nickhammes

joined 2 years ago
[–] nickhammes 4 points 33 minutes ago

Based in beautiful Scunthorpe, England

[–] nickhammes 13 points 2 days ago (1 children)

n a normal administration I think you're right, but this isn't a normal administration. Officials who take an oath are sworn to uphold the constitution, not to follow orders from the president. Soldiers have a duty to disobey illegal orders, and DOJ attorneys have similar traditions.

If the president and top Justice department officials are knowingly and repeatedly ordering them to take actions that are clearly illegal, and are publicly known to be doing so.. they're not whistleblowers, they're conscientious objectors to a criminal enterprise being run openly by public officials.

[–] nickhammes 7 points 2 days ago (1 children)

But how many of them do you think put it away within a week of using it to make content? I would bet the ratio of people who possess one to people who will be disappointed is huge, assuming there are in fact disappointed users.

[–] nickhammes 2 points 3 days ago (6 children)

Fax is commonly used at least in the US because it has regulatory recognition as a secure means of transferring information, it's highly interoperable, and it doesn't really have a successor that has caused the network effect to die out entirely.

11% seems slightly higher than I'd expect, but not crazy. Contracts, medical records, interactions with the government are all good reasons to need to send or receive one occasionally. That about 1 in 10 households did last year? Makes some sense.

[–] nickhammes 6 points 1 week ago

one man's fizzy water is another man's treasure, or something

[–] nickhammes 9 points 1 week ago

At this point, they may not even be hiding

[–] nickhammes 4 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Yeah but those changes break clients as soon as they turn down the old API.

[–] nickhammes 9 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

You need to qualify for membership in the UK?

As an American, It's the cheapest place to get a variety of fruits, veggies, several types of cheese, coffee, and toilet paper, at least on average. The catch is just that you need to buy in large quantities. They definitely have fancy and expensive brands too, but I don't think they do as well here. They're also a really popular place to fuel up cars, because they're usually cheaper than the area around them, but sometimes up to 10% cheaper.

I guess that you need to drive a car there is also a catch, but I just moved to the second place I've ever lived that's within reasonable walking distance of a grocery store, so driving to get groceries is normal to me. I lived near an Aldi for a few years, which was awesome.

[–] nickhammes 3 points 3 weeks ago

Layoffs by profitable firms are horrible, but I'd rather see it done by giving agency over the decisions first to the workers affected by them, than to people so far removed from the work that they make essentially random decisions.

[–] nickhammes 6 points 3 weeks ago

Don't threaten me with a good time

[–] nickhammes 2 points 3 weeks ago

If the pedants are not on the Internet, I am okay with that.

[–] nickhammes 3 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

A really big snek that can bite through your car if it wanted

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