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by xnorswap 3y ago
Rather than "bull", I suspect we're already in agreement, given your statement, "At the level of thinking where you’d pull out pen and paper". We appear to agree there's a place for pen & paper, and we appe
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by xnorswap 3y ago
I had one a few weeks back like this. It was a strong signal I didn't want to work there. There were even stronger signals that followed. It was by far my worst interview ever, I haven't really gotten over it yet. It even caused m
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by xnorswap 3y ago
You can take as read that all my posts are prefixed with "In my opinion". I find it unnecessary to type that out on every post. Taking a format that only a computer can interpret, code, and choosing to write it down on a medium a
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by xnorswap 3y ago
Yes, this effect is fascinating. I've been playing de_dust2 for 20 years. And in my mind the quality has always felt essentially the same, through CS, CS:Source, CS:GO and now CS2. Each was a significant rendering upgrade. And I know I
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by xnorswap 3y ago
I couldn't disagree more. If you're finding yourself reaching for pen and paper to write actual code, then your tooling sucks. Your IDE isn't suitable for prototyping, or something else is going wrong. I'm not suggesting
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by xnorswap 3y ago
Indeed we don't, monthly average global temperatures are available here: https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/access/monitoring/climate-at-a-gla... There hasn't been a "coldest global average" set since 1
907.
by xnorswap 3y ago
Because there hasn't been a "record cold month" since 1917. What you're talking about is people discussing local weather.
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by xnorswap 3y ago
Do you have that bookmarked, or just really good at searching?
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by xnorswap 3y ago
That's the same story, it's just "bigger" news now that some of those parts have been traced to a major US airline.
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by xnorswap 3y ago
The tldr seems to be that it's exceptionally quick and easy to apply for jobs, perhaps too quick and too easy, there's essentially no barrier to applying to any and every job advert seen given it apparently takes less than 10 minu
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by xnorswap 3y ago
Yes, but it doesn't catch the equivalent of people like me, who are US citizens through birth, but with no other ties to the country. Yet I therefore still have to navigate the nightmare that is their paper based (and "refund&#x2F
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by xnorswap 3y ago
Note that the US is one of only two countries that taxes non-resident citizens. The other example being Eritrea.
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by xnorswap 3y ago
Of course, but it's still a huge order of magnitude difference to get to trillions.
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by xnorswap 3y ago
1 trillion * 64ms is over 2000 years, I think it's unlikely that there's any DDR RAM that old.
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by xnorswap 3y ago
It's the lack of "watercooler talk" due to WFH that I'm referring to. The whole post wasn't just about the pub, it segued into what's missing from WFH.
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by xnorswap 3y ago
I'm sure most people would agree that deafness is a serious handicap.
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by xnorswap 3y ago
The pub lunch is the thing I miss most about my first job. Every Friday almost the entire office would decamp down to a local pub for lunch and a pint or two. The quality of the food was always very hit-or-miss (unless we went down the king
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by xnorswap 3y ago
I should note that I'm also in the UK. I've definitely met people who haven't been able to leave their work behind when on holiday. I've not worked anywhere where that's a majority, but as a minority they were obvio
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by xnorswap 3y ago
Am I weird in that I don't touch my work computer outside of my Monday-Friday work hours, and have never felt pressure to do so?
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by xnorswap 3y ago
This does just seem like a worse version of knockout. In knockout (with typescript annotations), the equivalent would be: let count = Knockout.Observable<number>(0); And it's then much clearer when you want to access the
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by xnorswap 3y ago
By not demanding better legislation, you're still being ripped off. What you describe as a "very nice low rate" is higher than the legislated EU wide limit. https://eur-lex.europa.eu/EN/legal-content&#x2F
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by xnorswap 3y ago
Almost as good as the classic Sunday Sport headlines: > World War 2 Bomber Found on Moon, 14 August 1988. > World War 2 Bomber Found on Moon Vanishes, 21 August 1988.
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by xnorswap 3y ago
Not wanting to run it via a cloud service was probably a big factor, assuming google translate goes via the cloud. Google has no qualms about sucking up all your data.
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by xnorswap 3y ago
> Video Effects and background blur are now available to Firefox users on Google Meet Finally! That was fairly frustrating.
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by xnorswap 3y ago
The Daily Star really pulls it's weight. The original claim was just "cheating", it was the jokey British Tabloid press that made up the sex toy angle. The daily star isn't supposed to be taken seriously, but somehow it
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by xnorswap 3y ago
Perhaps my experience is biased toward higher end hotels, but I find a good hotel far far more relaxing than an apartment. Hotel have bars, lounges, lobbies and sometimes terraces. Where everything is catered for you and staff are there to
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by xnorswap 3y ago
If you slip 4 or 5 years around now the tech barely changes. You can't really tell much the difference between a game delivered in 2018 and 2023, especially if some polish is later added. Whereas back in 1998, there is absolute night a
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by xnorswap 3y ago
I had to click on the article to find out who the "Metro police" were. I was wondering if they were an part of PSNI or Police Scotland I'd not heard of. No-one calls the Metropolitan Police that, they're the Met police (
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by xnorswap 3y ago
IIRC C# has management under the hood with different SynchronizationContext [0] to manage this, and it can lead to bad habits like sprinkling "ConfigureAwait(false)" all over code. It's also devilishly hard to understand, I&#
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by xnorswap 3y ago
> how you can talk to something that doesn't provide factual information and just take it at face value Like talking to most people you mean?

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