agedclock

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by agedclock 1y ago
> Because you've had 4 opportunities to answer my basic question and can't? No. It is because you've been rude several times to me without cause, you don't seem to actually read anything I say and therefore I no longe
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by agedclock 1y ago
It is implied that there is something wrong by the fact that it is mentioned in such a manner.
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by agedclock 1y ago
> I watched a video just yesterday from someone (middle class) who explained that, by not having a passport, it took him weeks to get the necessary documentation together to prove his right to work in the UK. As a UK citizen. This is an
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by agedclock 1y ago
You just need something with you name and address. Bank statements, council tax, driver license (it doesn't even need to be a full one). It doesn't need to be a utility bill, it just often is one. If you do not have a permanent ad
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by agedclock 1y ago
I understand this process that you outline can conceivable happen. However this scenarios is still extremely unlikely. Firstly the cost of a replacement Birth certificate is low. Failing that, there are other support mechanism in place prov
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by agedclock 1y ago
I don't consider a nurse or a pharmacist, or a pub landlord, or someone that own a Limited Company (anyone can setup a LTD) as middle class. Also what is wrong with being middle-class?
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by agedclock 1y ago
> Your privilege is showing. This is not an argument, and is merely a way to shut someone up because you don't like them disagreeing with you. It is quite a loathsome tactic. > A new passport costs over £100 for a paper applicati
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by agedclock 1y ago
> A driving license isn’t sufficient for right to work checks because you can have a driving license without being able to work. I never said that you required a driving license. I said that at driving license was photo-card ID. You need
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by agedclock 1y ago
This has nothing to do with passport applications. He is talking about right to work checks. There is nothing excessive about them and they does not require even photo-card ID e.g. driving license / passport. Also you don't have
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by agedclock 1y ago
Sorry you are totally misrepresenting how difficult it is. Here is the checklist: https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/68b6b7e7536d6... > If you don’t have a passport, for instance, it’s much harder for a
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by agedclock 1y ago
The same happened in Spain when I used to live there. I ended up just paying everything cash in hand until I could get a bank account.
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by agedclock 1y ago
> When you look into these cases, they always turn out to be "a sustained campaign of harassment and abuse against one or more named individuals". No that isn't the case. The are substantial problems in the UK around the t
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by agedclock 1y ago
> I don't really understand why you first claim that designers absolutely were not writing CSS and then go onto admitting that they even wrote articles about why everyone should. I really don't know what to say with this statem
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by agedclock 1y ago
Apple do this so PWA / Web Apps work poorly on their platform and pushes people to the App Store. It is why I no longer have an Apple Phone. Running things on AWS is just foolish IMO. You data is locked and infra is locked into their p
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by agedclock 1y ago
No. I didn't think what I said was that difficult to understand. But I will break it down. - Designers were not working with HTML and CSS (this was about ~2008-2011). I met one "designer" who would do HTML and CSS back in abo
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by agedclock 1y ago
I have never heard the term designer used to describe anyone doing anything else other than creating PSD mockup and later on wire-frames. I have worked in large corps and smaller agencies as a full stack / front-end dev for about 18 ye
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by agedclock 1y ago
It was never the norm. I've worked as a contractor/consultant in a lot of places and I saw two people that were "designers" that could write HTML and CSS. That is two people in 18 years. > It is also true that since t
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by agedclock 1y ago
That is unfortunate to hear. I don't really care for any of the political parties in the UK and tell them exactly what I think of them when they knock on my door. I wouldn't trust them in young LibDems in Bristol either. Doesn&#x2
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by agedclock 1y ago
I was still working on Safari Compatibility in 2023. The bugs I was fixing in both CSS and JS were present in the iPhone 3GS or iPhone 4. I was utterly fed up of fixing the same stupid issues and decided to look for a more backend focused p
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by agedclock 1y ago
> It's hard for me to accept the reality that a government that starts out well-meaning definitely can tilt toward totalitarianism, and that the lack of good chokepoints on the citizens (such as this hypothetical ability to control
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by agedclock 1y ago
> It was definitely true at some places. My first job was web dev using the LAMP stack. The "developer" side of the house would generally write something up, wrap everything in a bunch of divs, and hand it off to the "desi
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by agedclock 1y ago
I am talking about the 2005-2015 era of web development.
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by agedclock 1y ago
It has some good uses. Like you can have a picture of a map and annotate it with a <map>.
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by agedclock 1y ago
> Once upon a time, design and code worked as one. Web designers would imagine beautiful designs and turn them into beautiful websites with HTML and CSS. This was never the case and in fact a rewriting of history. My first "proper&q
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by agedclock 1y ago
Pandoc would be my preferred tool. It is excellent at converting between other formats as well.
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by agedclock 1y ago
I left this reply on a sibling thread. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45432347 The often cited YouGov polling, I think sampled a few thousand people. There are almost 2.5 million signatures on petitions between the OS
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by agedclock 1y ago
You are probably talking about the YouGov poll. The poll asked a clearly leading question IMO. You can get any result you want by asking leading questions on polling. This was of course satirised by Yes Minister. https://www.yout
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by agedclock 1y ago
There is a huge number of countries that will comply with the US. All of Western Europe, a good portion of Asia and the Pacific and plenty of other places that I've forgotten about. If you are wanted in the Western world and the US wan
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by agedclock 1y ago
> The difference is that social media now exists. The fear of an embarrassing or compromising moment causing social embarrassment at an unlimited scale or affecting future employment prospects indefinitely is not based on nothing - we ha
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by agedclock 1y ago
Brave Heart is an excellent example. My favourite one though is "Fire in the Sky". I saw it years ago and thought it was a decent movie, but I laughed when it said "based on a true story". https://www.imdb.com

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