arethuza

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by arethuza 1y ago
Would you be sacked immediately if you insulted your boss in the middle of a heated argument?
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by arethuza 1y ago
And its a "scaffolding and brickwork company" - I mean have you ever heard scaffolders at work?
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by arethuza 1y ago
I seem to get a stream of ads for terrible products on YouTube on my phone (I get completely different ads when watching on an Apple TV) - by this point I'm convinced it is Google punishing me into signing up for YouTube Premium...
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by arethuza 1y ago
I think the finest BBC documentary series was The Ascent of Man - probably because my father made me watch it when I was about 8: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Ascent_of_Man
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by arethuza 1y ago
So we need to make sure that we don't get nuked on a Sunday! [I mean what kind of monster would do that ]
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by arethuza 1y ago
I always thought it was appropriate that the UK nuclear deterrence fleet apparently would check for Radio 4 still being broadcast to check whether civilisation as we know it (at least in these damp isles) has ended. https://en.wi
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by arethuza 1y ago
Yeah, my phone is a iPhone 15 Pro and my desktop PC is an i7-4790
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by arethuza 1y ago
Not CNC, but I am addicted to the Cutting Edge Engineering channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC2wdo5vU7bPBNzyC2nnwmNQ
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by arethuza 1y ago
"jazzlike expletive improv" Many years ago I was part of a panel on Newsnight - I was actually quite impressed at the Malcolm Tucker level of profanity that came from the presenters once the cameras were off.
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by arethuza 1y ago
I think the imports refer to power transfers to/from other countries along interconnectors? https://www.nationalgrid.com/national-grid-ventures/intercon...
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by arethuza 1y ago
The default view is for Operational sites - you can add other categories e.g. "Under Construction" which gives a view of the pipeline of new sites. There are a lot of offshore wind sites at various stages of construction/pl
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by arethuza 1y ago
Ironically, hydro power causes a lot of environmental problems - a lot of glens in the Scottish highlands have had ugly roads bulldozed up them to install fairly small hydro schemes. Maybe this is worth it overall, but they can certainly be
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by arethuza 1y ago
Last year: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c5y35qz73n8o
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by arethuza 1y ago
It's actually faster on my relatively new phone than on my ancient desktop!
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by arethuza 1y ago
I was surprised to see a solar plant near Rhynie - but then again it will be in the rain shadow of the Cairngorms so probably reasonably sunny... Absolutely fascinating map! Edit: As I typed that I thought "Rhynie sounds a bit Welsh (B
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by arethuza 1y ago
Musicals are fine (even the stage version of Lord of the Rings) but opera took a lot of persuading for me to actually to go and see one live - and it was quite an incredible experience.
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by arethuza 1y ago
I managed to acquire a taste for gin and tonic - I went as an adult from thinking it was the most revolting thing ever to one of the few drinks I occasionally find myself craving. Acquiring the taste clearly involved drinking the stuff but
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by arethuza 1y ago
I thought most people would say which part of the UK they are from: England, Scotland, Wales or NI?
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by arethuza 1y ago
Probably this one: https://www.zenobe.com/news-and-events/blackhillock-battery-... Very much aimed at storing surplus from a couple of wind farms in the Moray Firth. Presumably we'll see a lot more of these given
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by arethuza 1y ago
France also has the longest internal scheduled flight - 9,349km https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World%27s_longest_domestic_fli...
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by arethuza 1y ago
My approach is to make sure to buy good quality waste bags, double bag it (or even triple bag it) and then either carry it in my pocket or in a side pocket of a pack and then dispose sensibly when you have an opportunity.
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by arethuza 1y ago
Apologies for the rampant paranoia but that all sounds great - but how do I know that advice like this can be trusted, after all you could be an agent of a state security service directing people towards services they want people to use. NB
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by arethuza 1y ago
In retrospect, after the 2008 crash in the finance world how the role of a CISO was described to me sounded an awful lot like risk officers in a lot of financial organisations.
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by arethuza 1y ago
Many years ago I had a fascination with security and fancied becoming the CISO for the multinational I was working for at the time - my boss at the time, the CIO, said the role would really have no power and would be there as a sacrificial
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by arethuza 1y ago
If larger vehicles were safer then you'd expect the deaths per unit distance driven for the US to be good - when it's actually quite bad? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_traffic-r...
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by arethuza 1y ago
Hence the role of "sales engineer" - who the customer things is from engineering but is really part of the sales team.
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by arethuza 1y ago
If you really need all of that I think I'd go with a separate object holding all of the options: options = new SerializeOptions(); options.PrettyPrint = true; options.Flag2 = "red" options.Flag3 = 27; serialize(someObject, op
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by arethuza 1y ago
I once, briefly, worked with a developer who believed that you should never use primitive types for fields or parameters...
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by arethuza 1y ago
If you use keyword arguments then something like that doesn't look too bad: serialize(someObject, prettyPrint:true) NB I have no idea whether Lua has keyword arguments but if your language does then that would seem to address your part
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by arethuza 1y ago
If you leave aside their ghastly leadership there is no doubt to me that the people of the Soviet Union paid the highest price in defeating the Nazis.

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