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by 2b3a51 9mo ago
Can recommend the Mediterranean side salad and a bowl of roasted veg off the side menu if you are hungry. In the centre of the city there are three spoons. One for the people with tattoos on their knuckles (near the magistrates' court
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by 2b3a51 9mo ago
Not the parent or grandparent poster and not a gamer. The echo in my mind from the statement was along the following lines: I can do everything at work remotely from my Linux laptop as they use Microsoft365/Sharepoint/Teams/O
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by 2b3a51 9mo ago
You mention arm64 bit. What sku is that? a 'pro' version or did it come installed on retail hardware? (We use Windows 11 on plastic Thinkpads (L15s, intel) at the centre I work in, an educational organisation. They have ads, insis
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by 2b3a51 9mo ago
I was sort of thinking that these 'cables' ought really to be rendered in a teletypewriter font[1], but then having lower case would be anachronistic. My teacher training (quite a few decades ago) suggested that for people with dy
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by 2b3a51 10mo ago
Perhaps an imagemagick pipeline dumping each page out as a png then blanking areas associated with a list of words (a pixel level concordance of the coordinates of all the words having been compiled from a text dump? Hand-waving here). I&#x
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by 2b3a51 10mo ago
And > "By the time a whole technology exists for something it probably isn't the most interesting thing to be doing."
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by 2b3a51 10mo ago
I started baking bread because I had a bag of plain flour (i.e. not bread flour, only 9% protein) sitting in the cupboard and approaching its sell-by date. So I made 'ships biscuits', and one thing led to another. So a bag of what
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by 2b3a51 10mo ago
If (and I mean only if it would be interesting to you, no other reason and no implied 'ought') you wanted, I'm pretty sure that there are people out there who would like to return things like telescope mountings, old focusers
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by 2b3a51 10mo ago
Most of the service sites I use are fine in Firefox running on Linux. The only thing I use that is problematic is the Microsoft 365 with Teams portal an employer uses. So I have Chromium just for that one.
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by 2b3a51 10mo ago
"The briefs, opinions of the district courts, essential parts of the appendices, and other required reading add up to about 1,000 pages per argument session. Reading that much is a chore; remembering it is even harder." That is
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by 2b3a51 10mo ago
Roughly similar in size to the ones Newton made for the Royal Society as demonstration instruments. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newton%27s_reflector Very nice and I might look for one of these mirror kits.
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by 2b3a51 10mo ago
I'm on Firefox and when I right click and open image in new tab I see an svg file with pale blue text colour and cut-off lettering. The source of the svg suggests that the letters are drawn paths rather than a font. Saving the svg file
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by 2b3a51 10mo ago
Posting from a Thinkpad X61s laptop (Jan 2008) running Trisquel Linux 11. (I take your point that I would not be able to participate in this discussion using the original operating system that came with this laptop).
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by 2b3a51 10mo ago
Yes, my sister noticed this on BBC News in the UK and posted it to her people. I have mixed feelings about Mr Parr's work. I should mention that I was born and grew up in New Brighton[1]. He did seem to have a specific view of people a
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by 2b3a51 10mo ago
"mustachioed" I think that is just a shadow on badly reproduced J.R. likenesses. I too was hoping that the OA would be an application of the principles of slack to corporate organisation. We may be getting old.
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by 2b3a51 10mo ago
Here we go (quote from the xtide Web page) "Q: I live outside of the U.S. and my location is no longer supported. What happened? A: Many data were purged after a legal threat from the U.K. Hydrographic Office (UKHO) in January 2001.
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by 2b3a51 10mo ago
Telecom Gold! Good for you. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telecom_Gold
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by 2b3a51 10mo ago
"was maintaining a 100KLoC+ FORTRAN IV email program, circa 1975" That sounds challenging, and very early for email. Would I find it in the timeline or was it internal only? https://archive.computerhistory.org/r
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by 2b3a51 10mo ago
Not in tech but was a teacher for decades. My first teaching job in early 80s of the last century had a requirement that teachers live within 5 miles of the building. In general; perhaps a return to guilds? Apprentices? In an area of my cit
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by 2b3a51 11mo ago
See comment from another UK resident further down. I suspect it depends on the contract you have, and quite possibly when the contract started.
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by 2b3a51 11mo ago
I'm in the UK and we use 'mobile broadband' for our domestic Internet connection. So a mains powered router box that connects to the local G4 (or G5) mobile data network and provides wifi and a few cat 5 sockets. We don'
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I'm wondering how the maintenance effort would be organised. Would it be existing teams in the main functional areas (networking, file systems, user space tools, kernel, systemd &c) keeping the packages earmarked as 'legacy ad
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by 2b3a51 11mo ago
The relative scales might be a bit hard to put in the simulation. Roughly 400 to 1 for Earth-Sun to Earth-Moon. It would be fun to set that up and view from Earth and view from Sun though.
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by 2b3a51 11mo ago
Less drastic alternative: start a small kitchen garden growing some salad and herbs. Same result.
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by 2b3a51 11mo ago
It appears that Dr Coetzee was working on an important part of Atlas 2.. > "In 1964 Coetzee moved to IBM’s British competitor ICT, collaborating with computer scientists at Cambridge University on Britain’s first supercomputer, the
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by 2b3a51 11mo ago
The OA was describing the use of a refurbished laptop made by Fujitsu Japan (so 50% owned by Lenovo since 2017). No profit goes to Fujitsu UK (a subsidiary). And the Horizon system has a complex history [1]. But still, perhaps no, simply
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by 2b3a51 11mo ago
Two quotes from OA > " He had left the agency in 1953, after about two years, but he never divulged the details of his work for the organization " Seems part of the deal for these kinds of job? > " In terms of other mat
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Worms as well. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Formation_of_Vegetable_Mou...
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There is a Templar church in London off Fleet Street as well, and again, being used as intended. Plus the crypt of St Bride's has a Roman pavement to look at. Nice and quiet down there.
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by 2b3a51 11mo ago
Just wondering if there is any potential for coasting with these smaller ships? Replacing lorries for port to port travel say in med or along Atlantic coast of Europe. Coasting ships were the main cargo transport before trains and for some

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