rossriley

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by rossriley 7d ago
Automattic are the biggest sponsors of the PHP foundation so they do give back there.
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by rossriley 12d ago
The busiest flight corridor in the world is Singapore to Kuala Lumpur which is only 45 minutes.
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by rossriley 1mo ago
It sounds kind of crazy now but we genuinely used to buy computer magazines that had basic code printed in them, to try the game you would type the basic into a file, save and then run it.
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by rossriley 4mo ago
Kenny Dalglish for Liverpool too, winning the double whilst a player-manager.
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by rossriley 5mo ago
Nice, mine is 5082
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by rossriley 9mo ago
I'd have thought an OAuth flow to a government run ID system, to create an account you first must verify your age by redirecting to the ID provider logging in via FaceID/Fingerprint to verify it's you and then you are redirec
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8 points by rossriley 10mo ago|1 comments
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by rossriley 10mo ago
A local beer in a bar will normally be around 60k IDR so $3-4, wine is more expensive generally in SEA you'll normally pay around 90-100k IDR per glass.
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by rossriley 1y ago
The population of London at the last census was still 60% British born. The difference between 2000 is that the figure was 60% white British. He's not saying London doesn't have enough British people, he's saying it doesn&#x2
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by rossriley 1y ago
If anyone is interested Gruf Rhys (from Super Furry Animals) made a film, Separado!, where he tried to track down his Welsh family that migrated to Patagonia. https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1505405/
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by rossriley 1y ago
I believe the Singapore, Malaysia and Thailand ones are linked too, I noticed last time I went over to Malaysia that they could accept the Singapore PayNow payments too.
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by rossriley 1y ago
PHP RFC for version 8.5 too: https://wiki.php.net/rfc/pipe-operator-v3
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by rossriley 2y ago
UK has 10% of the entire world's digital exports: https://www.voronoiapp.com/technology/The-Worlds-Largest-Dig...
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by rossriley 2y ago
I think Singapore has a pretty good experience worked out now, the immigration is automated just with an iris scan. Additionally moving security to the gate rather than having a single security point for all flights also makes the wait here
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by rossriley 2y ago
Out of interest, from a US point of view since I'm not there, is this going to end up as a relatively damp squib in the very near future now we have access to 5G and all the competition there. Last year I was able to abandon completely
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by rossriley 2y ago
This is awesome, thanks for the link.
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by rossriley 3y ago
variables and constants too
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by rossriley 3y ago
People bring the value that they generate for an economy. Once they can be replaced with AI/Robots then that labour can be reallocated further up the value chain which in turn makes our economies and culture richer and more productive.
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by rossriley 3y ago
Let's put this in context, Reddit has somewhere in the region of 1.2 Billion users a month and supposedly earn somewhere in the region of $350Million a year in advertising revenue. This is a very good business and something that could
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by rossriley 3y ago
mainly we're moving to the fediverse sites, for most people it's one of Lemmy, Kbin or beehaw and a lot of communities have grown to be really substantial over the last few days.
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by rossriley 3y ago
2000 employees at an average cost of 200k / year is a $400m a year burn rate. If they're not breaking even with revenue then that money starts to run out quite quickly.
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by rossriley 3y ago
Always remember Ed Whitlock, he didn't start running till he was passed 40 and he was still running sub-3 hour marathons at 69 years old. You have plenty of time, I've trained with lots of people that started late and were still r
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by rossriley 3y ago
Echoing the other advice, good shoes, get fitted for the first pair at a running shop that analyses you first. Secondly don't fall into the trap of thinking that you can jump back into running 8km or so daily, you need to build yoursel
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by rossriley 3y ago
When you see good language use in writing it communicates its own sense of quality. This differentiates low-value sources where some people communicate without an appreciation of the minutiae of the language. Now for forum comments or low-v
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by rossriley 3y ago
The correct way to do this in most style guides is to add (sic) to the quote which means you're aware of the incorrect use but are quoting directly.
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by rossriley 3y ago
Is this really the case though? All shareholders are pushing for higher returns because of inflation, it's not an indication of collusion, it's an indication that the market conditions have changed. As I said on the flip side the
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by rossriley 3y ago
Don't forget supply and demand works on the capital side of the equation too, higher inflation means shareholders push for higher profits in the same way that high inflation causes workers to push for higher wages. There's increas
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by rossriley 4y ago
Yes the Virgin trains that do the Manchester to London route all have buffet carriages where you can buy beers and wines, they have a few standing tables too so you can even stop and drink in the buffet carriage or return to your seat. But
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by rossriley 4y ago
I think it's to do with these new 'Signals' they seem to be building profiles of interest based on services. https://support.google.com/analytics/answer/9445345?hl=en#zi...
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by rossriley 4y ago
There are a few instances where using == is desirable, for instance it allows you to compare two instances of an object and returns true if the properties are the same. In this case === will always return false since it checks if the two in

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