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by arethuza 4mo ago
I'd like a 600 HP 1.5l supercharged V16 - doesn't even need to be in a car, mainly just to listen to! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Racing_Motors_V16
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by arethuza 4mo ago
Won't they have monitored their slaves quite closely?
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by arethuza 4mo ago
One thing I discovered years ago was that even if you are pretty good at soft-skills type stuff and also pretty good at technical stuff what I couldn't do is context switch between an hour or so of doing "soft" stuff to a tec
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by arethuza 4mo ago
I remember working with a corporate customer whose in house architecture team was so difficult to work with that I joked that they could be replaced by a rule in their email system that simply replied "No" as the message if I ever
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by arethuza 4mo ago
The whole region is awesome for food and wine - we did a walk (over few days) from Santa Maria di Leuca to Otranto - sometimes along the coast and sometimes in paths through the lovely countryside. We started and ended that trip in Lecce -
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by arethuza 4mo ago
My name for the Windows 11 experience is "Linux Mint"... ;-)
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by arethuza 4mo ago
There is a wonderful museum it the Italian city of Lecce that started when someone went to fix some plumbing in their house and ended up finding so much amazing historical stuff that they ended up opening the house as a museum: https:&#x2F
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by arethuza 4mo ago
A few years back my wife had a Toyota that had serious electrical problems (all instruments would stop working) that was eventually traced to a faulty sunroof combined with a terrible design...
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by arethuza 5mo ago
Personally I would be more worried that the woman that had just given birth received the appropriate medical attention and help with whatever circumstances made her feel that she had to abandon her child.
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by arethuza 5mo ago
And the old Top Gear team did have a record of trying their best to combine rocket technology with cars...
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by arethuza 5mo ago
I'm in Scotland and I've never wanted air conditioning at home and I'm someone who really doesn't like warm temperatures. Mind you - it doesn't get that cold here as we are next to the sea but it also never gets unp
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by arethuza 5mo ago
Immigration to the UK is not at an all time high - both immigration and net migration are down pretty sharply: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c70989jrdweo
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by arethuza 5mo ago
And the English back to various corners of north west Europe and the Scots back to Scythia!
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by arethuza 5mo ago
I live in rural Fife - effectively in the middle of a farm. We get mice in the house in October or so when it starts getting colder - never seen a rat here. Oddly I've never seen a fox here although I used to see them all the time when
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by arethuza 5mo ago
"Starlings declined by 57% between 1995 and 2023 and they now feature on the Red List of birds of high conservation concern." https://www.rspb.org.uk/birds-and-wildlife/starling
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by arethuza 5mo ago
My main issue with Windows 11 (and where I use it I do see quite a lot of issues) is that apparently it won't run on my personal PC at home - and no way am I going to buy a new PC just to run Windows 11. So installed Linux Mint and I&#
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by arethuza 5mo ago
I learned vi in '86 or so mid way through the CS course I did. Later on I used emacs and various other editors for many years. The weird thing is that the basic vi commands are hardwired in my brain - I could happily edit a file in vi
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by arethuza 5mo ago
Can you imagine how much fun it would be to find that bug?
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by arethuza 5mo ago
I suspect a lot of people in the UK today would pronounce "brown cow" as "broon coo" - certainly I would have when I was a wee loon ;-)
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by arethuza 5mo ago
When we lived in Edinburgh our flat had a fantastic view north - which included the spire of Fettes College and occasionally the flare from Mossmorran - which together look quite like Barad-dûr and Mount Doom...
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by arethuza 5mo ago
I really liked developing in PostScript within NeWS... had quite a lispy interactive feeling to it. It was perfectly usable on a early '90s Sun Workstation so I'd love to know what performance would be like on the vastly faster ma
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by arethuza 5mo ago
Yes, I know, I'm from Scotland!
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by arethuza 5mo ago
Actually my first thought for something like this was places like Orkney that have a surplus of wind powered electricity (there is a connector to the mainland being built) and short flights between the islands - including the shortest sched
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by arethuza 6mo ago
It's been a long long time since I was the academic research world - but isn't 3 published papers pretty much the expectation for a PhD quantity of research?
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by arethuza 6mo ago
ERP implementations probably don't fail for those kind of architectural reasons?
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by arethuza 6mo ago
Many years ago I had 4 surgical procedures done around my nose/throat at the same time - straightening a deviated septum, turbinectomy, enlarging the openings into my sinuses and removing my tonsils. This meant I couldn't breath t
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by arethuza 6mo ago
My breakfast routine for ~40 years has been coffee, muesli, coffee, yoghurt, coffee, fresh fruit all served with plenty coffee.
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by arethuza 6mo ago
"The final layers (Troy VIII–IX) were Greek and Roman cities which served as tourist attractions and religious centers because of their link to mythic tradition." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Troy
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by arethuza 6mo ago
"for rejecting api keys which might have a type" - assuming that is meant by to be "typo" - won't they get rejected anyway?
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by arethuza 6mo ago
They acquired a lot of applications - ERP, CRM, finance - I suspect actual database licensing revenues are only a small part of their revenues these days. Years ago I had some fun integrating with Hyperion Financial Management (HFM) - which

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