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by bloat 3y ago
"Rental revenue is shared with the management company, and owners typically pay no upfront fees for management, which includes the marketing and reservation of the units.[citation needed] Typical monthly fees for units in the rental po
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by bloat 4y ago
My dad is 90, and has been doing change ringing in churches for eighty years. He was encouraged to start by his father when he was 10 as there weren't enough people to ring church bells as so many had gone to fight in the war. Change r
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by bloat 4y ago
You really think that an issue as important as basic food supplies is going to be bumped out of the headlines by a tedious government consultation on internet governance?
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by bloat 4y ago
I've mostly heard of them being used for people doing giant international tours where they want something that just will not break. Seems like a very niche market though!
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by bloat 4y ago
They need very little maintenance. But they are very expensive. e.g. https://www.sjscycles.co.uk/rohloff/
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by bloat 4y ago
There's whole pages of explanation about understandability in the Meaningful Names chapter preceding that distilled rule. Specifically it explains about making meaningful distinctions by avoiding vague words like Data or Manager or Inf
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by bloat 4y ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34560399
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Tiny radioactive capsule lost in Australian outback found(theguardian.com)
55 points by bloat 4y ago|25 comments
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by bloat 4y ago
If you're doing TDD then yes, you're writing the tests first. But even Kent Beck says you don't need to do TDD all the time. So where's the dogmatism?
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by bloat 4y ago
I also still have my mum's 7" collection from the sixties.
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by bloat 4y ago
Vinyl records. I still have records that are perfectly good which I bought when I first got a record player for my 15th (I think) birthday, 35 years ago now.
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How I Felt After Binge-Drinking 'Hangover-Free' Alcohol(vice.com)
39 points by bloat 4y ago|40 comments
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A Fake British Accent Took Old Hollywood by Storm(atlasobscura.com)
2 points by bloat 4y ago|0 comments
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Netflix to reveal for first time how many people watch its shows in the UK(theguardian.com)
8 points by bloat 4y ago|0 comments
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Folk Song Subject and Master Index(vwml.org)
1 points by bloat 4y ago|0 comments
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‘Fall’ Movie Used Deepfake-Style Tech to Change 30-Plus F-Bombs, PG-13 Rating(variety.com)
2 points by bloat 4y ago|0 comments
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Hunting for Ambergris in New Zealand(theguardian.com)
1 points by bloat 4y ago|0 comments
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by bloat 4y ago
This author sets up a lot of his own personal standards for scientific reporting, and then calls outlets "dishonest" for failing to meet them. Its fair enough if he doesn't like their reporting, but pretending that they are d
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SoftBank ‘halts plans’ for Arm’s London listing amid political instability(theguardian.com)
2 points by bloat 4y ago|0 comments
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by bloat 4y ago
You're lucky he was referred to as Robert Smith. In my company they'd just have said 'Robert', and I wouldn't even be able to look him up in the directory to find out what the hell his job is.
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Orélie-Antoine de Tounens(en.wikipedia.org)
1 points by bloat 4y ago|0 comments
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by bloat 4y ago
This is interesting. Is the internet completely cut off? Do they have internal libraries of documentation for third party stuff they are using (paper? digital?) Do you have any example institutions, or what domain they are working in? Thank
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by bloat 4y ago
Well, it should really read "Now some, expensive bicycle drivetrains are...". But I guess it'll trickle down to more run-of-the mill stuff eventually.
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by bloat 4y ago
I think some people would be inclined to say that physics can tell you something about the actual nature of reality, rather than being a bunch of maths that corresponds to a greater or lesser degree to observed experience. There's a di
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by bloat 4y ago
ALL THESE WORLDS ARE YOURS — EXCEPT EUROPA ATTEMPT NO LANDING THERE.
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by bloat 4y ago
We have a good time with it in our work. We don't use everything it has to offer, but we do use dependency injection, Spring MVC and JMS. We write testable classes, we new them up in @Bean methods and group them together in @Configurat
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by bloat 4y ago
The database in org-roam is a cache for performance. It can be removed at any time and it will be rebuilt from the metadata contained in the files.
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by bloat 5y ago
With regards to the last sentence there, in my experience cycling a "false flat" is simply a very gradual uphill that saps your energy slowly. Not really an optical illusion in the same sense as these gravity hills.
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Going Round the Bend with the Tehachapi Loop(interestingengineering.com)
1 points by bloat 5y ago|0 comments
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Point Nemo – The Remotest Location on Earth(curiousminds.co.uk)
1 points by bloat 5y ago|0 comments

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