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by thorin 5y ago
"Sitcoms don't include death" Ricky Gervais isn't afraid of it...Have you seen After Life? https://www.imdb.com/title/tt8398600/
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by thorin 5y ago
Yes, I never saw any Apple in Europe either (specifically UK). On the educational side BBC was king in the UK, so parents who were teachers would prefer the BBC, which had a great version of Elite too and a lot of the text adventures, but n
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by thorin 5y ago
The original extreme ironing site must be very old. I'm pretty sure I remember browsing it in mosaic on a sun workstation in the mid 90s. Extreme ironing forever.
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by thorin 5y ago
Linux is fine from a technical perspective, running servers and managing processes and data. I've used it frequently since the 90s. When I last used an IDE in Linux 10+ years ago it wasn't a great experience. 99% of end users in a
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by thorin 5y ago
Does anyone really believe the reported stats for China?
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by thorin 5y ago
I'd struggle to live somewhere where you have to spend most of your time indoors in and air conditioned environment anyway, but this doesn't seem to bother a lot of people, I guess they are used to it. If we carry on this way mayb
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by thorin 5y ago
Maybe forcing buildings to be created in such a way to minimize aircon and be more energy efficient would be helpful rather than relying on powered devices to fix the problem in place. I could deal with the 1 or 2 weeks a year it might be m
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by thorin 5y ago
Live in areas that don't need air conditioning :-) Coming from UK / Europe I'm always surprised by the number of people in the US and of course Asia that are totally dependent on aircon.
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by thorin 5y ago
??? Generally in the UK people don't have a 3 course catered meal in the middle of the day!
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by thorin 5y ago
Generally 99% of people I worked with in IT (UK) over the last 20 years either make a sandwich for lunch, eat leftovers or eat at the work canteen which isn't free and normally isn't great either. They have their main meal in the
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by thorin 5y ago
Assuming this isn't a troll, I guess learning to make a sandwich or a salad is not outside the realm of possibility.
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by thorin 5y ago
SQL, Oracle PL/SQL, bash/ksh Previous jobs, not so long ago: Fortran, C, BASIC
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by thorin 5y ago
Wireless phone charger in the home and in the car. My phone usb socket is really unreliable and this seems to happen with every handset I've had so rather than worry about that you just put the phone down on the charger. So much easier
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by thorin 5y ago
The smartest developers are probably at the beach surfing, or chilling out.
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by thorin 5y ago
Wow, this looks amazing I would have loved this. I had to make do until I graduated to Deluxe Paint 2 and Soundtracker on the Amiga. I did have a mouse and art program on the ZX Spectrum but it was hard work.
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by thorin 5y ago
I've been meaning to read this, but I've been struggling with reading since "the virus" came. I think I'll give it another go, it's right there by my bed.
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by thorin 5y ago
I think probably because it pulls a lot of disparate information into a single place. It all felt pretty familiar as I have a long background of relation and transactional systems but it was nice to have the overall picture. It doesn't
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by thorin 5y ago
I highly recommend trying it with a group of people, preferably in person. There are so many types of groups Zen, Trad Buddhist, Transcendental etc. It's a nice way to meet people as a lot of people really open up afterwards and it&#x2
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by thorin 5y ago
I think being outside, exercise or having children (only if you want to) would be my best suggestions for living mindfully. Meditation will help as well if you can get into it, if you can't do it alone try a session with others, there
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by thorin 5y ago
Security often comes from adding many many features, often ones no one ever uses if you look at a list of backdoors etc. If you want your own self contained machine I wonder if flavors of Linux or Chromebooks etc would be better.
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by thorin 5y ago
Just move to Europe and most of your problems with go away :-)
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by thorin 5y ago
I'm in Nottingham, but I did work in London many years ago. Recent events may open up work in London for you part remote which if you are keen would allow you to easily double your salary if you have a few years experience. Otherwise s
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by thorin 5y ago
I think the same, it's put me off using anything but the free tier for learning. Azure was slightly better but still not ideal.
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by thorin 5y ago
I'm not disagreeing with you and if I had to learn more in depth I'd choose React. I'm just saying that big (non-tech) businesses favour Angular in my experience, same as these companies traditionally favoured Oracle/SQL
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by thorin 5y ago
Do you say that as assuming react is currently the biggest and widest adopted framework? Angular still seems to be more popular in corporations (at least in the UK) although I'd prefer react generally. I guess that might be because ang
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by thorin 5y ago
I'm starting to feel less guilty about this kind of thing as whatever short term success you might find always turn into failure (if you have that mindset). Even the most successful software is replaced for technical, business or polit
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by thorin 5y ago
Written and verbal communication Logic Respect for others All relevant skills in tech. Storing and retrieving data, processing data and communicating between systems is probably the fundamental parts of most business systems. If you've
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by thorin 5y ago
What happens in schools in the US? I had the idea that in California schools are partially open, but in other places like Texas they are now fully open. In the UK schools have been fully open since Feb, except that bubble in schools have to
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by thorin 5y ago
I graduated Electronic Eng in the UK in 1998, my best friend did Civil. I went into computers, he could only find low paid jobs in the UK so went to Hong Kong where construction was booming and now owns a significant part of a multimillion
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by thorin 5y ago
I'm guessing you're talking about speaking to your manager. Generally there isn't much point talking about negative stuff if they've heard it before, it's unlikely to get actioned. I'd recommend being enthusias

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