Sholmesy

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by Sholmesy 6mo ago
Yes, much like how they've regulated delivery drivers. The person listed on the app is definitely the one that delivers, very effective. I detest the concept that we need yet another "law" before we can actual enforce anythin
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by Sholmesy 6mo ago
(London perspective), I've intervened from tourists getting scammed before from these guys, and they get violent very quickly. Especially fun because they have their gang all around. Unlicensed, unmaintained, motorized vehicles on pe
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by Sholmesy 10mo ago
Well, at least something good came out of this incident. Perfect.
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by Sholmesy 10mo ago
As well as the childcare benefit removal others have mentioned, you also begin losing your "tax free allowance". The marginal tax rate for 100k -> 125k is 60% (due to losing the ~£12k tax free allowance) "Your pers
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by Sholmesy 3y ago
3 people is insanely lean for something that looks this polished. Try and maintain that for as long as you can.
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by Sholmesy 3y ago
Bit of a facetious response and not in the spirit on HN, but you absolutely nailed the choice of noun with MRI machine, lol. Perfect.
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by Sholmesy 3y ago
https://www.ons.gov.uk/economy/inflationandpriceindices/time... ONS says RPI is 11% this month, peaked at 14% YoY end of last year. Highest it's been since 1980
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by Sholmesy 3y ago
Hitler is currently rank 1, so, that's an interesting application of Godwin's Law
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by Sholmesy 3y ago
> Quick Google searches reveal that Reddit has something between 0.5 and 1.5 billion monthly users Not disagree-ing with your points, but do you have a source for this? It doesn't pass the sniff test to me. 1.5B people is ~ 20% of t
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by Sholmesy 3y ago
This is misinformation. Maybe you've had this situation/contract, but that is very much not the norm.
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by Sholmesy 4y ago
> I would love to just have some nice, high resolution glasses, that would emulate my monitor setup back home with minimal drawbacks. Boy do I have the product for you! https://www.nreal.ai/air/ Exists, in the real
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by Sholmesy 4y ago
Heaping on the praise, use this tool every day, for years, on every mac I've had. Best 15 quid spent
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by Sholmesy 4y ago
If you have the physical hardware, there will be people able to produce their own firmware that disables built in filtering, or at least, disables the internet connecting that reports said filtering. You'll have a server that is discon
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by Sholmesy 4y ago
> The WallStreet Bets, NFT and Crypto ecosystem is very niche /r/wallstreetbets has 13.5 million subscribers.
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by Sholmesy 4y ago
I've never disagreed with something more. > On the other hand, something that's cute will be far more memorable and much easier to say. Citation needed? How is <random-fairy-dust-word> easier to associate with "Inges
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by Sholmesy 4y ago
You are correct, obviously. > I still want to participate in the collective modern culture ... so somethings got to give. Same comment applies to this forum. I want to participate in discussions on HN, and therefore I am subject to the o
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by Sholmesy 4y ago
Peep Show, 30 Rock, Community. Modern classics, editing out "offensive" material, that was actually making a point about how offensive it is.
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by Sholmesy 4y ago
The incentives are misaligned. Netflix, Amazon, Disney et al, aren't interested in showing me what I want to watch for a purchase price, they are after my attention, and to divert me to their most profitable revenue stream (Netflix in
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by Sholmesy 4y ago
Is it hard?
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by Sholmesy 4y ago
We had this, for an employee that wanted to move back home to Poland. We used remote.com, they charge a sizable fee (like 600 quid a month), but the net costs come out about even after considering other costs. You still have to pay for the
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by Sholmesy 4y ago
First thing I thought of, gonna have to rewatch that whole talk now.
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by Sholmesy 4y ago
Given that his producer was arrested by what amounts to Australia's secret police, at the request of the then deputy premier, I'm not certain that it's easy to dismiss. There's been a pretty strong condemnation of the wa
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by Sholmesy 4y ago
> who is charged 5bp a year (i.e. 5 cents for every $100 dollars) Am I crazy or would 5 basis points be 0.05 cents (1/100th of a percent)
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by Sholmesy 4y ago
Not a sound guy, and have struggled for a while w/ this for my plex setup @ home, so grain of salt. If there's not a separate track for e.g 2.0, then the mixing down from 5.1 -> 2.0 will not have a human who validates the outpu
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by Sholmesy 4y ago
> Well, golang is a tough language. This _could_ be true for some, but it directly conflicts with the stated goals of the language. Most people (that I've spoken to) would consider Go to be a simpler language, with fewer features,
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by Sholmesy 4y ago
usenet is taking off in a big way (does 1979 tech really count as taking off?). Alternatively, invite-only/private torrent trackers are as good/better than the old days. Way harder for regular folks to break into the scene, but it
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by Sholmesy 4y ago
My experience with flaky tests is that they seem to leave some state lying around, or are impacted by some randomness that wasn't accounted for in the test writing (lists in different order, DB state etc). So I actually do think this w
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by Sholmesy 4y ago
This is unbelievably cool. Bookmarked.
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by Sholmesy 4y ago
Sorry, I should have clarified what I meant. I meant that 4:3 17" is substantially more than a 16:9 17" monitor. 4:3 vs 16:9 for the same diagonal (17") results in 12% more area. a 16" MBP is already large, and is only 1
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by Sholmesy 4y ago
Review from Dave2D 4 months ago, addresses the crease & hinge on a pre-production unit https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jFGhvYLbBRE I think it seems like a cool idea, 17" at 4:3 ratio is alot of screen real estate

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