arethuza

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by arethuza 9mo ago
Redford Barracks is quite a bit out from the centre of Edinburgh - hardly "on the site"?
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by arethuza 9mo ago
I'm just nervous about you-know-who realising that Scotland is in the Western Hemisphere!
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by arethuza 9mo ago
Sadly, the figure isn't zero - I know a few.
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by arethuza 9mo ago
The Isle of Man isn't part of the UK? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isle_of_Man
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by arethuza 9mo ago
Parts of Edinburgh Castle are still used by the army - I doubt there are many trucks or squaddies based there though: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edinburgh_Castle#Military_role
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by arethuza 9mo ago
Well, presumably the Celts did come across in small boats? But so did the Angles, Saxons, Jutes, Scots... ;-)
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by arethuza 9mo ago
Well, I was 9 at the time and it was probably the first "science" book that I had read and got excited about. And no - never been impressed by any of the major religions - although (possibly influenced by Philip Pullman) I do w
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by arethuza 9mo ago
I remember reading a von Däniken book when I was quite young, 9 or so, I think and being absolutely fascinated. Then after a while I realised it was pretty much all made up and what has stayed with me ever since was my blazing righteous ang
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by arethuza 9mo ago
On the bright side, at least the ski areas here in Scotland would have reliable snow!
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by arethuza 9mo ago
Not sure it would take that long - the Younger Dryas only lasted 1,200 years and resulted in fairly significant glaciation here in Scotland - although nothing like the depth of ice of the full ice age.
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by arethuza 9mo ago
Here in Scotland its pretty common for cows to be kept off of the fields during winter - a combination of protecting them from the weather and, I suspect more importantly, protecting pasture land. Having cows in a field here at the moment (
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by arethuza 9mo ago
"My impression is that anti-vaxxers have more issues" - I think you could have left it at that!
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by arethuza 9mo ago
That sounds like the "empty home premium" - which only kicks in after a year: https://www.gov.uk/council-tax/second-homes-and-empty-proper...
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by arethuza 9mo ago
Not yet no (and I seriously hope that it will never happen), but a ceasefire in Ukraine looks like it might happen tying down troops from the UK, France and others and then a threat to Greenland from the US drawing off more troops and atten
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by arethuza 9mo ago
It actually reminds me more of the Falklands War...
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by arethuza 9mo ago
Thanks - I had a quick scan through the code and noticed the 4096 byte buffers and wondered how larger messages were handled and couldn't see anything but wondered if I was missing something!
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by arethuza 9mo ago
"other Nordic countries will be involved" I can't help wondering if that's really what all of this is about - the Nordics can't really fight the US and Russia at the same time (though given their history I suspect t
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by arethuza 9mo ago
"The strong do what they can, and the weak suffer what they must" Thucydides
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by arethuza 9mo ago
Speaking of wmd - there are probably secret nuclear missile bases buried under the ice... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camp_Century
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by arethuza 9mo ago
Well flying over it the place does seem covered in white powder?
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by arethuza 9mo ago
What happens if the message entered by the user into the Client is more than 4096 bytes?
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by arethuza 10mo ago
I don't think that's impractical - isn't it exactly what YouTube Premium offers, ad free viewing for £12.99 a month. I watch quite a lot of content on YouTube and really should sign up for Premium but I feel that the shocking
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by arethuza 10mo ago
The advantage of Ryanair and a lot of the other low cost carriers is that they do a lot of point to point flights between regional hubs - for example we flew Edinburgh to Marrakesh with them a few years back which was fine and I think they
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by arethuza 10mo ago
Ryanair used to do some things that were quite remarkably devious - the option to not by travel insurance was in the middle of drop-down list of countries! To make sure I had remembered that correctly I looked it up and here is a descriptio
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by arethuza 10mo ago
I suspect most local councils in the UK have an archaeology team and failing that there are a lot of professional consulting archaeologists - a lot (all?) large scale building works often include the need for archaeological surveys and&#x2F
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by arethuza 10mo ago
For Orkney the difference in day length between winter and summer solstices is about 12 hours? December: https://www.timeanddate.com/sun/uk/kirkwall?month=12&year=20... June: https://www.timeanddate
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by arethuza 10mo ago
Probably easier to measure the location of sunsets and sunrises rather than the time? Edit: Obviously somewhere like here in Scotland observing the sunrise is easier said than done - particularly at this time of year!
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by arethuza 10mo ago
Does anyone actually encrypt the contents of JWTs? I'd have thought that anyone who has concerns about the contents of the token being easily visible would be likely to avoid JWTs anyway and just use completely opaque tokens?
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by arethuza 10mo ago
X (the Window System not the thing that was Twitter) explicitly allowed a remote machine to send rendering commands over a network to the local machine? (I'm avoiding using the term "server" as X has this round the other way
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by arethuza 10mo ago
"Computer science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes." Usually attributed to Dijkstra.

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