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I've always heard it as Faux-livia.

don't play total war.

try Settlers, maybe Age of Wonders? though both are fairly different from Civ and Total War

Does unemployment benefits still demand you apply for X number of jobs?

Could be a cause.

there is a test, or at least I hope so because the UK has announced we've bought 3.5M of them https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-51943612

So, you're employed, you have the income to pay your rent, but you want to decide not to and feel okay about that.

A lot depends on the expectations of your workplace.

Roll out of bed whenever and work in my PJs? Not when my meetings are all over video.

Change up my work hours to take random long breaks and work odd hours? Not when a fair portion of my work is collaborative.

You need to take the time to find out what works for you.

ahh, I did think that first student "quote" seemed made up by someone who doesn't listen to students.

I use tickets to offload my memory and ideas for later thought.

And as bonus points it can effectively prevent people from gobbling up only the work they want to do and leaving the shit for everyone else.

quite. I was like "congratulations, you've made a spam, here's your blacklist"

two former co-workers who aren't "names" in the industry.

They could argue with grace, they could see what was needed and build it.

And even the projects that were built quickly were easy for other people to work on and extend.

ferrets seems to be having a good time on tiktok at the moment. So cute and so wholesome. Not political right?

Ferrets are a weirdly political issue in some areas of the USA.

It's pretty hard to have anything be politics free when the world we live in is political

That it's not a great reading of sci-fi to say it's 'set in the future'

Do android's dream of electric sheep is a novel set in its time, exploring social issues of its time, using a fictitious universe to help explore without so much irl baggage.

to each their own. I don't like low hydration, dense breads, and I do like high hydration airy breads.

because that's what I like eating, not because that's what's pretty.

i've had a middle of the road garmin for a few years now. What watch you want depends what you want out of it. I cycle daily and like to have the information available for how long my commute is, what the weather was like (though the wind speeds are often very off).

It works nicely as a watch too, though unless you pay top whack they aren't very fashionable looking.

I don't care much about apps, but I do care if it can connect to other equipment (like a rowing machine or a turbo) so being ANT+ compatible is important to me.

if you've seen tailess cats in the UK (I know you refer to the wider commonwealth), they would not be mutilated, at least legally, like that.

tail docking, ear docking, declawing, descenting (of ferrets), is illegal unless for the health of the animal or for a few working breeds where the dog is a working dog.

(England and Wales do have some different laws on this than Scotland and NI)

it's on the bbc website? the British public do generally have a good idea where IOM is.

plus the subheader:

>Despite being ringed on all sides by the UK – Northern Ireland to west, Scotland to the north, England to the east and Wales to the south – the Isle of Man is not actually part of it.

does tell you quite well where IOM is.

feels like complaining that an article on the NYTimes about Connecticut vs Pennsylvania doesn't show a map of the USA indicating where the states are.

the entire programming team is a bunch of 'loan wolves'?

I'd say, yeah, that's a red flag. You aren't discussing issues and making decisions with input even from your own team members?

lots of ebikes around nowadays. I only get annoyed at them when they pass me going up the harder hills. And that's because I'm jealous of them, not actually annoyed!

our bike club members assure me that an ebike isn't all easy sailing. I believe them! With how heavy the ebikes can be, you can't just be sailing along on the battery, not putting in any effort, and expect to go very far.

always interesting to see the differences in commute times per vehicle. Where I am now, it's just over 7 miles to work, cycling is generally faster than the bus, bus is much faster than car (bus lane for > 50% of the journey).

Are you finding people don't answer your questions truthfully when you ask about these provisions during the application and interview process?

pretty balanced diet, high on veg, beans, and grains, medium on meat, low on sugar.

I don't overly worry about it. We plan and cook and that really takes care of it.

you're looking for PCI (Payment Card Industry) information? I don't know of any single location that will walk through it. I know people who've worked for a processor and it's a huge, complicated, heavily regulated, expensive to get into, but lucrative industry.

Possibly research through the PCI standards (and wikipedia for PCI and following the references) will get you enough cross-references to put together what you're looking for, or at least tell you if what you're looking for exists out in the normal world. (as opposed to being behind consultant paywalls)

answering calls, writing a few emails on holiday, is different from actually living in a country on a tourist visa and working remotely.

entering the UK under a tourist visa or waiver program, you must be able to fund your stay. The tourist visas are No Work or Recourse to Public Funds. If you are funding your stay in the UK by working remotely, you are not abiding by the terms of your visa. This isn't the same as getting an emergency call out while on holiday.

How does the border agency know? They ask you a whole bunch of questions upon entering the country. So if the plan was to work remotely you'd end up lying to them. Digital Nomads calling it a grey area is often a nice way of saying "unless you tell someone the truth, you'll be fine"

If it's something you plan on doing, I'd highly recommend knowing the regulations for each country yourself and not relying on a third-party website to tell you things. That way you decide what you say to whom and what risk you take.

indeed, the penalties for not filing or even making an honest mistake on the FBAR are severe.

The FBAR is not under the IRS for the enforcement though, it's FinCEN.

I'd move somewhere where the government and people actively care about climate change and don't just say "it's someone else's problem" or "nothing I can do as an individual will make a difference" or "you first!"

Only because Londoners in the area 1) see it happen all the time and 2) already took the same photos when they were young.

This local goes the same places the tourists do because the UK is beautiful and the foreign tourists I meet have good taste ;)

Intervals, filters, aggregates, and granularities.

Apache Druid.

The killer for us is that we allow essentially ad-hoc querying over long time intervals, but require the results to be returned quickly. And the dataset, while not Google proportions, isn't small.

In my opinion you're correct, it doesn't solve the problem of querying large sets of timeseries data over a long time span.

It doesn't pre-aggregate your data so if you're trying to get aggregates for a large data set, it's not fast.