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by cjs_ac 2y ago
I haven't read Seeing Like a State , but I find the list of legibility criteria to be very interesting, purely because of how many don't apply here in the United Kingdom. > Lives at a particular location, and has an exact addr
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by cjs_ac 2y ago
The UK does extremely well in oldest schools: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_oldest_schools
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by cjs_ac 2y ago
This has a very 'Victorian anthropologist' vibe. It's not the 'point and laugh at the freaks' undertone of, say, The Big Bang Theory , but it's clear the author is very much a humanities person who hasn't
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by cjs_ac 2y ago
The 'Man vs. Woman' section of Talhoffer's 1467 fechtbuch is a bit of a meme in the Historical European Martial Arts community. The Medieval European Martial Arts Guild had a go at it; the video is rather entertaining: htt
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by cjs_ac 2y ago
Your ticket has been closed because Google Maps engineers were unable to reproduce the issue in Silicon Valley. My experience with both Google Maps and Waze is that despite having the best live traffic data, there are so many UI issues that
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by cjs_ac 2y ago
I work in the Python ecosystem, and I see the same problems here as in JavaScript. The problem, as I see it, is moving fast and breaking things. I appreciate that it's very fashionable, and that the people making these libraries and fr
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by cjs_ac 2y ago
Credit unions are cooperatives owned by their customers.
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by cjs_ac 2y ago
I'm unable to think of any reform in British history where 'throw everything out and start again' had successful outcomes. The British state runs on two principles: maximum effect for minimum effort, and the Ship of Theseus.
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by cjs_ac 2y ago
> The upshot of the research then, is that building an accurate database is really hard. OS concludes that it would have to check the 4.2m bad addresses manually to make its PAF-less database a viable dataset that would actually be usefu
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by cjs_ac 2y ago
Irony is a fundamental aspect of British culture and communication, and exceptionally few Britons would find this anything other than amusing.
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by cjs_ac 2y ago
Given that YouTube uses the like and subscribe buttons as inputs for its recommendation algorithm, doesn't this feature just aid and abet content creators in gaming YouTube's system?
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Newspapers have been dealing with this issue since the nineteenth century. I don't know how things work where you are in the world, but in the UK and Australia, newspapers are separated into broadsheets which have better-quality jour
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by cjs_ac 2y ago
The lecture-tutorial pedagogical model used in universities is called scholasticism and dates back to the middle ages. Books were very expensive, so in the lectures, the lecturer would just read out the relevant text for students to copy
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by cjs_ac 2y ago
This is what I call the 'Malcolm Tucker Test'. Malcolm Tucker is a character from the BBC TV series The Thick of It , which is a sitcom set in the British government. His role is the PM's Director of Communications, and is a
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by cjs_ac 2y ago
(There is a point to this wall of text: bear with me.) I used to be a physics teacher; I taught in schools in Australia and the United Kingdom. One of the things that still horrifies me is that many of my colleagues - in Australia in partic
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by cjs_ac 2y ago
When I moved to the UK, I was advised to open a bank account with either Monzo or Starling, which are the two online-only startup banks in the UK. (They're actual banks, not resellers backed by other banks, or money transfer apps like
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by cjs_ac 2y ago
Lead poisoning in Australian mining towns is a surprisingly contentious issue. Town mayors usually try to cover up and deny any evidence of lead poisoning, because without the mines, there is no town. The broken hill that the town of Broken
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by cjs_ac 2y ago
> Nobody’s surname needs 128+ bytes. This attitude ensures that the US software industry will never conquer the world.
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by cjs_ac 2y ago
There was a big roundabout, but it couldn't handle the traffic volume. https://youtu.be/DAFQZwR157E
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by cjs_ac 2y ago
> On off days, I sometimes wonder if I’m bought into some narratives too strongly. Like, is Postgres really the world’s best database? Experiences like this certainly cement my conviction. Yes, it is. I find these 'different therefo
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by cjs_ac 2y ago
While Eton and its ilk don't have this particular problem, the ongoing suppression of teachers' salaries limits the length of many teachers' careers: in the UK, half of all teachers leave the profession within five years of j
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by cjs_ac 2y ago
Eton College is probably the most famous school in the world. It's called 'the nursemaid of British statesmen' due to its propensity to churn out future prime ministers. The Conservative Party seems to regard an Old Etonian t
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by cjs_ac 2y ago
If the Liberal-National coalition takes power after the next election, and goes ahead with this plan, it will be Australia's Brexit. The owners of the coal fired plants that the Coalition wants to replace have their own plans for reusi
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by cjs_ac 2y ago
This article is just content marketing for a self-hosted budgeting app and has nothing interesting to say about self-hosting itself.
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by cjs_ac 2y ago
This resonated fairly well with me, but I have some thoughts. 1. The archetypical 'weaver' conversation is introduced as the exchange of apparently disconnected facts, with each as an invitation for an interlocutor to add a fact
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by cjs_ac 2y ago
This is such a long-standing difference that Sydney newspapers will use the word 'leafy' to describe a suburb as having significant social capital. The local governments in the 'leafy' areas are extremely protective of
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by cjs_ac 2y ago
The difference is that for solid-state logic, the heat is purely a waste byproduct, whereas for thermionic valves, the heat is the energy used by the electrons to move between the electrodes, hence the name. If the valves are cold, you have
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by cjs_ac 2y ago
Some thoughts from a former schoolteacher. 1. Teachers have exactly no time for evaluating this sort of thing. Your landing page is cluttered with aspirational bullshit about how amazing it is. Get rid of that and tell me exactly what it do
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by cjs_ac 2y ago
Caveat: I'm approaching this from a 'indie hacker' mindset. The article mentions $10 million funding rounds, so they're probably approaching this from a different mindset. The article distinguishes between a product bus
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by cjs_ac 2y ago
This is the infamous Dead Cat Strategy[0]. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dead_cat_strategy

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