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by dghf 4y ago
> You probably have a "badge", which is a diminuitive/selected feature set of a "crest". Maybe things are different in German heraldry, but in English heraldry, a badge need bear no relation to the owner's c
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by dghf 4y ago
> In fact, until 1889, "London" referred to the City. Here's a Post Office map of London from 1857: https://mapco.net/kelly1857/kelly.htm As you can see, it covers a much larger area than just the Cit
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by dghf 4y ago
The Conservative Party's rules for electing a new leader say that the party's MPs cast votes for candidates in successive rounds, with the candidate getting fewest votes in each round dropping out, until there are only two left. T
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by dghf 4y ago
"Britain" is a commonly used synonym for the UK within the UK itself. See the styles guides of the Guardian and Daily Telegraph: - https://www.theguardian.com/guardian-observer-style-guide-u - https://w
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by dghf 4y ago
I suspect Shakespeare can take at least some of the credit/blame.
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by dghf 4y ago
Rick Dickerson? Is that you?
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by dghf 4y ago
> the quarters on the shield are different too Yes, the quarters representing the arms of England and Scotland are swapped, so Scotland gets the top left (the most prestigious position).
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by dghf 4y ago
> It's hard to classify what it is. “Synthwave multimedia project” would be how I’d describe it. It’s very good. Made me think of the Jeff Goldblum / Michelle Pfeiffer film Into the Night ( https://www.imdb.com&#x2F
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by dghf 4y ago
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halfwidth_and_fullwidth_form...
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by dghf 4y ago
> The short version is that free “will” is real; but it is our desires (and how we prioritize them) that we cannot control (and in many cases, cannot even know). Schopenhauer: > Man can do what he wills; but he cannot will what he wil
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by dghf 4y ago
> If a manager comes over and suggests something to you, you need to understand their perspective for coming to that discussion Isn't that exactly what the author did, at least in the React discussion? They tried to establish what p
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by dghf 4y ago
And that's fine. If that works better for you, brilliant. But you seem to be assuming that what is better for you must also be better for everyone else, and that's not necessarily the case.
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by dghf 4y ago
> My favorite was "A patron sees a whale sitting in a booth at the bar". You go on and on about him coming back day after day seeing the wale, describing the beverage, etc. Just improv it. The key is going as long as you can wh
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by dghf 4y ago
This is, I believe, why British surgeons are properly addressed as Mr/Mrs/Miss/Ms LastName, rather than Dr LastName: originally a way of keeping them in their place (because only physicians were "real" doctors), it
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by dghf 4y ago
But 90+% of the time, it'll be a basic use of add, checkout, commit, merge, pull or push, especially if you're a junior.
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by dghf 4y ago
Ulysses 31? The Mysterious Cities of Gold? Dogtanian and the Three Muskehounds? More recently: - Miraculous: Tales of Ladybug & Chat Noir - Winx Club - LoliRock (All aimed at children, admittedly.)
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by dghf 4y ago
I wonder if the inventors are fans of the Megalobox anime: - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Megalobox - https://www.google.com/search?q=megalobox+gear&tbm=isch
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by dghf 4y ago
The "zone rouge": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zone_Rouge
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by dghf 4y ago
> the TH in thumber leads to asking if its a T and Humber and it does refer to the river Humber, its the land north of the humber. It makes you think how Yorkshire leads there. IIRC, Northumberland was the only part of Northumbria that
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by dghf 4y ago
But that's not what @ghaff was saying. They said: > to say Hadrian's Wall was in at least partly in Scotland at one point isn't necessarily wrong Cumbria, which contains the western end of the wall, was part of Scotland at
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by dghf 4y ago
Egypt was Hellenised after its conquest by Alexander the Great in 332 BC. The article suggests the temple was renovated in the reign of Hadrian, in the first half of the first century AD.
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by dghf 4y ago
> 1. Why is there something rather than nothing? > Well, why not? -- Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, "Nothingness" ( https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/nothingness/ )
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by dghf 5y ago
OK, try this one: Lt Cdr Worf is testing the USS Defiant's impulse engines after a refit. He is currently coasting along in a straight line at a constant 0.6c, and passes Deep Space Nine. We'll call time on board the defiant t and
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by dghf 5y ago
It’s nothing to do with old light. It’s to do with the relativity of simultaneity. Have a look at the Wikipedia article I linked to. Or read these posts on Ask a Mathematician / Ask a Physicist: - this one explains the basis of the phe
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by dghf 5y ago
I try to think about the speed of light as a geometric property of the universe, similar to how you can’t draw a straight line between two points on a circle that’s longer than the circle’s diameter. I don’t know if that’s correct, but the
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by dghf 5y ago
Oh, absolutely. In some (many? most?) SQL dialects, you don't have to write INNER JOIN, either: an unqualified JOIN keyword implies an inner join. I was just trying to be explicit.
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by dghf 5y ago
> But when the hostile observer will arrive to another end of a wormhole, the spaceship that had entered on that end has already exited from the other end. Not necessarily. If the wormhole allows FTL travel, then the spaceship's e
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by dghf 5y ago
Imagine we've got an EMPLOYEES table, that for each employee gives their employee id, their name, and the employee ID of their direct manager: EMPLOYEE_ID EMPLOYEE_NAME MANAGER_ID ----------- ------------- ----------
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by dghf 5y ago
Everything’s probably fine if there’s only one FTL wormhole, and no other method of FTL travel or communication: in that situation, the weird event order is a mere curiosity. “Look at that! In our reference frame, that spaceship left the wo
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by dghf 5y ago
It’s not a matter of perception or “wrong” order: events that are close enough in time and distant enough in space that it is impossible to be present at both, even travelling at the speed of light — so-called “spacelike separated events” —

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