thorin

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by thorin 5y ago
Probably "pwd", from the days when it wasn't the prompt / my profile / the shell I was using
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by thorin 5y ago
Are you originally from Africa? I'd put Lagos very near the bottom of places to live from what I've heard, but I'm sure it would be "exciting". If I was single I'd probably pick something like Pucon, Chile ( a
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by thorin 5y ago
Thanks for pointing that out, I'd never realised that before.
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by thorin 5y ago
I mean, it's ok, I just used it for 10 mins and it seems to work well. I like the simplicity. For me, draw.io strikes the right balance of simple enough and free with enough features to actually replace stuff like Visio for my use case
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by thorin 5y ago
Ha ha, I was thinking exactly the same thing.
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by thorin 5y ago
Sorry for the 70k I might have been thinking of Pi, which was another favourite film of mine!
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by thorin 5y ago
Primer, both for the discovery within the film and the fact they were able to make an aware winning, cult movie for like $70,000.
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by thorin 5y ago
I guess because you have a life or interests outside of work. I'm pretty sure that my impression is correct and that anyone working there is not leaving at 5 to pick up their kids or going kayaking road trips at weekends with their fri
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by thorin 5y ago
Unless you have a crazy amount of money to burn I'd suggest that you buy both with a mortgage (assuming you have the income to do so) and then rent the one you're not living in. It's pretty common for Scandinavians to have a
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by thorin 5y ago
I have never heard anyone at any level day that their companies annual review was useful. What would be useful would be some kind of regular e.g. monthly catchup for real mutual improvement. This rarely happens. At my first company we had a
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by thorin 5y ago
Wow there are a lot of people from the North of England here. I'm from Sunderland and it was turnips in the 80s. For the full tick you had to go and nick them out of the farmers field, no organised pumpkin picking for us! Someone told
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by thorin 5y ago
I don't really see people doing this in the UK anymore. Cars can be bought with a debit card if you have the funds, sometimes a call to the bank is required for verification. When I've bought 2nd hand kayaks from someone's ho
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by thorin 5y ago
Interesting I hadn't heard of that before, but I found a bit more information here: https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20190513-it-only-takes-35... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erica_Che
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by thorin 5y ago
That sounds most accurate, read Bourdain, Kitchen Confidential for more detail :-)
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by thorin 5y ago
This is definitely a cultural thing, in France for instance, when I've visited. Every tiny village has a great bakery and possibly a patisserie as well. If you don't arrive at 8am or whenever, you won't get to choose what you
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by thorin 5y ago
My go-to DB is Oracle, because I've been using it for like 20 years commercially. The DB I'm next most familiar with is SQL Server. Both of these are fine, for most use cases (see stackoverflow on SQL Server and MANY large organiz
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by thorin 5y ago
I did wonder whether it might turn into something more significant, but it didn't. I was also curious about how long it would last, as it was quite a long outage. I mainly contact my ex wife through WhatsApp and a lot of school/ p
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by thorin 5y ago
Quite a lot/too much, but recently I've started moving it out to an investment isa, which in the UK is a flexible shares fund. You can put in 20k a year without further tax liability.
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by thorin 5y ago
Anecdotally around 90% of the people I know in the UK (40s age group ) have Facebook and use it for something (even if it's just for checking restaurants/gigs etc), almost everyone uses Messenger or Whatsapp. Also for those saying
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by thorin 5y ago
Really..? Please link to some of these courses. We have corporate ones that use text to speech and they are horrendous!
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by thorin 5y ago
According to the Guardian almost all cows in the UK are raised on grass, I'd guess this is true for most of Europe https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2016/apr/17/the-eco-...
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by thorin 5y ago
It's probably reasonably high, anecdotally every time I got out walking in the hills in most parts of the UK there are large numbers of sheep and cattle grazing on basically unusable wilderness, often which is part of a national park s
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by thorin 5y ago
20 years ago, I lived in London for less than that, but you'd have to be pretty frugal now. Many smaller cities in the UK would be fine though. If you're considering Bucharest I've heard good things about Budapest in terms of
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by thorin 5y ago
Sorry, I must have missed that. Generally in Western Europe cheap food is easily available even if it's a cafe set menu, baguette or slice of pizza. In Eastern Europe you'd get a proper meal for that much.
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by thorin 5y ago
Not sure where you are talking about, but I guess US? In the UK there are plenty of places where you can get food which is much more "real" but not necessarily healthy. There are lots of independent takeaways and cafes selling fis
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by thorin 5y ago
That sounds like a good approach. I guess you could just a smartphone app to avoid buying a scanner e.g. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.gamma.scan... I guess the experience might be smoother wit
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by thorin 5y ago
That blockly games site is really nice, I think my kids have done scratch mini at school. I'm not really sure I want to "help" my kids to learn to program really, I'm more keen to see what they are into and then encourag
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by thorin 5y ago
Multiface 3 from romantic robot was the key peripheral you needed. After loading a game you could save an image to disk, so you could also create save points anywhere and poke in cheat codes :-)
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by thorin 5y ago
I know quite a lot of people working in research relating to vaccines / viruses and in climate change e.g. glaciology, just because I happen to live near a large UK university. They are regularly quoted in journals and one friend is re
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by thorin 5y ago
I'm OK, thanks for asking. I have a few issues, like many people, but I was just out walking in the sunshine and thinking how grateful I am for various things. Now I'm back on a Teams call...but still it could be worse :-)

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