DrBazza

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by DrBazza 2y ago
These articles also gloss over the US market is 400m English speakers with one set of legislation, more or less. Europe is 20+ languages and 20+ sets of legislation. That’s a colossal advantage. And any clicks and mortar business gets th
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It certainly seems like headlights are far brighter in the UK right now, given that they're all LEDs. Of course it could just be confirmation bias, as I'm getting older and I suppose my eyes gradually deteriorate. I do a lot of n
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Billingsgate? Not so much. The brief history of the area: - Isle of Dogs, London, was the main docks area, which shutdown through the 1960s and 1970s due to standard sized containers and automation. - 1982 Billingsgate moves to Isle of Dog
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The Corporation of London own the land Billingsgate is on. They've been looking to redevelop this for over a decade since the land's value is now magnitudes more than when it was built because of Canary Wharf and the new Canary
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Don't worry, the Russian rail network is in a worse state - https://www.newsweek.com/russian-railway-collapse-sanctions-...
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"Open office" - I've never been healthier (and fitter) than since I went remote. Not sharing an open office with coughing sneezing co-workers who would come in, no matter what, and commuting on trains, has been remarkable.
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Not telling potential contract bidders what the value of each contract is and then being surprised when they bid at that value. https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/hs2-rishi-sun... https:/&#x
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by DrBazza 2y ago
Must be a British thing as I’m the same. Been to Chicago a few times and had a few shots of Malort and it’s totally fine. Maybe it’s the coriander-tastes-like-soap thing for some people.
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Well, it is the Guardian leaving rather than being banned. If they think the site is unbalanced, then they’ve just made it worse.
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This may help https://adfontesmedia.com/interactive-media-bias-chart/
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Favourite: rabbits. What did the Romans ever do for us? Least favourite: American grey squirrel in the UK killed off most of the UK's red squirrels via squirrelpox. And Green Parakeets are established in quite a few areas of the UK a
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Sounds like process-level garbage collection. Just kill it and restart. Which also sound like the apocryphal tale about the leaky code and the missile. "This sparked and interesting memory for me. I was once working with a customer w
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Half the LU tunnels are barely larger than the train, the other half are cut'n'cover. And they're rarely straight. And most lines run from 5am to midnight. Some now run almost 24 hrs. That probably influences the decisions
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Is this the same sort of technique that Shazam uses?
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The "one single person", should be qualified with 'is senior enough or with enough authority' which allows them to set aside a lot of squabbling, bureaucracy and bikeshedding.
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In my area, they've released long extinct (for the UK) long-horn cows, and it's improved the local ecosystem [1] Similarly with beavers in the UK as well. Arguably mammoths would likely do the same after some period of time, and
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It's kind of funny that the wisdom in software development is to program against interfaces and not implementations. And yet here we are with monorepos, doing the big-ball of mud approach. I've worked on several multi-repo systems
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I guess the US has it's own version of 'Shy Tories' where right-leaning voters aren't inclined to share their views (truthfully or otherwise) with polls. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shy_Tory_factor
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The most interesting thing during COVID was seeing the switch from in-office to remote, followed by a round of redundancies, and the redundancies were fascinating. It was full of people that when in-office seemed gave the impression of har
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I'm not familiar with devcontainers. The situation I was curious about was a general container, for example singularity, rather than something more common like docker. When I've tried that with vscode, it didn't like the ss
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And there I was getting bothered about the limits of the xlcall c api.
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Has anyone tried this and ssh'd into a container ? IIRC VSCode struggled to correctly ssh into a container that's set up in your `.ssh` config file. Not sure if this fixed it: https://github.com/microsoft/v
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Most Milky Way stars have been catalogued (to some luminosity/visibility). Wikipedia to the rescue (almost...): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_catalogue#Gaia_catalogues
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“There is a theory which states that if ever anyone discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable."
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Any 3rd party search app on Windows 11 works better than Windows11 search. What a time to be alive :(
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There's still a lot of Office functionality in the desktop versions, such as automation of other desktop apps, and also Excel plugins (so many finance companies use that), so there's still "lock in".
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Moved to Fedora many years ago, and also AMD based kit for the usual reasons. Had zero problems, uptime of months, if not longer, and still gaming and developing. No random pauses, and everything, including search, just work. Windows 11 -
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Thorium has been on the horizon forever. A bit like we'll have fusion in 30 years. No government wants to solely invest in it, because it can't really be weaponised. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thorium-bas
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It depends what your definition of 'unsolved' is. Sticking it at the bottom of a 5000ft mine shaft in a geologically stable region, with pictograms, is a solution. If we lose the ability to decipher pictograms on the containers, w
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Nuclear is held to an entirely different and higher standard, even to aviation. There isn't any other field that is so critically examined under a microscope by governments. VC companies have to meet the regulatory criteria. There a

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