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Where do you spend $21 for a loaf of sourdough?! My local baker sells a delicious loaf of artisanal sourdough for £4 here.

Of course, the difference between sourdough and anything else is astonishing, I just can't comprehend someone charging $21 for it!


Would be a nice thought, but literally nobody means the descendants of the Britons where talking about being British.

If they did, depending upon what that encompasses, then either large swathes of Scotland would be included (Glasgow is a Brythonic name!), or you'd be excluding England from the discussion.

Largely without fail, someone talking about Britain is talking of the island itself, or the current inhabitants.


Erlang might be slightly more obscure, but there are plenty of big household names using the language - Klarna, Bet365, and William Hill are all household names. And that's excluding the obvious cases of Ericsson or WhatsApp.


Except for WhatsApp, from what I can find on Levels, all of the companies you named pay on the low end of even enterprise dev salaries.


It's basically a guaranteed fatality at 45mph in any weight of car - lots of towns/cities are even reducing their 30mph speed limits to 20mph for that reason.

If anything, I'd suggest doing 45mph on a road where there's the possibility of a child walking into the road faster than you could respond is irresponsible. If you're going that fast in a built-up area, you should either have a good enough view of the sides of the road that you can see the hazard developing in good time to react/break (ie, you're tracking the pedestrians alongside the road a hundred metres ahead of you), or you should be slowing down to a more appropriate speed for when you're lacking situational awareness.

I suspect this is a large part of the reasons that some countries (eg, the UK) have a hazard perception element to the driving test.


The FCA (one of the financial regulators) stepped in for the insurance market, which is why that change has started being made.


The main difference here is orthography as opposed to the actual pronunciation of the word - Welsh uses y and w as vowels, as well as multiple 2-letter clusters for a single sound (eg, dd is the same as one of the English th sounds, or rh and ll are both single sounds).

So in that sense, a word that may look bad (eg bwyta, to eat) actually has no consonant clusters in it - actually being pronounced 'boy-ta'.


In which case those countries can get a court order and have Cloudflare remove their services from that company. They're not endorsing a forum by providing them the same services they do anyone else, and it sets a very scary precedence for a private company to shut down speech (however deplorable one may find it).

Another way of looking at it - should there be a concerted (and successful!) effort from the Christian Right in America to start taking positions of power in major tech firms, would you be happy for them to stop serving people/companies who held social views at odds with their own?


That might be highly location specific as well - ie, clustered around wealthy urban areas such as London. In Wales I've never seen such a card (although, certainly more than a few coral cards around!) Probably quite easy to saturate that market.


The title made me assume it was a reference to building your own x.org - alas! Nevertheless, a fascinating repository.


> The title made me assume it was a reference to building your own x.org

Same. It would be an insane undertaking, and I was moderately disappointed upon clicking the link.


In my most recent role I wasn't on-call, but would keep an eye on monitors out of hours and if around, fix issues as they arose (I guess it was unpaid, but would just take hours off in-lieu). That's perfectly fine to me, I'm well paid, should (probably!) have written more resilient code the first time around, and if I'm not doing anything much anyway then it's not that big of a deal to hop online to fix an issue.

I would never accept on-call work (even if paid), even if no incidents ever happened because of the infringement that has on your lifestyle. Realistically it means I won't be able to attend church the Sundays I'm on, go for a long run, on a hike (if we have one of the only nice Saturdays of the year), or even visit family (some of my family have a terrible internet connection!), because even if nothing happens then there's the risk something _might_ happen: and if it did, I wouldn't be able to respond if I were doing one of those activities. And for me, no amount of money would be enough to compensate me for that.


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