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de_Selby
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Comment #32931736
The point is that having near or below 0 rates has been a terrible policy for almost everyone, just as increasing them in response to inflation is going to hit most people hard now…
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Comment #32060603
I think you might be missing parent comment's point. The way I read it they aren't saying that old code is better, just that you used built everything up from scratch generally (or…
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Comment #30593640
>The unstated is that the core problem here (lack of USB2 on a USB3 connector) is _NOT_ standard. It does say this at the end of the article.
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Comment #30581214
Exactly, it's an overt message that what you say is being watched, so watch what you say.
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Comment #29831734
>Your manager should of deflected this sort of stuff Also keep in mind that there is a good chance the manager might have had OPs back in all this, maybe it's just the managers bos…
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Comment #29822973
All company names in daily wtf are Initech and Initrode
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Comment #28628504
It's not just farmers. It was done away with in the UK for 3 years back in the late 60s and people hated it. There are 2 options, either going with summer time permanently which se…
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Comment #28101763
We do have digital certs in Europe (as mentioned in other comments). I don't know why the article mentions Europe, the cards aren't used to check vaccination here.
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Comment #28097299
That's something I like about array languages too, and Lisp is similar from what I know of it. Essentially defining a DSL for the problem and then working with it.
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Comment #27931208
I would imagine they are anchored to the seabed the same way floating oil rigs are.
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Comment #27703876
You clearly didn't read the review. They say it is only for models sold through Amazon
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Comment #27596499
Ah, well that explains the clickbaity title, which is all most comments here are discussing at face value.
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Comment #27393873
> there would not be a single functioning nation on earth Holy hyperbole, Batman. No, it would just mean that there would be a homogeneous corporate tax system, which is what peopl…
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Comment #27383639
You seem to have a very strange definition of theft. Other countries are perfectly entitled to do similarly, as Netherlands does. Why is there not a focus on countries such as Berm…
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Comment #27250553
Windows drives me mad with this stuff any time I have to use it. I'm baffled by people still claiming "desktop Linux hasn't arrived" when they put up with this shit.
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Comment #26755184
Linux desktop has been perfectly fine for at least 1.5 of those decades.
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Comment #26640719
Fair point.
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Comment #26639983
Is it standard practice to tweet about it when launching a nuclear attack?
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Comment #26495402
Or use tabbed/fullscreen/custom views. The GP comment is so backwards that I wonder if they even used a tiling wm for any period of time longer than a day or two. Tiling window man…
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Comment #26089447
For that use case definitely, though a law change is a bit of an edge case. For stamping times like in a log though UTC should always be used server side.
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Comment #26088052
I'd say the moral is that server side should always be in UTC.
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Comment #26087832
> Let's take take a look, using the disastrously bad unix libc timezone tools Are there any more examples of them causing issues to warrant being called "disastrously bad"? This po…
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Comment #26047912
I have a son who is a toddler right now, very well put - "ingenuity" made me laugh.
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Comment #25679110
It actually saddens me to have 5 1/4 bays on my computer that are completely unused nowadays. There's not even any point having a dvd burner anymore.
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Comment #25632827
They should at least update the status site to reflect issues currently happening. I was wondering why the link from a Jira wasn't opening in slack, the page eventually timed out a…