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by zingar 9mo ago
The “astro-turfing” term is new to me, what does that mean?
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by zingar 9mo ago
Do you have any workflow tips or write up with beads?
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by zingar 9mo ago
Also struggling with sprites, I thought it was just me!
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by zingar 9mo ago
Personally, I've had great gains in terms of small personal tools built on top of CLIs, and Emacs config. I'm also able to deliver PRs that demonstrate a general principle to someone I manage even if they work outside of my most c
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by zingar 9mo ago
I can’t imagine any role in software that gets better delivering more work in longer cycles than less work in shorter cycles. And I can’t speak for technical writing, but developers do operations and testing because automation makes it poss
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by zingar 9mo ago
I’m specifically interested in understanding CfD, yes
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by zingar 9mo ago
To be fair to the conversatives in the UK who have engineered this situation, some have recently said that the £100k threshold is too low. I detest them but I have to give them this.
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by zingar 9mo ago
Is it possible to operate the trackpoint with your thumb? Being able to keep my fingers on the home row while moving the pointer would be a feature I'd pay for.
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by zingar 9mo ago
A combined threshold of £200k (or whatever this converts to) would be great for me in London since my partner earns roughly the median salary (which is a lot lower).
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by zingar 9mo ago
I suspect that the policy is popular with the 90% of voters in the UK who earn less than £80k and that politicians are not very concerned with the ambitions of the rest of us (frustrating as that is when paying London rent).
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by zingar 9mo ago
The staff in my baby’s London nursery all live outside of London. Edit: or are very young and live with their parents.
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by zingar 9mo ago
We have 30 hours of free childcare in the UK (for nursery, schooling in older years is free) if both parents are working and neither earn more than £100k. It has the interesting impact that a salary of £99.9k is worth more to me than £130k,
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by zingar 9mo ago
Interesting, could you elaborate?
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by zingar 9mo ago
Could you spell out the “clearly yes” part of this? I’d love it to be true but even more than that I’d like to have an answer to the climate sceptics.
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by zingar 9mo ago
Is there any truth to the climate sceptic claim that solar in the UK can’t generate useful power with our bad weather and cloud cover? I always said that it’s not like Germany has better weather but they have tons of solar. However it would
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by zingar 9mo ago
Not that it changes your point, but the other day I met a republican who said he doesn’t think climate change is a thing but peak oil, now that’s something to worry about. The longevity of this plus the “no anthropogenic climate change” non
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by zingar 9mo ago
We use 99% Apple and used to have a rental contract. We switched to just buying new MacBooks outright every 3 years because it was cheaper. I think the number of “it needs repair and I’m losing working hours” scenarios was very low. It prob
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by zingar 9mo ago
Ah my mistake. What does it actually do? I’ve seen it but never used it.
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by zingar 9mo ago
Can you explain to this ignorant Mac user what you get out of the physical buttons and trackpoint?
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by zingar 9mo ago
Did the 30th anniversary lineup sell well?
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by zingar 9mo ago
I find Thinkpad trackpads really bad compared to Apple but maybe that’s just a factor of how fast the settings are by default?
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by zingar 9mo ago
Great read. There is something special here that the author isn’t commenting on: the fact that cold hard business logic was allowed to lead to a sustainably (money-wise) better product without interference for decades is unusual. Too often
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by zingar 9mo ago
> ~ doesn’t matter whether you first sell the energy and then go to the government for reimbursement. Or whether you sell the energy to the government which then handles the follow up sale Still missing something in relation to a point a
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by zingar 9mo ago
I’m missing something. Is the operator paying actual cash money if the market price goes up? It’s not just that they’re forced to produce electricity at a rate that’s possibly less than what it cost to buy fuel? (Or in the case of renewable
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by zingar 9mo ago
The non renewable operator would be free to sell at a competitive price or not at all. Perhaps on nights when there’s no wind at sea they might be able to make their obsolete infrastructure pay for itself briefly.
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by zingar 9mo ago
Just to clarify: you're saying the alcohol vs crime stats are from a research unit of a university? If so: - I admit that I don't know much about ONS but its name suggests that they are not about research/speculation/ane
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by zingar 9mo ago
The people who gathered stats professionally are correct. I’m twitchy about this because I’m hearing from relatives in far more dangerous countries and cities about how London is under siege from immigrant criminals and sharia law is being
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by zingar 9mo ago
I don’t understand why ONS should be expected to do anything but gather numbers. If good policing is the cause or reduction in alcohol consumption is the cause who cares? Also, on looking for incentives the very obvious incentive to try dis
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by zingar 9mo ago
I noticed this too. Everything lacks consistency, wrapped in headings that are designed to make me feel good. It’s uncomfortable reading one thing that seems so right followed by code that feels wrong but my usual instincts about why help l
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by zingar 9mo ago
Is this a standard tech ToU item? Is this them saying that their human developers don’t add much to their product beyond what the AI does for them?

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