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by dtf 2y ago
The diplomatically neutral term is "the island of Ireland" for the whole thing. "These islands" refers to the British Isles, in the context of Anglo-Irish relations. It's some fascinating wordplay, born out of the G
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by dtf 2y ago
Deno KV uses FoundationDB, for example: https://deno.com/blog/building-deno-kv
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Stonehenge Altar Stone came from Scotland not Wales(bbc.co.uk)
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by dtf 3y ago
I just googled a bit and found his race report from that event, dated April 1995: https://www.mattmahoney.net/barkley/bark100.txt
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by dtf 3y ago
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by dtf 3y ago
As far as I remember, it's down to security concerns. You can actually insert your HTML into a SVG foreignObject, and then drawImage() that onto your canvas. But your HTML-in-SVG document will need to load all its own resources, fonts,
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by dtf 3y ago
What on earth happened to this once powerhouse of engineering and innovation?
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by dtf 3y ago
Also worth mentioning Manuka, which is Weta's production spectral renderer. There's a nice overview of the architecture here, which includes a section on their motivations for, and implementation of, spectral light transport: htt
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by dtf 3y ago
There was a piece in the Guardian this morning arguing that it differed by country, and in particular that in countries with vocally anti-migrant governments such as Italy, it had become less of an issue. https://www.theguardian.
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by dtf 3y ago
Why do people pay premium for "hand made", "artisanal" etc? If AI is cheap, then by using AI generated content to cut costs, you will cheapen your brand by association. There are examples of brands doing this to themselv
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by dtf 3y ago
Some bright spark at CCHQ realised it could be weaponised against both Ed Davey (Leader of the Liberal Democrats, and former Post Office minister 2010-2012) and Keir Starmer (Leader of the Labour Party, and former Director of Public Prosecu
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by dtf 3y ago
I was kind of shocked to find this out too. For instance: "As of 2020, 78.7% of Singapore residents live in public housing, down from a high of 88.0% in 2000." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_housing_in_S
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by dtf 4y ago
The risk premium was access to a large and very cheap credit facility: https://twitter.com/jonwu_/status/1634250770555219970
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by dtf 4y ago
First, there's really nothing small cost about Bannister's stopwatch: https://www.alamy.com/stock-photo-the-omega-bannister-stopwa... Sure, I can pick up the awesome Casio F-91W today for £10 and it would do much
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by dtf 4y ago
Bannister's use of a mechanical stopwatch on a 440 yard track is as much a case of cybernetics as a modern GPS or a heart rate monitor. He obviously didn't just turn up on the day and run 3:59.4. He trained for months with a stopw
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by dtf 4y ago
I've had that sometimes during the cold seasons, and usually take a puff of salbutamol before setting out. I still get it sometimes after a hard run or a race. Maybe try reducing the dose of running (duration x intensity), until you do
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by dtf 4y ago
Slightly off-topic, but what exactly is this website? A "self-funded progressive news outlet... since June 2021". "Our writers are liberals, social democrats, and democratic socialists. It is not a political denomination that
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by dtf 5y ago
Although the article mentions "polarization", when I look at the intensity distribution graph, is that not more an example of "pyramidal" - ie with a substantial amount of work between easy and hardest (VO2) intensities
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by dtf 5y ago
At the risk of whataboutism, I can’t help be reminded of that time when the British security services eavesdropped on Belgacom. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Socialist
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by dtf 6y ago
There's "We should celebrate walking in Britain now more than ever" [1] from the Daily Telegraph if that's more your bag: "At 9pm, with only the faintest glow left in the west, the birds stopped singing. Venus blaz
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by dtf 6y ago
Also interesting to note that Arrow itself uses FlatBuffers for its schema data. https://arrow.apache.org/docs/format/Columnar.html
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by dtf 6y ago
Not sure ... but didn't GSK partner with Sanofi on a vaccine that didn't work out? Sorry, I can't read your FT link :)
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by dtf 6y ago
The AstraZeneca US phase 3 trial took about 7 months. https://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT04516746 In this case, US regulators took issue with the company's press release, rather than the results of the tr
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by dtf 6y ago
Merck was the Oxford team's first choice of manufacturer. But the UK health minister overruled and told them they needed to use a British manufacturer. [1] "[T]he Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine was very nearly the Oxford-Merck vaccin
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by dtf 6y ago
Observational studies are a lower standard of evidence than randomised controlled trials. Countries with higher levels of vaccine skepticism (eg the US) seem to be erring on the side of doing things by the book. The UK, by comparison, enjoy
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by dtf 6y ago
Undoubtedly so. What UK is doing wasn't a problem until it was no longer a member.
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by dtf 6y ago
> European politicians have been attacking the AZ vaccine because it originates from the UK and they are ideologically blinded by hatred of Brexit. There was a good piece in the Irish Times this weekend if you fancy a less UK-centric vie
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by dtf 6y ago
Well say goodbye to EU data adequacy. Although to be honest it probably wouldn’t have survived the first court case given the UK state’s addiction to snooping.
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by dtf 6y ago
Yet, it seemed that the guidance the PM mentioned wasn't online at the moment that he mentioned it. Like many, I was hitting F5 repeatedly on this page waiting for a document that didn't seem to be there, eager to know restriction
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by dtf 6y ago
There's a record & tuple proposal that would address this use case (currently served by tools such as Immer): const foo = #{}; foo = 42; //not allowed foo.bar = 'baz'; //not allowed https:&

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