vermooten

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by vermooten 24d ago
Edge case that needs fixing. Move on.
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by vermooten 2mo ago
I've read 31 novels since January, far more than I'd read in the last 30 years. Easy: I read 50 pages every night when I go to bed, instead of screens. I started with short novels, 150 pages or fewer (chatgpt gave me a reading lis
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by vermooten 3mo ago
HS2 Phase 1 as a whole required 8,276 public-body consents, but those were not 8,000 permits for the bat structure.
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by vermooten 9mo ago
Sounds like a 1-way ticket to burnout.
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by vermooten 1y ago
Nature isn't good enough, so he had to vandalise it.
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by vermooten 1y ago
It would have been easier and cheaper to raise the salaries of the Long Island employees.
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by vermooten 2y ago
“Parents were discouraged from teaching their children languages other than English, even if they expressed themselves best in that other language.“ Yes my Spanish-speaking father and English-speaking mother decided, when I was growing up i
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by vermooten 2y ago
Yes! I love my Airpods Max more than any other headphone ever but I wear them all the time and mt tinnitus is crazy. Should stop wearing them, at least reduce.
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by vermooten 2y ago
If they'd use bread instead of 'bread' I'd eat there all the time.
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by vermooten 2y ago
How about 'My list of indie blogs' instead?
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by vermooten 2y ago
I've always thought of dreaming as analogous to a flight simulator, as the article suggests.
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by vermooten 3y ago
Come back, zinc! Come back!
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by vermooten 3y ago
Management-speak or not, it's correct. Software development is much more social than it was when I started. Pairing and mobbing get better results faster.
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by vermooten 3y ago
Thank you! I've wondered that, can't wait to see what he answer is.
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by vermooten 3y ago
Hard-to-read grey fine type also acts against user goals. Is it still 2010?
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by vermooten 3y ago
not much use when your ruminating self knows the tricks you're playing on it
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by vermooten 3y ago
I remember the 90s when manual typesetting and page layout was replaced with Quark Xpress, and when analogue phot retouching was replaced with Photoshop. Lots of highly skilled people suddenly out of work - the ones who didn't retrain
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by vermooten 3y ago
Tenuto app is my favourite for this. I'm also a new adult learner.
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by vermooten 4y ago
St Jeremy led an institutionally anti-semitic Labour Party, clearly documented by the EHRC. Reading that will answer your question.
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by vermooten 4y ago
Whenever my MS account did stupid stiff like this, I'd just create a new one. I ended up with 4 before moving my life outside of the MS ecosystem.
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by vermooten 4y ago
Magnify to 150% and it's readable again.
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by vermooten 4y ago
Not quite true, but I can see why you'd think that. I worked for a reputable SP company in Oxfordshire, legal were all over everything we did. The Hoover debacle did wonders for our business, all of a sudden clients wanted protection f
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by vermooten 4y ago
Waterfall / no process -> Scrum -> Kanban -> XP Problem I found with this journey is that Scrum concepts pollute Kanban and beyond. We now just do what works, as little process as works for us - and we implicitly review the pr
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by vermooten 4y ago
Do you have any data to back this opinion up?
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by vermooten 4y ago
I'm still genuinely uncertain why companies are so desperate to get staff into the office. 'Business people' like HR, sales, marketing LOVE being together in person; Engineers somewhat less so. Given that companies tend to be
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by vermooten 4y ago
Daily Mail headline: "Thinking gives you cancer!"
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by vermooten 4y ago
Don’t forget how much streaming services struggle with classical music meta data.
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by vermooten 5y ago
zzzzzzz
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by vermooten 5y ago
A great read.
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by vermooten 5y ago
When I saw that HBO were doing a remake I wondered: who do they think they are that they can do better than Bergman?

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