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by thorin 4y ago
Same with Denmark Street with instruments. When the premises are worth millions it's not surprisingly that minority shops cannot break even. They either need to be owned by the very rich as hobbies or will be bought up by chains. I thi
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by thorin 4y ago
From what I remember due to the figures if he'd gone with Labour it would have been a massively rainbow coalition. I think he got conned by the superior sliming skills of some of the tories and saw a bit of power, then messed up. He we
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by thorin 4y ago
Working from home (as a developer/architect) never really did it before and now been doing it everyday since covid. Playing music with others and recording, mostly remotely Moving from development role towards architecture
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by thorin 4y ago
This is exactly what I've done (UK based, but big fan of Spain!) for the last 3-4 years. I wasted too much time, health and money when younger on drinking excessively. If I have situation where I think I would be tempted to drink more
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by thorin 4y ago
Big companies e.g. national utilities, banks often use them. However at the time when I've seen them I had a desktop machine and it was only the sales consultants that had laptops. They all used them.
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by thorin 4y ago
Questions I tend to ask myself: 1. Am I getting paid appropriately, or maybe in the case of a startup, am I likely to see any big payback 2. Am I learning, in terms of tech or other skills I'm using 3. Do I enjoy the interacting the pe
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by thorin 4y ago
I generally recommend Thich Nhat Hahn's book fear, for pretty much all situations, it comes in useful for most situations relating to change. I like Travels Michael Crichton for discussing the ups and downs of life.
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by thorin 4y ago
That's one of the reasons why the start of 28 days later was filmed there, near Bank. A familiar scene which often has no one there at the weekend mornings. I worked there around that time in the late 90s. Spent a lot of time at Spital
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by thorin 4y ago
That all sounds great, but why would you drink a lot of coke zero, surely that has a lot of crap in it? If you're that dedicated with everything else why not just drink water or tea?
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by thorin 4y ago
Oracle Apex has been around for over 20 years and is still in use by many people who have Oracle Db or product installations so if it is dying, it isn't dying quickly. It's actually really good for a lot of use cases.
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by thorin 4y ago
Thanks for that one, I use the Windows shortcut keys, but hadn't noticed that but now I have lots of monitor space it will be quite useful!
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by thorin 4y ago
You have to be a special kind of biker to enjoy cycling in London. A friend cycled across London twice a day every day but I'm not sure I'd want to do that. Public transport is good so you can walk or take the tube/bus.
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by thorin 4y ago
It depends what you mean by "without a car". I live on the edge of a medium sized city in the UK and could manage without a car for getting the kids to school, shopping and I'm still working at home. In practice, I might need
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by thorin 4y ago
There are plenty of reasons, a DBA I used to work with moved to the team running the LHC at CERN. I think I went to some conference talks of his. They had a lot of data!
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by thorin 4y ago
Thanks for pointing that out! Lightspeed is really S---L---O---W isn't it? I'm pleased he still loves Pluto.
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by thorin 4y ago
Teams isn't great ( from a feature and memory perspective ), but anyone who hates it should be forced to use Webex, on a bad network connection to India with 50+ people on a call!
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by thorin 4y ago
Requirements for a banking app (or even a retail app) is not like you might expect on a FANG-type app. Focus would be on functionality, stability, possibly ease of use (but way down the line), and security. I'm guessing management is n
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by thorin 4y ago
Every I've been at a reasonable hotel with a safe I've left my passport in the safe and I've also had a copy of it somewhere on my person or luggage. I also emailed a scan of it to myself. I've travelled a bit around all
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by thorin 4y ago
They were mainly manual testers, which might tell you enough! I wouldn't be surprised if there was some Oracle database stuff given what we've discussed together in the past.
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by thorin 4y ago
Oldest doesn't seem that old, but maybe that is for historical reasons of local politics. 70 years was frequently mentioned but there are several restaurants in London that claim to be operating in the 1700s and the oldest pub in my ci
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by thorin 4y ago
Ironically, the long time contractors who work at Inland Revenue (tax office) in Telford (possibly though another company) have largely been deemed outside IR35 with a special exception from HM Gov, as otherwise it would be difficult to sou
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by thorin 4y ago
Looks like they will be capped soon in the UK, but this only means that Government (e.g. us) will be subsidizing the big power companies. As big power companies buy (hedge) their power way in advance, we'll need a longish 6+ months per
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by thorin 4y ago
This is a great book, I'm from Sunderland and knew very few of the stories in it!
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by thorin 4y ago
Yes, as usual hn answers my own question in quick time! Will be interesting to see how long it takes them to sort this one.
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by thorin 4y ago
Yes, but he's a genius who works his ass off. Come to think of it, I don't know of many lazy geniuses. Chas Chandler said Hendrix always had a guitar strapped on him.
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by thorin 4y ago
Bruce Dickinson (Iron Maiden singer) famously was a top level fencer as well as a commercial pilot and numerous other things, now a throat cancer survivor and still a top level singer in his mid 60s. I saw him 30 years ago and again this ye
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by thorin 4y ago
0 Chance of competing at a world level if you start climbing/bouldering in your 30s (unless you're already an athlete of some kind). The training and competition in climbing is insane now compared to when I started in the early 90
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by thorin 4y ago
Smart people (and specifically smart technical people) are always looking for problems with a view to solving them. That was the case with me, for example. People with lots of problems are generally less happy! I've approached this mor
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by thorin 4y ago
This is covered in the new The Sandman series which was just released (and I assume in the graphic novel). It starts off seeming pretty good, but there are a few ups and downs...
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by thorin 4y ago
12 bar venue was still active in the early 2000s. It was still the place to go for instruments in London until about 10-15 years ago.

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