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by NLips 11y ago
Why should the business be prosecuted for not protecting themselves better? I can only see the point behind arguing that a business should be prosecuted for not protecting their _customers_ or _the public_ better. While I might want my acc
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by NLips 11y ago
To clarify for non-natives (or non-Oxonians): Similar to Cambridge, for most or all subjects, Oxford will award a BA after three years, not just what we might think of now as 'arts'. Depending on the subject and institution, you
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by NLips 11y ago
'Nazi rocket' is from the original title (although for some reason the title here has been subtly changed - from "How a Nazi rocket could have put a Briton in space"). It's also a specific and potentially interestin
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by NLips 11y ago
I agree much with the article; it was the parent comment I was replying to. I disagree with the idea that a tester shouldn't consider hard-to-find bugs, or performance bugs. I disagree somewhat with the idea that a programmer error o
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by NLips 11y ago
Absolutely agree - testing is all about risk management, not finding all the bugs! And the right move is often to give up trying to reproduce/find a difficult bug. WRT to inputs: QA Engineer walks into a bar. Orders a beer. Orders 0
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by NLips 11y ago
It sounds like you're only talking about unit testing, or perhaps automated FV. Performance, infrequent bugs, heisenbugs etc are all things we find through system test. On some level, I'd say any bug is discoverable through testi
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by NLips 11y ago
At the woodwind shop I buy reeds from, it's pretty standard practice to try before you buy when looking for something new. You take a batch down to the basement and try them out on your bassoon. If you don't like them, they go b
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by NLips 11y ago
Honestly - the high end of the cost bracket isn't really very relevant. Yes, you can pay £25k for a Heckel, but that's pretty much the only make that goes that expensive. Puchners are _very_ highly rated and start sub-£10k new.
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by NLips 11y ago
Quite. This is a pointless exercise - there are assumed rules in most or all logic puzzles of this sort. The assumption that statements made in the puzzle are true or false, but not gibberish, is a fair one.
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by NLips 11y ago
Or make x negative - the rule gives it "no".
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by NLips 11y ago
I don't believe we have the structures in place ever to 'prove' alternate-day fasting will extend human life. In response to your point b), presumably you mean the deficit is ~1800 kcals per fast day? Why was this so terribl
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by NLips 11y ago
Assuming that by "4:2" you are talking about intermittent fasting, does anyone believe otherwise? Alternate-day fasting can help people lose weight not because there's any magical effect, but because a faster is unlikely to
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by NLips 11y ago
A clarification to the point about Kielder's power generation: Kielder reservoir is primarily for regulating the water supply, rather than power generation. There are many hydro-electric plants in the UK generating much more power.
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by NLips 11y ago
Rolling resistance normally has a component proportional to speed as well as a constant component. (Aerodynamic) drag is normally modeled as proportional to v^2
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by NLips 11y ago
Why doesn't the signal set all lights to red, leaving the junction clear for the ambulance to go through? The best reason I can think of is if the idea is to improve traffic flow in general in favour of the ambulance (e.g. allow cars i
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by NLips 11y ago
In fact, the civil war number is for dead and wounded. The WW1 number for comparison is 29,717,985. Or compare dead only... 8,528,831 : 364,511
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by NLips 11y ago
Your method doesn't account for the following case: are_anagrams("moo", "mom") Each letter in "moo" appears in "mom", and the length is the same, but the words are not anagrams of each other.
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by NLips 11y ago
Then surely any person who delays the bus for many future passengers down the route is a much bigger arsehole?
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by NLips 11y ago
Because generally the birds don't really need saving from wind turbines. Numbers from an unverified source: http://science.howstuffworks.com/environmental/green-science... (other sites seems to agree on the cats v
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by NLips 12y ago
'bassoon'
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by NLips 12y ago
Combine the following two sections: 1) "...while going over the code a developer at the company asked me if I needed the rules of the game explained to me." 2) "...asking a female candidate if they understand a basic sports r
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by NLips 12y ago
Gift aid is a specific scheme created by the government to increase charitable giving. At the 20% income tax bracket, it makes no difference to you but helps the charity, and at the 40+% brackets it makes a difference to the charity and pr
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by NLips 12y ago
The frequency of a 'beat' is completely different to what we normally refer to as the frequency of a sound. The beat's frequency relates to how quickly the amplitude of the sound wave varies. The frequency of a tone relates
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by NLips 12y ago
I think the term loses a lot of meaning if used just for the same distances in the UK as in the US. Particularly because the main consensus for 'suburb' seems to be that it's a residential area, which the commuter flows sugg
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by NLips 12y ago
My one quibble with the article is that calling Reading a suburb of London is quite misleading. I understand (North?) Americans use the word differently to Europeans on the whole, but Reading is a Medieval town with a net commuter flow inw
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by NLips 12y ago
It does mean they're covering maybe 60-70% of the UK's market (where this pan is sold) - gas use is very prevalent in the UK due to historically having being cheaper than electricity. I don't see where it looks like there are
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by NLips 13y ago
Japan. Greenland. Netherlands. 1/3
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by NLips 13y ago
Heh. 250km/h for 2 hours on a 70 litre diesel tank in a BMW 535 would require > 73% efficiency of the engine, which car engines don't reach. Calculations assume: Coefficient of rolling resistanc) = 0.01 Mass = 1700kg Coefficien
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by NLips 14y ago
This makes it much it much easier when switching between different instruments of the same family - a clarinetist (when playing any clarinet part) associates one note on the staff with one fingering. If all instruments were in C, the playe
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by NLips 14y ago
I hope they give to the Wikipedia coffers, given some paragraphcs appear to be copied verbatim.

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