thorin

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by thorin 3y ago
Have you read the sequel? Twist!
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by thorin 3y ago
Douglas Adams is pretty similar to Pratchett, humour wise.
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by thorin 3y ago
I would agree that China, India and USA are probably the key countries here ( and to a lesser extent other parts of Asia, Africa and South America). However I can't see China and India doing anything significant here. USA could be lead
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by thorin 3y ago
When you say "a long time" what does that mean? I've learnt loads of stuff over the last 25 years or so that I don't use, doesn't mean that learning them wasn't a useful part of my development.
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by thorin 3y ago
I have the version of the MSR pocket rocket which Alpkit sells in the UK. I'm friends with the founders so often buy from them and their equivalent is half the price of the MSR. They sell good functional kit [1] [1] www.alpkit.com
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by thorin 3y ago
It cooks well enough that you'd always find something useable unless it's torrential rain and you'd get used to carrying a few bits of dry flammables with you. The size of thing makes it not very suitable for backpacking thou
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by thorin 3y ago
Strangely this is the same thing that happened to the music business. Maybe we need to start selling merch and going out on tour to make a living!
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by thorin 3y ago
I'm in the UK. I was speaking to a guy this week who had just finished a contract in the US (CALI) working on an embedded contract. The rate was good and he completed it without issue, however now he's a little unsure of his tax l
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by thorin 3y ago
Boredom probably. When I was young and bored I used to mess with all kinds of things. Now there are a lot of distractions so I don't both much with playing around with technology.
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by thorin 3y ago
The one I remember which has previously been shared on HN was this: https://www.damninteresting.com/the-zero-armed-bandit/
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by thorin 3y ago
I don't think you can set hard limits, only alerts. In my view there should be a plan designed like this, but I don't think they care about small time users enough to introduce it. I think the big 3 services are all the same in th
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by thorin 3y ago
That's not 100% true though. For instance in the UK (EU days) you'd definitely be getting less than minimum wage and that would be means tested. Any payout from the company would only be there if you were a permanent employee, whi
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by thorin 3y ago
In my view this makes it very difficult to use AWS or Azure for fun or as part of a small operation. It's fine when you have a big organization monitoring this stuff and a support team, but how will you feel if you get a billing alert
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by thorin 3y ago
It's quite upsetting, but valuable I think.
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by thorin 3y ago
I have a few friends with parents with dementia, I didn't really fully get it. I watched The Father on Netflix, Anthony Hopkin's latest film and I thought it was very powerful. It gave me a lot of insight on what might be going on
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by thorin 3y ago
"Hanging on in quiet desperation is the English way" Pink Floyd Time waits for no man
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by thorin 3y ago
What have you done in the past? Hobbies which other people can get involved in are a lot more fun for me, and give me some identity. My hobbies: Whitewater kayaking, Rock Climbing (not so much now), Hill Walking, Cycling, Music: Playing gui
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by thorin 3y ago
What was the event you attended in Nottingham? Assume you mean Nottingham, UK? That's where I am, would love to see some Amiga things. I've been a fan since around 1987.
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by thorin 3y ago
It means individual digits e.g. 997 === 9 + 9 + 7
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by thorin 3y ago
I'm English and I know a reasonable amount of French, Spanish, Italian and that would never have occurred to me from an English perspective despite knowing their latin genders.
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by thorin 3y ago
That's exactly what I'd wear to a pub, bar, restaurant or cafe so not sure why you'd think that would be an issue. Even most nightclubs don't bother about dress codes much these days.
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by thorin 3y ago
Which blues pub was it? I used to enjoy going to the 12 bar in Denmark Street but a lot of the music scene there has closed down now. That used to be where a lot a the musical instrument shops were. Unfortunately due to rents and online sel
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by thorin 3y ago
I was forced to opt out in my last few jobs. It's kind of weird.
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by thorin 3y ago
Usually anything cool pays less: Movies, Music, Video Games etc and space is in that category for some. Also you don't work there unless you really want to.
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by thorin 3y ago
At least he came out with it. Although if he said 60 he probably meant even more. In the UK or Europe it would probably have been illegal to mention this. I wish someone would have just come out and said this at a startup I worked at.
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by thorin 3y ago
McDonalds used to be dirt cheap (in the UK), so you could eat there if you didn't have much money. Now it's pretty expensive if I eat there with my kids I could easily spend £20+. It would be way cheaper for me to buy real food an
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by thorin 3y ago
Don't worry too much about the role. You could ask yourself 2 questions what will I get paid / hour and what will I be doing/learning on the job. Maybe you're in the low role because your current pay is relatively low an
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by thorin 3y ago
This is interesting, when I lived in London (20+ yrs ago) I had an AtoZ at home and a street map in my car. I got to know London pretty well in terms of walking around. At lunchtimes I would try and see how far I could walk in the hour and
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by thorin 3y ago
It you could ask the question again with that information, I'll bet there are a load of people who could explain it better, I don't really have the experience to give a definitive answer on that use case without giving it a lot of
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by thorin 3y ago
Really? Interestingly, my friend just moved from UK to Norway and is learning Norwegian and now has a job in IT security. From my perspective those see to be the best countries for my kind of living, but I would struggle with the cold dark

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