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   by 2b3a51 4y ago

   "you're independently wealthy and doesn't need to work" Not independently wealthy except in the sense that I belong just above Branko Milanovic's 85th percentile of wealth. I have a small fixed retirement income d
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   by 2b3a51 4y ago

   Suppose I buy 3 stone, 5 pounds, 8 ounces of tomatoes priced at 4 shillings per pound. How much do I have to pay? Suppose I use 1 stone, 12 pounds and 10 ounces in a (large) ratatouille. What weight of tomatoes do I have left? Nah: imperial
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   by 2b3a51 4y ago

   When I feel like sleeping, I sleep. When I feel like walking in the park, I walk. When I feel like eating Stilton cheese with some barbunya pilaki and a nice burgundy, I eat and drink. When I feel like logging into HN to upvote various po
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   by 2b3a51 4y ago

   The first thing I looked for on the link was a download. Apparently not provided. I may (politely) email the author and ask if one is planned in the future.
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   by 2b3a51 4y ago

   Your memory has got me thinking. Eating out wasn't common in my childhood in the 1960s in the UK. My memories of sit-down meals at locations outside the house are mainly the Christmas dinners that the Marconi Marine branch in Liverpool
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   by 2b3a51 4y ago

   As in the paper referenced in the OA? https://statweb.stanford.edu/~cgates/PERSI/papers/dyn_coin_0... Wasn't the idea to test the difference between human and machine tosses?
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   by 2b3a51 4y ago

   I explained what it was and we took turns listening to the dial tone. I put some quarters in and called my cell phone to show her how it worked. Nostalgia: Early 1960s near Liverpool UK. Being taken up the street to the phone booth to lea
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   by 2b3a51 4y ago

   The company name itself alone would be a bit of a red flag for me. I skimmed the original article first to see if any of the directors were called John Dee or Edward Kelley. (A quick Web search for 'enochian magic' will clarify th
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   by 2b3a51 4y ago

   Well now I wonder why I assumed that you were a participant? I've got some thinking to do about that one! I plan to rename my copy of calendar.txt to yesterday.txt. Each morning my plan is to write something about what I did yesterda
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    by 2b3a51 4y ago

    I've decided to use your text file template the other way round: one line at the end of each day about what I did. Sort of a personal log. Thanks for nudging me into that direction. My teacher voice says: concentrate on your Django cou
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    by 2b3a51 4y ago

    Thanks, I'll investigate how to set format=flowed in Seamonkey. I've never actually read an RFC before. I went with wget https://tdarb.org/ -O - | markdown | lynx -stdin for now having noticed that the
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    by 2b3a51 4y ago

    Just wondering about the line length. Would piping the OA through `fmt` not help readability?
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    by 2b3a51 4y ago

    I work in the UK post compulsory sector (18+ basic skills teaching, aka adult education, mostly maths), so not the primary age focus of the OA. A few reflections after the organisations I work for pivoted at a month's notice to 100% on
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    by 2b3a51 4y ago

    Thank you for sharing this work. I've now bookmarked your page. A few suggestions... Date and time displayed on each link Consider adding an RSS feed Consider (real edge case here) adding a plain text alternative with the origin Web si
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    by 2b3a51 4y ago

    You need to enable JavaScript to run this app. https://news.t0.vc/ OA does display the basic list of links when JavaScript is disabled. Good luck to both projects.
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    by 2b3a51 4y ago

    UK: the rule in house plans and other macro-sized objects is that measurements where shown are in millimetres. So largish whole numbers and no possibility of decimal point getting lost.
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    by 2b3a51 4y ago

    UK my local food market has the fruit and veg that is actually weighed (massed?) priced per pound (lb) and per Kg. Good mental arithmetic practice. Much of the produce is now displayed in plastic mixing bowls and sold as 'a pound (£) a
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    by 2b3a51 4y ago

    UK around 9:24 BST the link (and the strongtowns.org domain) is giving a certificate error. I've tried several different Internet connections (I'm on the mobile network and there can be issues sometimes) including links from my sh
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    by 2b3a51 4y ago

    Thanks for posting this, it was interesting although I agree that including a trans-train ambulation was cheeky. The author's subsequent post strikes me as extremely valuable given the advent of 205 metre long trains... https:/&#
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    by 2b3a51 4y ago

    I'd agree about accuracy but it is also worth mentioning the time reach. Plus or minus half a century from now (or J2000.0 epoch) is fine but if you wanted to explore historical eclipses then you will need to look at higher precision s
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    by 2b3a51 4y ago

    Thanks for your reply. I am aware of the absolute cell reference notation and use it frequently when I have a set of constants (e.g. longitude, latitude, year, month, day, timezone &c) that are referenced in many formulas. However the s
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    by 2b3a51 4y ago

    Thanks for reply. Yes, if it was just for Excel I'd make a user defined function that returned a text value. I wanted the formula to work the same on Libre/Open office and on Google sheets so I went for an actual spreadsheet formu
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    by 2b3a51 4y ago

    Amateur user of Excel/Calc/Google sheets here. My worst is... =CONCATENATE( IF(A1<0;"-";"+"); TEXT(INT(ABS(A1));"00") ;"d"; IF((ABS(A1) - INT(ABS(A1)) - I
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    by 2b3a51 4y ago

    Interesting. Has anyone done the time lapse video of a cel fading out. I'm imagining against a window in an old warehouse or something.
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    by 2b3a51 4y ago

    Thanks for posting your paper which I will print out and read properly! Section 3.2 and Table 1: does the 'continuous urban' category cover e.g. a fairly large park in the middle of a city? I can't see a category for 'pa
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    by 2b3a51 4y ago

    Cheap and disposable: short hand pads from a high street chain of cheap stationery shops in the UK (The Works). One pound for 150 leaves with top spiral. Pages stuck up on wall for todos &c, discarded when complete. Also a ream of A4 ph
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    by 2b3a51 4y ago

    I rather like that layout, no js and the page navigation passes the 'readable on an ancient blackberry classic Web browser' test. Well done.
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    by 2b3a51 5y ago

    Just tried the site, works fast and nicely but... I searched for 'Birmingham' in the search box. The suggested list included Birmingham UK as well as Birmingham Al and all. Clicked to accept Birmingham UK and got a list of places
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    by 2b3a51 5y ago

    OpenBSD... "Due to the increased usage of OpenBSD/amd64, as well as the age and practicality of most i386 hardware, only easy and critical security fixes are backported to i386. The project has more important things to focus on.&q
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    by 2b3a51 5y ago

    I live near the centre of a large city in the UK. I suspect that we here are more likely to be a target if there is a nuclear exchange than people close to Ukraine or Russia. However, I also think that a nuclear exchange is still very unl