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by wlll 8y ago
In the uk I was taught that indicators were to signal intent, not action. Signaling that you intend to merge, even if you can’t merge currently, would be the thing to do. I guess the rationale being something to do with giving other road us
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by wlll 8y ago
Years ago I needed to cancel a fax service. They refused to allow me to cancel unless I called them up, which I wouldn't do. In the end I just changed all my details to some variation of the phrase "cancel account" except the
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by wlll 8y ago
I will be dissapointed if I don't get some sort of salty superpowers then.
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by wlll 8y ago
I was curious about the contents and contentions points of the oath so went looking and one of the files you link to is a 404: http://www.loyalty.org/oath.txt
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by wlll 8y ago
> At the very least, we should be treating the brine so it’s safe to discharge into the ocean. This amused me as I pictured people mixing newly produced fresh water with the brine and releasing this "new" seawater back. Serious
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by wlll 8y ago
Sorry, I thought by the 80% rule you were talking about minimum safe discharge levels.
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by wlll 8y ago
Go to another, usually very close, petrol station. In the UK there are lots of them, they are not as someone else said of Tesla Superchargers spread "about half a charge apart".
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by wlll 8y ago
My questioning was mostly to find out how the author could have made their life better. At the time of my response most comments were of the form "The author made her life harder" but didn't really include any details about h
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by wlll 8y ago
What do you do when you get to the supercharger/other brand station and it's not working and you're at 20%?
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by wlll 8y ago
> Plenty of users don't always fill their petrol cars due to time or budget constraints. I don't think the "some people have time or budget constraints" is really a good reason for me to not fill up my car past 80%
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by wlll 8y ago
Are there enough superchargers in Europe (inc. UK) fo this to be feasible? What do you do if (as seemed to happen to the author) a supercharger station is out of action and you are on 20% battery with the next station half a charge away?
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by wlll 8y ago
> supercharger network is continuing to be built out rapidly I'm pretty sure this has been the case for a while now, years perhaps, and yet the author seemed to have problems none the less. You say the reporting should be taken &quo
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by wlll 8y ago
For those curious about what you can do, I designed and 3d printed this small robot using OpenSCAD: https://sendcat.com/dl/BLB0593VKWdC8p61VVmDxA9Yy0eR9EtLl33qL...
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by wlll 8y ago
Interesting article/video on the City of London http://www.cgpgrey.com/blog/the-secret-city-of-london.html
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by wlll 8y ago
Oh my.
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by wlll 8y ago
Well, as a user I find Javascript heavy websites to be a toxic wasteland full of dissapointment and failure. Just yesterday I was trying to use the Sendgrid support site. I was logged in. There was a "click here to login and send a sup
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by wlll 8y ago
Meta: "operationalizing", I really wish people wouldn't do this.
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by wlll 8y ago
It could be that because they didn't find bits of bird it makes it more likely to be a drone. I'd expect (and I have no experience here so someone with more please say if this is wrong) there to be bits of gooey, squishy or stic
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by wlll 8y ago
While I agree with the sentiment, this isn't entirely true: > A false negative has zero cost (and zero benefit). False negatives means that your hiring process is longer, more difficult, more costly, and you therefore find it harder
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by wlll 8y ago
Right. When I looked into how to get spell checking in form fields all the advice I could find on the Internet was "install a plugin". It seems to me that spell checking of form fields should be a basic feature integrated into the
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by wlll 8y ago
I'm on a mac and everything else spell checks just fine, so: 1. Why not Firefox? 2. Why do I have to jump through some undocumented hoops to get something that should work out of the box?
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by wlll 8y ago
Mac edit To clarify, I'm used to Chrome seemingly just updating itself in the background. Firefox needs a restart, and so far the restart behaviour with Firefox has been less reliable than Chrome (losing opened tabs sometimes, for
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by wlll 8y ago
As someone who switched from Chrome to Firefox a few months ago my main issues are: * No spellcheck in form fields (without a plugin, and I hate plugins). * It feels slower. There's something about it that just doesn't feel as fas
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by wlll 8y ago
> They chickened out on giving an actual example of a "bad word" name Incontinentia Buttocks and Bigus Dickus spring to mind.
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by wlll 8y ago
Well, if they're not offering the course than that makes it difficult, and if it turns out it's not the lack of CCNA that's preventing you getting a job then you've not done yourself any favours. Maybe it will help, I do
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by wlll 8y ago
> When someone does engage me though, and starts talking about something that interests me, I'll talk their damn ear off. I catch myself talking too much about stuff I'm interested in, it doesn't help. I have to rein mysel
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by wlll 8y ago
> I'm sorry that I'm bad with people, and wrote a "privileged, muddled whinge." Don't apologise to me! What you got was my take on how you have presented yourself. I've been responsible for hiring people in
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by wlll 8y ago
> friendless Do you get out much? I was friendless for a year until I went to the local Linux Users group. Now, almost all my friends (except one old school friend I re-connected with a year ago) are Ruby or Go user group people. I get t
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by wlll 8y ago
TCK? > My latest idea is to study a certification. Has anybody done this before, and does it work? Will that help me start a career? Maybe? I suspect it depends partly on where (the company) you want to work, partly why you haven't
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by wlll 8y ago
You're talking about Social Proof: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_proof

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