newsgremlin

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by newsgremlin 7y ago
As a dev I don't mind coming into the office, infact I probably would never want a 100% WFH situation because I know I would get too comfortable to be productive when I need to be. But I'd like more days of WFH to break up the mun
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by newsgremlin 7y ago
But by margins of billions? Figures like this are thrown around a lot but it's hard to grasp how much just one billion, even 1/1000 of that can make an individuals life unrecognizable before having that wealth.
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by newsgremlin 7y ago
Indeed, the one thing that can't be manipulated by dubious actors is time.
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by newsgremlin 7y ago
As someone born in the 90s I actually enjoyed the prequel movies, being a kid and all. They are terribly campy but it has been the source of many in-jokes.
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by newsgremlin 7y ago
The funding isn't controlled by the government but it may aswell be given how the BBC board is selected and their approval of the non-executives and the director of the BBC. The Queen (i.e. Ministers on her behalf) appoints all of them
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by newsgremlin 7y ago
But if you represent part of the society that is entirely against said strong governments policies which directly affects you, relations, or your morals and ideals - you don't want strong governments to have unmitigated power. But inst
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by newsgremlin 7y ago
I don't know where this idea that brexit has fundamentally changed british society, it hasn't, all it has shown is that the entire country is still polarized by class and political leaning. The two party state still exists, or per
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by newsgremlin 7y ago
Methinks AI will be used like google is used today. Humans still need to make the decisions but AI will provide us with the information and conclusion of what should be done. Then it will definitely feel like AI is nearly ready to take over
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by newsgremlin 7y ago
COVID-19 is certainly not catchy. But I find there's been a lot of casual discrimination towards east Asians living in western society. A case I noticed last week that was local to me where a Taiwanese market trader was confronted by
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by newsgremlin 7y ago
You don't have to be dirt poor to have a cause for national sovereignty. The difference is Scotland has no sovereignty, the British/English do, inside the EU.
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by newsgremlin 7y ago
We can, we just need to not burn out our resources and single planetary home before then.
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by newsgremlin 7y ago
Bit strange to find it's actually docked in Mostyn, the northEAST of Wales since '79. Guessing the author lost his bearings and doesn't know the area.
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by newsgremlin 7y ago
Now the UK is free to do...what exactly that they could not before?
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by newsgremlin 7y ago
The intelligence services of both countries that openly admit they cooperate with each other, they just don't say to what degree. Also Five eyes, which has been operating since the 1940s.
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by newsgremlin 7y ago
Thinking back to my adolescence, there were few that were that proficient and similar observations could have been made, being able to use limewire and the office suite was about as technical as it got for my late millennial class. I think
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by newsgremlin 7y ago
>distrust and aggression towards authority Not an exclusive characteristic of a reddit user, there are many different levels and types of authority. Perhaps the aggression towards all authority, or weighted to certain personalities of
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by newsgremlin 7y ago
I think that resentment stems from a bit of imposter syndrome, preferences for potential employees are not new, but it does feel like the industry as a whole expects programmers to mostly be passionate nerds whose main/only focus is th
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by newsgremlin 7y ago
Seems like in the present-future the only thing people will own is their debt. All our possessions are being turned into services, financed by our debt. Low interest rates makes saving impractical, it will all be put into some monthly fee,
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by newsgremlin 7y ago
The risk most fear is losing the ability to provide for yourself and family, for most people that is only one or two significant financial mistakes away.
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by newsgremlin 7y ago
And then they can hire their own employees...who proceed to automate their own jobs. So nothing has changed and nothing is fixed.
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by newsgremlin 7y ago
And the masses will still buy it!
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by newsgremlin 7y ago
Give it a few years and apple will release their own version at $800-1000 and call it the biggest step in phone technology since the first iphone.
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by newsgremlin 7y ago
Anytime I read corporate speak like this I completely tune out, I just simply don't take it for fact. You see most companies communicate like this, and many get caught up in their own contradictions and hypocrisy.
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by newsgremlin 7y ago
The internet came at us too hard and too fast. We have not had time to determine what are the pitfalls we've already falling into and how to get out of them, to name a few; addiction, anxiety, FOMO, jobs market, specialist skills, inte
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by newsgremlin 7y ago
Talking about this to certain devs is like talking to them about sports. They just don't get the learning curve was the most accessable for the average user, not just those who know how to program. We know there are better technologies
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by newsgremlin 7y ago
I have the exact same issue with my Pixel 2, even after thoroughly cleaning the port it still hangs very loose and comes out easily. It has put me off USB-C, especially for mobile devices.
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by newsgremlin 7y ago
I can't imagine anyone being hyped for it. What will always stick out in my mind is the immediate reaction to the games announcement, by Valves own core fans. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OR4jPtrDCLo
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by newsgremlin 7y ago
I feel like I've wasted my time reading into this controversy for how absurd it sounds unless I'm missing some other crucial information. From what I've gathered from the various references, a mod questioned if the use of gen
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by newsgremlin 7y ago
Modern problems require modern solutions. One way to gradually lessen your facebook usage is to use this addon (chrome version available on the chrome web store). https://addons.mozilla.org/en-GB/firefox/addon&#x2F
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by newsgremlin 7y ago
Is that not then a case of making an effort to keep in contact with those friendships you value? I still use messaging apps to facilitate communication but I opt out of the social 'media'. Instead of sharing media we should be sha

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