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by thorin 4y ago
I was thinking about the PRC government having influence on Taiwan, I've no idea what their relationship is. Of course I have nothing against Chinese/Asian individuals, I just don't know what level of control China might seek
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by thorin 4y ago
If the company is Taiwanese is there not still a concern with dependency on China and leaking of information. I realise it's important to have local manufacturing, but is this still essentially a "Chinese" company considering
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by thorin 4y ago
I would be, but for various reasons I'm not (yet). Career so far: 2 Years 14 Years (various company name changes but the same work/office etc) 6 Years (moved from contract to permanent during that time) If I can deal with the work
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by thorin 4y ago
Games is hard, and I don't expect it's the highest paid In the UK banking is highly paid (relatively) and can be hard or easy (I have worked in investment banking risk/liquidity/regulatory) FANG in the US is highly paid
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by thorin 4y ago
I would guess Scratch as that is what schools use, even from 6 years old.
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by thorin 4y ago
Kind of but you can eat a surprising amount of diced fruit and veg without sauce, or plain yoghurt, soup or boiled eggs or smoked fish without eating a lot of calories. I would eat 500/Kcal a day a couple of times a week and it actuall
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by thorin 4y ago
I'm surprised we've got this many comments without anyone mentioning Soylent Green. SPOILER Soylent Green is both the name of a 1973 science fiction film and of a wafer-like food product in the film. The film is a police procedura
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by thorin 4y ago
I know a guy who was promoting frutarian lifestyle. He was a previous world champion kayaker and works in the outdoor industry. I saw him recently and he was still in the top 15-20 in the world in his even. I need to check with him if he&#x
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by thorin 4y ago
Interesting you should mention that. I used to really like the spicy beanburger at McDonald's. There was no reason to make something that pretended to be meat with even more additives, except to drive the marketing of the non-meat meat
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by thorin 4y ago
I'm the same, I don't do enough coding now to solve the problems after the 1st few days without spending significant amounts of time on it.
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by thorin 4y ago
I used to run a php board in the late 90s I think. It needed to be constantly watched and updated otherwise it was spammed and hacked horribly. I didn't really have the skills and time to keep on top of it. Having a reddit group would
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by thorin 4y ago
SCHOOL1 (boy now 7, girl now nearly 9 ) Lego, gets used all the time. Sets get built properly kept and played with for a while then go into the general lego pool for creative play Physical books (Beastquest series for the boy, Roald Dahl, H
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by thorin 4y ago
I've always considered that weird, given most cars in Europe aren't automatic. Not sure what the exact stats are. Idiocracy? The only time I've had an accident was in Canada, because I wasn't used to using an automatic a
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by thorin 4y ago
For me, fast and simple, but extensible. Using Jetbrains/VS/Eclipse is ok if you use it every day for a single technology, but some people need a text editor + IDE they can use for multiple technologies which kind of works for all
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by thorin 4y ago
I would agree with that, especially as the paying client will deliver the xls as the requirements and expect something that looks similar. It takes a lot of work to refactor the process and then build and design something that's famili
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by thorin 4y ago
Assuming that you don't want to get into any fun exercises / sports ( I do kayaking, cycling, hiking, climbing for instance), then you need to prioritise some kind of movement. Go out for a walk before work or at lunchtime, then i
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by thorin 4y ago
The main reason that track changes is so horrendous to work with is that MS formatting is a lot more complex that ascii. It does kind of work, if you are strict about the kinds of changes you make and start from a fairly fixed template. Som
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by thorin 4y ago
This is sad, but basically every supermarket and corner shop has something like a foodbank by the door and I guess it would be included in these stats so not surprising. Also people with housing can survive in way colder conditions than the
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by thorin 4y ago
I work for one of these services companies in the UK. They put huge investment in having their own training centres and universities and most of the recruits have already attended at least on university. You have to realise that the busines
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by thorin 4y ago
I was part of the research organisation which owned all of the British Gas R&D work going back into the 70s and beyond. I also maintained the software for all the high pressure gas metering sites and converted some of the code and calcu
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by thorin 4y ago
I wrote the system for National Grid UK LNG storage and trading in the early 2000s. I think they had 6 sites online now. Milford Haven was in progress I believe. Then they gradually started closing them as not required... Same with coal and
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by thorin 4y ago
It doesn't taste that different in every country (I've had it in most continents and quite a few countries). For whatever reason I still massively prefer regular coke to most of the other mainstream suppliers. I do like some small
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by thorin 4y ago
Doing things with my kids (could be lots of things from watching tv/films, hiking, swimming, reading, playing sport) Getting outside to do STUFF, canoeing, surfing, cycling Seeing people in the real life and chatting Listening to and p
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by thorin 4y ago
If most of the team are actually 0.1s then a 1 will seem like a x10. Anyway, I've worked with plenty of people who can get stuff done, and I've been able to get stuff done myself sometimes. However, it's all relative and if I
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by thorin 4y ago
Is this in the US only? I have a Samsung S9 (and a spare S9 actually), and the last update was installed on the 23 Sept 2022.
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by thorin 4y ago
I don't know any people who program in Rust. I've been programming 25 years professionally. On my LinkedIn and through friends I probably know 50 people who do c++ programming in some capacity, including myself, to a poor level.
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by thorin 4y ago
Actually drinking in the day at least from 12 noon was pretty acceptable too about 20yrs ago. Large companies often had a management bar in the UK. Office staff had a drinks cabinet.
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by thorin 4y ago
I have more hobbies than work interests. White water kayaking, surf, rock climbing, hiking, road and mountain biking, travelling, playing guitar, bass, piano and singing. Playing chess, lots of random stuff with my kids. None of them I take
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by thorin 4y ago
Micheal Pollan, the omnivore's dilemma
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by thorin 4y ago
I used to go to the Intrepid Fox all the time and the 12 bar :-( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Intrepid_Fox

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