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by dfawcus 3y ago
(I hail from England) So I tried it on: "I wrote a letter regarding Zebra's taking herbs, placed it in an envelope and posted it on schedule." The first time it gave me an overall score of 20, and imagined that I was A
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by dfawcus 3y ago
That doesn't sound like it will cope with various correct English pronunciations, as spoken by the English in England. Or even Scots, Welsh, or Irish speaking English. There are valid variations in pronunciations, even in England, &qu
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by dfawcus 3y ago
That is where an Actor or CSP style comes in useful, one then avoids the locks by having that state mutated in the context of one coroutine alone. Most problems can be recast in to that form, only a small subset are better handled by mutabl
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by dfawcus 3y ago
"the _types_ of cholesterol." Cholesterol is a specific molecule, there is only one type, just like there is only one type of ethanol. (Modulo any isomers) The "differences" (LDL, HDL) are essentially different types of
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by dfawcus 3y ago
Nothing changed in the legislation from when those companies stated their concerns. All that happened is a gov spokesman stood on his hind legs in the Lords, and in effect said "Trust us. we won't use these powers - yet".
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by dfawcus 3y ago
A drink, larger and cider. One can have a 'snakebite and black' adding a dash of black currant, also a 'black nasty' being a 'snakebite, pernod and black currant'.
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by dfawcus 3y ago
It is both. Hoare's later paper introduced buffered channels to CSP. So one can use it as synchronous passing, or queued passing.
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by dfawcus 3y ago
The real question is will Signal, WhatsApp, Apples, etc stick to their principals and withdraw UK service if the Bill passes in its current form? Or will they decide to believe that the powers will not be used, and keep their service in ope
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by dfawcus 3y ago
English, by the English, for the English, as it is supposed to be used?
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by dfawcus 3y ago
"must already have a photocard 'provisional driving license' " No, one can also use a paper (green) provisional license, and then you have to take a passport to the practical test. These are the only non-photocard licens
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by dfawcus 3y ago
Well they can be, until they boil dry, and the thermal cut out kicks in. Prior to the late 70s / early 80s so called "automatic kettles" were not necessarily all that common in the UK, and one had to manually switch them off.
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by dfawcus 3y ago
Post WW2 for newly built small flats, ring mains were designed to save on copper (as it was in shortage). The intention was to allow for 3-bar electric fires to be operated as 13A loads, and be moveable between rooms. Rings are more comple
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by dfawcus 3y ago
It's not 230, it is 240! 3000 / 230 = 13.04 3000 / 240 = 12.5 We fit 13A fuses to the plugs of kettles. At 230V the tolerance would be too close. Whereas in reality, a kettle designed to be 3kW at 240V would only be 2.755kW
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by dfawcus 3y ago
European citizen, or EU citizen?
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by dfawcus 3y ago
Your simply mentioning the sensation was enough to distinctly bring it to mind. Having grown up by a beach, I've experienced it a lot, from childhood through to as an adult at different beaches around the world. While a specific word
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by dfawcus 3y ago
According to the datasheet, which I've just looked at, it was not a '286 equivalent. Rather it added a paging mechanism whereby a 20 bit 'linear' address was mapped to a 24 bit 'physical' address. Using 1024 1
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by dfawcus 3y ago
They are not "unarmed", it is just that they do not generally carry firearms[1]. If we were to try walking around with batons, truncheons, handcuffs as they do, we'd be arrested for carrying offensive weapons. [1] Some routin
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by dfawcus 3y ago
Leave the country for however long it takes to lose the vote , then upon returning simply forget to register? Ireland is close, and would probably suffice. I've a vague memory of it being 7 years, but on checking it seems to be 15.
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by dfawcus 3y ago
Thus providing an example of why we should stick with our pencil and paper, manually counted voting system, and not computerise it. Most of the info lost is already publicly available (if one is willing to visit libraries in each electoral
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by dfawcus 3y ago
The main issue for me has been the daft L shaped enter key. Having started with computers and terminals using a simple horizontal bar enter, hence I generally prefer to get a US geometry keyboard when possible. Stuff like the split pseudo-L
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by dfawcus 3y ago
It was always there...
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by dfawcus 3y ago
"It potentially allows things like one machine setting up file transfer between two servers. Not sure if this was done, but could be done." Well I certainly recall doing it back in the 90s. I vaguely recall it was sending PASV to
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by dfawcus 3y ago
That is only one specific, limited type of NAT, i.e. an "address dependent filtering" NAT. The recommended (and common) form is EIM (Endpoint Independent Mapping), where one a private host+port (say 192.168.1.1:4567) has formed a
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by dfawcus 3y ago
See https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc6204.html and its update https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc6204.html which were created because of the "NAT adds security" delusion. They address ba
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by dfawcus 3y ago
Nope, that is just a form of NAT one is forced to use for IPv4, with a stateful session table. It is that session tracking which adds the "outbound initiated" only behaviour. There is a form of NAT for IPv6 (NPTv6) which can be u
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by dfawcus 3y ago
The UK is a number of islands. The main one being Great Britain, plus a chunk of Ireland. There are then a number of smaller islands around the English, Welsh, and Scottish parts of Great Britain.
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by dfawcus 3y ago
The English state ceased to exist in 1707.
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by dfawcus 3y ago
Given that the English constitution and the Scottish constitution are incompatible (insofar as where sovereignty lies), it is no real surprise that the UK has never got a single codified one. As it is the Scottish constitution is generally
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by dfawcus 3y ago
Hmm... French Revolution - 1789. English Revolution - 1649. So the English cut off their Monarch's head before the French did. But we then invited the Monarch's back after not liking the republic of the "Lord Protector"
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by dfawcus 3y ago
You can always go to Ireland, curtsy of the so-called CTA.

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