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[willendure]

Last Evri parcel I had delivered, I selected put "Deliver through mailbox" as the delivery option. Got a notification it had arrived, but no package. Hang on, I went to check the delivery image... guy had crossed the street and put my package in the mailbox. The royal mail post box! :suic...

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Bitcoin shinanigans on Friday:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=23ddxotpMZM&t=623s

tldr; there was massive shorting of BTC right before Trumps tweet on new China tarrifs, on new accounts opened and funded with $80m around 28 hours prior to the tweet.

Some trader...

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Yeah, there are some things I would not even take out of desparation. Not that port, not in any storm!...

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Killer use case. This will be very important in the future. With post offices closing down there are so few left, and we cant just let any unidentified miscreants in them can we? They are holy shrines to Britains glorious past....

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WillEndure has returned to the bench.

Contract is at an end and I told them I was leaving anyway - turns out there was no extension on offer either. A mutual split from a decent enough client that has paid on time and seen me through a tough market. I could even say, proud of achieving...

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I would say, **** it and just take the contract. I dont think Agent A will ever sue you and even if they were mad keen to, they don't have much of a case.

I had this happen to me once before, contracted through Agent X, but end client removed non-compete clause from their contract with...

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I somehow read that as £6million!! Congrats anyway....

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Kafka seems to be still alive as a well paid and fairly niche skill. Been using Kinesis a lot lately for AWS stuff, but its not as good as Kafka and Kafka Streams. Actually I have a little project soon to interface a new stream processing language into Kafka Streams, will tell you about it some time...

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Thats more like it. And I have a sore shoulder, can you give it a rub too?...

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Sure. How many have you got?...

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Would you classify it as a cutting edge thing? Hard to find people to do it, because there are not enough people skilled up in it yet?

Or is it an older technology? Hard to find people to do it, because the number of people doing it is thinning out over time?...

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Great, because that was a bloody disaster. Now wait, some snowflake is going to cry and get the mods to delete all our posts now....

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Noticed that too in my nearest large Tesco. Nice folk work there too, and its sometimes even quicker than the self serve, so I use the staffed checkouts....

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Yup, it has no real purpose, and is just a huge risk as it will get hacked.

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I agree. Tends to lag gold too, I think it still has plenty to run.

Been in VZLA silver miner too, and that has been going gang busters....

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I use LibreOffice Calc, but not Writer (the Word clone).

I have always thought if you want to write an ungly document, use Word. And Writer is worse even.

If you want to make a useful document, write HTML or use a Wiki to write it for you. Then you can send out the URL or anchor...

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Nominations closed on 31st Jan, and he was not in the nominations. So we already knew he would not win.

Perhaps, next time? I think peace is a good goal for The Donald to keep in mind....

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What I mean is - skillsets in stuff that was new decades ago. Java starting to move into that category even....

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Sort of with you on that - I think Reform will be awful, but maybe our established political classes need to have a wrecking ball thrown at them. A reset of the system and we can build something better on the other side.

There is no way in hell they can deport 1 million people - where will...