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by ucosty 5y ago
I can't speak to the technical merits of the machine, but I think IBM did a great job with the industrial design. It looks like some kind of alternate history where super-integrated vacuum tubes won the day.
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by ucosty 5y ago
I just get "Sorry, no results here." on DDG
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by ucosty 5y ago
They also rent out the disused Jubilee line platforms at Charing Cross
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by ucosty 5y ago
It goes without saying that everyone's situation is different, both at home and with their employers. I work in London for a tech company. Prior to the lockdown we mostly worked out of a very nice office in the square mile. Lots of ded
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by ucosty 6y ago
What $20 SBCs on the market have multiple real network interfaces? I'd love to pick up a few.
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by ucosty 6y ago
Easier said than done, given it's nearly impossible to buy AMD GPUs at the moment (and has been for a while now)
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by ucosty 6y ago
It feels a lot more ergonomic, especially if you switch between cli and gui applications a lot. It's one thing I really miss when going from my work Mac to my home Linux machine.
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by ucosty 6y ago
Typically emails you get will look like "Hey ucosty, we've got some great candidates for you. I've attached their CVs here.". For emails from referrals they're more likely to be "Hey ucosty, your colleague foob
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by ucosty 6y ago
I've done my fair share of hiring (Tech company in London), and I don't think I've ever seen a cover letter included with any CV. Recruiters either don't ask for them or don't bother to pass them on. When we get ref
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by ucosty 6y ago
With all due respect the notion that the Queen of the United Kingdom somehow rules over the ADF is nonsense. The Australian constitution places the Governor General in charge of the ADF [ https://www.aph.gov.au/About_Parliame
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by ucosty 6y ago
Adrenaline is the commonly used term in the UK
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by ucosty 6y ago
Likely never given Apple's reluctance to sell or license any of their technologies to other vendors [except in limited cases where it benefits the Apple ecosystem directly].
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by ucosty 6y ago
You can already buy an external Magic Trackpad from Apple ( https://www.apple.com/uk/shop/product/MJ2R2Z/A/magic-trackpa... ). Not terribly useful for a laptop unless you want to set up at a desk.
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by ucosty 6y ago
Going through the yes/no questions after my initial input, it eventually asked me if I was in a coma.
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by ucosty 6y ago
Ducks have a system for this -- they lay an egg a day but won't start incubating them until they have laid their full clutch. The eggs won't start developing until the bird starts incubating them, and they can remain in this state
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by ucosty 6y ago
You can build new towns, but they tend to have a chicken-and-egg problem with respect to jobs. No employers will set up shop in a new town because there are no employees, people moving in get jobs in the nearest city because there are none
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by ucosty 6y ago
Not OP, but I'm in the UK and find the OSM data to be not all that useful. The streets themselves seem mostly accurate, but there is almost no building data. If you had to rely on OSM data to get around, your best bet would be to live
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by ucosty 6y ago
Last time I had a laptop with replaceable ram modules, there weren't any bigger modules on the market and the cpu memory interface had a maximum capacity equal to the installed amount. I'm not sure expandable ram in laptop is all
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by ucosty 6y ago
But there is in colour.
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by ucosty 6y ago
You can exfiltrate data using regular DNS requests, by hiding the data in the host part of the query. The authoritative name server for the domain can then extract out and re-assemble the data. https://blogs.akamai.com/2017&
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by ucosty 6y ago
If a company can still afford to pay out dividends it probably isn't really in need of aid.
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by ucosty 7y ago
I have a project that has this same workflow, in my gitlab-ci file I just run qmake followed by make. I have a custom container which contains the QT library and build tools.
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by ucosty 7y ago
That article may as well have been written by or about me, it's uncanny.
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by ucosty 7y ago
Using https://rot13.com/ and the ROT25 option resolved it.
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by ucosty 7y ago
That doesn't seem to be the case, if you look at the infrastructure cost breakdowns the total construction cost for phase 1 is estimated at £6.6Bn, with the remaining £9.6Bn going to things like project management, mitigation costs, an
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by ucosty 7y ago
Callsign | DevOps Engineer | London (UK) | ONSITE | Full Time | https://www.callsign.com/careers Callsign is a London based software company building many-factor, intelligence driven authentication. Machine learning around
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by ucosty 7y ago
I find the only strangers who ever try to talk to me in public are the ones who want something. This means I'm always suspicious of people who approach me, and have an aversion to being seen as the same.
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by ucosty 7y ago
Left 4 Dead 2 was censored in Australia, until the classification board started allowing R-ratings for games. It was re-released (if I remember correctly) without the censorship.
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by ucosty 7y ago
Just in case you've reached your article limit http://archive.is/xDydO
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by ucosty 8y ago
How many people buy a new build house, and then within a year decide to move half-way around the world, whilst still keeping the house?

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