itsthejb

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by itsthejb 5mo ago
Tell me about it. As an individual user you absolutely CANNOT get support is some (if not many or all) circumstances. It’s really quite shocking
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by itsthejb 5mo ago
https://yougov.com/en-gb/trackers/do-brits-think-that-immigr...
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by itsthejb 11mo ago
This sounds very much like the operation described in the book Number Go Up, which is ostensibly about FTX, but is really about a number of crypto operations which may or may not be illegal
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by itsthejb 1y ago
Disk Utility used to have a Repair Permissions tool, at least back in the 00s. Not sure when it was removed
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by itsthejb 1y ago
You will no doubt have noticed that with the proliferation of mobile Epos, tipping is increasingly being crowbarred into daily life over here too. For godssakes Just Say No
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by itsthejb 2y ago
Yes. However there are downsides to Japan’s intensely high trust (and high shame) culture as well. Death by overwork is the one that’s most known in the west, although there are plenty of others that outsiders would never usually learn abou
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by itsthejb 2y ago
It’s possible the last train simply parks there for the night. This would mean that you ride the same train back after this misadventure
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by itsthejb 2y ago
I’ve never ended up in this situation myself, but I have many times lived on similar commuter lines. Hearing the names of those end of lines stations becomes a big part of your every day routine. In most cases I never even visited them, whi
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by itsthejb 2y ago
This is entirely a problem of putting all of eggs in one basket. Or rather, only having one basket in which you’re allowed to put your eggs. The German pension system is already insolvent, and I suspect it’s not the only one. European welfa
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by itsthejb 2y ago
Very very true. I self host synapse, and generally speaking the ability to bridge my ~3 most used messengers into one app (ElementX) adds value. However, the lacking features and bizarre feature disjoints between Element (supposedly EOL) an
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by itsthejb 2y ago
That’s not surprising at all. I don’t about the scientific apps you’re talking about, but I assume that their user base would be accessing them through academic site licenses. Music apps, however, would be predominantly used by hobbyists, a
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by itsthejb 2y ago
kittysplit.com has had this feature set for a decade. I try to promote it whenever I can
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by itsthejb 2y ago
Indeed. Although this tool looks like a way to work around those holdouts which refuse to provide an official customisation point
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by itsthejb 2y ago
Also very enjoyable, Emilio D'Alessandro’s book Stanley Kubrick and Me
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by itsthejb 3y ago
In my current and previous job, we talked about (and partially implemented) low level “contract” modules in order to avoid linking (and building) the entire module in order to share behaviour That problem was already solved with header file
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by itsthejb 3y ago
Octal is very commonly used in Ansible playbooks, for representing file permissions
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by itsthejb 3y ago
Funnily enough, in my experience Germany has the same (actually seemingly worse) issue as the UK; many people have poor home internet speeds due to the fact that the local (copper?) legacy infrastructure is privately owned by DT/BT, an
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by itsthejb 3y ago
See: The Banshees of Inisherin
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by itsthejb 3y ago
The scope for a darkly comic Jony Ive product video voiceover parody on that though
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by itsthejb 3y ago
That _is_ cool
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by itsthejb 3y ago
I’ve thought the same. But quite anti-social for apartment dwellers
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by itsthejb 3y ago
I think that, if you look at the first iPhone, the technology was not at all “mature”. The first versions had some decidedly undesirable workarounds in both hardware and software. There’s even an interesting argument that Apple’s reliance o
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by itsthejb 3y ago
One could argue that maturity can only be reached by allowing minors responsibility
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by itsthejb 4y ago
Isn’t this just evidence of the Overton Window? The amount of promotion needed to push any particular cause is significantly lower than people intuit. And following on from this, once that cause has hit the mainstream, the amount of coverag
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by itsthejb 4y ago
That is true. But I have to say that migrating my home server to using rootless Docker (which included all of the same pain), was a fantastic improvement when I finally got around to doing it. I could now migrate to Podman, but less motivat
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by itsthejb 4y ago
https://github.com/monicahq/monica
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by itsthejb 4y ago
I think “most” is a bit of a stretch. Even in countries where education is free, or close to free, students still need some means to support their daily living costs. So that means loans or part time work. Having all of that handed to you d
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by itsthejb 4y ago
As a non-American, the “pay for the kids’ college” (in cash) meme stumps me. How do people expect children to value their education, or the importance of that investment in terms of time, effort and money, if they’re handed such a gift on a
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by itsthejb 4y ago
Ditto in German. One of those rare times English is more specific!
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by itsthejb 4y ago
3. Some amount of people don’t want to feel like the dating process is an interview process, of attempting to insert a “bum” into a “seat”, of finding a “candidate” to fill a “role”. Of course that doesn’t stop it from still _being that_, i

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