dendodge

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by dendodge 1y ago
Driving licences are also the primary form of ID in the UK (alongside passports, which are more expensive). People who can't (or don't) drive can still get a provisional licence, which only allows driving under the supervision of
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by dendodge 1y ago
I'd have thought the private garages would also be incentivised to find problems - that they can then offer to fix for an additional fee. As it is, I think most garages that offer MOTs in the UK are fair and honest, as the test is rela
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by dendodge 1y ago
Off-topic, but since you mention it, I've always been confused about what Americans always seem to be doing at the DMV. It seems to be a staple of pop culture that people are always there and the queue is always very long, but I'v
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by dendodge 2y ago
Similarly, Americans expect people to be aware that California is not "the South", despite being on the southern border, and that the Midwest is actually in the eastern half of the country. Basically the names of geographical regi
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by dendodge 3y ago
Quora's ChatGPT answers are, as far as I can tell, more often confidently wrong than they are right. For example, for the question "Which monarch in history had the highest regnal number?" it generates > The monarch with t
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by dendodge 3y ago
Wait for Emily Wilson (due at the end of September). Her Odyssey is easily among the great classical translations.
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by dendodge 3y ago
> Thankfully the original work is now out of copyright Seeing someone explicitly assert the copyright status of a text pushing 3 millennia old is somehow very amusing to me
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by dendodge 3y ago
Possibly a better way to achieve a similar level of prettiness would be (ab)use of vim's conceal feature. Through its judicious use, the author can have "forall" appear to them as ∀, "alpha" as α, etc., without
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by dendodge 4y ago
The Economist is a UK publication
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by dendodge 4y ago
> I don't understand what the numbers in the lower corner mean If you tap on the numbers in the lower corner, you can cycle through various options including % read. My personal preference is for time left in chapter.
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by dendodge 4y ago
23andMe DNA tests claim to tell you what proportion Neanderthal you are. I, for example, have just under 2% Neanderthal DNA (allegedly), which they say is in the 47th percentile.
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by dendodge 5y ago
That's an interesting point. In the (UK) context of this study/article, blue tits and great tits (and indeed most garden birds) are generally non-migratory in the UK, so I think that's an orthogonal issue.
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by dendodge 5y ago
34% would rather quit than work in the office full time, that's doesn't mean another 16%+ wouldn't also prefer the option but not strongly enough to quit over it. There's also little talk I'm aware of of forcing any
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by dendodge 6y ago
Avoiding the obvious argument that theft is a poor choice of word for this case, I'd like to question whether we actually treat intellectual and traditional property as similarly as IP proponents like to claim. If you sell me an antiqu
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by dendodge 6y ago
I'd even accept life. I don't necessarily agree, but I can see the argument that someone should have the exclusive right to profit from their work for the rest of their life. Maybe even add a few years as a grace period to give th
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by dendodge 6y ago
I'm finishing my PhD in the next couple of months, and am fortunate enough to have a fiancée and a house. I interviewed for one postdoc and found myself hoping I wouldn't get it because it would mean living apart for a few years,