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by dfawcus 5y ago
> there has never been a "popular" or "workers" revolution That would be the Peasants Revolt mentioned above, but it failed.
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by dfawcus 5y ago
So I should probably have written 'some Brits'... Anyway, if someone can't hear the difference in that sample, load it in to an audio editor, and see that (in a time / amplitude graph) the two words have different shape
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by dfawcus 5y ago
The 'o' in boy is 'oh', that in buoy is 'oy'; the distinction is subtle, but can be heard, plus the latter is slightly longer. Edited: - Maybe this will help: http://www.employees.org/~dfawcus&#
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by dfawcus 5y ago
I was always amused when someone ordered the launch of some some form of buoy. "launch a boo-eey" (Brit's distinguish between "boy" and "buoy" - the latter has the same sound as in "buoyancy")
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by dfawcus 5y ago
Surely trying to ping the HAM portion of 44/8 from the Internet is an inherently flawed concept? Part of the provisions for use (e.g. in the UK) was that only HAM traffic (not third party) can be carried over the airways. So if it was
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by dfawcus 5y ago
Even now, things do eventually change: "the Parliament of the United Kingdom of Great Britain [...] had full legal rights to legislate for the colonies. [...] This remains the same for all existing British overseas territories such as
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by dfawcus 5y ago
As in the nursery rhyme: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sing_a_Song_of_Sixpence That form of counting is still understood, recognised, but viewed as archaic in England. I guess it got lost in the evolution of Old Englis
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by dfawcus 5y ago
Some MUAs still support it for display, but no longer for creation. Which rather makes sense as old emails can hang around on systems for years. As I recall Apple Mail.app can still decode them, as can mutt. Mutt allows one to compose such,
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by dfawcus 5y ago
https://www.scotlandscensus.gov.uk/census-results/at-a-glanc... So 1.5m out of 5.1m, which works out as 29%. I'd suggest these being folk who learnt it as their 'mother' tongue, since Scots is not taugh
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by dfawcus 5y ago
No, that would have to be Scots. Especially compared to the region versions of English spoken in Northern England. It should not be too surprising, given that Scots in large part derived from Northumbrian Old English, with various admixtur
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by dfawcus 5y ago
Weird? Nah, but there is a lot of variation, and some of them can be difficult even for locals to understand. However most of us naturally switch to some variation of RP (or as heard on the BBC) while interacting with non locals. It has oft
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by dfawcus 5y ago
The Lancet article referred to seems to be here: https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6...
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by dfawcus 5y ago
hate? I'd not classify any as presenting the emotion of hatred. Possibly at most contempt, but usually something lesser, often disappointment, with smatterings of ridicule.
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by dfawcus 5y ago
Essentially the same applies in the UK and Ireland, when the EU warranty thing was brought in (2 years cover), nothing changed as the existing legislation in both states gave longer protection. 5 years in Scotland, 6 in England; I can'
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by dfawcus 5y ago
Potentially useful, since I've used proxies before in a different manner. However what I'm more inclined to do is simply compile up a version of git from source, ensure it includes the HTTPS transport, and links against an appropr
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by dfawcus 5y ago
My example was using cut'n'paste, then cmp, so the full 40 char hash. I don't try comparing those things manually. As I said trivial to prove valid; and since I was actually reading, using, and compiling the code, quite diff
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by dfawcus 5y ago
Now the sadly amusing aspect of all this is that I only noticed the https issue in the first place, because I'd previously cloned some repos on the machine using it. Then some time later when doing a fetch, I received a TLS nego reject
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by dfawcus 5y ago
Actually it is trivial to prove it was correct. My workflow was to look at the site with a web browser (with working up to date TLS), and note the hash of the final commit of master. This can be done on a different machine. Then one clones
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by dfawcus 5y ago
Turning off unencrypted raw git protocol will be a pain. I generally use that for grabbing stuff for inspection & evaluation as on a number of my machines, https protocol does not work (seemingly due to only supporting older versions of
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by dfawcus 5y ago
Thanks. That is what I read, just that I couldn't remember the term "endoplasmic reticulum", and so used "cytoplasm" as a hand wavy stand in. :-)
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by dfawcus 5y ago
I was aware of that. From what I read, the mRNA vaccines manages to get the spike in to the cytoplasm, just like the real virus, so it to that extent mimics what is desired. Whereas the viral vector (a different delivery technology) used fo
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by dfawcus 5y ago
"The mRNA is only a piece of the spike protein, and does not enter the cell's nucleus." and with the AZ vaccine, due to the vector chosen, supposedly it (spike protein) does enter the nucleus. Oops. (note I'm not sugges
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by dfawcus 5y ago
The LFN portion of the original W95 was implemented in vxd's, not in the base DOS. If one created the boot disk / recovery disk, which then ran a base DOS 7, it had no LFN support. LFN support did work in windowed command prompts
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by dfawcus 5y ago
"Or whether Danish and Norwegian and Swedish are the same language, but different dialects." I recently watched the Swedish production "Blue Eyes" (with English subtitles), and was amused at the amount of speech which st
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by dfawcus 5y ago
"Scots is a dialect of English." Ahh whisht man. :-) That said, I find I often have to mentally pronounce the various written forms in order to be able to understand them.
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by dfawcus 5y ago
"Because it's basically a dialect OF English." I'd suggest not, it is a peer / sibling of Modern English, and descended in parallel. Northumbrian Old English eventually became Scots, due to the 'English of the
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by dfawcus 5y ago
The 'fan fiction' was written, and published before the court case, and hence before the anonymity order. As it was, I wasn't able to figure out any encoded messages at the time. Now one could argue that it was inadvisable t
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by dfawcus 5y ago
UK based, and I do both. Most eggs are stored in the fridge, because it happens to have egg trays, although more recent models tend to omit those. Those folks I know without egg trays usually store boxes in the fridge. The eggs I'm li
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by dfawcus 5y ago
Also a layman, but I've a vague recall of reports of how a 4-5 day fast can trigger autophagy, followed by new cell generation once re-fed. So could that end up as a useful treatment? Or would it only help with the WBC, and not the RBC
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by dfawcus 6y ago
FWIW: I stopped this[1] recently on Wikipedia. I'm sure someone could chase up more authoritative references. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immune_system#Vitamin_D

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