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by dghf 9y ago
I think "font" is the right term here. They talk about it being "available to download" and "available as part of a Windows pre-release", all of which make more sense when talking about the font (calibri.ttf) r
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by dghf 9y ago
True; and yet the British pejorative "berk" ("fool", "idiot") rhymes with "work" but is supposedly a contraction of "Berkeley Hunt" (rhyming slang for a word much ruder than the fairly mild
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by dghf 9y ago
"Worcester" and "Norwich" are sort of regular, in the sense that the "ces" in "-cester" suffixes often gets elided into an "s" (e.g. "Gloucester", pronounced "Gloster") a
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by dghf 9y ago
The Wikipedia article on old-style figures [0] gives the impression there was something of a religious war between their proponents and the proponents of titling figures when the latter were first introduced (with words like 'preposter
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> I wouldn't call them uppercase and lowercase numerals. That suggest a functionality of those numerals that isn't true. Well, the terms "uppercase" and "lowercase" come from movable-type printing. The indiv
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by dghf 9y ago
No. 1988 was when he first tried to enter and run the game. Many years later, after coming across a scan of the magazine with the code listing, he tried to fix it. > And that's that.... bug fixed after 29 years!
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by dghf 9y ago
Lay judges (that is, with no legal qualifications), known as justices of the peace or magistrates, are the norm in the lowest level of courts in England and Wales (and, with some differences, in Scotland). They receive training and are alwa
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by dghf 9y ago
> In Europe, I'm not sure when it was outlawed, but it is illegal here as well. It wasn't in the UK ~20 years ago. I did agricultural piece-work as a summer job, and made way more than I would have done in a shop or fast-food r
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From the letter quoted at your link: > You pick a door, say No. 1, and the host, who knows what's behind the doors, opens another door, say No. 3, which has a goat. [Emphasis added.]
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> The reason I use tabs is pretty simple. It's faster to move around only using the keyboard. Well, yes, if you use the arrow keys (unmodded) and nothing else. But who does that? Even Notepad lets you jump from word to word with CTR
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by dghf 9y ago
To be clear, I'm not proposing that the company and employee numbers be concatenated into a single column: I'm saying you could have a composite key, comprising the company number column and the employee payroll number column. Thi
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by dghf 9y ago
I'm not sure I get your point? In the scenario you describe, the natural key for the employees table could be, for example, legal company number + employee's payroll number. Or are you saying that by using a surrogate key, we only
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by dghf 9y ago
There is an argument that if your data does not have natural keys -- that if it depends on the addition of arbitrary system IDs to prevent duplication -- then it is not truly relational.
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> > secondary primary key > This is called a "candidate key" in existing literature. much has been written about such things. To be picky, a "primary primary" key is also a candidate key. A superkey is any set o
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by dghf 9y ago
Sailing on the Mediterranean, which is very nearly an inland sea and has almost negligible tides, is an entirely different proposition from sailing on the Channel, which acts as a funnel for storms barrelling through from the Atlantic to th
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by dghf 9y ago
#2 sounds very much like Stoicism, as to some extent does #1.
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Am I correct in my recollection that the sound represented by "b" is actually closer to the unaspirated "p" in words like "spin" and "spot"?
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> Free will and being unpredictable are intrinsically linked. If your brain is just a classical machine behaving according to the laws of chemistry and physics, you are predictable and have no free will. If your brain amplifies the resul
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The relevant bit of the article was explicitly concerned with situations where false values needed to be returned if present, and ruled out the use of or for precisely that reason. But I agree: if you were ever in a position where you nee
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by dghf 9y ago
> However, in the original context it makes even more sense to use cond as the number of variables is clearly limited (and they probably have meaningful names). But the construct with remove and first can be applied to a limited numb
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by dghf 9y ago
> However, if that vector is effectively a tuple (so a, b, and c are heterogenous and can be named), cond is more explicit and readable. I don't understand. Could you illustrate with an example?
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> prefer (not (empty? coll)) over (seq coll), There's a reason why (seq coll) is a standard Clojure idiom, which the source for empty? reveals: (defn empty? "Returns true if coll has no items - same as (not (seq
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by dghf 9y ago
> My (incomplete) set of personal rules: > - use contains? instead of using sets as functions, [snip] > An example. To understand this piece of code you need to know that possible-states is a set: (when (possible-states sta
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by dghf 9y ago
Well, like I said, there was the High Kingship, but opinion seems to be divided on whether it represented a genuine political union, a confederation, a series of occasional and temporary alliances, a courtesy title for a "first among e
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> There is an argument to be made that Christianity's focus on truth at all costs helped science rather than hinder it In certain respects, such as Roger Bacon's advocacy of the scientific method and Gregor Mendel's discov
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It still exists in Orkney and Shetland (which until the 15th century were part of Norway rather than Scotland) under the name of Udal tenure. https://rosdev.atlassian.net/wiki/display/2ARM/Udal+Tenure
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There is a sixth century memorial stone in North Wales that uses consular dating: "The stone of ... son of Avitorius. In the time of Justinus the Consul." (Justinus was consul in Constantinople in 540 AD.) Source: http:/&#x2
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> there was once a kingdom of Ireland until England had its way There was, but its king was the King of England (and later of Great Britain), and its parliament was subjugated to the parliament at Westminster, which could veto its acts a
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A close is an alleyway off which one or more doors to residential tenements open. Alternative names are entry, court, and wynd, with some nuances: a court is more likely to open up into a courtyard, and a wynd more likely to be a means of g
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HSBC voice recognition system breached by customer's twin(theguardian.com)
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