Wildgoose

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by Wildgoose 3y ago
I have a Surface Duo phone. Using both screens together is like using a tablet, but it folds up and fits in my pocket. I can have the keyboard on one screen and have a full display on the other. I can look something up on one screen whil
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by Wildgoose 3y ago
It's actually just below Critical Mass. (For obvious reasons). You need sufficient fissile material to provide the increased neutron flow generating heat which you can use to power generators, but you have to then extract that heat ef
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by Wildgoose 3y ago
I read it as well, but I think it was much earlier than that - some time in the early 1980s.
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by Wildgoose 4y ago
I remember this program being announced. Friends were gleefully suggesting that my proposed programming career had just disappeared. Forty-odd years later the same suggestions are now being made about GPT-4 and above.
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by Wildgoose 4y ago
Yes. Many years ago I was working on the Isle of Man. I initially travelled from England on Monday morning, returning on Friday evening. I then started buying tickets for the same aircraft flying to England on Friday evening and returnin
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by Wildgoose 4y ago
Don't forget that zig files are essentially a struct using the same name as the file. That means you can differentiate between identifiers that are using the same name by supplying the struct name as a prefix.
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by Wildgoose 4y ago
Wholesale margins are razor thin, but retail ones are relatively fat. (I work in Wholesale/Retail software).
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by Wildgoose 4y ago
The defenders are being heavily shelled by Russian artillery. Your claim that 5 times as many Russians are dying is nonsense. War is not a video game. People are dying and the only response appears to be to escalate.
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by Wildgoose 4y ago
What this article is glibly ignoring is that the number of Ukrainian deaths are far higher. The US is fighting a proxy war with Russia to the last Ukrainian, in which everybody loses.
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by Wildgoose 4y ago
Pleased to meet you. I'm English. Scotland and Wales are countries. There can't be a concept of a "Union" if there are no components to unite. Scotland has its own Parliament, Legal System and even bank notes, for exa
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by Wildgoose 4y ago
Don't think of it as TO, think of it as increasing UNTIL. 1 increasing UNTIL 5. It is genuinely recommended (Djikstra onwards) to specify ranges as Start Value (inclusive) Until Final Value (exclusive).
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by Wildgoose 4y ago
Britain sank the French fleet. How is that "not doing much?" Britain expelled France from Egypt. Britain powered the Pensinsular War. By themselves.
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by Wildgoose 4y ago
I'm sorry, but on a tech site full of people working in IT, I genuinely think this is obviously about Boolean Satisfiability. There has to be a minimum standard of expected understanding - e.g. "Rust" on this site is unlikely
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by Wildgoose 4y ago
Peter Jackson's offering is beloved because it (largely) respected the books. I watched the Amazon offering. I won't criticise the visual spectacle of settings like Numenor, nor much of the acting, but the writing was just unifor
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by Wildgoose 4y ago
I have a Gemini and an AstroSlide, (from Planet Computers), both are mobile phones with built-in full-Qwerty keyboards. Great for Emacs!
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by Wildgoose 4y ago
Some people use emacs as an email client - that is probably why it may require permission to access Contacts.
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by Wildgoose 4y ago
We need governments to have pro-natal policies and to stop attacking those who do have pro-natal policies, (Hungary comes to mind). The ridiculous (and often artificial) rise in house prices is another problem with real solutions like an en
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by Wildgoose 4y ago
I think the most interesting possibility of a "digital pound" is that it would enable money creation to only be carried out by the Bank of England; it would undermine the ability of regular banks to just create money by issuing lo
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by Wildgoose 4y ago
I'm English/British and I don't recognise this as racist, just another acknowledgement of facts you don't want to address.
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by Wildgoose 4y ago
That's the same calculation I made. It doesn't make sense to have all of your eggs in a single basket.
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by Wildgoose 4y ago
Very interesting. I visited the birthplace of William the Bastard/Conqueror in France a few years back and it was noteworthy how the Normans commented on the rich fabrics and apparent wealth of Anglo-Saxon visitors - no doubt all fact
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by Wildgoose 4y ago
Not true. I negotiated a major software license at a large company over twenty years ago - when I wasn't even a permanent employee, (I was working on contract). It was for around £120,000 per year, probably the equivalent of about a q
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by Wildgoose 4y ago
Deforestation is historic, your comment implies it is recent. We know from comprehensive aerial photographs of the UK taken by Germany in the 1930s/40s that the UK has much more forest coverage now than it had then. The UK switched to
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by Wildgoose 4y ago
Scotland has a different legal system and even historically insisted upon separate versions of otherwise national concerns - for example that is why there is a "National Trust"[1] and a separate "Scottish National Trust"
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Mystery of Roman Concrete Unraveled(cnn.com)
1 points by Wildgoose 4y ago|1 comments
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by Wildgoose 4y ago
This is an interesting professional response to the original paper: https://constructionphysics.substack.com/p/roman-vs-modern-c...
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by Wildgoose 4y ago
And has recently taken off in a big way - removing statues, replacing names and generally purging history.
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by Wildgoose 4y ago
I think it must depend upon the Local Authority. I had school swimming lessons from the ages of 7 to 11, including swimming with clothes, how to rescue someone and even making "floats" by tying knots in shirts/trousers and th
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by Wildgoose 4y ago
I think you are missing the point - there is no endianness in normal written text, (or code), but there is endianness when that is translated to an actual number - what order are those bytes intended to be used in? (Given they have been lis
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by Wildgoose 4y ago
What's not to like? I write all documentation and similar using Org Mode. I get all the power of Emacs text editing with easy tables, footnotes, hyperlinks, etc., and I can then export directly to PDF, HTML and so on.

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