arethuza

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541.
by arethuza 2y ago
Professionally qualified engineers in other fields seem to manage OK?
542.
by arethuza 2y ago
Or as the Eschaton puts it "Thou shalt not violate causality within my historic light cone. Or else."
543.
by arethuza 2y ago
That sounds like C#? https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/standard/memory-and...
544.
by arethuza 2y ago
Are you a professionally qualified engineer?
545.
by arethuza 2y ago
Do you mean the Drake equation?
546.
by arethuza 2y ago
The US War Plan Red from the 1920s covers a war between the US and the British Empire and includes quite a lot about Canada! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_Plan_Red
547.
by arethuza 2y ago
I wonder if Arthur T. Murray would count as an influencer?
548.
by arethuza 2y ago
I wonder if someone tried to build a localizer how small they could actually be made? PS It's "Vernor"
549.
by arethuza 2y ago
I've heard descriptions of large housebuilders in the UK that sound similar - actually building houses is difficult and tricky because you have to actually keep end customers reasonably happy whereas much easier to just treat the land
550.
by arethuza 2y ago
Daniel Ellsberg, who had inside knowledge of US nuclear command and control procedures, described Dr Strangelove as pretty much a documentary.
551.
by arethuza 2y ago
Also Dr Strangelove... the subject matter doesn't get much darker but it is also quite hilarious.
552.
by arethuza 2y ago
It's not just cities and towns, a lot of rural areas (particularly in Scotland) have single track roads with passing spaces i.e. a single lane, not a single lane in both directions.
553.
by arethuza 2y ago
I did always wonder about the general standard of living in the Shire - always seemed suspiciously high to me.
554.
by arethuza 2y ago
Dirty great walls - which some of us are on the "wrong" side of ;-)
555.
by arethuza 2y ago
"Professors" at a UK university are the most senior academic staff - mind you there does seem to be a move in some universities to move to US style job title where all academics are a professor of some kind. When I worked in UK ac
556.
by arethuza 2y ago
I wonder if it would make sense to base the comparison on road network density in areas that are above some threshold for population density? i.e. Try and measure how many roads there are in areas where most people actually live?
557.
by arethuza 2y ago
Europe isn't a country though - difficult to do a comparison as a about 40% of Europe is the European part of Russia which has a much lower road density than the US, mind you European Russia is going to be the part that has the highes
558.
by arethuza 2y ago
By far the worst tasting thing I've had was Norwegian moonshine.
559.
by arethuza 2y ago
Google's AI says that it "has a full-bodied flavor and tastes like pencil shavings, old battery rust, citrus zest, and ear wax" .
560.
by arethuza 2y ago
This kind of event be pretty nasty - 4 fishermen were killed by a Royal Navy submarine in 1990: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FV_Antares
561.
by arethuza 2y ago
No - she does book restaurants in my name as hers is quite complicated to spell!
562.
by arethuza 2y ago
What I find amusing is that scammers have my phone number but my wife's name - so I get random calls where they say "Can I speak to Ms Arethuza" and I say "No" and end the call.
563.
by arethuza 2y ago
The members of the Commission are appointed by the governments of the member states which are elected?
564.
by arethuza 2y ago
Sorry, we're being critical of the EU - logic doesn't apply!
565.
by arethuza 2y ago
"Deep supranational political and economic union" really doesn't have the same ring to it.
566.
by arethuza 2y ago
If Brexit taught me anything it was that the correct phrase is pesky unelected EU bureaucrats!
567.
by arethuza 2y ago
Sundial was the 10Gt bomb - which is 2 orders of magnitude more powerful than the Tsar Bomba (as designed, not as tested). Edit: Good video!!
568.
by arethuza 2y ago
Out of interest, how many days leave do you actually take in an average year?
569.
by arethuza 2y ago
Actually, it's better (worse) than that - the gigaton bomb was really being developed to be a primary for a 10 gigaton bomb! "When you merely wish to bury bombs, there is no limit to the size."
570.
by arethuza 2y ago
Indeed, I should know about the "not enforceable" bit as I had a dispute with a former employer on that very point - just because its in an employment contract doesn't make it enforceable. The cherry on the cake was the need

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