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ashconnor

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About ashconnor

So long. Adios. Farewell.

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    Comment #42554113

    Apologies if I implied that it was. I think it's fine to discuss these things in a reasonable and rational way. My point is that was not happened over on X.

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    Comment #42541796

    This is from yesterday's X discourse regarding the H1B program. The amount of mistruths and racism on the platform was staggering.

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    Comment #42533966

    [flagged]

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    Comment #42481978

    Aegis is great for authoring new subtitles but if you're just looking to sync then take a look at https://github.com/smacke/ffsubsync Plex also recently added auto-sync subtitles t…

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    Comment #42459714

    Anti-immigration rhetoric always descends into fiction.

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    Comment #42455604

    I think you're assuming that everyone has a price. Also H1Bs can't also start their own businesses (at least before this rule). So that was another restriction.

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    Comment #42455325

    Read the RAISE Act if you think that the incoming administration is going to be easier on legal migrants. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RAISE_Act

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    Comment #42455302

    Erm they can. They are looking at passport numbers now.

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    Comment #42455254

    This would be a great way to starve every industry outside of tech of H1B workers.

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    Comment #42454993

    As a non-immigrant to the United States, I don't really buy into the idea that companies prefer H1B candidates purely for financial reasons. The H1B process is frankly a rigid, unr…

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    Comment #42433790

    Will it be available in the EU appstore?

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    Comment #42384232

    This was my initial thought. Is the month of Ramadan enough have an effect on Alzheimer's or is more frequent fasting required?

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    Comment #42360445

    Considering Labour's connection to gambling companies [0] probably not. [0] https://www.theguardian.com/society/article/2024/jun/28/tory...

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    Comment #42319651

    Mise also has support https://mise.jdx.dev/

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    Comment #42298196

    Can you set breakpoints within templates using PyCharm?

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    Comment #42278398

    No doubt the RMT will take the blame for this but as the article points out: > It’s now been confirmed that the study reached the same conclusion that every other study into the is…

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    Comment #42258625

    "The borscht index, an online cost of living tracker monitoring the prices of four ingredients needed to make the traditional soup, reports a 20% rise compared with 2023."

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    Comment #42247258

    It has a pretty vocal user-base.

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    Comment #42246720

    That's what the book Evicted by Matthew Desmond taught me. People end up in these situations for a variety of reasons.

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    Comment #42246398

    Well there are no inheritance taxes in Canada so think of this as an indirect one.

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    Comment #42110055

    Still I would expect for Fish to be mentioned in an article published today.

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    Comment #42093307

    I run it on the offers page https://global.americanexpress.com/offers/eligible The wrapped async function is for Firefox I understand.

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    Comment #42091430

    Add all Amex offers: javascript: var index,offerButtons=Array.from(document.getElementsByClassName("offer-cta")).filter(a=>"Add to Card"==a.title);for(index=0;index {await new Prom…

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    Comment #42080131

    Ditto Nexus. Best $50 and has paid for itself many times over crossing the Mexico-US border.