daleharvey

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by daleharvey 3y ago
> every single political party in the UK is either for this law The SNP motioned to have it repealed, they are still, sadly, a party in the UK.
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by daleharvey 4y ago
A funny quirk of the UK train system is that if you know what you are doing you can get first class upgrade for I think it was £5 on some of the major routes like Edinburgh to London, The author talks about the price differences with advanc
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by daleharvey 4y ago
Noone realises that because it is clearly not true. There is a huge difference in how hard it is to look at map and figure out where you are with a compass than it is to look and a map and figure out where you are because there is a big dot
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by daleharvey 4y ago
I wasn't talking about how to orient a map, I was speaking about traversing mountains where being metres off route is potentially fatal with little to no visibility. Saying that is difficult is not exagerating.
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by daleharvey 4y ago
Yeh I often go solo and after a few experiences, particularly if its unfamiliar, I try to make sure to have a charged backup device with routes etc loaded. Similiarly I am not arguing against people using a map and compass, but I think the
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by daleharvey 4y ago
Specifically for Munros which is what I do network coverage can be pretty bad and at least a few people I have talked to have done the same as me and got caught out depending on the internet then in future downloaded the route. The main web
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by daleharvey 4y ago
> First of all, I wonder how many people actually have suitable backup devices. Virtually every group of people will have multiple backup devices, for people going solo it something that should (but isn't) recommended. > Secondly
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by daleharvey 4y ago
I spend a lot of time outdoors / hillwalking / mountain climbing in Scotland and it is quite fustrating and in my opinion quite dangerous how technophobic the standard advice given is. Almost universally guides and mountain rescue
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by daleharvey 4y ago
Because its fustrating to have things be worse because rich people need to hoard more wealth?
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by daleharvey 4y ago
Things on Wikipedia (ie not every single street or canal)
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by daleharvey 4y ago
Because some people regard attempting to literally quantify the value of someones life into a dollar amount to be a "problem"
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by daleharvey 5y ago
This SDK only works on the top end Fuji's, the cheapest one supported starts at £850 (body only) Fuji has famously terrible app support, its a nightmare to set up and cuts out constantly, transferring images over wifi is slow and unrel
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by daleharvey 5y ago
From a British perspective it's quite often public transport, bikes are banned on the tube afaik and taking them on trains can be hit or miss, some routes require a specific (and hard to get) cycle booking, most local buses are a non s
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by daleharvey 5y ago
You are replying to a thread that already contains 2 direct quotes from the author specifically discussing the benefits that the study did support.
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by daleharvey 5y ago
The author did not make it seem like that, they explicitly pointed out otherwise, the 5th paragraph: > This is not to say that there aren’t some benefits to breastfeeding. In poor countries where water quality is very poor, these benefit
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by daleharvey 5y ago
> Infants in the treatment group — who, remember, were more likely to be breastfed — had fewer gastrointestinal infections (read: less diarrhea) and were less likely to experience eczema and other rashes. However, there were no significa
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by daleharvey 5y ago
Emily Oyster wrote good books about how a lot of the popular claims around giving birth / raising children have quite a severe lack of data that supports those claims. For breastfeeding in particular there isn't much data to separ
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by daleharvey 5y ago
The people who were up in arms about it lose heavily in the elections however given that they are generally unionists they are given extremely generous coverage by our media who are are almost entirely pro union. I also got one of these in
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by daleharvey 5y ago
I have never not been confused when logging into matrix, I signed up clicking a link at work, now if I want to use an app it asks for some server name that has nothing to do with the sever I signed up on (chat.mozilla.org vs mozilla.modular
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by daleharvey 5y ago
This is a curiously timed article from the BBC, an outlet generally opposed to Scottish independence given the pro indy SNP and Scottish Greens are currently negotiating a coalition that would have them form a government. Rent control has b
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by daleharvey 5y ago
I am familiar with Nolans article, I created PouchDB (the project he is discussing), you seem to have misred the post as it discusses the technical nuance and tradeoffs involved in the decision at many points entirely agreeing with the posi
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by daleharvey 5y ago
The excuse was that a standard needs to have multiple implementations otherwise we are standardising implementation details and bugs. Hindsight shows that was entirely correct, as SQLite bugs were then found that could be exploited direct
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by daleharvey 5y ago
Unless I misunderstood your point, that is a strange take that isn't close to being true. There is a large overlap of Scottish language enthusiasts who are advocates of both Scots as a distinct language and Gaelic, the demographic of t
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by daleharvey 5y ago
Describing Scots as a dialect of English is really about a political affiliation than any interest in linguistics, Plenty of people regard Scots as a distinct language. (Scottish Firefox developer)
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by daleharvey 5y ago
> Why? There's a lot of JS to load to make that work. If you never need to do a search (e.g. from a Google search) it would be a potential waste. Confused by what this comment is meant to say exactly, but just in case its not known
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by daleharvey 5y ago
> or when you drop them Paper maps very often stop working when you (unknowingly) drop them, the advantage phones have is that usually everybody has a phone, less so with paper maps.
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by daleharvey 5y ago
A lot of people cannot, or dont feel like they can rely on a phone: Various functions including maps will die if your phone goes offline, your phone will chew through your battery even in situations where you really need it for one purpose,
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by daleharvey 5y ago
The parent and I were talking about the general idea of device vs paper and not about specific map implementations.
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by daleharvey 5y ago
The OS paper maps are still very popular these days but have managed to destroy both the paper and weatherproof ones over my time. Also very easy to lose a map, the nice thing about phones is everyone else you are with is carrying one, less
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by daleharvey 5y ago
If you are doing it in the winter then sure, in the summer you don't even need a phone the route is very clear. My comment wasnt particularly that paper backups werent the best option in some circumstances, it was more against the gene

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