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poooogles
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About poooogles
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Comment #40847124
>We think 9am-6pm will bring a great cadence to work Any reason why you think this given that studies show knowledge workers can't be productive over that long a period?
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Comment #40425673
You'd be ruled out of many FCA (financial conduct authority) regulated jobs for at minimum 6 years after.
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Comment #40263950
About half of that will go to electricity here in the UK (23.72p per kWh). After costs that's roughly $145 a month profit. Might be more worth it if you have rooftop solar and have…
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Comment #39668788
>Cirencester instead Hey. Some of us chose Chippenham instead. I honestly don't really understand what the fuss is with it, just keep looking right and drive forward when you're fr…
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Comment #39627732
> Lately I've been experimenting the usage of LLMs for the explainability of SQL stored procedures with exceptionally good results Heavily agree here. LLMs have significantly short…
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Comment #39452362
From memory at the time there was corrosion on the fixings and it would've been exceedingly expensive to repair/replace.
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Comment #39252463
>...only a handful of cases in which ships equipped with Phalanx have been the subject of missile fire, and none that have actually seen the system tested. Worth noting that this l…
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Comment #38913160
From China to the EU it adds roughly 1/3rd to the time, which is a decent proxy for cost. There are savings in not having to pay Suez fees but these don't seem to make a huge affec…
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Comment #38611807
Why not both? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spring_Drive Advertised at +-15 seconds a month, but in reality it's much better than that.
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Comment #35456195
I can't be the only person that read this as Python5.43(...) before realising that 2e is second edition.
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Comment #35454457
Location: UK (London or Bristol preferred) Remote: No Preference Willing to relocate: Yes pending Visa sponsorship. Technologies: Python, Clojure, Terraform, Kubernetes, Postgres, …
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Comment #35339853
>I don’t think that EV implies software overkill. I hope that some brands will carve out a niche for simple EVs with real buttons and low “smartness”. Look to the TV sector, you ca…
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Comment #35336989
https://www.bankofengland.co.uk/-/media/boe/files/quarterly-...
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Comment #34967555
People who drink way too much don't drink £55 a bottle spirits. They drink £20 a bottle spirits.
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Comment #34771297
>Everything the mainstream media says is a lie. You've lost credibility completely with this sentence. While I'd agree that many news outlets have their biases, some hugely so, say…
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Comment #34412157
>kobla vindu - I don't know the English word for it) In the UK we'd call this secondary glazing if I'm understanding the image correctly.
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Comment #33771317
I wonder why they defined the centre as St Paul's rather than Charring Cross? Very unusual. I don't think I've ever seen that anywhere else.
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Comment #33731771
I tend to find `site:reddit.com $product` is often worth a shot.
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Comment #33707172
That's not correct. Siemens energy turbines list the start up time as 10 minutes [1]. Pumped storage takes in the realm of 20 seconds [2]. 1. https://www.siemens-energy.com/global/…
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Comment #33425135
How have you come up with this number?
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Comment #32608535
How has IR35 treated you? By this I mean, how have things changed for you?
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Comment #32436427
English mustard is food of the gods. Tracklements (few miles from where I'm typing now) Strong English Mustard especially so. Might be a regional thing (or a class/culture thing?),…
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Comment #31446652
>Not even that. Most lines are already at maximum capacity, and the number of cars is usually dependent on the shortest platform on the line already. Here in the UK we run trains t…
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Comment #31445683
>The thing that really blew my mind was how cars honked when you lock/unlock them. Here they're usually silent or a short chirp. I thought people in the car park were just constant…
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Comment #31114410
I lived on Dartmoor last year. I can testify that the broadband rollout stopped. We managed to get 5mb which wasn't so bad, the real problem was the connection would drop 2/3 times…