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by cjs_ac 2y ago
The US Bill of Rights is copied almost word-for-word from English legislation: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_of_Rights_1689
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by cjs_ac 2y ago
I was a physics teacher in Australia and the UK from 2015 to 2021. I wrote a comment about teaching in a boys' school yesterday, but most of my career was spent in girls' schools, due partly to the Vogonic culture of the NSW Depar
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by cjs_ac 2y ago
My first teaching job was at an old, prestigious boys' boarding school in Australia. (When I say old , it was old for Australia.) Every boy, whether a boarder or day-boy, and every staff member received a hot lunch in the dining halls
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by cjs_ac 2y ago
I'm pretty sure the hammers are for breaking up large blocks of chocolate; I've got them with blocks from old-fashioned chocolatiers that don't score their blocks.
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by cjs_ac 2y ago
Rob Pike has some commentary on this in this blog post on Go's declaration syntax: https://go.dev/blog/declaration-syntax
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A little context for anyone not familiar with Australia's financial sector: a superannuation fund (or 'super', colloquially) is the equivalent of a private pension in the UK or a 501(k) in the US. Employers are legally requir
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by cjs_ac 2y ago
Pimoroni provides competition for this HAT, accepting one or two NVMe SSDs of up to 2280 length: * Single: https://shop.pimoroni.com/products/nvme-base?variant=4121958... * Double: https://shop.pimoroni.com&
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There's already a few 'this is a bad thing to exist on the Internet' comments, so I'll say something else. The four example comments feel a bit off, because while they are tailored to the informational context, they don&
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On UK Teacher Twitter, there are two factions that disagree noisily but civilly: the 'trads' and the 'progs'. Both factions have educational psychology research to back up their claims: the progs lean mainly on research
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by cjs_ac 2y ago
If you use a font that supports OpenType maths, you can just put MathML in your HTML and modern browsers will render it. MathML can be generated from LaTeX with pandoc or latexml.
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by cjs_ac 3y ago
The problem with envisaging how current technological trends will shape society in the future is that we try to work it out rationally, when people mostly take what they're given without thinking about it too much. The ability to liste
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by cjs_ac 3y ago
For anyone confused by the headline, this has nothing to do with 5G conspiracy theories: it's about net neutrality.
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by cjs_ac 3y ago
Weighing coins was always the preferred way of counting money. The pound sterling is called the pound sterling because 240 mediaeval pennies minted from sterling silver weighed one pound.
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by cjs_ac 3y ago
I worked on the design of this a couple of years ago. One day we were tasked with working out how to freeze the lake over so that people could go ice skating on it. There's a fractal insanity to the whole project. As you focus in on an
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by cjs_ac 3y ago
Also: * Some ingredients have different names in different countries * We should probably specify the animal, rather than just writing 'milk' and 'eggs'
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I find it interesting that the single-board computer market seems to be coalescing around the Raspberry Pi B models as the standard form factor. This device in particular has almost all of the same IO connectors as the Raspberry Pi 5 (one
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The Windows key is a recent addition to the PC keyboard layouts: there are many Model M keyboards with Windows-key-sized gaps in their lower rows. I'll be interested to see how the mechanical keyboard community reacts to this once thes
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by cjs_ac 3y ago
I have this problem with planning. My planning mostly ends up being sequencing of tasks rather than working how to do them. Software is made out of ideas, and code is just a symbolic representation of those ideas. Writing the code is the ea
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by cjs_ac 3y ago
https://archive.is/SLknv
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They've copied this idea from the Shop, Distributive and Allied Employees Association[0][1], the company-controlled union of the Coles-Woolworths supermarket duopoly, whose egregiousness motivated the formation of a second, competing u
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by cjs_ac 3y ago
This is a terrible article. There's a bit of history cobbled together with no explanation of why that's important. There's some equations with only half the terms defined - in particular, what is i ? The equations are screen
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'Propaganda' is just a Latin gerundive meaning 'thing needing to be propagated'. The word was used in Germany and the Soviet Union, whereas the United Kingdom had a Ministry of Information in the World Wars doing the exa
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> Liberalism has successfully faced down many opponents over the past four centuries. Reactionary monarchism, colonial imperialism, fascism, and communism (or at least, the 20th century variety) all fell by the wayside, and I’m pretty su
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by cjs_ac 3y ago
> I will omit the many interesting details of the Linux terminal infrastructure here, as it could easily fill its own article. Linus Akesson has written that article here: http://www.linusakesson.net/programming/tty&
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> One of the ways to practice software engineering is to do it, deliberately, over and over. The key is to pick something at the right level of difficulty. Too easy or too hard and you won't improve. You're not going to become
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Part 3 is going to be about Plan 9 and Redox OS, right?
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Mainstream journalism is a game of 'say what you see'. Journalists almost always have no deeper understanding of an issue than what they present in their articles, except in political stories, in which case they have pretty good k
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Python/Flask, HTMX, SQLite or Postgres, Bulma CSS.
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Jacob Rees-Mogg is a very strange politician. Here's a short documentary about him[0]. Highlights include: * Being the subject of a French television documentary when he was 12 years old[1]; * Campaigning against abortion (which itse
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Private Eye also does this, and not only in legal correspondence. > The magazine often deliberately misspells the names of certain organisations, such as "Crapita" for the outsourcing company Capita, "Carter-Fuck" f

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