Wildgoose

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by Wildgoose 4y ago
Disagree. I wasn't taught on a typewriter, (although my mother did teach typing), but any plain text will be aided by that convention. Yes, it's not necessary with justified text when using (for example) TeX. But seeing a solid w
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by Wildgoose 4y ago
In my experience that never worked. I eventually gave up trying to use them.
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by Wildgoose 4y ago
I had a Three SIM in my old chromebook for internet browsing while staying in hotels without free WiFi. It was blocking regular US news sites as "adult content". Supposedly you could enter your driving license number (which also
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by Wildgoose 4y ago
Movies aren't always available on streaming platforms, and often cost as much as the physical cost of a DVD for only a single viewing. In addition, some moves/series are only available on streaming platforms that are not easily ac
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by Wildgoose 4y ago
I think it would become simply "Britain", seeing as "Britannia" originally referred to the Roman colonies of England and Wales. "Great Britain" is the whole island (including Scotland). "United Kingdom&quo
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by Wildgoose 4y ago
I have a Fossil Hybrid HR Collider that allows this. Real watch hands, buttons and an e-ink display. 7-10 days battery life. It's a really nice watch.
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by Wildgoose 4y ago
Sounds like a Hell of a risk when playing with a complex system that is not yet fully understood.
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AlphaZero has discovered a faster way to do matrix multiplication(technologyreview.com)
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Nanking Massacre Photographic Proof(tiktok.com)
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by Wildgoose 4y ago
For those unaware of the subtle wit above: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emu_War
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by Wildgoose 4y ago
Any business will always "sweat the assets" - it makes no sense to spend money on long-term maintenance when something is going to be permanently shut down in the immediate future.
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by Wildgoose 4y ago
It's the Canadian monarchy just as much as it's the English monarchy.
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by Wildgoose 4y ago
One of my mother's is a year younger than me. We hadn't seen each other since childhood before meeting as adults at a family event. I was more fascinated that his mannerisms so closely matched mine than that we looked so physica
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by Wildgoose 4y ago
English used to have this distinction using the words "yeah" and "yes" but the distinction in usage has disappeared.
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by Wildgoose 4y ago
English used to have this distinction, we used to use "yes" as a strong affirmative, and "yeah" otherwise. We still use both words but the distinction between them has disappeared.
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by Wildgoose 4y ago
I'm not a "serious cyclist", I just cycle on bike trails - but a chain link tool and a couple of spare links is just miniscule. If I need to make that fix when I'm in the countryside 15 miles away from my car then not h
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by Wildgoose 4y ago
I started with 2K, (the "minimal" Acorn Atom). I expanded the memory 1K at a time to the maximum of 12K of RAM. Two chips for each 1K. I can still remember which ones: code "2114", 300ns static RAM chips, 4 bits x 1024
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by Wildgoose 4y ago
It may be highly sarcastic, but it points out a genuine problem that every company will face before long, namely the demographic shift of fewer young people entering the workforce in all jobs at all levels. Couple this with already declinin
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by Wildgoose 4y ago
If West London electricity grid has already hit capacity, what about the ban on sales of new internal combustion cars from 2030, in just eight years time? It's not exactly "joined-up" thinking.
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by Wildgoose 4y ago
The point of echoing back what was received is not because the client is "really dumb", it's actually good engineering practise. It directly confirms to the user what the machine believes it has received. If this is incorrec
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by Wildgoose 4y ago
Yes. We should have the right to decide what charities we support with our money, and not have that freedom taken away from us.
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by Wildgoose 4y ago
Go Mono and also Iosevka (a fairly narrow font). I also historically used Bitstream Vera Sans, (and occasionally still do). https://fontlibrary.org/en/font/go-mono
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by Wildgoose 4y ago
He certainly wasn't the first. According to the Anglo-Saxon Chronicles at the time, Alfred the Great (9th Century English King), sent a delegation to India.
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by Wildgoose 4y ago
As a real world example consider the North of England. William the Bastard's genocidal "Harrying of the North" in 1069/70 either murdered or drove out over 75% of the population and left large areas severely depopulated
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by Wildgoose 4y ago
And yet my wife and daughters think it's unfair I don't smell. You might want to visit Asia sometime - Japanese people actually object to the smell of deodorants.
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by Wildgoose 4y ago
Star Wars. No, seriously. Jodorowksy's concept was widely circulated in Hollywood but nobody would take the risk. Enter George Lucas, just riffing on the original idea.
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by Wildgoose 4y ago
If you allow your skin’s good bacteria to flourish then you don’t need deodorant. I wash with soap-free cleansing bars (Seba Med for those interested) that doesn’t disturb your skin’s natural oils and I don’t need deodorant - deodorants wi
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by Wildgoose 4y ago
You can't make the statement that Scotland only voted to remain part of the UK in order to remain in the EU. That was just one of many factors. More to the point is that EU citizens resident in Scotland were given a vote on the matter
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by Wildgoose 4y ago
Hadrian's Wall is entirely in England. The Anglo-Scottish border more closely follows the River Tweed until it reaches Berwick, (part of England).
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by Wildgoose 4y ago
You missed out the part that Wales also voted for Brexit, (52.5% to 47.5%) and that England actually voted strongly for Brexit (53.6% to 46.4%) only to have that result diluted by Scotland and Northern Ireland. It was a UK-wide vote, not a

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