arethuza

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by arethuza 3y ago
Thanks - my wife and I have recently got her mother (who is in her 90's) to try using an iPhone. It never occurred to me to get a printed manual - I think that might really help her.
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by arethuza 3y ago
The point I was trying to make, clearly not very well, was that nobody would be surprised by a human making a mistake like this so why are we expecting perfection from a software controlled car? They will make mistakes but I'd also e
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by arethuza 3y ago
To be fair, I've seen many human drivers doing equally stupid things.
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by arethuza 3y ago
Actually, by looking at the behaviour of the unicycles I could infer that this was a country where people drive on the right and therefore the car was probably doing something wrong?
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by arethuza 3y ago
Well, nobody expected it, but by funding HEP we got the Web.
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by arethuza 3y ago
On YouTube I think maybe 50% are scams and 98% are just plain irrelevant - I've come to the conclusion its really just a way of harassing me to sign up for YouTube Premium.
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by arethuza 3y ago
I can honestly say I don't think I've paid much attention to what the pedals in any car I've driven look like.
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by arethuza 3y ago
At one point many years ago I was Director of Engineering for a company that was planning a major new version of their product. After I'd been there a few weeks I said to the CEO that I thought I had a pretty good understanding of the
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by arethuza 3y ago
"I'm really struggling to understand why a linear city is appealing" Probably because it looks cool in CGI renderings and nobody else has one, for reasons that are probably becoming apparent to all involved.
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by arethuza 3y ago
Have you ever seen wildly over-architected OO code where everything seems to be an abstract class and it seems impossible to find out where stuff actually happens? Inheritance is like a lot specialised tools - it can be useful in some situa
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by arethuza 3y ago
Quite a lot of what is now Scotland was Norse for a long time - the most obvious name being "Sutherland" (Suðrland) which is extreme north west of the island of Britain: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scandinav
792.
by arethuza 3y ago
I presume you are referring to Derry/Londonderry? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Derry/Londonderry_name_dispute
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by arethuza 3y ago
Interestingly enough when I was growing up in a small Scottish village (~1000 people) it was the Church of Scotland that was referred to as the "kirk" - the other 5 or so "churches" weren't referred to as kirks.
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by arethuza 3y ago
There can also be cases where nobody in the area actually uses anything close to the "official" name - e.g. Fraserburgh being known as "The Broch" or Aberchirder as "Foggie", Gardenstown as "Gamrie"..
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by arethuza 3y ago
Mrs Chippy has a pretty interesting Wikipedia page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mrs_Chippy
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by arethuza 3y ago
A significant proportion of the land in the small European country where I live is owned and managed primarily to allow people to shoot things (grouse and deer).
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by arethuza 3y ago
The toilets in our house have two large buttons that are the same size - even after repairing the mechanisms a few times (which is a bit like keyhole surgery as everything is built into the wall) I still have no idea if they do different th
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by arethuza 3y ago
We have two fridges in our kitchen so I went and checked - one uses the "higher number = colder" approach and the other is marked in degrees C...
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by arethuza 3y ago
You need "Socks as a Service" (we could call it "SaaS") - every day someone drops off a new pair of socks and picks up your previous pair. If you pay for a premium plan then no multi-tenanting and only you get to wear an
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by arethuza 3y ago
"So High, So Low, So Many Things to Know."
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by arethuza 3y ago
I think that just goes to show how misleading GDP can be!
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by arethuza 3y ago
I believe tectonic plates generally move about 15mm a year - which is pretty fast when you think about it!
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by arethuza 3y ago
Also the UK: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_nuclear_testing_in_the...
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by arethuza 3y ago
I commuted 15km each way for a few years through heavy traffic and had a few close calls - would they count as "dying in glorious battle". e.g. I was cycling home at night once when kids threw a brick at my head...
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by arethuza 3y ago
I'm not disagreeing with the point you are making but I do find it would be helpful if people referenced actual examples of these things happening in real world scenarios rather than thinking that a simple model is sufficient?
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by arethuza 3y ago
Happily the grade of degree awarded was based something like 75% on final year exams and project and 25% on 3rd year and you just had to survive the first two years. Edit: I had started partying long before going to university so had alread
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by arethuza 3y ago
I did terribly in first year, scraped through second year and did really well in third and fourth years - to the point of getting a first and a class prize. I don't think it was anything to do with "shock being away from home&quot
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by arethuza 3y ago
I learned of The Good Soldier Švejk from Alexei Sayle's autobiography "Stalin ate my homework" - which I can strongly recommend, particularly the audiobook narrated by the author.
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by arethuza 3y ago
Seem to work differently here in Scotland... https://www.thorntons-law.co.uk/knowledge/finders-keepers-tr... What made me wonder was the use of the term "coroner" - I'm pretty sure we don't have tho
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by arethuza 3y ago
Also in Scotland - I'm quite happy with the current arrangement - it means mornings aren't too bad in winter (going to and returning from work in the dark would be miserable) and it means we get glorious light evenings in summer.

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