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VikingMiner
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Comment #44760783
It isn't a swipe. He is literally engaging in the same thinking. What else am I supposed to say?
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Comment #44760341
No I didn't. I said there was many different types of knives in the kitchen and they have different usages.
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Comment #44759791
I too have watched Brass Eye, and they literally had MPs telling people about the dangers of "cake" in a previous episode. It showed that MPs and TV celebrities would literally say…
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Comment #44759146
Seriously? A "vegetable knife". e.g. https://www.amazon.co.uk/Genware-NEV-K-V4R-Vegetable-Knife-R...
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Comment #44759127
> Nonsense. Promoting the petition and keeping talking about the law is one of the most effective things that can be done to make life uncomfortable for the politicians who are res…
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Comment #44758950
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Comment #44758775
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Comment #44758138
> In reality, this wouldn’t happen, because, generally, people understand that stabbings are a cultural issue, rather than a technical one Many UK MPs don't understand this. I've h…
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Comment #44757927
The whole country could sign that petition and it will be ignored. There is no legal/political solution to this. The sooner people accept that the better.
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Comment #44757795
I didn't have someone looking over my shoulder constantly while I was solving A-level Maths proofs. Which is what they are typically asking you to do.
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Comment #44757572
The mistake you are making is that you are taking a LinkedIn post at face value. The LinkedIn post is rage/engagement bait. The problems are usually harder e.g. write a Roman Numer…
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Comment #44756596
Some of this I swear is to see how you act "stressed". 2 years ago given a coding assessment "Roman Numeral Conversion". Was given a set of test cases. I got near the solution. I t…
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Comment #44755858
It has the benefit of banning bots that hammer you SSH trying to log in. Even if password auth is disabled. I've had friends that setup a small VPS and they've been hammered by bot…
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Comment #44752105
IMO it is far easier to read this: function add(a: i32, b: i32): i32 { return a + b; } Than the example you provided and it is approximately the same length. I used to arrow functi…
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Comment #44725931
All major UK political parties are in support of the Online Safety Act. Even if they say they are against it, you cannot trust them because typically they won't overturn laws put i…
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Comment #44723743
The large tech companies benefited immensely from relative few regulations in the 2000-2010s. Once they are established, they are happy to comply with regulations which will make i…
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Comment #44722321
Agreed.
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Comment #44722317
No it isn't a "generous interpretation". You seem to be taking very uncharitable interpretation while insinuating they are some sort of unrepentant racist. I am not sure why you ar…
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Comment #44721671
Partly. But it isn't necessarily Xenophobia. Those who have different cultures happen to be typically immigrants, but not always. e.g. In Northern Ireland (and parts of Scotland) t…
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Comment #44721582
The UCI weight limit still seems to be in place. Disc brakes have been allowed since 2018 it seems.
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Comment #44721449
The irony is that they cannot deal with an insurgency if it was organised offline or via secure messaging platforms. They simply don't have the man power to deal with it. At the mo…