arethuza

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by arethuza 9mo ago
"David Tennant's character is notably very bad at his job; that's why he got exiled to a backwater town." Worth noting that in Hot Fuzz (also featuring Olivia Coleman!) the main character is exiled to a rural location fo
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by arethuza 9mo ago
As Tolkien said: “My ‘Sam Gamgee’ is indeed a reflexion of the English soldier, of the privates and batmen I knew in the 1914 war, and recognized as so far superior to myself.”
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by arethuza 9mo ago
"On some level Americans are British people time-displaced by a couple of generations." At a certain level I don't think the UK ever recovered from WW1.
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by arethuza 9mo ago
Inheritance Machining is like that - a lot of self deprecation.
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by arethuza 9mo ago
Isn't Eeyore part of the Poohniverse?
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by arethuza 9mo ago
VW Group yes - a Škoda
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by arethuza 9mo ago
My car has a staggeringly bad UI design choice - the cancel active navigation the control to do this only appears when you hold your finger close to the screen. Pretty much every time I want to do this I am flummoxed as to "Where did t
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by arethuza 9mo ago
I'll drive 80 miles to walk 25 km to climb mountains because they are over 3000ft high (Munros) even though I think about the heights on the mountains in metres!
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by arethuza 9mo ago
I'd go for two views - one, as you describe, that gives you the "active" records and another that gives you the "inactive" records.
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by arethuza 9mo ago
"America expanded into land that was sparsely populated" What does this remind you of?
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by arethuza 9mo ago
My own favourite - the Last Ent of Affric: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Last_Ent_of_Affric
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by arethuza 9mo ago
"There’s class warfare, all right, but it’s my class, the rich class, that’s making war, and we’re winning." Warren Buffet https://www.nytimes.com/2006/11/26/business/yourmoney/26ever...
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by arethuza 9mo ago
There is an incredibly good minute-by-minute account of the Cuban crisis: "One Minute to Midnight: Kennedy, Khrushchev and Castro on the Brink of Nuclear War" - it covers a lot of areas that aren't often mentioned such as t
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by arethuza 9mo ago
I have no idea - nothing good, that's clear.
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by arethuza 9mo ago
It only takes one soldier to down an incoming US transport aircraft with a MANPAD?
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by arethuza 9mo ago
Which is one reason why it reminds me of the Falklands War - with the USA in the role of Argentina.
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by arethuza 9mo ago
Isn't there a rather large country mostly in the way between the USA and Greenland?
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by arethuza 9mo ago
Worth noting that Diocletian's retirement "villa" was actually a massive palace that still forms the heart of the city of Split in Croatia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diocletian%27s_Palace
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by arethuza 9mo ago
Please tell me that first typo was intentional...
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by arethuza 9mo ago
The UK does produce its own LNG though - I watch the tankers sailing past my house!
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by arethuza 9mo ago
""independent"" (not) nuclear deterrent" We really are in a weird state of dependency with the US regarding deterrence - missiles sourced from US stocks, UK nuclear material built into warheads using a US design. I
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by arethuza 9mo ago
"Extremely dependent" seems to be overstating things a bit - 11% of imported gas comes from the US with is about a fifth of what we import from Norway and a third of domestic production? https://www.sunsave.energy/
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by arethuza 9mo ago
I always found profiling performance critical code and experimenting with optimisations to be one of the most enjoyable parts of development - probably because of the number of surprises that I encountered ("Why on Earth is that so s
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by arethuza 9mo ago
That has been called the "Good Chap" theory of government: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%22Good_chap%22_theory
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by arethuza 9mo ago
"Scotland was colonized by England" That's not really true, it was a union agreed by both sides - hence the name.
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by arethuza 9mo ago
I guess in my world the IndyRef was in the good old days before the breaking of the world that was Brexit.
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by arethuza 9mo ago
That's not a tank - looks like an Abbot SPG? ;-)
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by arethuza 9mo ago
I'd go for " retired , angry, lonely and obsessed" Edit: I'm 60 in case anyone thinks I'm being ageist
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by arethuza 9mo ago
I actually think that the process around Scottish independence actually demonstrates that the UK is actually relatively sane - a part of the country wanted to consider independence, the government at the time said "OK you can have a re
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by arethuza 9mo ago
"tanks in cities were the best way to address crime in cities" Given the amount of tanks the UK has I think it would have to be "tank in city" - mind you tanks have been used in Glasgow! ;-) https://euppublish

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