DrBazza

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by DrBazza 3y ago
The Savoy Hotel entrance is the only (??) place in the UK where we drive on the right.
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by DrBazza 3y ago
To paraphrase Pratchett: million to one chances happen nine times out of ten. Space is big, really big, etc. so it's no surprise we've found something like this just through chance alone. One of the planets is probably Bethselam
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by DrBazza 3y ago
Disappointed to not see A Clockwork Orange and Thamesmead https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Clockwork_Orange_(film)
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by DrBazza 3y ago
Cunningham's law eh? :)
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by DrBazza 3y ago
Statistically Cascadia is long overdue a 9 on the Richter scale. Seeing what Microsoft's business back up plan for that is, would be interesting, especially since Seattle would be the largest affected city.
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by DrBazza 3y ago
It feels very much 'Your scientists were so preoccupied with whether they could, they didn't stop to think if they should', but these kind of things often have practical uses that end up being completely novel.
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by DrBazza 3y ago
Designed in 1905, but very much reminds me of the 'Bellbottom' font that was popular in the 70s - for my generation, most familiar in The Goodies tv series - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Goodies_(TV_serie
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by DrBazza 3y ago
Someone has watched too much sci-fi. Next we'll have those haptic gloves and holo-displays just like Minority Report. And of course, the average human is known to absolutely not get tired or fatigued holding their arms up in the air
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by DrBazza 3y ago
I’m Satoshi and so is my wife. I didn’t think double spaces after a full stop is an American thing. We were taught that in the 70s back when typewriters were still a thing. And I can’t break the habit today.
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by DrBazza 3y ago
I typically watch YouTube content once, but I'll likely revisit a webpage many times. But I suppose YouTube returns more potential ad revenue despite lower visits.
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by DrBazza 3y ago
There's more about the City + South London tunnels, but the best I can find at the moment is this: > The original running tunnels north of Borough station remain, although when the Jubilee line extension was built in the late 1990s,
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by DrBazza 3y ago
Also in the same area and little known - the Tower (of London) subway, and also parts of the City and South London Railway Thames tunnel still exist that terminated at King William Street https://www.ianvisits.co.uk/articles
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by DrBazza 3y ago
Explorer? Or the actual task-bar? Either way, they're both a regression in Windows 11. I don't really have a problem with Windows, and use it at work every day, but at home, I dumped it a decade ago in favour of Fedora/KDE,
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by DrBazza 3y ago
I've seen the 'bad blood' issue happen at a place I formerly worked at, that I refer to as 'MegaBank' (which isn't short of the truth). One was developer that seemingly left on good terms, but sneakily deleted
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by DrBazza 3y ago
My father had Parkinsons. And was an engineer that used degreaser, i.e. trichloroethylene. And had 'the smell'. I think it's actually more common for people to detect this smell than perhaps is implied by these articles.
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by DrBazza 3y ago
Those sort of tours are often listed on https://www.ianvisits.co.uk/
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by DrBazza 3y ago
Can you use your normal programming language as a config language? Config is dynamically parsed at runtime. Do you want to bundle a c++ compiler in your code, for example? Config shouldn't be difficult to write, or to parse and pro
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by DrBazza 3y ago
And they're going from binge-watching ad-free episode of an entire series, to releasing one episode a week... with adverts. Yeah, no thanks. I'll just VPN+torrent the ad-free version and watch that, thanks. On any device of my c
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by DrBazza 3y ago
In some industries companies are well aware of what others are doing such as 'cost saving' redundancies, or "adjusting" the wages of contractors, that always seem to happen at the same time. In this case a lot of compan
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by DrBazza 3y ago
Don't repeat yourself / single-point-of-truth. Config files can be full of repetition, from values, to sections/objects. Defining a value or object once, dramatically reduces search+replace errors for example.
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by DrBazza 3y ago
Some repos are more dotfile than source file these days.
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by DrBazza 3y ago
Anecdote - I remember as child in the UK, in the 1980s, there was a full sized lorry that toured, carrying a Harrier jump-jet VR set up. The graphics were wireframe, possibly 8 colour, I'm not sure, but I do remember the VR helmet. I
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by DrBazza 3y ago
It's a wider problem than just the seatbelts. The whole cockpit of a car is now a distraction from the most critical thing - driving safely. For reasons I don't understand, tactile push buttons, with physical feedback, for most t
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by DrBazza 3y ago
Never seen that before. Thanks. I wouldn't be at all surprised if the joke went back to the turn of the century using different newspapers, but it's out of living memory now.
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by DrBazza 3y ago
Independent, perhaps. Unbiased? Definitely not. Since we're on the topic of newspapers, this old Yes Prime Minister quote explains the UK press quite accurately: > Jim Hacker explains who reads the newspapers > Hacker: Don&#x27
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by DrBazza 3y ago
We're using jsonnet for our systems and they have absolutely nothing to do with k8s. I'm not sure it's true to say it has ever gained much traction. It's just a niche case for complex configuration, and isn't the
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by DrBazza 3y ago
My previous employer made redundant an employee whose productivity was basically zero when we moved to work from home. It became clear very quickly that he was only really socialising in the office, for want of a better phrase, but when wf
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by DrBazza 3y ago
Actually their favourite time to cull the workers is last quarter and ensure that you’re out before bonuses are announced and paid in January. That’s always November and December. That they’re doing this now is unusual for them.
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by DrBazza 3y ago
Pictures of the 1880 attempt when they found the old tunnel digging the new one. See the images tab. https://www.subbrit.org.uk/sites/channel-tunnel-1880-attempt...
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by DrBazza 3y ago
The entrance tunnel to Samphire Hoe is one of the early attempted tunnels.

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