ojhughes

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by ojhughes 3mo ago
It’s very difficult to setup a VPN from inside China. I had to use a China specific VPN provider when I visited a few weeks ago as all the main providers are blocked. You can still get an eSIM from Hong Kong that bypasses the firewall
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NHS staff told to stop discouraging first cousin marriages(thetimes.com)
13 points by ojhughes 7mo ago|3 comments
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by ojhughes 8mo ago
Isn’t it the same deal in every major tech hub?
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by ojhughes 8mo ago
I really didn’t enjoy Chicago pizza when I visited, as with many things in the US it’s quantity over quantity and the cheese is not as good as you find in Europe
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by ojhughes 8mo ago
X has implemented age checks and content filtering in the UK (or so I was told by a friend)
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by ojhughes 9mo ago
I have a similar problem, large monorepo, things have become really bad lately to the point that the cursor is unresponsive. The only workaround I have found is opening each folder of the monorepo in its own IDE instance
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by ojhughes 9mo ago
EV motorbikes are already very popular with criminals in the UK. They make the perfect getaway vehicle as they are so quick and stealthy. It’s very intimidating to see a group riding these things on the pavement and pulling wheelies, all we
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by ojhughes 10mo ago
Helm shines when you’re consuming vendor charts (nginx-ingress, cert-manager, Prometheus stack). It’s basically a package manager for k8s. Add a repo, pin a version, set values, and upgrade/rollback as one unit. For third-party infra,
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by ojhughes 1y ago
The UK has council tax, which is quite similar to a property tax
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by ojhughes 1y ago
In the UK there is a trend of modifying motorbike exhausts and you can hear them from a mile away.
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by ojhughes 1y ago
M&S outsourced over half of its IT team to Tata Consultancy in 2018. Looks like they are now reaping what they sowed https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-42629522.amp
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by ojhughes 1y ago
netty-tcnative can remove the need for a Java keystore in Netty based applications https://netty.io/wiki/forked-tomcat-native.html
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by ojhughes 1y ago
> I just let the migration assistant do the needful but will it revert back if things go wrong?
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by ojhughes 1y ago
You might want to sew a Canadian flag on your bag just in case
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by ojhughes 2y ago
Fords are very popular in the UK and my Mondeo hasn’t missed a beat in years. the European models aren’t made in US which speaks volumes
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by ojhughes 2y ago
Have you actually visited Western Europe recently or is your judgement based on what you read?
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by ojhughes 2y ago
Same thing with Brexit, although a lot wish they really did leave now
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by ojhughes 2y ago
Plenty of couples don’t get married and have happy lives together.
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by ojhughes 2y ago
Malmö, Sweden has a major rat problem so I would say no https://www.thelocal.se/20240313/malmo-calls-in-team-of-ferr...
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by ojhughes 2y ago
Just a warning, the UK has major problems with anti-social behaviour and youth crime in many places. The police do very little about to stop it.
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by ojhughes 2y ago
The days of people entering the industry to make big money are probably behind us.
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by ojhughes 2y ago
The US is still enviable from a UK perspective
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by ojhughes 2y ago
Most of the heat pump units in the UK market don’t operate as an AC unit. It’s a hard sell to rip out a working gas central heating system
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by ojhughes 2y ago
It’s interesting that WhatsApp never caught on in the US. It’s ubiquitous amongst everyone I know. Android use also seems to be much larger in Europe
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by ojhughes 2y ago
This is a bit dramatic, sure some people have to share a mouldy flat but most software engineers I know are doing ok
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UK bosses try to turn back clock on hybrid working(theguardian.com)
3 points by ojhughes 2y ago|1 comments
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by ojhughes 2y ago
> Once you get high up in the market signaling starts to matter a lot. This just sounds so alien to me, does anybody really care that much?
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by ojhughes 2y ago
In fairness, I’ve never experienced this using Claude with Cursor.
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by ojhughes 2y ago
You can get longer than that for tweeting the wrong thing in the UK.
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by ojhughes 2y ago
Whilst programming isn’t the main topic, Miss Kobayashi is a Python programmer https://www.crunchyroll.com/news/latest/2017/2/12/see-what-m...

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