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by arethuza 1y ago
Awesome answer, thanks!
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by arethuza 1y ago
Obviously I know nothing about navigation - but is relying on AIS a good idea, I was surprised the other week to observe quite a large vessel in the Firth of Forth that looked unusual so I checked an app that uses AIS and it didn't sho
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by arethuza 1y ago
I have to be careful for the first hour or so of work - I get up at 6am and walk my dog for an hour and start work about 8:30 - by that point I am fairly heavily caffeinated (I am not a natural morning person) and I can be inclined to rant
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by arethuza 1y ago
You forgot the "who didn’t even pay his fare"... which makes a big difference.
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by arethuza 1y ago
"But a car with no traffic is the overall best form of transportation." Not if you are like me and likely to take a short nap after a long day at work... Edit: I own a car, I use it all the time. But I also use the train a lot - a
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by arethuza 1y ago
I cycled a reasonable distance to work (about 25km a day) here in sunny Scotland and rain wasn't really a problem, or snow - but cycling in really high winds isn't a great idea. Edit: To explain - I was cycling on a that was on to
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by arethuza 1y ago
I actually don't mind the flying bit of flying - but I loathe all the faffing about and waiting at airports.
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by arethuza 1y ago
Seconded - I'm currently listening to the audiobook of this book and I find it utterly fascinating.
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by arethuza 1y ago
Pretty similar for me - I travel to London from Edinburgh quite a lot and I much prefer taking the train.
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by arethuza 1y ago
I'd imagine those big salary cheques buy a lot of acceptance of what these companies are actually doing.
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by arethuza 1y ago
For a while Abellio ran rail services in Scotland - they were absolutely awful and things got a lot better almost immediately the Scottish Government terminated their franchise.
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by arethuza 1y ago
Nitpick: "Water and waste water charges are set by Scottish Water and billed alongside council tax." They aren't a tax themselves. https://www.fife.gov.uk/kb/docs/articles/housing/council-t
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by arethuza 1y ago
It's not free - there are explicit charges for it attached to our council taxes?
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by arethuza 1y ago
Worth noting that most of the population of Scotland is concentrated in the Central Belt: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central_Belt
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by arethuza 1y ago
It's the problem with ideological thinking - from what I can see some privatisations worked well (e.g. Rolls Royce) and others went terribly (rail, water in England) - unfortunately they tend to get treated as all bad or all good.
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by arethuza 1y ago
For Fife the charges are here: https://www.fife.gov.uk/kb/docs/articles/housing/council-tax...
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by arethuza 1y ago
Nitpick - English water privatisation, I don't think the rest of the UK has private water companies - we certainly don't here in Scotland. Scottish Water is controlled by the Scottish Government.
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by arethuza 1y ago
Don't you also pay for waste water? My waste water charge here in Fife is quite a bit more than the water charge.
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by arethuza 1y ago
'What do I care about law? Ain't I got the power?' Cornelius Vanderbilt
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by arethuza 1y ago
To be fair (and because I've just remembered - it was ~40 years ago) we did get some practical stuff covered in the maths part of my CS degree in the application of group theory (groups, rings & fields) to coding theory.
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by arethuza 1y ago
This YouTube video is directly responsible for me getting a dog: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ocV7Hpj9keM While the video is very impressive - my main reaction was to think how incredibly cool that type of dog is. So I e
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by arethuza 1y ago
I'm turning 60 later this month - biggest thing I've recently done on the wellbeing front is getting a dog - suddenly I'm walking 10km every day (on average) and talking to a lot more people - I had no idea how sociable dog
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by arethuza 1y ago
I learned about it after I graduated with a CS degree - I mean in true university degree fashion we'd been taught about Laplace and Z transforms (and related things) but with no practical applications. After graduating I joined an acad
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by arethuza 1y ago
When I think of Laplace Transforms I always think of control theory - poles, zeros etc.
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by arethuza 1y ago
Moscow had, at least at one point, 179 DGZs (Designated Ground Zeros) from the US alone - with, I would imagine, at least another 20 or so from the UK and France. Moscow was the most overkilled places on the planet - doesn't matter if
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by arethuza 1y ago
Edward Teller (who else) got there first with his Sundial design for a 10Gt bomb...
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by arethuza 1y ago
In the UK words like that can also equally be used as terms of endearment amongst friends... context is everything.
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by arethuza 1y ago
"anguished sense of personal loyalty betrayed" That's pretty much how I read it.
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by arethuza 1y ago
Only if they find out though? ;-)
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by arethuza 1y ago
Because employees in the UK generally have contracts of employment that both parties have to follow?

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