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Or can't withdraw money from their FAB bank accounts as it's dependent on AWS infra. This is pretty much entirely to do with AWS and not the retail website.

I have 10 year old twin boys, they play roblox with their friends from school, and they have a lot of fun. Importantly though they don't use the in-game chat, they fire up a group …

Going by steam achievements it looks like 40% of players make it to Act 3 and 23% finish it. So majority is accurate - but vast is hyperbole.

Working as a contractor programming is a pretty good way of recovering from burn-out. You get paid by the hour/day, it's a super clear relationship. As you're not a permanent staff…

On a related note, I do want Mandarin, but I'd like to view with the simplified character set rather than the traditional character set.

I think it's a very reasonable attitude. The person your replying too is stating their personal position. I'm also unlikely to worry personally at the moment because there are othe…

My sister has lived in Dubai for about a decade and just had her daughter there. Some of the best IVF facilities in the world are in Dubai btw. Dubai has changed a lot over the pas…

I'm divorced. By the time you make the decision to leave your partner your life is in a bit a shambles. Something you thought would last together is about to end and if you have ki…

I restrict myself to a 4 hour eating window, and vary that window daily based on what's convenient to me. So some days I'll go 24 hours between windows if that's how things line up…

At some point I keep meaning to learn Ian's secure knot: https://www.fieggen.com/shoelace/secureknot.htm But I can never quite get round to doing it. I just double knot my shoes an…

The quality of the AI generated voice acting really impressed me. I wasn't expecting it to be anywhere near so good.

That's certainly not true for Australia and New Zealand, numbers in Fahrenheit are basically meaningless for me.

I hired a bootcamp grad and she's doing well. She did already have a mechanical engineer degree though and did program as part of that degree and so has a good mindset for solving …

I don't think this tests aphantasia at all really. I have a very weak mind's eye and I've always been able to score very highly on visual spatial recognition tests. I can still con…