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by 2b3a51 11mo ago
Thanks for replying. So vocational training is standardised by unions in the US. That's amazing.
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by 2b3a51 11mo ago
How does this union thing work - getting laid off then being brought back on again when work picks up? How do you get to be on the union list? (I'm in the UK, and I tend to associate that kind of approach to casual employment with dock
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by 2b3a51 1y ago
I'm wondering if 'somewhat numerical in nature' relates to lpack/blas and similar libraries that are actually dependencies of a wide range of desktop applications?
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by 2b3a51 1y ago
Some degree of engagement with popular opinion and culture might be needed to keep on getting money for the experiments and grants for the students. But I take the point you are making.
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by 2b3a51 1y ago
There is another aspect to this kind of activity. Sometimes there can be an advantage in leading or lagging some aspects of internal accounting data for a time period. Basically sitting on credits or debits to some accounts for a period of
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by 2b3a51 1y ago
Thanks for posting. Zadie Smith writes to the audience so well in her magazine pieces, it is a delight to read. I'm reading for the style as well as the content with articles like this, very educational.
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by 2b3a51 1y ago
Brokering the deal and arranging the transfer of funds would have a very high risk.
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by 2b3a51 1y ago
I'm looking at the bar chart 'causes of death in 2023' and seeing 7.8% classified as accidents. In the UK the figure appears to be much lower if I have understood the ONS report correctly (link to spreadsheet top right).
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by 2b3a51 1y ago
A bit of googling suggests that the model for the mathematician in the film was George Dantzig, and he was actually studying mathematics at college level. The story of Srinivasa Ramanujan fits your sentence, although early 20th C. He studie
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by 2b3a51 1y ago
Perhaps in addition to a description of the expected audience, it might be an idea to list some assumptions made about the reader? e.g. has installed software previously, confident with bash commands, &c
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by 2b3a51 1y ago
David Spiegelhalter has had a lot to say about rankings over the years. The paper below contains concrete examples in the educational sphere and in the medical sphere, mostly UK based. TD,LR: confidence interval(s) in the measures that you
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by 2b3a51 1y ago
"This experience has taught us that owning your data is incredibly important, and if you’re a small business especially, then I’d advise you move away too." The OA who wrote the Web page that we are discussing has nailed this I th
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by 2b3a51 1y ago
Thanks to all the KDE devs for their work. Something I use a lot on xfce4 is the Alt-F11 shortcut (it toggles) that maximises a window over the bottom bar and removes the title bar. In this way, with LibreOffice or say Inkscape I get the ap
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by 2b3a51 1y ago
UK and Firefox 128-esr on linux appears to be loading and working ok
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by 2b3a51 1y ago
Yeah, Daniels was selling watches for low 7 figures so VAT or other forms of purchase tax would have been a significant chunk of change. And income tax of course. "Daniels claimed that there was little money to be made in watchmaking,
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by 2b3a51 1y ago
Old man in a different country: we used to make Hallows'een costumes out of old shirts worn backwards and sacks and stuff. Yes, I'm going back half a century plus but it was fun and involved time with parents. Best of luck.
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by 2b3a51 1y ago
George Daniels, Roger Smith and this clockmaker John Taylor. Must be something in the tides?
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by 2b3a51 1y ago
Iain Sinclair has written about his book dealing days as he was starting to write and be published. Perhaps a less romantic take.
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by 2b3a51 1y ago
> "hand writing comes with close to zero dependencies: no software, no os, no booting time, no charging - just hand, surface, and optionally an instrument. It is offline first, offers great privacy, and fun." I'd add that
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by 2b3a51 1y ago
How about invoices by telex and payments received by telegraphic transfer to the bank? No cookies though. I'm not sure how the invoicing method or payment channel affect the marketing discussion. In the case of the shipping company I t
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by 2b3a51 1y ago
Thank you for taking the time to write this detailed description of your methodology for reading and interacting with Web sites. I found it interesting and I'm going to look a little more closely at what actually happens when I type a
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by 2b3a51 1y ago
I'd like to know what post above yours is using as well. I'm posting this from the venerable links in a terminal. HN works OK on a text mode browser, including find in page. This level of functionality isn't the rule though.
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by 2b3a51 1y ago
Bookworm will get updates for another year if I have read the Debian Wiki correctly so perhaps there is no need for immediate action as Bookworm becomes oldstable? In addition to Mint and AntiX there is also Slackware (I use xfce rather tha
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by 2b3a51 1y ago
Plus one of the joys of teaching is the September two day cold. You suddenly encounter all of those nice new variants of the common cold virus. I mention this as the grandparent comment talks about friends in teaching.
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by 2b3a51 1y ago
If anyone wonders about motivation for this sort of thing, Adam Nicholson's Sea Room might be worth a look. Nicholson was the owner of the Shiants, three small islands off the Hebrides. Each of the Shiants are a bit larger and have m
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by 2b3a51 1y ago
Johannes Kepler was in there somewhere I recall. It was Brahe's data on the motions of Mars that lead Kepler to the idea of elliptical orbits.
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by 2b3a51 1y ago
Brit here, we have tax taken from gross pay automatically (Pay As You Earn, PAYE) for most people unless they are self-employed. https://www.gov.uk/income-tax/how-you-pay-income-tax When I was self-employed for a short
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Oddly enough for reasons(+) I've been looking into Gnome's workflows and I have Debian Wheezy with 3.4 on an old machine and Debian 12 with Gnome 43 on the current laptop. I spent a happy hour drawing 'workflow diagrams'
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Monetisation: how about a periodical publication? Edited and curated around a theme and then contributors can write to an appropriate length. Spin-off courses and perhaps even individual sessions where a general theme is applied to a specif
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I'd just throw in that this idea of universal gravitation coupled with the laws of motion and dodgy ideas like force and momentum enabled a wide range of phenomena to be described and some predictions to be made that could be compared

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