switch007

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by switch007 1y ago
How do the evade accountability so often and so deeply? It's bizarre.
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by switch007 1y ago
FWIW I do more than "hear" about these "stories". My figures weren't just made up. Personal experience but I'm not saying more than that
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by switch007 1y ago
For every story about it being difficult to claim, there are plenty about people who haven't worked for 20 years who have received over £400,000 in welfare, who could have worked, because they learnt the game. The two sides have to mov
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by switch007 1y ago
I seem to recall way more thunderstorms when I was younger. Turns out there was a peak during my childhood and we're now on the decline: > "Overall, there was a reduction in the number of days of thunder in the UK per year betw
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by switch007 1y ago
When not even 1.x?
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by switch007 1y ago
lol and next year it'll be something else. Drizzle isn't even 1.x
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by switch007 1y ago
Very lucky to not have encountered one of the 500 open and confirmed bugs!
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by switch007 1y ago
I've definitely spammed some long AI responses to generic questions in DMs that can easily be googled or punched into the many AI tools we have!
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by switch007 1y ago
My company would have spun that like "We are excited to announce we are supporting our family in their health kick journey. To support them, we have taken the difficult decision to reduce the number of beverages available. We remain fu
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by switch007 1y ago
> There was no way I could convince her that it wasn't my fault. Perhaps there was a rigid process in place that disallowed her from helping, even though I'd make it to the second flight on time. Yeah they generally have the ca
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by switch007 1y ago
Exactly. A lot of the EU is just performative blustering, making the populations think they're the lord their saviour. Incredible PR and marketing. That fine got an incredible amount of media attention. The lack of actually paying it,
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by switch007 1y ago
Released a week ago? Aren't IMDB ratings high in the first few weeks/months too, because of screenings/film festivals/devout followers etc? Talk about hyperbole
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by switch007 1y ago
I've tried this recently and I found it very difficult. Cloudflare bot protection is everywhere, other anti-scrape protections, many 'document' sites using JS to render with no fallback, basic forms requiring JS, authenticati
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by switch007 1y ago
Does that confirm that a fine payment was made?
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by switch007 1y ago
Not universally > Placement of the sign varies. Countries have generally continued the style used for their former currencies. In those countries where previous convention was to place the currency sign before the figure, the euro sign i
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by switch007 1y ago
Indeed. Microservice zealot 'architects' love to ignore the work that has to into each microservice and the overhead of collaboration between services. They'll spend a couple of years pretending to work on that problem in any
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by switch007 1y ago
Don't get me started on eco! Now with heat pump dryers barely heating to 45c only your washing machine can do the job now. And you need a specific function to hold a higher temperature as back in the olden days. The 90c cycle is the on
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by switch007 1y ago
It really has. I had to disable the GitHub plugin to get rid of a PR comment box that wouldn't disappear. Junit test runs say No tests available about 50% of the time It feels slower and slower Today I started getting "unable to s
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by switch007 1y ago
Neither of you wish to link to what you're referencing?
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by switch007 1y ago
No thanks. I'm not sending money and traffic to Yandex. I'm going to give Qwant a go (French company, headquartered in Paris)
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by switch007 1y ago
And according to the link below, the Kagi founder/CEO claims Yandex is a private company headquartered in Kazakhstan, unrelated to the Russian government. https://ioc.exchange/@troed/113311987220115248
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by switch007 1y ago
Exactly. Duolingo is a dopamine-delivery, feel-good game app for people who want to waste time but not feel too guilty about it. It's not for learning a language. Intermediate and advanced language learning requires interaction with hu
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by switch007 1y ago
Hot weather? Huh? It's spring
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by switch007 1y ago
Context https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43157259 / https://vercel.com/blog/update-on-spain-and-laliga-blocks-of... OP I think is joking La Liga got the power turned off to protect their reven
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by switch007 1y ago
Perhaps you had something constructive to add to the discussion?
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by switch007 1y ago
Tipping has existed for decades, just not on the level as the US. It hasn't become a cancer.
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by switch007 1y ago
That and disappearing with your card, swiping it with only some kind of implicit authorisation, doing some kind of pre-auth (?), which is then released/finalised once you add the tip and sign the receipt ? (If I understood it correctly
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by switch007 1y ago
De facto it's a web app, not a document, world. Have you tried browsing without JavaScript recently? It's even worse in this AI era when content sites want proof of work, only available via JavaScript.
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by switch007 1y ago
The value of citizenship is being eroded each year, with governments increasingly keen to strip people of citizenship [0]. First they came for the terrorists, then they came for the dual citizenship lesser criminals. We're getting a gl
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by switch007 1y ago
Too real for a Saturday morning. Sigh

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