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Born in Lancashire, grew up in Yorkshire, live in The Netherlands. Speak English and Dutch. CTO of the still programming variety, co-founder of Nalanda, angler, boater. Views are solely mine and not those of current or past employers; then again …
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I do regular road trips from SE Netherlands to Yorkshire in a 77Kwh Tesla model 3. Real world range 520km although nobody ever drives 100 to 0%. I would also never go back to petrol. If all vehicles were EV though I’m not sure enough electricity could be generated, especially renewable.
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On a (thankfully) few occasions in the past I managed to inadvertently delete documents I had written. I always felt that the rewrite was much better than the original.
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The pedantic gremlin inside me wants to say it’s paedophile not pedophile, but then I remember that American spelling usually makes more sense than the original. None of this makes him any less of a scumbag!!
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I am never ever going to say: “going forward”; “moving forward”; “circling round”;”pivoting”;”framing”;”woke”;”snowflake”.
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Fylingdales?
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Werkt ook.
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A ‘weird’ duck at that.
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Of in goed Engels: a bunch of Nazi fucking bastards.
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Great interviewer - and great interviewee.
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Not quite sure where the ‘vs’ applies!
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In my work - I.T. - I find that it is an incredible ‘assistant’. We use it to solve obscure problems, and that saves us time and frustration. The creativity however is still me.
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Het lelijke gruwelwijf - of is het een man?
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I didn’t think Americans did ‘whom’!
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“If it’s ‘frisco, it’s the rock”. I remember that line from a James Cagney film but I can’t remember which one.
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Of een oerlelijk man?
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Labour,Reform,LD,Conservatives
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Tbf if you don’t use car wash mode in a car wash…..
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En wie heeft echt zo’n auto nodig?
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Tbf it’s a lovely riff and not at easy to play well.
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And blue ticks are good things to be valued again.
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Nice to see proper, well deserved blue ticks again!
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I hope this isn’t the case but I fear that it is.
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The great filter.
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Might it not be best for Britain to use English and not ugly American English? It’s ensures, not insures!
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Wow!
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I thought he was supposed to be a brilliant writer, but he doesn’t know his who from his whom.
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Will you lend me your bat when you’re finished? WhatsApp suddenly has the meta AI in it and I can’t get rid of it, so could use your bat.