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by timellis-smith 4y ago
In its current form though I wonder if communication via be will be a step backwards, as I'm not aware yet of any way of capturing facial expressions, like a video chat would.
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by timellis-smith 4y ago
Depending on what type of bike you have. On a mountain bike, anyday. On a road bike with paper thin tyres that easily puncture, maybe not so much.
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by timellis-smith 4y ago
Thank you. I will take a further look at it.
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by timellis-smith 4y ago
I wonder how long before wearables that actively cool you become a thing i.e. a top that you put on and acts as a heat pump to take the heat away from you. In winter I wear a heated top often rather than switch the heater on and the wife ha
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Whitehall mandarins crippled Britain’s aircraft carriers(telegraph.co.uk)
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by timellis-smith 4y ago
Out of interest, have you seen the list of potential future PMs. I would say it is far more diverse and less xenophobic than most European countries. But yeah believe what makes you happy. Just don't let the hate get to you to much.
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by timellis-smith 5y ago
Any recommendations for good tiling managers for KDE?
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by timellis-smith 5y ago
> In childhood, she says, boys tend to be as open as girls about their need for friends. As they get older, they “feel they have to get into a gender straitjacket” and define their masculinity primarily as not being feminine. By the age
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by timellis-smith 5y ago
I'm in my 40s and am exactly the same. All my energy goes into work and family and at the end of the day, there is nothing left for cultivating friendships. I tell myself that when my daughter grows up and I have more time I cultivate
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by timellis-smith 5y ago
Would it have really been possible? Britain couldn't get a deal then vote for it, as the EU would then hold all the cards negotiating. I.e it will be have offered Britain nothing in order to stop Brexit. Likewise if Britain had set up
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by timellis-smith 5y ago
The experience of the UK leaving will be very different to countries in the eurozone. Even if a country like Italy really wanted to leave it would be just about impossible due to having to float its own currency
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by timellis-smith 5y ago
Interesting perspective that it's perhaps British common law that is attractive to businesses https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2021/02/25/return-commo...
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by timellis-smith 5y ago
I doubt Scotland would be allowed into the EU with its current budget deficit. From what I understand, it would need some serious austerity to be bought in line with EU accession laws.
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by timellis-smith 5y ago
It will be really interesting to see how the EU battle with Poland plays out: https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.theguardian.com/world/2021/... Can the EU override the constitution of a country?
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by timellis-smith 5y ago
Difficult to say whether these were because of Brexit but: Nissan has doubled down on Sunderland post Brexit Shell has closed its offices in Netherlands on favour of UK as has Unilever. https://www.reuters.com/business/
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by timellis-smith 5y ago
This is perhaps an equivalent article https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2021/12/21/year-brexit-... from the more pro Brexit side.
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by timellis-smith 5y ago
I transitioned to tech from a totally unrelated field, first into support then ops and now data engineering. To get my foot in the door I got a number of certs including Linux+; security+, networking+, then rhcsa and CCNE. Nowadays a cloud
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by timellis-smith 5y ago
I think unity matured nicely, but natty in particular was just about unusable.
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by timellis-smith 5y ago
I have a core i5 mini computer which I spin up every couple of months and it always amazes me that for the first 20 minutes or so the CPU runs at 100% while windows checks for updates (obviously this wouldn't happen if I ran it daily,
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by timellis-smith 5y ago
I'm not going to argue whether the actual statement is true or not: Many people don't trust the government at the best of times but if it is true, I seriously doubt whether it constitutes 1/5 of all EU trade (assuming that bo
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by timellis-smith 5y ago
Indeed so, but that may still be due to more complicated factors. At no point have I said it isn't a factor, just that it's one of many.
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by timellis-smith 5y ago
My apologies, I misread the quote and retract the earlier statement. While we did have a referendum to join the EEC, I maintain that the EEC served a very different purpose (being a trade based agreement) to the EU. The Treaty of Maastricht
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by timellis-smith 5y ago
I'm genuinely confused by this: In 2018, Grimes was fined £20,000 by the Electoral Commission after it determined that there was evidence that BeLeave had spent more than £675,000 with the Canadian political consultancy firm AggregateI
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by timellis-smith 5y ago
"After the entry into force of the Treaty of Lisbon in 2009 the pillar structure ceased to exist. The European Community, together with its legal personality, was absorbed into the newly consolidated European Union which merged in the
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by timellis-smith 5y ago
Later article from a non-paywalled source: https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2019/jul/19/pro-brexit-...
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by timellis-smith 5y ago
Not sure. "A fifth of all EU border checks are now happening in Northern Ireland, the government has said." https://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/brexit/unsustainable... There is a distinct possibility
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by timellis-smith 5y ago
That's all good and well, but I don't think it answered my question about a source for accusations of Russian involvement, nor did it address my question about the lack of democratic process when joining the EU, so I'm not en
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by timellis-smith 5y ago
Can't comment on the child of the post for some reason. Here is another source: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2021/09/24/dont-blame-b... Somehow it seems on these forums that any left leaning
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by timellis-smith 5y ago
That's quite a claim. Do you have some strong evidence to back it up? The electoral commission went to great lengths and expense to find any wrong doing and came up with nothing. https://www.google.com/amp/s/w
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by timellis-smith 5y ago
Europe also has a shortage https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.dailymail.co.uk/news/articl... This is widely reported across a number of publications

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