arethuza

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by arethuza 3y ago
There may be something to that - I don't think I've met anyone like that in the last 15+ years. Mind you, I might have got better at picking better to people to work with.
932.
by arethuza 3y ago
"The brilliant jerk thing is, in my experience, largely a myth." Not in my experience - I've met a few spectacular examples in my career - but I am in my 50s.
933.
by arethuza 3y ago
The last dishwasher we had was also an AEG - I made multiple repairs to it over the years but then the electricals gave out and I wasn't happy fiddling with that so we replaced it.
934.
by arethuza 3y ago
Our relatively new AEG shines a red light on the floor when it is operating (and a slowly flashing red light if the door is ajar) - turns out this is a better UI than a mobile app!
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by arethuza 3y ago
Isn't the whole of Antarctica categorised as a polar desert? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polar_desert
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by arethuza 3y ago
We got a new dishwasher a while back and it came with a mobile app - this was a bit of a faff to get working but was mildly useful in that it would send a notification once the cycle was done. Then after a few weeks the company decided they
937.
by arethuza 3y ago
"pushing more water over the rudder to increase steering authority" Thanks - that is fascinating - I had thought that the tug was actually pulling backwards while the ship was moving forwards. "I wouldn't hang around&q
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by arethuza 3y ago
Where we live we have great view over the Firth of Forth - which is a reasonably busy waterway. The find the full LPG tankers making their way out to the open sea fascinating as they always have a gaggle of protective tugs around them - inc
939.
by arethuza 3y ago
Would you even need any explosives? Even just hitting something with an empty RV is going to be a fairly effective weapon.
940.
by arethuza 3y ago
Well we do have almost technological gods in fiction in the Culture series: "I am not an animal brain, I am not even some attempt to produce an AI through software running on a computer. I am a Culture Mind. We are close to gods, and o
941.
by arethuza 3y ago
Isn't "hypersonic icbms" a tautology? Edit: Launching an ICBM is going to cause a huge alarm - how do the other side know that rocket is being used for reconnaissance rather than an attack?
942.
by arethuza 3y ago
I have no idea - that's why I was asking. I've been responsible for installing systems that had the same "design" into multiple physical locations - hundreds of physical devices at each location. Having a common design d
943.
by arethuza 3y ago
"you just copy/paste" Aren't we talking about physical signalling kit - no copying and pasting? 272 stations and ~400km of track - a lot of which is pretty difficult to access?
944.
by arethuza 3y ago
You should see the Glasgow Subway - its trains are almost comically small.
945.
by arethuza 3y ago
About 20 years ago I had a couple of people from the US ask me if they could drive to Rome for the day - we were in Edinburgh at the time. Rome is about 1,600 miles away from here.
946.
by arethuza 3y ago
Not quite Amazon and a canal but... I was once asked by a tourist near where I lived if the bridge they had just driven across was the 2500m long Forth Road Bridge across what is, I believe, geographically a fjord - it was actually Dean Bri
947.
by arethuza 3y ago
"don't give any private sensitive information to anyone working in the NHS" I don't see how that is practical in any way - apart from the most trivial of cases how can they prescribe medicine or refer you to specialists
948.
by arethuza 3y ago
"Also like, the trench run trench ends in the exhaust vent (?) while the equatorial trench seems to go all around without end?" That probably explains my understanding that it wasn't the equatorial trench...
949.
by arethuza 3y ago
I played the arcade version of Atari Star Wars far too much in '83 & '84 and for some reason I never thought it was the equatorial trench.
950.
by arethuza 3y ago
I should point out that my situation (and the lady who lost her leg) were caused by infections from cat bites - which I now know to be potentially rather serious if left untreated.
951.
by arethuza 3y ago
I was hospitalised for two days because of a cat bite and when talking to a nurse was told that she had treated someone who lost a leg!
952.
by arethuza 3y ago
Real problems can occur when you only have one plan: https://nsarchive2.gwu.edu/NSAEBB/NSAEBB130/ Particularly if that plan, as Daniel Ellsberg described, would kill about a billion people.
953.
by arethuza 3y ago
Probably "Seven Days to the Rhine": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seven_Days_to_the_River_Rhine However, that was for a single exercise/simulation and the Warsaw Pact militaries probably had loads of oth
954.
by arethuza 3y ago
I believe the important bit is to let your enemy know that you have such a weapon and not wait until the Party Conference to share your surprise.
955.
by arethuza 3y ago
If you are using a self-checkout who is the tip supposed to be for?
956.
by arethuza 3y ago
"let people go crazy with Excel/VBA" Many years ago a company I worked for used to send out a spreadsheet to its suppliers which they would complete with the products they offered and then when it was received back there was
957.
by arethuza 3y ago
Yes - I can see why that particular comparison makes sense. However, not sure if that was the standard (or even most common) way of using jQuery whereas with HTMX it's pretty much the only option you have?
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by arethuza 3y ago
About 1990 or so I learned PostScript to do development in NeWS using the PostScript books that shipped with Sun OpenWindows - the blue book is a really well written tutorial.
959.
by arethuza 3y ago
"it's a glorified/bastardized jQuery" I'm struggling to see why you would compare jQuery and HTMX?
960.
by arethuza 3y ago
"And 99% of the time the answer will be a locally running process" Depends on the environment - for years I used either an HP X terminal or a PC running an X server and the one thing I could be confident about in both cases was th

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