thorin

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by thorin 9d ago
This is interesting? Do you have any other sources of caffeine in your diet? For instance I would have a regular can of coke maybe once a week and English breakfast tea at least once a day. Only coffee seems to really affect me though. I do
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by thorin 20d ago
Also Frank Beard
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by thorin 28d ago
It was both, however where I lived, a few years before fathers would get up at 6am and go and work down a mine all day, or a shipyard or factory. They might get home at 6pm but after dinner they'd quickly go for a pint or go fishing or
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TikTok Ireland Layoffs(thejournal.ie)
5 points by thorin 1mo ago|1 comments
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by thorin 1mo ago
They might talk about it, but gambling is a huge industry in the US and many different types of gambling are possible and have been for decades/centuries. It is far less restrictive than many other major countries on gambling I would s
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by thorin 1mo ago
Barclays use both the physical hardware code generator in the UK as well as a virtual version in the app. The Bank staff also use the same physical hardware in the branch so I guess it will stay around for a while.
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by thorin 1mo ago
I was at a graduate recruitment event in the UK for Unilever around 1998 when he speaker told us about the Magnum story. The premise was that someone might pay £1 for an ice cream to eat at home which seemed ridiculous at the time, given th
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by thorin 2mo ago
Not really, at least in the UK ( where "apparently" everyone is being jailed for free speech violations). I've moved to the position where I wouldn't post anything online that I wouldn't say in person, and I very ra
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by thorin 2mo ago
My father worked in signals, first in the armed forces and then railway signals and telephone lines for his whole life. When I was young I was interested in Electronics, but not too great with them. I did study a degree in Electrical and El
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by thorin 3mo ago
Tell him you'll make sure to turn it off at exactly 5pm (or whenever you're supposed to finish). And that you'll turn it on at 9am and can't join any meetings till it's started.
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by thorin 3mo ago
I know they were pushing cloud very hard, and it was nice to see they were offering a lot of free tier to developers. What has been a surprise to me this year is working in the UK with certain enormous clients that they are still choosing O
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by thorin 3mo ago
Oracle is still mostly generating income from an old school model, a bit like IBM and SAP used to. They have huge contracts with mega-corps bringing in millions per year for a license. The have been pivoting to other things like consulting,
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Callback – Less Scroll. More Soul(commodore.net)
3 points by thorin 3mo ago|0 comments
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by thorin 3mo ago
Spain is a pretty big country in terms of space. It's been full of British expats for years a lot of whom had to leave due to Brexit so can probably stand to have a few more influencers move over.
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by thorin 3mo ago
I seem to remember some pirate copies of art packages (maybe Photon paint) on the Amiga coming with a similar set of images that would be of interest to some teenagers...
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by thorin 4mo ago
It's a lot easier to go part time in a job you already have than find a new part time job. If you are already successful in your job start by asking to move to having every Friday off or even every second Friday. This is very popular i
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by thorin 4mo ago
Probably Manic Miner!
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by thorin 4mo ago
I used to use Soundtrackers a lot on Amiga in the 90s. I'm also pretty ok with using Reaper as a DAW playing all the instruments. I would have no idea how to get into remixing though. How would you suggest starting that? Do you tend to
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by thorin 6mo ago
Curious how you've treated your adhd, do you mean medication? For me the next 10 years will be consolidating my kids development as they'll both be working or at finishing uni by then.
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by thorin 7mo ago
What are the "best of breed" tools in your opinion? In the enterprise world, dotnet with c# is one of the best choices, although recently I've been doing a lot of logic just with python running on serverless functions.
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by thorin 7mo ago
I'm not sure if you've done much of an investigation into these but: 1. Parcel deliveries - unless you work for the main carrier e.g. Royal Mail in the UK I don't think you can expect to make more than minimum wage and will e
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by thorin 7mo ago
Can you expand on the Scaleway comment? Would be interested in the details. Also aren't their data centres all in the Paris area? Do they have any geo-redundancy?
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by thorin 7mo ago
It's the German / European version of unions. For instance when I joined an ex-public company 25 years ago unions were very active in the UK still, but they are even more active in Germany etc.
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by thorin 7mo ago
Interested, in the US if you want to go on holiday will companies be ok with you taking unpaid time off? For instance in the UK I get 25 days paid, then the bank holidays we have (8 days I think) but when I asked they were ok for me to take
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Ask HN: Cloud Agnostic Business Systems
1 points by thorin 7mo ago|0 comments
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by thorin 8mo ago
There are quite a few protest bands but they don't have the level of popularity as Rage against the machine, Bob Dylan or Public Enemy. Pop music is more of a commodity now. I see Billy Bragg had something to share on FB about recent e
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by thorin 8mo ago
Cows and sheep in the UK (and I guess much of Europe) wander round outside all year round and I guess are eating almost entirely grass. You can't go for a walk in the countryside without coming across them constantly. Most of the beef
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Derby Computer Museum(derbycomputermuseum.co.uk)
2 points by thorin 10mo ago|0 comments
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by thorin 10mo ago
Trading Places
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Codemasters post their retro catalog for online play(thecodemastersarchive.co.uk)
3 points by thorin 10mo ago|0 comments

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