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The real work in software engineering is deciding how to represent all the details of the problem and its solution - the rest is just typing. The ability to understand abstract systems in this way is very rare. For most people, computers ar
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I learnt at school that the thermostat in a kettle was a bimetallic strip, made from two metals with different thermal expansion coefficients. When the bimetallic strip reached 100 Celsius, the two sides of the strip would lengthen at diffe
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The part where countries engage in warlike activities against each other to get their hands on more gold sounds like it would cause economic uncertainty.
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Australia has infamously robust consumer protection laws. Because of the high cost of running a business in Australia, especially one that involves physical goods, Australians are buying ever more things from overseas over the Internet, whi
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Really, we're not allowed to agree with some of the EU's ideas but disagree with others? You demand that we take every policy proposal from the EU as part of a single coherent political philosophy?
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The general public has come to accept that computers are magic. Sometimes the magic does good things, sometimes it does bad things. If there's a person with a public profile who is seen to be controlling the computers, governments migh
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I think this is also called 'politician's logic': https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vidzkYnaf6Y
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There's no typo there, what I typed is what we were told. There's a genuine belief that research expires after ten years in educational psychology (and possibly other human sciences). It was a sharp contrast to my major in physics
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> It's fine for small one off scripts, but as your software's complexity grows the implicit (and often entirely undocumented) schema turns into tech debt. It's a great way to start off a project, when you're still fil
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I started computer programming at a similar age, but there's a difference between an individual child following their passion at the level of their own abilities, and a classroom teacher trying to develop abstract thinking in 25 or 30
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I was a teacher, in both Australia and the UK. The first thing I was told in an educational psychology lecture was to never cite any research more than ten years old. (If you break this rule, you'll see the same ideas being reinvented
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Discussion on Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bus_bunching Discussion of how to solve it in OpenTTD: https://www.openttd.org/news/2024/02/10/unbunching
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In Kelvedon Hatch in Essex is the Secret Nuclear Bunker [0], which was first used as a RAF command post in the Second World War, but ended up as a Regional Government HQ for use in the event of a nuclear war. The room which was intended to
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HTMX sets up an underlying network traffic pattern: 1. The user interacts with the page. 2. The page sends a request to the server. 3. The server returns one response to the client, containing HTML, which the client inserts into the page. 4
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Copyright originates in the Statute of Anne[0]; its creation was therefore within living memory when the United States declared their independence. No rights have existed 'forever', and both the rights and the social problems they
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I think the person you're replying to is arguing for using some sort of database migration library without using an ORM library. It's the same position I came to recently.
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HEMA is about recreating what's described in the historical manuscripts, which is almost always 1v1 stuff. Examples here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=91IIARM5lVs
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There is, however, a long history of immigration to Australia that is illegal under Australian law; see the 'Timeline' section of this Wikipedia article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asylum_in_Australia
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Australia and the UK have their own particular immigration crises. In Australia, overstaying a student visa is the most common way of becoming an illegal immigrant, and so the increased fee is part of a larger suite of reforms designed to r
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All of these things are inherently social activities. The fact that you're up against another human being is what makes it fun.
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Olympic fencing has very well-defined rules, and so is a poor reflection of actual combat. You can lose a point in fencing just because it wasn't your turn to attack. Kendo is highly ritualised, and therefore has the same problems. The
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The thing about martial arts is that they work: if you do them properly, you're going to kill someone (or be killed). Every group that does stuff with swords, therefore, has to sacrifice something to ensure that everyone can have fun
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I remember an /r/AskReddit thread years ago about 'What's your favourite free smartphone app?' (or something along those lines) and the comment that most stuck in my mind was from an iPhone user lamenting how many i
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> Tech work used to come with a story: “You’re an owner. You’re early. You’ll make it.” I suppose the Harley-Davidson salesman told you that the motorbike would get you all the women too. Investment is always about risk, and being a earl
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It's an old meme: https://imgur.com/thats-bit-harsh-steam-XCEdD8W In the UK, it's considered good form to be humorous when making an argument; I gather that in the US, you're supposed to sound like you'r
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> So is it really not the case that "practice" is US English and "practise" is UK English? Correct: practice is a noun, and practise is a verb, in non-US English. I don't have my (twenty-volume) copy of the
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... and use the proceeds to increase the bounties paid to genuine bug reports.
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Interesting - I'd heard of American Gen Zs using theatre to mean the art form, to distinguish it from just meaning a building, but I hadn't heard of British English being considered a more prestigious register than American Engl
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It's fine if the tool has severe limitations at this stage. However, it's crucial to clearly state what those limitations are: not only does it prevent the flurry of complaints and chargebacks from customers who were disappointed
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> English is a bastard of a language and getting messier every day as new nations adopt it is their standard language. I disagree strenuously with this idea, because it suggests that there is one 'big' English in which anything

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