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by arethuza 2y ago
Looking at the bridge with 1.3m clearance its an arch and I suspect the 1.3m applies to the sides not the middle of the arch?
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by arethuza 2y ago
I was offered a Xerox Lisp Machine to take home by a former employer in the mid 90's - I wish I'd taken up that offer!
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by arethuza 2y ago
He probably didn't mention that because it wasn't particularly bloodthirsty and therefore of little interest to 12 year old boys. Mind you, the fact that it was events on the Isthmus of Panama that were one of the main causes of t
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by arethuza 2y ago
I live somewhere that has a lot of castles - there are 3 (possibly 4) within 2km of where I am sitting writing this. I don't think any of these castles were built directly by kings - although I suspect their construction was either
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by arethuza 2y ago
The most interesting history we got taught at school was by one of our music teachers who was a kilt wearing Scottish independence supporter who used to tell us bloodthirsty stories about Bruce, Wallace and others... NB This was ~45 years a
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by arethuza 2y ago
I can remember carrying a Sun machine around for demos in '95 or so - the IPX was easy to carry but the monitor less than easy. What I particularly remember is getting the occasional electric shocks from the monitor when carrying it (p
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by arethuza 2y ago
My own reaction to the most recent Scottish independence referendum was pretty much "Oh well, at least we're still in the EU"...
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by arethuza 2y ago
Speaking of the Pergamon Museum I think the actual Pergamon Altar might be better off back in the actual site of Pergamon - now in Turkey. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pergamon_Altar
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by arethuza 2y ago
The UK government occasionally does give things back on the understanding that they can be returned for a bit when required... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stone_of_Scone
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by arethuza 2y ago
Look at the UK - where Leaver/Remainer (or Rejoiners these days) has become a major political categorisation that doesn't really map onto the standard left/right political spectrum (e.g. both those on the far right and far le
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by arethuza 2y ago
Yeah sorry - I didn't mean "border" in the sense of a legal boundary between countries or regions.
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by arethuza 2y ago
Is that the border between French and German speaking parts of Switzerland?
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by arethuza 2y ago
What about expressing something a bit more complex like: λf. (λx. f (x x))(λx. f (x x))
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by arethuza 2y ago
Good grief, I had no idea this existed!
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by arethuza 2y ago
“There’s class warfare, all right, but it’s my class, the rich class, that’s making war, and we’re winning.” Warren Buffett
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by arethuza 2y ago
The Normans were pretty harsh in their treatment of rebellious areas - the "Harrying of the North" being particularly brutal: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harrying_of_the_North
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by arethuza 2y ago
The last time I can recall any long electricity cuts was during the 3 day week in the early 1970s... Which perhaps explains some of the reasons why coal power (or at least the people who produced the coal) were seen as a political threat:
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by arethuza 2y ago
Do those showers you have linked to actually do the heating as well?
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by arethuza 2y ago
That almost sounds like a bug that could be sold as a feature "the shower with that extra wake up jolt!".
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by arethuza 2y ago
"refugees from other languages with sharply different idioms" Reminds me of the time I had to decipher some numerical analysis code written in Common Lisp but in the style of Occam...
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by arethuza 2y ago
I was assuming something little thicker than optical fibre - the "probe" could be self powered using an RTG with the "waste" heat doing the melting? Once the ice freezes again behind the probe it would protect the fibre.
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by arethuza 2y ago
I'm actually slight disappointed that there isn't some bizarre explanation for why North Sea rigs have charging points - preparing for electric helicopters maybe? ;-)
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by arethuza 2y ago
Isn't that a special case of the Inner-platform effect - writing an X is boring, so create a platform for creating X-like applications. Of course, this can be repeated ad nauseam - to the level of "general-purpose tool-building
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by arethuza 2y ago
The service seems to believe there are multiple charging sites in the middle of the North Sea - which seems slightly unlikely...
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by arethuza 2y ago
Why - 25km of fibre isn't that large?
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by arethuza 2y ago
"only stock super high end designer gear" I don't think that applied to BHS or Debenhams - both long gone though....
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by arethuza 2y ago
Worth noting that the ESA Juice mission will be at Jupiter at the same time as Clipper and the teams are already working together: https://www.esa.int/Science_Exploration/Space_Science/Juice/...
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by arethuza 2y ago
That exact command line worked for me - might there be something on your end blocking outgoing plain HTTP requests?
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by arethuza 2y ago
I make spaghetti with anchovies, garlic, olive oil and toasted breadcrumbs - it is remarkable how tasty it is!
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by arethuza 2y ago
"So this week, we're introducing a general-purpose tool-building factory factory factory, so that all of your different tool factory factories can be produced by a single, unified factory. The factory factory factory will produce

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