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811.
by arethuza 3y ago
That's the goal of Trees For Life: https://treesforlife.org.uk/
812.
by arethuza 3y ago
I consulted an AI to see if it could recommend a better title for "Lord of the Rings" - and (I am not making this up) it suggested "Ringworld"....
813.
by arethuza 3y ago
Many years ago I wrote a simple programming language that would macro expand into lambda calculus statement that could then be compiled down to different sets of combinators - the simplest being just S & K, which are pretty fundamental
814.
by arethuza 3y ago
Touchscreens for some things (navigation, rarely accessed configuration) are fine but they absolutely should not be required for basic driving tasks or while driving.
815.
by arethuza 3y ago
I think I was being over literal about the "language" part - it's certainly possible to create a very simple language in a short time but actual productivity would require a lot of libraries and tooling and I suspect that is
816.
by arethuza 3y ago
Creating a "new" programming language isn't that difficult - creating something that is interesting, elegant and/or powerful requires a lot of thought and that is difficult.
817.
by arethuza 3y ago
F1 has had lots of interesting things over the years - my favourite being the 1.5l 600HP V16 from the 1950s. Didn't work terribly well but worth listening to a recording of one because it sounded awesome - there are still a few runni
818.
by arethuza 3y ago
Oracle weren't doing the implementation in this case?
819.
by arethuza 3y ago
If you have a large organisation and you need software to support all of the relevant processes - you don't exactly have a lot of options...
820.
by arethuza 3y ago
If I had to guess I doubt if this was actually Oracle's fault - sounds like implementation problems not problems with software itself?
821.
by arethuza 3y ago
That's almost certainly implementation costs - paying consultants to make the off the shelf software work for an organisation.
822.
by arethuza 3y ago
Even the Daily Telegraph is having second thoughts about Brexit: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2024/02/28/uk-eu-are-be...
823.
by arethuza 3y ago
I actually like my commute into Edinburgh - it's very scenic, you go over the Forth Bridge and I always get a seat. There was a while when the trains were less reliable but since the Scottish government took over direct management of
824.
by arethuza 3y ago
They do but I would say the design of the two scroll/click wheels has got worse in the last couple of years.
825.
by arethuza 3y ago
My commute into Edinburgh is about 35 mins each way by train and it's £9.60 for a return (reduced for a bit because of a subsidy by the Scottish Government) normal price is about £15.00.
826.
by arethuza 3y ago
Well, I'm the customer and I want physical buttons! Edit: I had a car that used a touch screen feature to activate the heated windscreen - it was perfectly responsive, easy to find but I still hated it. Current car has a single physica
827.
by arethuza 3y ago
Much easier to have a single physical button.
828.
by arethuza 3y ago
When I was about 10 or so I read the Erich von Däniken book Chariots of the Gods and was absolutely fascinated - eventually (and I don't know how) I came to understand that just because something is written in what seems to be a non-
829.
by arethuza 3y ago
It's been a long time since I last read Permutation City and I was browsing its Wikipedia page to refresh my memory and I loved this description: "there is no difference, even in principle, between physics and mathematics" .
830.
by arethuza 3y ago
The book "The Sabres of Paradise: Conquest and Vengeance in the Caucasus" is usually given as one of the books that influenced Frank Herbert.
831.
by arethuza 3y ago
"Masters of the Air" is excellent - not sure if I can really say I am "enjoying" it as its pretty harrowing, but it's certainly compelling viewing.
832.
by arethuza 3y ago
I had a very similar experience, watched a bit of episode 1 and didn't really like it - went back and watched it again and really got into it and its probably my favourite long running show at the moment.
833.
by arethuza 3y ago
I can remember milk delivery in the 1970s in where I grew up in Scotland moving from glass bottles to rather ghastly plastic sachets.
834.
by arethuza 3y ago
There is also The Ring in the Xeelee universe - which is millions of lightyears across: https://xeelee.fandom.com/wiki/The_Ring Mind you it might not count as it's a means of escape, not a place to live.
835.
by arethuza 3y ago
I think Culture style Orbitals are more elegant - no need for shadow squares to create day/night cycles.
836.
by arethuza 3y ago
That sounds like Dunbar in Catch-22: "Dunbar loved shooting skeet because he hated every minute of it and the time passed so slowly. He had figured out that a single hour on the skeet-shooting range with people like Havermeyer and App
837.
by arethuza 3y ago
Only two seats though? Edit: Not that I think that this is a big problem.
838.
by arethuza 3y ago
Possibly even better, the Zeiss Foundation seems to fund wider science and teaching using the profits from the companies they own: "Carl Zeiss AG and SCHOTT AG use the dividends to promote science and teaching in the fields of mathema
839.
by arethuza 3y ago
Well at least they have codes - the UK nuclear weapons are ultimately controlled by a set of hand-written letters.
840.
by arethuza 3y ago
The UK Tridents currently are on patrol with 8 missiles (they can carry more). What we don't want is someone thinking that out of the 8 a few won't work and maybe the missile defences around their capital city could surely shoot d

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