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by arethuza 11mo ago
I thought that was just me - I really rather liked Python the language but was completely confused at how the package system seemed to work.... Mind you this was 12 years ago or so but it was enough to put me off using it ever again.
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by arethuza 11mo ago
Indeed, and having the "Scoti" replaced by the "Picts" isn't terribly accurate? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D%C3%A1l_Riata Edit: The "Scots" are supposed to have conquered the Picts
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by arethuza 11mo ago
I live in rural Scotland - a lot of minor roads round here have no markings?
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by arethuza 11mo ago
Some universities simply give you an MA a few years after getting a BA without you having to do anything additional. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Master_of_Arts_(Oxford,_Cambri...
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by arethuza 11mo ago
I have to say that the first things that comes to mind (!) when I think of "snarky" are Culture drones...
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by arethuza 11mo ago
I think "income" is the standard accounting term in the US - in the UK the equivalent is "profit" (e.g. "P/L" vs "income statements").
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by arethuza 11mo ago
Oh yeah - OpenReach is a bit of nightmare, but less of a nightmare than some energy suppliers I can mention...
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by arethuza 11mo ago
Scotrail was shockingly bad when Abellio were running it - much better now and certainly much better than the likes of Avanti West Coast...
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by arethuza 11mo ago
I would say BT got worse immediately after privatisation and now have got better - largely I suspect due to competition.
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by arethuza 11mo ago
I do also wonder about the negative effects of ubiquitous social media usage on health (mostly on mental health but that then impacts other areas). Of course, that's not something that is specific to the UK.
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by arethuza 11mo ago
Someone I used to know was found dead in bed with hid iPad showing he had been browsing for "what are the symptoms of a heart attack"...
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by arethuza 1y ago
I can recommend the book "The Poor Had No Lawyers: Who Owns Scotland (and How They Got It)" by Andy Wightman
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by arethuza 1y ago
In Scotland only ~58% of land is in the registry - most of the rest is covered by a register of transactions but that can make it difficult to work out who owns what. https://www.ros.gov.uk/performance/land-register-com
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by arethuza 1y ago
I think in later years a lot has to do with mental state as much as physical state - I've known people who died in their 70s from what appeared to be a lack of will to stay alive but I also know people in their 90s who seemed determine
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by arethuza 1y ago
Oh yes I loved building stuff with all these technologies mostly for my own entertainment - fortunately I was in academia so could indulge myself. ;-)
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by arethuza 1y ago
"Do programmers really find so much fun in creating accidental complexity?" I certainly did for a number of years - I just had the luck that the cool things I happened to pick on in the early/mid 1990s turned out to be quite
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by arethuza 1y ago
Yeah - I've heard that described as "It's easier to make working things fast than fast thing work" - or something like that.
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by arethuza 1y ago
I've never interpreted "Premature optimization..." to mean don't think about performance, just that you don't have to actually implement mechanisms to increase performance until you actually have requirements to d
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by arethuza 1y ago
It depends on the environment - many years ago I used to have temp job in the summer working on a large industrial plant that had a nice office building where the managers and admin staff were based. There were no signs saying "temp st
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by arethuza 1y ago
I've been at posh events (e.g. silking dinners) where there was a fixed seating plan but then the ladies moved around before dessert. NB Such things are really not my natural habitat.
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by arethuza 1y ago
There have been "conversion course" MSc courses in UK universities for a long time - when I was doing a CS first degree the department ran one of these courses and, presumably to save money, the MSc folks would share some of our c
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by arethuza 1y ago
When I did CS at a UK university in the 1980s it was brutal - I was an idiot in my first year and had to retake maths 3 times meaning I slipped behind by a year. However, I eventually did learn my lesson(s) and did increasingly well over my
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by arethuza 1y ago
The problem with reading that is that it is, I find, almost impossible to stop classifying people into sociopath, clueless or losers....
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by arethuza 1y ago
What about examples where there was nothing like theft involved and no colonisation - the Pergamon Altar in the amazing Pergamon Museum in Berlin is a good example... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pergamon_Altar
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by arethuza 1y ago
More like empty head syndrome - but getting a dog was the best thing I've done in years.
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by arethuza 1y ago
I remember this quote from when we had young kids: "Insanity is hereditary. You can get it from your children." And then as soon as they are in their 20s and reasonably self sufficient we had to get a puppy to keep me sane!
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by arethuza 1y ago
You don't need a "general hammer" - they are old fashioned - you need a "general-purpose tool-building factory factory factory": https://www.danstroot.com/posts/2018-10-03-hammer-factories
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by arethuza 1y ago
Yes, I'm not denying that there were a lot of developments in that time period - more that there was a perception that things were declining, even if that wasn't actually true.
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by arethuza 1y ago
Wasn't the Renaissance about the idea that, after nearly a thousand years, society was finally approaching the levels that Rome had achieved?
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by arethuza 1y ago
That video has the app asking the user to confirm the use of their device to run a proxy within the app - but is there any hard requirement for this, could apps use this SDK and silently run as a proxy?

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