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by teh_klev 4y ago
Well it depends on which NHS you're talking about? Each country in the UK has their own NHS, some are much better than others.
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by teh_klev 4y ago
> I wiuld call in as a student complaining about a running nose and would get an appointment withing a day or two. Why? This seems like a waste and abuse of the appointment system. > Recently I called in about a serious infection and
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by teh_klev 4y ago
Indeed: https://archive.org/download/vbrunDLL
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by teh_klev 4y ago
Paging Geoff Marshall...!
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by teh_klev 4y ago
> C# as a language just doesn't seem very stable In what way do you think it isn't stable? I've upgraded code written in C# v1 to the latest and greatest and never had a breaking change (well except for one time where it w
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by teh_klev 4y ago
The Boston Museum of Science has a pretty good (well it was in 2002 when I visited) high voltage exhibit called the "Theater of Electricity"[0]. Perhaps not as exotic as the Burning Man performances, it was pretty exciting stuff e
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by teh_klev 4y ago
Given that previous comment mentions becoming "gnostic", then I'm guessing: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archon_(Gnosticism)
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by teh_klev 4y ago
> Calling this a bicycle isn't even accurate. Tricycle is more like it Tricycles have two wheels at the rear. This is more like having a sidecar on a motorbike (which we still call a motorbike - with sidecar), you can see the second
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by teh_klev 4y ago
Thank you. I was aware of the concept but had never seen that acronym before. When I was a tragically optimistic 22 year old in the 80's my plan was to be retired by 55, but that boat has long since sailed :)
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by teh_klev 4y ago
What is "FIRE" content?
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by teh_klev 4y ago
Go back and read your comment carefully, it's literally a rant about the maintainer.
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by teh_klev 4y ago
Are you paying the maintainer to use their software? If not then you don't really have right to make such demands on them.
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by teh_klev 4y ago
Well these tour operators do pay for track access and pathing just like other TOC's and the rest of the railway will just need to get on with it. Also when it comes to rail tours such as this there's at most two tours a day operat
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by teh_klev 4y ago
> One is the transparent intergration with COM I think this is one of the things detractors of VB kinda miss. You could build quite sophisticated software to leverage COM/DCOM without needing to go full C/C++ and IDL. The place
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by teh_klev 4y ago
> For example dim foo as integer(5) in vb6 would give you 6 elements (0-5) Then add into the mix the "Option Base" statement, which if it was declared as "Option Base 1" your aforementioned array would only have eleme
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by teh_klev 4y ago
And the fun discussion in all railway preservation forums is...which is the truly representative Flying Scotsman? It's quite amazing how hostile those debates can get for a loco that in its life of non-preservation use was transformed
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by teh_klev 4y ago
Does this matter? There are up and down slow lines and passing loops to accommodate slower trains such as freight and preservation excursions on both the WCML and ECML. Also once you're into Scotland there's very little in the way
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by teh_klev 4y ago
Only on ScotRail trains, which largely operate with Scotland. However the ban doesn't extend to services that operate across the border. Yet another minor pleasure ruined by an overbearing Scottish government driven by a handful of idi
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by teh_klev 4y ago
Yes. From their repo README: https://github.com/johnfactotum/foliate Supported formats: - EPUB (.epub, .epub3) - Kindle (.azw, .azw3) and Mobipocket (.mobi) - FictionBook (.fb2, .fb2.zip) - Comic book archive (.cbr, .c
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by teh_klev 4y ago
Firefox containers aren't a patch on Chrome profiles (which I did mention I was using). I'd switch to Firefox in a New York minute if they fixed the profile management UX (about:profiles).
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by teh_klev 4y ago
I have multiple chrome profiles for this. However, despite switching from one subscription to another to access each different AAD tenant across multiple chrome profiles, it seems that Azure "remembers" the subscription you last a
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by teh_klev 4y ago
> I don't know how many of you sign in to multiple tenants in the console, but it generally involves buying a new computer. This made me laugh out loud. I'm working in a multi-tenant, multi-subscription environment with Azure A

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