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by ddek 5y ago
Somewhat cynically I think the zone system ties London to the current tube map layout. If you look at a geographical map, especially a recent one, you'll see how illogical the zoning is now. Recent developments such as the Battersea br
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by ddek 5y ago
It runs well enough to play SP, but the framer are is much lower and the MP laggier.
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by ddek 5y ago
I've really given up on the operating system debates. I don't think it's a very interesting subject, because I think the individual constraints are more important than general 'UX' concerns. My personal computer usa
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by ddek 5y ago
Windows ads are mainly confined to the default windows apps, like 'news' etc. Also Cortana I think, but I never use it.
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by ddek 5y ago
APL is different from Forth and Lisp, in that the 'write-only' reputation is supported by it's programmers. Take the famous 'game of life' APL example: ``` life ← {⊃1 ⍵ ∨.∧ 3 4 = +/ +⌿ ¯1 0 1 ∘.⊖ ¯1 0 1 ⌽¨ ⊂⍵}
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by ddek 5y ago
IntelliJ is still a little broken on wayland I think. Last I checked they were waiting on a patch to Swing, so right now it's only running under XWayland, it's fairly buggy and doesn't scale nicely. You also need to set some
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by ddek 5y ago
As a fairly high rated AoE2 player (~1800), I can attest that the network architecture has not stood the test of time. Lockstep causes tonnes of problems. Desynchronisation is still possible, when that happens the simulation needs to back
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by ddek 5y ago
That's exactly how the CLI operates though? Maybe I didn't explain it well enough. The CLI hides the different sdk versions. If you run `dotnet --list-sdks` it will tell you which SDK's you have installed. If you don't h
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by ddek 5y ago
You can, but I wouldn't. The dotnet CLI contains its own version manager, so you need to have more precise control over the versions of the runtime & sdk you have installed. You can have multiple versions installed simultaneously,
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by ddek 5y ago
I don't, and I don't care. Productivity comes and goes. If I feel good, I'm productive naturally. If I've got a reason to be motivated, I'll be productive. Otherwise I might not be that great. I have standards which
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by ddek 5y ago
Yes, but the question is about recent drug use, rather than whether you are an active user. Obviously active use implies recent use, but not vice versa. They wouldn't ask if you use a specific drug, outside alcohol and tobacco.
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by ddek 5y ago
It's consumer cigarettes, almost entirely. It's a UK study. The question would have been "What is your smoking history?". In the most basic case, there would be three options: "Never smoked", "Historically
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by ddek 5y ago
That's really interesting about the headaches. It makes sense. The model is actually useful for google . Road traffic is closely linked to weather, with some routes worse impacted than others. If you predict the weather, you can predi
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by ddek 5y ago
> That being said, these are opinions, and I’m glad there’s someone else who pays attention to the design language used by football broadcasters. I feel like once you have the knowledge to pay attention to design language you are now cur
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by ddek 5y ago
The issue is if you need to add an async call to an existing synchronous code base. If you introduce async in this situation, you’ll probably need to rewrite a huge chunk of your code to allow it. To prevent inconsistencies, this leads to a
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by ddek 5y ago
> Note that those other "common cold" coronaviruses can still be quite deadly to immunocompromised or frail elderly patients. The only reason they aren't killing people on the same scale as COVID-19 is that most of us get
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by ddek 5y ago
Can someone persuade me why this isn't definitive bikeshedding? I hear the EU's justifications, and I broadly agree with them, but I don't think they're nearly worth the effort. There is more to charging than the port. T
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by ddek 5y ago
Sadly google's satellite resolution isn't high enough to see the final island of the worlds only 'island in a lake on an island in a lake on an island in a lake'. I wonder how one would get there. https://www.
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by ddek 5y ago
I know we talk a lot about ageism in this industry, but does this not happen in other industries? I genuinely don't know. I just don't think this angle has been explored. How many associates at top law or accountancy firms are ove
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by ddek 5y ago
UK had strict age-banded rollout, starting with the eldest. By the end of this study, I had just had my first dose (I'm 27, and I booked it as soon as possible). It's not at all surprising that older populations were more likely t
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by ddek 5y ago
Interesting. I've always used the 'British Style', but in a mid-90s junior school in Scotland I was taught to always end quotations with punctuation. I guess I just rebelled.
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by ddek 5y ago
As in, outside of the social bubble. Usually pre-school kids still have fairly active 'social calendars', with nursery, parent/child meetups, being dragged to family events. COVID stopped these, which stopped transmission.
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by ddek 5y ago
No firm data, my mother is high up in UK health policy so I heard from her. The best thing for your child is for them to socialise as much as possible with other kids. That means they will get sick. In normal times, 2-3% of babies end up in
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by ddek 5y ago
Which I’m sure many players will forget to remove.
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by ddek 5y ago
I heard a few months ago that UK infant ICU was in a dangerous spot because babies had caught all the bugs. Someone born in March 2020 would hardly have been outside until they were 1, so would be getting their first exposure to respirato
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by ddek 5y ago
Most 'thinking' notes are append only, and I need to use my hand for this. I can't type in the scattered way thoughts come. I used to use paper for these, then about a year ago I got a Remarkable 2 which I use exclusively. I
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by ddek 5y ago
Bad, but not as bad as mosquitoes. Ticks are much more of a problem now, as Lyme is a growing concern.
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by ddek 5y ago
My parents, who's house in the Scottish Highlands is approximately 30 mins from the nearest village, have remarked of the number of tech millionaires who have moved into the area. They know about 6 of them, which is quite a lot for suc
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by ddek 5y ago
So I guess we've had 'JavaScript but like C#', in the form of TypeScript; so I suppose now we get 'C# like JavaScript'? I must admit, I find this amusing. I suppose this raises two questions: "Why use C# like
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by ddek 5y ago
I've had the same, as an on/off thing. I recently went deep into an interview process with an Elixir shop, but pulled out for a more stable tech. I really like Elixir, and I think there is space for it. However, from a web app per

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