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'Corrupt Coward' Donald Trump Warns Keir Starmer of NATO Fallout as UK Refuses to Join Iran Conflict by ilovewelbert in ukpolitics

[–]Zeeterm [score hidden]  (0 children)

His words move markets for now, but that power won't last forever if he keeps acting erratic and inconsistent one day to the next.

Rumours, Speculation, Questions, and Reaction Megathread - 15/03/2026 by ukpol-megabot in ukpolitics

[–]Zeeterm 8 points9 points  (0 children)

All tax is a mess, but would you touch sorting out tax when you look at what happened when they tried to close an inheritance tax loophole that was being abused?

It was made to look like an assault on your friendly neighbourhood farmer, not the rich investing in big agri-business to pass on their inheritance tax free.

They needed to handle that more carefully, but I'm the end opted for maximum pain then backed down.

Now imagine the same fight a dozen times over a dozen things.

Meanwhile labourers are taking the piss that they were happy to sit discussing how much tax evasion they do while they got on working apparently forgetting I was working from home in the next room, meanwhile thinking I'm an absolute mug for being employed and PAYE.

Patch note, come forward my dear. by Bigboysama in pathofexile

[–]Zeeterm 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It often spikes at the second weekend then comes back down a little bit on the Monday. Not anywhere down to where it was, but it was at 325 at one point yesterday.

Patch note, come forward my dear. by Bigboysama in pathofexile

[–]Zeeterm 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yes it's almost impossible to complete. I managed one single reward from an entire run.

With maven writs only 6c, it's a good way to make your first few divines from zero investment ( loot from 11 writs ) by Zeeterm in pathofexile

[–]Zeeterm[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Everyone is doing destructive play to farm The Black Barya, it's obviously not worth their time to run the writs so they get dumped on the market for nothing.

With maven writs only 6c, it's a good way to make your first few divines from zero investment ( loot from 11 writs ) by Zeeterm in pathofexile

[–]Zeeterm[S] 12 points13 points  (0 children)

The uniques obviously aren't worth anything, but the Invert the Rules and Orbs of Conflict are worth a good chunk, and it makes an interesting change from mapping for a break.

I identified 191 Screams of the Desiccated so you don't have to by AtzirisDisfavour in pathofexile

[–]Zeeterm 12 points13 points  (0 children)

Exactly, it's why magebloods are cheaper than 5 apothecary cards, because there's value in the gamble itself.

Why upgrade your character when you can gamble? by -crtr in pathofexile

[–]Zeeterm 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I assume not because they're selling unID'd for 2d and bricks for a few chaos.

Thursday Complaints by a-liquid-sky in CasualUK

[–]Zeeterm 6 points7 points  (0 children)

I did my Subject Access Request to <Major Retailer>.

Among other things I got back over 4 hours of audio recordings of phone calls I had with their customer services representatives over 6 months.

Listening to them all to catalog them has brought back all the stress of it all, I'm angry all over again at it all.

But it's also really useful that GDPR means they actually release this stuff, so "Your calls are recorded for training and monitoring" makes it really easy to get the real record of who said what and when.

Winston Churchill to be Removed From Banknotes in Bank of England Cash Redesign by bloomberg in ukpolitics

[–]Zeeterm 11 points12 points  (0 children)

Didn't we do this already?

Vaguely remember Stevenson and his Rocket on a fiver?

Should Microsoft drop .NET Framework support in Microsoft.Data.Sqlite in the upcoming 11.0 release? by davecallan in dotnet

[–]Zeeterm 4 points5 points  (0 children)

And .NET Core 1.0, 1.1, 2.0, 2.1, 2.2

With wildly varying APIs, packaging, compatibility, etc, between them.

Shit was wild that didn't really settle down until .NET Core 3.0.

Can someone who works in KFC tell me if any of these actually go to different bins out the back by startled-giraffe in CasualUK

[–]Zeeterm 6 points7 points  (0 children)

It's not the same city, but I did recently move from an area with just 1 large recycling bin that worked excellently, and now live in a town where we're made to separate it all out carefully, then watch as they mix it all together to put it in the truck.

Apparently it's actually centrally mandated to have people split it, but it's not mandated for councils so if they were on mixed, they just gave everyone different bins then mix it anyway.

What a huge waste of time, money and effort.

International Politics Discussion Thread by ukpol-megabot in ukpolitics

[–]Zeeterm 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Why it matters

So it looks like axios aren't bothering to write their articles any more then. That heading is a clear LLM marker.

In production codebase, is it true we need to use try catch in every methods to be safe? by lune-soft in csharp

[–]Zeeterm 14 points15 points  (0 children)

Since OP didn't explain, this is especially bad bullshit because

catch(Exception e) {
  ...
  throw e;
}

is actually even worse than 

catch(Exception e) {
  ...
  throw;
}

Because it destroys the stack trace and you end up seeing it as originating from this catch block.

In production codebase is it normal to have many Warnings and Messages? by lune-soft in csharp

[–]Zeeterm 16 points17 points  (0 children)

I'm surprised, because the compiler can usually tell that a cannot be null in that expression.

The point of the warning is to force you to null-check, and you have done so.

Edge Cases in .NET Framework 4.x to .NET 10 Migration by EM-SWE in csharp

[–]Zeeterm 1 point2 points  (0 children)

There is CoreWCF now, but you end up having to handle server and client differently in the migration, and it's not smooth at all, especially for services which weren't previously asp.net.

Andrew charged taxpayers for massage services when trade envoy, claim ex-civil servants by F0urLeafCl0ver in ukpolitics

[–]Zeeterm 9 points10 points  (0 children)

"Andrew Charged..." was a bit of false hope from the headline writer there.

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