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One other option would be to close the company, then open a new company if/when you need it. However, that depends on how much money is in the company account - if you do MVL, you'd have to watch out for phoenix regulations.
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Personally, I wouldn't use AI for this. As openstrike said, just because the code will compile, that doesn't mean that it's working correctly. (A simple "fix" would be to comment out every line of code!)
However, as a wider question, what is this app/microcontroller used for?...
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There's a bit more info here:
TLS Certificate Lifetimes Will Officially Reduce to 47 Days | DigiCert
The idea is to push people towards automation rather than manual renewals, so in the long term this should mean less faffing around....
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I think this is part of modern warfare. However, I don't think it's realistic to grab the average PM and say "find me a new zero-day vulnerability in Windows that we can exploit". I.e. that's a specialised skillset.
Looking at Ukraine:
Ukrainian men aged 18 to 60 have been...
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Do you read the Express by any chance? They seem to be publishing articles about conscription every day, and I think this is basically just scaremongering (much like their weather headlines).
Hypothetically, if there was conscription, we don't know what the age range would be. There's an...
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Just to spell out what cojak said, if you (hs12) have been working through a limited company, that implies that your contract was outside IR35.
However, if you're going to be working as a permie, doing the same role at the same client, that implies that your contract was inside IR35.
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