arethuza

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by arethuza 1y ago
I would quibble about calling something "immutable" - if something isn't falsifiable then it isn't science?
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by arethuza 1y ago
"do my washing machine or microwave needs an engagement? It is not displaying ads." Not yet, though I suspect that time will come.
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by arethuza 1y ago
Oh yes - I wasn't being entirely serious - and of course the upper classes don't care about any of it!
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by arethuza 1y ago
The way I look at is: almost nobody claims to be working class, there are so few actual upper class people so we are all middle class! NB Class traditionally in the UK is not mainly about money...
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by arethuza 1y ago
Some of the maps have places like Scotland and Wales showing up quite clearly - do you think that is real or an artefact of how the data was collected?
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by arethuza 1y ago
I did ask a dentist once about why the roots of my wisdom teeth were so strangely distorted in an X-ray and they carefully explained that there was no distortion and they really were that shape...
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by arethuza 1y ago
I'm in the process of having some dental implants done and the process is amazingly high tech - I was particularly impressed at the 3D model they created from CAT scans that they then use to position instruments during work - they atta
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by arethuza 1y ago
Is that like TERCOM but using strength of gravity rather than terrain height?
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by arethuza 1y ago
I'd have said the Golden Age started about the time Linux distros allowed you replicate the full Unix workstation experience on a basic PC - which I think in my case was around '93 or '94 - right around the same time as the W
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by arethuza 1y ago
See: https://www.ponylang.io/discover/why-pony/ I don't think that Pony is claiming to be novel in the area of syntax?
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by arethuza 1y ago
I agree, in the case of Pony the interesting stuff is mentioned on this page: https://www.ponylang.io/discover/why-pony/ Syntax doesn't really come into it. Edit: I'm as fond of discussions of the design
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by arethuza 1y ago
In a lot of cases they are the same doctors working for both the NHS and having private patients.
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by arethuza 1y ago
"The NHS are seen as perfect by some" I've never met anyone who thinks that the NHS is perfect - least of all anyone who has used it or anyone who works there.
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by arethuza 1y ago
There is an orgmode for VS Code that I used for a while: https://github.com/vscode-org-mode/vscode-org-mode
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by arethuza 1y ago
At some point around '92 or '93 I was offered a Xerox lisp machine by the university I worked at - living in a small flat at the time I don't think I would have been popular if I had taken that home.
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by arethuza 1y ago
I did initially wonder if the reference was to Thomas Moore!
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by arethuza 1y ago
Social housing, at least here in Scotland, is actually built to a higher standard than that produced for sale.
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by arethuza 1y ago
A lot of "social housing" in the UK was perfectly decent and still exists - I grew up in a council house as did a lot of my friends. The main thing that has changed is that most of those houses have now been bought and are private
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by arethuza 1y ago
Buy weapons systems developed in Europe?
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by arethuza 1y ago
The BBC "Strong Message Here" podcast mentioned orcas removing the livers from sharks to eat and joked about "de-liver" - now every time I see "deliver" I think of liver removal...
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by arethuza 1y ago
Here in Scotland, I regularly meet a local gamekeeper who takes his 6 or 7 Labradors out for a walk - working dogs and extremely well behaved (unlike my unruly Samoyed!).
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by arethuza 1y ago
A lot of European countries are probably rethinking dependencies on the US as a supplier of weapons.
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by arethuza 1y ago
I recommend KSR's The Ministry for the Future
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by arethuza 1y ago
Do square rig sails count as airfoils? I thought they could really only go downwind?
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by arethuza 1y ago
I like Uber but I was surprised at how bad their mapping is - they get the route to get me home wrong and I've gone through the process of telling them about the mistake in their maps and they just seemed to ignore me.
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by arethuza 1y ago
I wonder what happens when their new accounts payable AI starts paying everyone on time and when the contract says they should be paid?
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by arethuza 1y ago
I broke a tooth because of kidney stones... I had kidney stones last year, by far the most painful thing I have experienced, and got opioid based painkillers which made me constipated. To try and fix that I was eating some stoned prunes and
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by arethuza 1y ago
But isn't that just science working as expected - there are a set of different views and over time a consensus evolves? Nobody ever agrees with everything - that's not how science works (at least in my experience). Edit: I haven&#
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by arethuza 1y ago
One of the nice things when getting a new Sun workstation back in the day (say 1990 or so) was getting vast amounts of excellent printed documentation and folders into which they had to be clipped. Sun even used to supply proper books (e.g.
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by arethuza 1y ago
"I am old enough to remember the "ice age" that we were going to enter." I'm nearly 60 and I don't ever remember anyone talking about an imminent ice age - given my fondness for skiing when I was younger I&#x27

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