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by arethuza 10mo ago
My first reaction, having done a fair bit of XSLT in ancient times, was "I hope not". After a bit of searching all the examples I could see use JavaScript to glue the HTTP request making part and then invoke the XSLT processor so
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by arethuza 10mo ago
Overcoming hardships may leave people more resilient, but it may also leave them physical and/or psychological wrecks.
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by arethuza 10mo ago
Accenture has its HQ in Dublin - FAANG companies have their HQs in the US?
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by arethuza 10mo ago
"the wealthy ruling class" What always surprises me is that a lot of the most comfortably well off people in the US, and a lesser extend the UK, seem to live in a state of perennial fear.
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by arethuza 10mo ago
Not sure that "crisp" is a word I'd use to describe any part of the UK in autumn - probably more like "soggy" - but that applies to any season!
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by arethuza 10mo ago
"We don't exhibit happiness, and we don't express happiness in a way that is easily observed" I would far rather live somewhere where people look unhappy but are actually pretty content with life than somewhere where p
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by arethuza 10mo ago
If you already have Sets handy - why not use the Set Intersection? (Assuming the Set implementation has that capability).
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by arethuza 10mo ago
I'd be tempted to ask under what circumstances they'd expect me to be coding a sorting routine... Seems a bit like asking an accountant to add two 10 digit numbers.
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by arethuza 10mo ago
I still have the BBC Radio 4 version of His Dark Materials on CD somewhere - I ripped them years ago and listen to the digital version. I've experienced HDM in various forms, including the stage version and of course the books, but I
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by arethuza 11mo ago
I suspect very few people have more than one!
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by arethuza 11mo ago
SKI can, of course, be de-optimised a bit further by replacing I with SKK. You are right though that it is relatively simply to go from something that looks like a normal program languages to a pile of S and K combinators. Not the most effi
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by arethuza 11mo ago
The origins of the Deep Fried Mars Bar are disputed but all of the people doing the disputing appear to be here in Scotland? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deep-fried_Mars_bar
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by arethuza 11mo ago
It's an idea that surfaces every few years - back in 1981 I can remember reading about "The Last One" - named because it was supposed to be the last computer program that would ever need to be written: https://en.
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by arethuza 11mo ago
When I did a 4 year CS degree at a UK university in the 1980s I don't think I touched anything from Microsoft for the entire time I was there!
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by arethuza 11mo ago
I'm very short sighted so TVs wouldn't work for me, but I also tend to keep my eyes tight shut in case I see any of the ghastly instruments being used! [During the bone graft I did open my eyes briefly and saw a small for clearly
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by arethuza 11mo ago
HN Guidelines: "Don't be curmudgeonly. Thoughtful criticism is fine, but please don't be rigidly or generically negative."
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by arethuza 11mo ago
A while back I had to have a long and unpleasant dental procedure - a bone graft so I could get an implant in an area where the bone had been damaged - this took about 4 hours. During this time the dentist played music - mostly various work
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by arethuza 11mo ago
"why did the alien craft always approach the Earth from the side where the Moon is" Presumably because they'd read the script? :-)
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by arethuza 11mo ago
That might be something wrong with your particular device - we've had two Apple TVs over 10+ years and they've been remarkably stable. I didn't even know how to "force quit" - I looked it up when you mentioned it. E
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by arethuza 11mo ago
UFO is also one I could recommend - I watched it when it first came out but didn't really understand any of it (I was about 6): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UFO_(British_TV_series)
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by arethuza 11mo ago
Or if you have a meeting to practise talking about nuking people, the people who you are talking about nuking might think you are actually going to nuke them and nuke you before you nuke them.
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by arethuza 11mo ago
The UK also nuked the US 24 times https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_nuclear_testing_in_the... Then there was that thing where RAF bombers pretended to bomb US cities... which had to be hushed up as it made it clear
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by arethuza 11mo ago
On my home desktop PC Windows 10 is saying I can't upgrade to Windows 11 and doesn't give any explanation. There's nothing wrong with the machine and I hate Windows 11 anyway (I have to use it on my work laptop) so there is n
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by arethuza 11mo ago
It looks like it was part of the MoD but it's now part of DSIT: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Met_Office
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by arethuza 11mo ago
I'm struggling to think of what goods are made in the US that I might buy - certainly not food or cars?
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by arethuza 11mo ago
"Don't worry. I won't hold you to it. Just give me a ballpark." Anytime someone says that you absolutely know they will treat whatever you say as being a commitment written in blood!
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by arethuza 11mo ago
I believe that is the "Kzinti Lesson" from Larry Niven: "A reaction drive's efficiency as a weapon is in direct proportion to its efficiency as a drive." https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php
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by arethuza 11mo ago
It rather depends on the environment in which you are working - if estimates are well estimates then there is probably little harm in guessing how long something might take to fix. However, some places treat "estimates" as bindi
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by arethuza 11mo ago
When I was a young kid my eldest sister (who was 17 years older than me) was an educational psychologist and used to give me loads of intelligence tests - so I got pretty good at doing those kinds of tests. I actually think they are pretty
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by arethuza 11mo ago
Nitpick: the Scottish Independence Referendum was 44.7% Yes and 55.3% No https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2014_Scottish_independence_ref...

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