BucketsMcG

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by BucketsMcG 4y ago
Edinburgh's not so bad for rain. Not compared to Glasgow, at least. The wind, however, is incessant from October to Easter, and somehow is always blowing into your face. When it does rain, it comes down sideways. Add wind chill to the
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by BucketsMcG 4y ago
Peter Cochrane is, erm, a character. Rumours of his antics abounded at Martlesham Heath. One story has it that he wanted ISDN at his cottage in the Scottish Highlands, which meant running many miles of cable (how many depends on who's
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by BucketsMcG 5y ago
Dogs certainly think for themselves, they just don't necessarily think like us. Every so often I get an insight into how my dog's brain works, and I find it absolutely fascinating. For example, recently I had to carry a big heavy
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by BucketsMcG 5y ago
It's complicated, though. I'd have preferred to keep my male dog intact, but once he matured he was constantly getting attacked by other males, and it made walks miserable for him, not to mention dangerous. To see how castration w
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by BucketsMcG 5y ago
20-30 minutes on a bike and I'm out in the sticks, a bit further and there are forests and lakes aplenty. Higher-density living means less sprawl and a shorter distance from city centre to back of beyond.
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by BucketsMcG 5y ago
As far as I'm concerned the quality-of-life tradeoff heavily favours higher-density housing. I live in an apartment block and so does everybody else for miles around. Our building, like almost every other around here, tops out at seven
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by BucketsMcG 5y ago
Which isn't what's happening. The fine is for injuring somebody with your car door, not for failing to follow the officially approved method of opening it. But you'd never get that impression from most of the reporting around
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by BucketsMcG 5y ago
You wouldn't believe some of the things people say to conversational interfaces. A long time ago – I'm talking early 2000s – I designed a voice UI for a train timetable information system. It was a phone line, you called it up, to
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by BucketsMcG 5y ago
I'm a native English speaker with a degree in linguistics, but I didn't appreciate how hard "some/any" are for native speakers until a Polish colleague asked me to explain it, and I pretty much failed. It's som
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by BucketsMcG 5y ago
Sixt are trying. Their goal seems to be to offer a one-stop service whether you need a car for five minutes or five years. Like, round the corner from me right now is a VW Golf. I can jump in it and drive it away immediately for €0.30 a min
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by BucketsMcG 5y ago
I've been on a boat on Lake Tana, the source of the Blue Nile. It's pretty cool how you can see, clear as day, a line across the water where it starts to flow. From there it's downhill all the way to the sea. Besides that, La
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by BucketsMcG 5y ago
This is more or less true in Ethiopia too. The length of the day doesn't vary much there, but by convention the clock is offset by six hours, which makes for great fun when you arrange to meet somebody and have to establish whether or
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by BucketsMcG 5y ago
Berlin's a weird city, to be fair. It has vast amounts of green space (like, right in the middle of the city is a disused airfield bigger than Monaco), and practically every street is tree-lined. It's about the only city on earth
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by BucketsMcG 5y ago
Super Furry Animals. Mullet haircuts, pushy parents vicariously living out their dreams through their children, sleep deprivation, Che Guevara's asthma, golden retrievers, the 1992 military coup in Sierra Leone, El Niño... Quite a lot
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by BucketsMcG 5y ago
Pretty common, pretty serious. - One million self-reporting long COVID in the UK, give or take - 89% of them reporting symptoms at least 12 weeks after infection - 40% of them reporting symptoms at least one year after infection - 18.5% r
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by BucketsMcG 5y ago
You mean a guide dog?
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by BucketsMcG 5y ago
What's a sausage if it's not an extruded pork stick?
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by BucketsMcG 5y ago
Not at the moment, too busy doing it :) But it's oft crossed my mind I should be writing about it, it's been an interesting ride. We're trying to bootstrap it in a lean way, with pretty tiny amounts of capital. If I ever get
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by BucketsMcG 5y ago
Well I'm delighted to see that if their takings are anything to go by, our speciality grocery shop that we opened exactly six months ago must be worth $60-70m. Time to sell up and retire stinking rich!
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by BucketsMcG 6y ago
We got a game of this going in work once. Once . We played in teams of two, so that at least one partner would have time to meet with the other players for negotiations. The moves took place last thing on a Friday, so you had all week to d
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by BucketsMcG 6y ago
What's more likely to happen first: Tesla catches up on a century's knowledge and experience of car manufacturing, or the combined resources of the entire car industry catches up on a decade or so of technological advantage in bat
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by BucketsMcG 6y ago
Some, like the AstraZeneca virus, are old vaccines that they never finished developing, taken off the shelf and dusted down. That particular one is a modified SARS vaccine that never made it out of phase two trials, because the market for i
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by BucketsMcG 6y ago
I (and my increasingly decrepit 2014 Macbook Pro) was hoping these would be compelling, and hoo boy, they are. First time in years I've actually wanted a new Macbook, as opposed to accepting what they have on offer.
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by BucketsMcG 6y ago
I'll bet you'll get what you're looking for in the 15"/16" Macbook Pros when they come along.
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by BucketsMcG 6y ago
I saw my dog reasoning the other day. Unfortunately he's been to the vet rather too often in his life. It's in the neighbourhood, so if we're out and he thinks I'm taking him there, he starts to think about ways to avoid
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by BucketsMcG 6y ago
I think a case could be made that those insults are some of the first digital memes. Even to this day, they're still widely-recognised catchphrases among nerds and nerd-adjacents of a certain age. Before Monkey Island you only really g
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by BucketsMcG 6y ago
For what it's worth, the same thinking was behind the new capital of Myanmar, Naypyidaw. Paranoid military leadership who thought Yangon was too vulnerable to attack, so built a new capital way inland which is massively spread out to m
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by BucketsMcG 6y ago
It's bad, but it's not universally bad. I'm in Berlin and have 400MB/S at home But our apartment was built in 2011, so that might have something to do with it.
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by BucketsMcG 6y ago
Problem is the farmed fish are fed on wild fish, so it's several times less efficient than just eating whatever you would have fed them.

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