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mprev

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About mprev

Just this guy, y’know?

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    Comment #48095857

    Isn't the issue the depth of the Irish Sea at the point where Scotland and Ireland are closest? It gets to around 1,000 ft deep there (roughly 5x where the Channel Tunnel goes) and…

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    Comment #46554455

    To be fair, he was kinda forced to release it following a leak, wasn't he?

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    Comment #44723643

    I gave this a go and it's a really nice way of generating context-aware SQL without having to upload your entire dataset or even just your data model to an LLM. Gives you a convers…

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    Comment #43857376

    A note on liquid versus powder detergents. In the UK, at least, my understanding is that liquid detergents do not contain bleaching agents, whereas powders do. That is, unless you …

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    Comment #43484782

    Isn’t this more like Teams vs Slack or Zoom? Consumer brand recognition isn’t the issue. Bundling with Workspace might be.

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    Comment #43398067

    Important to note that the migration works well one way only. If you later want to migrate out it'll be more painful.

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    Comment #43398026

    I'll give a different point of view. I switched my personal email from Google Workspace to Proton. My use case wasn't privacy (especially when 99% of my email is sent to and receiv…

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    Comment #43195025

    Great to see a push towards standardisation in this space.

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    Comment #43161034

    To be fair, most of the science fiction is about it being horribly broken or, at least, functioning in ways its human stewards did not intend.

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    Comment #42195199

    I heard someone say that they wished it had been called High Capacity 2, rather than High Speed 2. What we need is more rail capacity, while people opposed to this project latched …

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    Comment #42127939

    You need a "product", not hourly billing. Defined outcome and a price per engagement, rather than charging for your time.

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    Comment #41907102

    Did we learn nothing from Sim City?

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    Comment #41880782

    I like how your typo makes it sound like a medieval sage.

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    Comment #41674830

    Around 30% is climate levy and similar taxes, plus there’s 5% VAT.

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    Comment #41183195

    These types of interjections haven’t meaningfully changed anything for the better in the past 20 years of people making them. Instead, people get interested in something new and in…

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    Comment #40548393

    Specific translations, such as the NIV, are copyrighted.

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    Comment #40534919

    In what way best?

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    Comment #40011255

    In between Rabbit and Three they launched Orange, too.

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    Comment #39838086

    It might be more due to the weird way that the government divided responsibility for the metering connectivity. Arqiva have the northern segment and O2 the southern, so they use th…

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    Comment #39832894

    Did you ever come across a minister named Holt in Gornal?

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