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901.
by arethuza 3y ago
Yes, I would recommend it and I had previously read the "The Great Post Office Scandal" book (which I would also recommend). Edit: My wife who is a pretty hard nosed commercial litigation lawyer was thoroughly shocked by it - so m
902.
by arethuza 3y ago
That might explain why the TSR-2 was cancelled - too beautiful! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BAC_TSR-2
903.
by arethuza 3y ago
Given the not terribly successful attempts to use fission reactors in aircraft I did wonder about this. Apparently Helion's approach is "mostly aneutronic fusion" - still means that 5% of power output as fast neutrons - which
904.
by arethuza 3y ago
I've used various generations of iPhones over the years for many long damp days in the Scottish hills and I've never had any problems - mind you I do use cases and carry a small plastic bag to put my phone in when it gets really
905.
by arethuza 3y ago
That "Hello World Enterprise Edition" looks dangerously under-engineered - I could understand it! Far better to follow the best practices demonstrated in the Fizz Buzz Enterprise Edition... https://github.com/Enter
906.
by arethuza 3y ago
Iona is pretty much Scotland's open-air equivalent of Westminster Abbey - there are supposed to be 48 Dalriadan/Scottish kings buried there, as well as eight Norwegian and four Irish kings. It also has some of the nicest beaches I
907.
by arethuza 3y ago
"because med school is just so expensive" Doesn't the US also require that people study medicine as a second degree? That can't help with the costs... e.g. Here in the UK you can go straight from high school to study med
908.
My days were filled with danger when I was homeless(theguardian.com)
5 points by arethuza 3y ago|2 comments
909.
by arethuza 3y ago
A Gnomon device would probably be a few hundred tons and a Sundial a few thousand tons - hence the delivery mechanism for the latter on Teller's blackboard apparently being "backyard": https://blog.nuclearsecrecy.c
910.
by arethuza 3y ago
There was also the ear splitting noise of the engines but also what I have since learned was the Vulcan's characteristic "howl"... I have no idea what the aircrew were doing, apart from having some fun, possibly waiting to la
911.
by arethuza 3y ago
I think that was the same engine as the Vulcan bomber - I can remember when I was 12 or so watching a Vulcan doing aerobatics above the small Scottish village where I grew up. A Vulcan being thrown about the sky is quite an impressive sigh
912.
by arethuza 3y ago
I'm amazed to see that the average price of a new car in the UK is now £38,585.
913.
by arethuza 3y ago
It's the poem Edinburgh by Hugh MacDiarmid: https://nishsrivastava.wordpress.com/2012/04/26/edinburgh-by...
914.
by arethuza 3y ago
And of course, everyone should go to Edinburgh.... But Edinburgh is a mad god’s dream Fitful and dark, Unseizable in Leith And wildered by the Forth, But irresistibly at last Cleaving to sombre heights Of passionate imagining Till stonil
915.
by arethuza 3y ago
I hope the dog's name is "Daftie" :-)
916.
by arethuza 3y ago
I think the problem stayed in the same place and Idaho and Montana moved? :-)
917.
by arethuza 3y ago
I'm pretty sure I played with ViolaWWW web browser in late '92 - certainly at some point in '93 we were writing web pages and trying to work out how to connect them to simulation programs. My first reaction on reading about M
918.
by arethuza 3y ago
There are elves in the Laundry Files universe - and they are not nice elves, as Stross says in notes on the first novel to feature them: "in the Laundry universe, elves are nazis with pointy ears" They aren't immortal alt
919.
by arethuza 3y ago
Out of interest, which programming language do you prefer?
920.
by arethuza 3y ago
I think that's a bit harsh - this was a complex system written in Common Lisp that had a front end in NeWS with some C plumbing linking the two together. PostScript and Lisp are actually pretty similar when the former is used in an int
921.
by arethuza 3y ago
PostScript is actually a pretty nice programming language, once you get used to it. Edit: I used it for a few years within NeWS & HyperNeWS.
922.
by arethuza 3y ago
I'd have thought a Williams tube would be ideal? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Williams_tube
923.
by arethuza 3y ago
Thanks for the correction - I wasn't particularly careful looking at the list on Wikpedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_and_dependen...
924.
by arethuza 3y ago
I am fond both of French food and strange crisp flavours - what would recommend as an authentic French snack?
925.
by arethuza 3y ago
I think that's mainly just a odd thing about the US and Canada - other, sometimes larger, countries have many places where you could easily access multiple other countries. China (larger than the US but smaller than Canada) has 16 trip
926.
by arethuza 3y ago
I don't see any listing for USG in their shareholders? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ASML_Holding
927.
by arethuza 3y ago
I would suspect that they have exclusivity deals with ASML? Edit: It looks like the Carl Zeiss subsidiary that does the semiconductor manufacturing tech is part owned by ASML: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Zeiss_SM
928.
by arethuza 3y ago
I suspect having close partnerships with the likes of Carl Zeiss AG who do the optics for the EUV machines will be part of it.
929.
by arethuza 3y ago
One of the quotes I remember from The War Game: "The blast wave from a thermonuclear explosion has been likened to an enormous door slamming in the depths of hell" Said over a scene where a family with young children try and tak
930.
by arethuza 3y ago
About 10 years ago I literally saw the blood drain from a colleagues face as he realised he had dropped a production database because he thought he was in a dev environment. A DBA colleague sitting nearby laughed and had things restored bac

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