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by astaunton 2y ago
Not a criticism of the article / documents but an observation that aligns with others comments. For new users it is probably not going to be an issue to select a different window manager / desktop experience. Boot Arch ISO Run arc
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by astaunton 2y ago
Just to add, some martial arts groups use Aluminum training blades to train with They are used to get users mentally prepared to be hit with a blade....being hit with a blunt metal blade hurts, but its ultimately better than being hit by a
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by astaunton 2y ago
Just to clarify, the money has already been deposited to a holding account awaiting this ruling. So Apple will not be paying over any money, they will not be getting the money refunded to them.
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by astaunton 2y ago
1) They basically said "we expect you to change your employment terms, hours of work and duration of work etc. Do you accept?" without communicating what would it entail, if there would be additional payments for extra work etc. 2
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by astaunton 3y ago
I also like Alex Steele, Colin Furze (back catalog more about making, new stuff on an underground passage / garage). Im not sure if Ben Heck ( https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCgeStlUnitobx8QcSxTw2aQ ) is doing much
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by astaunton 3y ago
The original ruling was that Ireland did not give state aid to Apple, that any multinational could have applied the same rules. This was not accepted by the Commission, they asked for a higher court to rule. After several years it has now b
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by astaunton 3y ago
The governments stance is that any company could have applied the same tax rules if they wished, so it was not state aid. As a side note, the "irish double sandwich" rules have changed since this
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by astaunton 3y ago
not seeing this error message when I access the Chrome Plugins page for Bitwarden and it is working fine for me in Chrome. If you have recently updated you may need to restart (maybe will need you to kill tasks in task manager)
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by astaunton 3y ago
Why starlink and not National Broadband Ireland fibre connectivity?
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by astaunton 4y ago
Just a clarification. If they were in the role for less than 2 years there is no legal reason to provide a redundancy package (statutory redundancy). The fact that employees are getting a payment even if they were there less than 2 years sh
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by astaunton 4y ago
Correct, most pensions in Ireland (these days) are defined contribution. Even within the civil service / government roles it is becoming extremely rare to see defined benefit schemes.
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by astaunton 4y ago
Its not a claw back per-se. Under the Irish pensions laws an employee does not have the right to retain the employers contributions to a pension if they leave the position with the company within the first 2 years of contributions to the pe
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by astaunton 4y ago
The change specifies that all new builds have the capability to connect to Gigabit broadband but does not mean that all new builds will have access to these speeds (just because the houses have the capability it does not mandate the service
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by astaunton 4y ago
Why, are you implying American companies will only operate in Europe if they can break the law??? They sent an email, she didn't respond and they stated that because she didn't respond she automatically made herself redundant....I
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by astaunton 4y ago
Im a dev that moved to devops and use a VM for dev work (or spin up a machine in Cloud). All code is in repos stored on Github, Gitlab etc. I also have a repo that contains scripts that will build the VM using Packer & SaltStack, and a
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by astaunton 4y ago
He didnt have permission up until recently. He had said that to submit a request for planning he needed more detailed diagrams (more detailed than the "napkin" diagram he showed previously). He argued that by building some of the
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by astaunton 4y ago
I live in Ireland and I can agree with some of the information / points the article raises. There has been a large increase in the number of data-centres in Ireland over a short period of time, and the electric supply has not expanded
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by astaunton 4y ago
Caveat: At the time of adding this comment there are 2 points for "12 Programming Languages" and 3 for "Data Science Starter", so they are the preferred options at present. For the 12 languages if you are looking to cr
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by astaunton 4y ago
This is a "normal" external keyboard, there are numerous different types / sizes of external keyboard. The stand allows using the external keyboard in the same physical location / orientation as the one built in to the l
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by astaunton 5y ago
The definition of PII can be a bit grey, some have deemed that IP addresses of the service provider, although not identifiable to a specific customer, can also be seen as PII as they can all people to be identified within a small group of u
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by astaunton 5y ago
Also can be useful for keeping track of these rulings https://noyb.eu/en/statement-max-schrems-schrems-ii-annivers... Nyob is one of the roups raising these issues with the EU data protections groups
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by astaunton 5y ago
Just to clarify, it is not just a preference, it is a legal requirement to store data of all EU citizens according to the GDPR. https://gdpr.eu/what-is-gdpr/#:~:text=The%20regulation%20was... . https://www.cn
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by astaunton 5y ago
I would think that it will be benchmarked and compared against the same role/roles in other Europen countries (taking in to account cost of living etc). So as an example Junior Software Engineer / Developer in one European country
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by astaunton 5y ago
Some DevOps engineers code, some dont and it can depend on the organisation / tasks they are involved in. Some DevOps engineers will code extentions to some of the tools they use, to cover off tasks that may be unique to their orgainis
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by astaunton 5y ago
I would agree with this, Ansible (and Salt) allow you to extend the functionality by 1) Create a python script for your functionality 2) Drop it in a predefined folder on the master server 3) sync all agents (if using agents) In my experien
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by astaunton 5y ago
I have worked in several organisations where I have needed to be dynamic, dropping some tasks I am currently working on to take up something that is more business critical. I create a task list to keep track of anything that needs to be don
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by astaunton 5y ago
Clarification. The EU asked the Irish Government to collect taxes that it declared were unpaid. It would then decide which countries were owed which chunk or the unpaid tax (all tax was declared through Ireland but sales were not solely in
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by astaunton 6y ago
Although on the surface it appears that this is a major change, brought about by COVID-19 and remote working, it is however not the full story. Google already owns several buildings in Dublin, it is in the process of refurbishing one and co
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by astaunton 7y ago
No need to change to another language, as has been pretty much outlined by previous posts Java is driven by the changes added to OpenJDK. Even Oracles commercial binaries use the OpenJDK code repository, compile it and add some support. Use
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by astaunton 8y ago
i never said China would win, my point was the ripple effect it will have. These games could have major impact for the smaller mom&pop companies in both China and America. So in an effort to re-vitalize businesses it may in fact cause a

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