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by dghf 5y ago
This should work just as well: (csv/read-csv (slurp "my-csv-file.csv")) Or if you prefer the threading-macro style: (-> "my-csv-file.csv" slurp csv/read-csv)
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by dghf 5y ago
> You have to pay for the surveyor to find out any issues the house might have, and that means you can only view a few houses before you've paid the house price in survey fees. How much are you paying for surveys? Even a full struct
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by dghf 5y ago
Also the Daily Mail Oncological Ontology Project -- "A blog following the Daily Mail’s ongoing mission to divide all the inanimate objects in the world into those that cause or cure cancer." https://thedailymailoncologi
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by dghf 5y ago
In the Python templates, what’s with the variable “initialisations” —- e.g. t = 0 in the light-speed one? I’ve seen similar stuff in my eldest’s computing homework: is it an accepted Python idiom that I’ve missed somehow?
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by dghf 6y ago
> In devloved areas like Scotland suffrage is even lower (16) Only for certain elections -- local and Scottish parliamentary. You still have to be 18 to vote in elections for Westminster; the same was true of European elections when they
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by dghf 6y ago
I guessed that was the context, but I didn't understand how the Queen "forced" the Supreme Court to rule in that way.
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by dghf 6y ago
It went on quite a bit longer than that. In 1834, William IV sacked a prime minister for purely political reasons. His successor, Victoria, was probably the UK's first constitutional monarch in the modern sense.
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by dghf 6y ago
> about 1918 when universal suffrage finally came in. It was 1928.
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by dghf 6y ago
> She also forced the British Supreme Court to invent the idea that advice given to her can be unlawful How did she do that?
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by dghf 6y ago
> I am an extreme power user, to the point that many of the keys on my keyboard don't do what the keycap says. Is that really the definition of an extreme power user? I switched the layout on my work MacBook to UK and remapped caps
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by dghf 6y ago
Turkey and Greece are both members of NATO, so if they went to war, would the remaining NATO states have to sit it out? Or would one of the two be designated the aggressor, and the rest of NATO obliged to come to the aid of the other?
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by dghf 6y ago
> It's a pity English speakers are often taught the wrong (English based) pronunciation. Really? Still? I was taught Latin many years ago by a very conservative teacher, who insisted on classical pronunciation rather than the anglic
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by dghf 6y ago
Roman Catholicism is the second largest Christian denomination in the UK (after the Church of England). Something like 7% of the population of England and Wales, 16% of the population of Scotland, and 40% of the population of Northern Irela
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by dghf 6y ago
> Word munging is uncommon in English. When a new word is coined it is mostly atomic (app, tweet, selfie). You rarely can take two existing words and combine them with a prefix, a suffix, an ending and get a new word that is grammaticall
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by dghf 6y ago
There were ~11 million homes in England in 1939, and ~23 million in 2019. Even if we allow for single homes being split into multiple smaller ones, and assume that every 1939 home was still standing in 2019 (ignoring the effects of the Blit
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by dghf 6y ago
> my cynical guess is that getting everyone one dose is primary so the UK can show up in statistics like the one quoted above. I'm sure that's part of the reason, but there is evidence that a single dose provides substantial pr
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by dghf 6y ago
> The Apple question "why isn't this easy" is missing from 95% of UX in modern software. I switched to a MacBook at work a few months ago, and it's been an epic of frustration and Googling: e.g., 1. I set the keyboard
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by dghf 6y ago
At home (Linux with a PC keyboard), I just map capslock to control, and don't map anything to capslock: I have to type in all caps so little that it doesn't justify a key of its own, and holding down the shift key for several char
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by dghf 6y ago
Anti-war sentiment in Boston forms part of the background to Patrick O'Brian's The Fortune of War (one of the series of novels featuring Captain Jack Aubrey and Dr Stephen Maturin).
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by dghf 6y ago
> 1kg is not exactly 1000g, that would be 1.000kg Really? Why? I would have assumed that 1kg is in fact exactly 1000g, and that the trailing zeros in 1.000kg indicated a rounding to three decimal places: i.e. 999.5g <= 1.000kg < 10
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by dghf 6y ago
But people generally had the good manners not to call in the middle of the night, unless it was an emergency.
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by dghf 6y ago
Are they, though? I thought the Novikov conjecture postulated that time-travel would change nothing at all: if you travelled back to the past, you had "always" travelled back to the past, and anything you did there was already par
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by dghf 6y ago
They also serve who only stand and wait.
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by dghf 6y ago
> People believe that the dynamics of “free markets” where people have choices of what to consume/purchase lead to ever increasing quality. Some people may believe that -- extreme free-market libertarians being the most obvious ex
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by dghf 6y ago
Not much of a paradox, is it? The more cheap, high-fat, high-sugar food is available, the more people will get fat. It's a truism masquerading as a profundity.
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by dghf 6y ago
No probs, I managed to miss it out completely the second time I wrote his name. Muphry's Law[0] in action. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muphry%27s_law
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by dghf 6y ago
> There's a quote that I think of in situations like this: > "Be the change you want to see in the world" - ghandi Gandhi (spelled thus) never said that. What he did say (in an article about first-aid treatments for sna
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by dghf 6y ago
What distro? I've run Arch Linux on a ThinkPad, and suspend-on-lid-close worked perfectly out of the box.
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by dghf 6y ago
But it also says: > "WFH offers direct financial savings on expenses such as travel, lunch, clothes and cleaning," he said. > The 5% tax rate "will leave them no worse off than if they had chosen to go into the office&q
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by dghf 6y ago
> if BA had been more security conscious and actually checked their third party JavaScript files regularly Or not stored credit-card details in plain text.

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