arethuza

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by arethuza 2y ago
One of the Lewis Chessmen is in private hands and was recently sold for £735,000! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lewis_chessmen
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by arethuza 2y ago
The EU has only existed for 29 years - which is actually very little time for projects of this scale?
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by arethuza 2y ago
I don't think anyone thinks that everything you want is within 15 minutes - just that most daily necessities and services are available within 15 minutes.
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by arethuza 2y ago
I think the actual historical genetic makeup of the UK is considerably more complex than you are implying: https://oumnh.ox.ac.uk/settlers
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by arethuza 2y ago
One example that I found is that some libraries/databases don't allow DDL statements to be parameterised - so if you are managing tables and columns from code and those names came from end users then you should be checking them.
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by arethuza 2y ago
I actually don't mind the flying bit too much but I absolutely hate airports...
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by arethuza 2y ago
For some reason your comment made me think about computed gosubs - pretty sure I've managed to forget about those for ~40 years!
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by arethuza 2y ago
The voyage of the James Caird must count as one of the most incredible feats of seamanship in history - 1300km across ferocious seas in a small boat with an absolute need to hit South Georgia... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki
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by arethuza 2y ago
Yeah - I had a dental bone graft a few months back and I certainly hope its a once in a lifetime thing! NB No criticism of the dentist that did it - took two dentists and an assistant nearly 5 hours and they have an impressive amount of kit
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by arethuza 2y ago
Bone graft and implant for a single tooth can be up to £9K...
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by arethuza 2y ago
Ah yes "accidentally"... ;-)
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by arethuza 2y ago
The height of ski chic in Scotland used to, at least when I skied regularly, consist of offshore foul weather gear emblazoned with the name of the oil company (or oil service company) the wearer had borrowed it from.
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by arethuza 2y ago
Depends where you are - I went to a very modest comprehensive in Scotland and yet we still went skiing at weekend to Cairngorm because it was close.
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by arethuza 2y ago
1982 invasion of the Falkland Islands Yom Kippur War
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by arethuza 2y ago
The military historian Richard Holmes pointed out in one of his books that at the height of UK imperial power someone managed to rise from private soldier to Field Marshall and Chief of the Imperial General Staff and that apparently today a
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by arethuza 2y ago
.Net seems to handle it pretty well with LINQ? https://medium.com/@sanjanasw99/an-in-depth-guide-to-linq-in...
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by arethuza 2y ago
Isn't "tsar" derived from "Caesar" which was originally just someone's name?
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by arethuza 2y ago
That argument sounds awfully like Drew McDermott's A Critique of Pure Reason from 1987 which was one of the things that made me get out of the "good old fashioned" AI world in the mid 1990s.
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by arethuza 2y ago
I've seen Common Lisp source code that I didn't even recognise as Common Lisp because of over-enthusiastic use of reader macros... Edit: I should also mention that once I worked out how reader macros worked I went on to enthusiast
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by arethuza 2y ago
Speaking of things that are gorgeous and well worth a visit I can also strongly recommend Iona - one of the places where the Book of Kells may have been produced. A bit out of the way and the weather isn't always perfect but on a nice
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by arethuza 2y ago
I think that's the point?
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by arethuza 2y ago
I knew Clydeside had built a lot of ships, but I hadn't realised quite how many until I found this: "In the 1890s, British shipyards built seventy-five percent of ships worldwide, two-thirds of which came from Clydeside" h
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by arethuza 2y ago
I remember reading a great story about someone doing embedded development who was doing something like download firmware onto a device and being told "Checksum is bad"... After much checking it was realised that this was because t
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by arethuza 2y ago
Maybe that's why they are hiring an "Associate General Counsel"?
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by arethuza 2y ago
I was leading a startup development team in the late 90's and one of our developers told me that some very inappropriate test data had been sent to IBM to be included in a product demo and burned onto tens of thousands of discs that
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by arethuza 2y ago
Yes - started using the username on Slashdot back on the day after reading Cryptonomicon and have used it on various places over the years... :-)
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by arethuza 2y ago
I found that Fall; or, Dodge in Hell wraps up the whole thing very nicely!
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by arethuza 2y ago
Had to look .gb up! With the demise of X.400 e-mail and IANA's general aim of one TLD per country, use of .gb declined; the domain remains in existence, but it is not currently open to new domain registrations. https://en.
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by arethuza 2y ago
Well, you could go to the Moon or Mars or set up your own independent space habitat which are just a bit harder than building a castle and/or farming some land.
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by arethuza 2y ago
Yes, in the case of Scotland there is a famous document (Declaration of Arbroath) that was written to the Pope asking him to, amongst other things, acknowledge that Scotland had been pretty much always been independent of England. This was

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