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by wickerman 7y ago
In over 20 years of downloading stuff using Windows, I never ever have got a single virus. It's almost as if it had to do with how you use the tool and not how the tool is constructed.
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by wickerman 7y ago
Because the crucial thing about lootboxes is that in-game currency obfuscates the actual value of your purchase. You know when you buy a booster pack how much that booster pack is worth in real life money; you don't when you're bu
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by wickerman 7y ago
I find the study of materials in papyrology/religious studies/history truly fascinating. I'm more familiar with the history and content of the Nag Hammadi library, but it really is fascinating how much experts can tell from t
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by wickerman 7y ago
Before the late bronze age collapse, they were very very well connected: regular commercial trade between the entire mediterranean is attested through massive numbers of letters found. And it wasn't just Greece: Egypt, Mitani, Hitites,
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by wickerman 7y ago
I read this entire thing and don't understand what's the issue - is it that Epstein is trying to fund people who might give a scientific "excuse" for his criminal behaviour or it's just "scientist took money fr
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by wickerman 7y ago
My biggest problem with challenges like this in interviews is that sometimes they give you a problem to solve through, say, pure OoP when the challenge itself can be better approached using other paradigms (i.e. functional, or if the proble
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by wickerman 7y ago
I don't think the word performance is key, but rather /user experience/.
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by wickerman 7y ago
Seconding the request for info about this.
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by wickerman 7y ago
She still can apply for pre-settled, and there would be no reason she couldn't get it if she has a national insurance number. I've been in the country only for 3 or 4 months and got pre-settled status within a day of applying.
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by wickerman 7y ago
You'll need to have applied for settled/pre-settled status, I'd imagine, unless an Irish citizen. And then ask the immigration officer to check gov.uk for you, because there's no actual legal paper or ID issued that you
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by wickerman 7y ago
Everyone in my facebook groups have been freaking about is how they're actually going to implement it. Anyone arriving the week of the 31st of October has no way of proving they did so. Even if you have applied as pre-settled or settl
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by wickerman 7y ago
“The site’s now characteristic tone of performative erudition — hyperrational, dispassionate, contrarian, authoritative — often masks a deeper recklessness,” I've been surprised to find many cases where it's the complete
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by wickerman 7y ago
I started out my career as a 19 year old in business intelligence and old school data warehousing, and only in the last three years been able to properly apply my skills in the world of big data as a data engineer, and I've found that
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by wickerman 7y ago
Just travel off-season. I went to Venezia, Firenze and Milano last year in October. Barely saw any more people than I would see anywhere else in the off peak of, say, Dublin. Smelt nice, had no problem with crowds, weather was gorgeous. I c
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by wickerman 7y ago
Yep, fully aware of his pedophilia. But the thread is not about morally upstanding people, rather of people who chose to start something in their middle age. You might also want to point out that by the time he became a full time painter sa
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by wickerman 7y ago
I always remind myself that Paul Gauguin started painting for the first time at 35, and almost at 40 decided to stop being a wealthy stock broker to live as a painter. Regardless of the ethics of that decision (he did leave everyone in his
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by wickerman 7y ago
I think it's also because of family. When you're young, you might be single or childless - fresh out of college. At 35 you might have a kid or two and you want to save enough money to put them into a good school and retire early.
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by wickerman 7y ago
I didn't know about this at all! Why is it not done anymore?
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by wickerman 7y ago
Oh man I'm the only data engineer I know who actually studied computer engineering . It's all right dude, it's just a title.
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by wickerman 7y ago
Data engineering is not data science. Data engineers deliver the data for data scientists, data scientists use the data in models.
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by wickerman 7y ago
The amount of harassment that citizens of any state that the US claims to hate at any given time endure on a daily basis is disgusting. Exiled iranians living outside of Iran for 20 years have got their bank accounts closed solely for being
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by wickerman 7y ago
US: actively developing weapons of mass destruction. Has committed several war crimes and illegally occupied territories in the middle east. Actively funded and continues to fund international terrorism. Israel: ethnic cleansing in the occ
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by wickerman 7y ago
>That is a lazy excuse - literally the cheapest diets are vegan. Rice&dal will give you both calorie intake and protein at a cost of less than a dollar a day (which is why a lot of the world's poorest people subsist on it...). T
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by wickerman 7y ago
The rest of the stuff seems to be heavily localized, I don't see a point in addressing points that don't pertain to my culture. Most of my countrymen's generation knows a lot about food and cooking. I knew how to make 6hr dis
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by wickerman 7y ago
That's why I started my post with "in my part of the world". Beef is not that expensive and it's an incredibly efficient source for both calories and protein, both which are essential for say, construction workers. Stude
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by wickerman 7y ago
Food access is not the same everywhere in the world. If she could buy organic food in her time in her place of the world then more power to her, but don't assume that access to fresh food is the same everywhere in the world.
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by wickerman 7y ago
It may be different in different parts of the world, but where I'm from vegans tend to be middle-class/upper-class people who are blissfully unaware of how class barriers dictate the way you eat. And instead of trying to engage wi
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by wickerman 7y ago
Well I know that in places in China with similar issues the chinese are basically "importing" wives from Cambodia, Vietnam, etc. As for India, I'm not Indian but all of the indian women I've worked with were in arranged
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by wickerman 7y ago
With leather I've found that price doesn't always match quality. I dance tango and am from Argentina and the cheapest leather shoes I could find, which were exquisitely crafted in my local neighbourhood were only about 200 pesos (
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by wickerman 7y ago
In all fairness the article details that the original owner was able to own the piece in the first instance on very shaky grounds, getting a nod from the right people in the Fish and Wildlife service: "Even then, the government revisit

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