Steve44

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by Steve44 9y ago
> cares more about various intangibles beyond just the value-for-money Very much, like many premium businesses part of what they are is to ensure everything will be lovely, easy, and just happen. That is the added value. Take that away
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by Steve44 9y ago
I think they have higher costs too. In the UK their sites are in High Street locations unlike most other grocery stores. They also have a lot more front of house staff and have very high quality standards for their products and displays.
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by Steve44 9y ago
And the shareholders are [usually/pretty much] the entire reason there is a company there for them to work at and potentially hold some shares in. There are two sides to that.
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by Steve44 9y ago
There is a big difference in the grades students are getting in the UK. I don't have an answer as to why but here are some examples for A level Chemistry. The links below give the tables with GCSE and A level exam results from 1993 to
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by Steve44 9y ago
As with many things different people react in different ways. Examples with taste include Low Salt (potassium based) which a few people taste as being quite bitter. Coriander / Cilantro is a lovely herb to many, but a few people find
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by Steve44 9y ago
Most current commercial mugs have a lining in them to prevent any leaching but still allows you to maintain the look and also the copper to help with temperature. I can't find a quick reference but I read a while back that the drink, p
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by Steve44 9y ago
I really loved programming it. The Z80 was nice and concise but quite restrictive, 68k really opened up with addressing modes and registers. I've had a quick scan through that page and recognise most of them from the dim distant past.
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by Steve44 9y ago
By using trusts does help highlight another aspect. The 'owners' are more like custodians of the estate, a historical institution to be kept running. Yes they do control it and clearly benefit from it but if you have a look at t
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by Steve44 10y ago
We used to use rambling for a gentle country walk through fields etc. We'd say we were fell walking if we went out for a day up the mountains in the Lake District, we'd wear walking boots. If it was for a night or more it would
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by Steve44 10y ago
I doubt it made me drive faster, it allowed me to be a lot more relaxed and have better awareness of what was happening outside because I didn't need to concentrate as hard on trying to see through the windscreen. Even with good winds
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by Steve44 10y ago
I've used RainX intermittently over the years. It's a bit of a faff to put on and also maintain but when it's working well it is truly fantastic, crystal clear vision in the rain. Downsides are it doesn't work well be
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by Steve44 10y ago
It's been a while since I programmed low level but I think on the 68k series they started to introduce cache and multi stage instruction pipelines. By alternating instructions working on different things you could get a decent perform
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by Steve44 11y ago
The thing often missed is we have absolutely no idea what has been stopped, you don't know if they stopped 50 attacks and just one succeeded. In some instances the 'bomber' may have been identified and stopped in some way, t
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by Steve44 11y ago
Because generally the 'powers that be' don't go publishing all of your data so anyone can see. You choose what gets publicly published and they keep what they have on you largely to themselves.
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by Steve44 11y ago
I think this is where a lot of people struggle. I can look at some figures and have a rough idea what the result should be, often that is all I need. If I need an exact answer I will work it out properly. Many of the people I work with ca
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by Steve44 11y ago
It helps them to find people who they were in contact with and so get deeper into their network. If they have a log of all the telephone calls they are then able to run a simple "SELECT * from BigTable WHERE 'badphone' = Num
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by Steve44 11y ago
Reading that brought a tear to my eyes, he and many others live with this on a daily basis. The subject is long and complex and I think his sentence "This is a war of civilisations and way of life. and trust me. the peaceful one, the
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by Steve44 11y ago
A partial solution is to get one of the finger blood O2 meters that will record, keep it on overnight and you get a log of heartrate and O2 levels in the blood. Look at your O2 levels and see how low the percentage goes, if you get some ser
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by Steve44 11y ago
I think they work for very few people and unless you adhere to the jaw exercise regime you can end up with jaw problems.
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by Steve44 11y ago
I was a programmer many years ago and always had music on when working. It wasn't pumping / awesome music but it allowed me to drop back from the concentration of work into the music for a short while then get straight back into
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by Steve44 13y ago
My dad worked out of Stranraer at that time, the dumping area was called Beaufort's Dyke. If you search for the name there are all sorts of interesting documents, especially if you get the PDFs. I heard similar stories from him, inclu
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by Steve44 13y ago
I recently started downloading podcasts from BBC Radio 4, They have some really great programmes on science, finance, politics and comedy. I just work my way through those once in a while, much better than music.
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by Steve44 13y ago
>> I disagree with this one. It's possible to live too close to work. If the commute is less than 15 minutes or so, or perhaps more to the point, if it isn't far enough to feel like a separate place, I'm less happy. I n
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by Steve44 15y ago
I too recall the power sockets wearing out - something that still afflicts many gadgets these days. The microdrive connectors were also a little flaky at times. I had a rubber keyboard lose some if the print on it so you couldn't read all t
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by Steve44 15y ago
garymcm, I'm not sure about a mainframe for Ultimate - they were very clever guys though. I know Imagine (spin off from BugByte) used Unix workstations for development. I can't remember what they were called but when they went bust I went
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by Steve44 15y ago
I first got a ZX81 and learned to program on that. When I got the Spectrum I started writing assembler on it. The first few games were developed entirely on one Spectrum in my bedroom. In hindsight it probably was difficult, but at the t