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It’s very difficult to setup a VPN from inside China. I had to use a China specific VPN provider when I visited a few weeks ago as all the main providers are blocked. You can still…

Isn’t it the same deal in every major tech hub?

I really didn’t enjoy Chicago pizza when I visited, as with many things in the US it’s quantity over quantity and the cheese is not as good as you find in Europe

X has implemented age checks and content filtering in the UK (or so I was told by a friend)

I have a similar problem, large monorepo, things have become really bad lately to the point that the cursor is unresponsive. The only workaround I have found is opening each folder…

EV motorbikes are already very popular with criminals in the UK. They make the perfect getaway vehicle as they are so quick and stealthy. It’s very intimidating to see a group ridi…

Helm shines when you’re consuming vendor charts (nginx-ingress, cert-manager, Prometheus stack). It’s basically a package manager for k8s. Add a repo, pin a version, set values, an…

The UK has council tax, which is quite similar to a property tax

In the UK there is a trend of modifying motorbike exhausts and you can hear them from a mile away.

M&S outsourced over half of its IT team to Tata Consultancy in 2018. Looks like they are now reaping what they sowed https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-42629522.amp

netty-tcnative can remove the need for a Java keystore in Netty based applications https://netty.io/wiki/forked-tomcat-native.html

> I just let the migration assistant do the needful but will it revert back if things go wrong?

You might want to sew a Canadian flag on your bag just in case

Fords are very popular in the UK and my Mondeo hasn’t missed a beat in years. the European models aren’t made in US which speaks volumes

Have you actually visited Western Europe recently or is your judgement based on what you read?

Same thing with Brexit, although a lot wish they really did leave now

Plenty of couples don’t get married and have happy lives together.

Malmö, Sweden has a major rat problem so I would say no https://www.thelocal.se/20240313/malmo-calls-in-team-of-ferr...

Just a warning, the UK has major problems with anti-social behaviour and youth crime in many places. The police do very little about to stop it.

The days of people entering the industry to make big money are probably behind us.

The US is still enviable from a UK perspective

Most of the heat pump units in the UK market don’t operate as an AC unit. It’s a hard sell to rip out a working gas central heating system

It’s interesting that WhatsApp never caught on in the US. It’s ubiquitous amongst everyone I know. Android use also seems to be much larger in Europe

This is a bit dramatic, sure some people have to share a mouldy flat but most software engineers I know are doing ok