melx

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Hey! Greetings from the UK. I'm senior Python developer available for contract work. Looking for reliable Elixir dev? That's me too!

https://mlexs.dev

Viewpoints are my own and not the viewpoints of my employer (that's also me).

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Comment · 3 years ago
Exactly. They probably see their ads revenue is getting saturated by now, so a subscription model is a way to keep the revenue as the same level or higher.
Comment · 3 years ago
or just "ignore" the favicon altogether:

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Comment · 3 years ago
I bought my first NUC only few months ago, and could not be happier (maybe except that Intel has sold off....). I use it as my primary machine for programming and data analysis. I read reviews that said it's noisy little machine yet I heard its fans once or twice, in my very quiet office.
Comment · 3 years ago
Try the night mode (top right corner)...

It's black text on black background (I'm on mobile Firefox on Android).

Comment · 3 years ago
Something else will be a problem...before size of sqlite is a problem.
Comment · 3 years ago
A very costly replacement?!

The UK smart meter rollout is/was the most expensive among countries that went this route of smart meters.

Or move up North (or Scotland) as "our", ekhm, "smart meters", are using a radio technology.

Comment · 3 years ago
"Well, it sounds like they've mastered the art of 'Ctrl+C' and 'Ctrl+V'!" *

* generated by ChatGPT itself

Comment · 3 years ago
Yyyy... Erlang has great adoption - examples:

- Ericsson (they designed Erlang) is using it for its mobile products/networks. Approx 40% of all mobile traffic worldwide goes through Ericsson's infra.

- WhatsApp used/uses Erlang - again millions (billions?) of users

- Bet365 / Klarna use Erlang - millions of users

- from OSS, RabbitMQ, is written in Erlang

I could go on... Erlang has great adoption, but it's probably smaller than, e.g. Python, due to Erlang's specific applications.

Comment · 3 years ago
UK's debt-to-gdp reached 100.5%, and France has about 112.5% (many other western economies probably have similar level of debt.)

I'm not economist, so can someone tell me what does such high debt mean in short/long term perspective?

Comment · 3 years ago
I was thinking...maybe Bard read your post and decided for itself.
Comment · 3 years ago
Comment · 3 years ago
Good point! But what... if it's French Belgian person from France... is this still "French from France", or "French from Belgium" ? The Belgian person lives in France ;-)

Also, you missed other language codes for French: fr_BI, fr_BJ, fr_BL, fr_CA, fr_CD, fr_CF, fr_CG, fr_CH, fr_CI, fr_CM, fr_DJ, fr_DZ, fr_GA, fr_GF, fr_GN, fr_GP, fr_GQ, fr_HT, fr_KM, fr_LU, fr_MA, fr_MC, fr_MF, fr_MG, fr_ML, fr_MQ, fr_MR, fr_MU, fr_NC, fr_NE, fr_PF, fr_PM, fr_RE, fr_RW, fr_SC, fr_SN, fr_SY, fr_TD, fr_TG, fr_TN, fr_VU, fr_WF, fr_YT.

Comment · 3 years ago
I'm from UK, and I got "United Kingdom, United States, Germany" as three first countries.
Comment · 3 years ago
The OP wrote this is based on "navigator.languages" feature in the visitor's browser. So if your preferred language is set to e.g. French, then you shall see France at the top of dropdown.

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