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by gerikson 6y ago
For an entertaining fictional account (from the British side) I can recommend Patrick O'Brian's The Fortune of War (and the subsequent The Surgeon's Mate , although only the first part deals with the war of 1812).
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by gerikson 6y ago
Correct, but banks were responsible for devising security features etc.
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by gerikson 6y ago
Googling “ bankid privatägd kritik” gave me one hit - to Flashback. Hardly mainstream...
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by gerikson 6y ago
Banks issued ID cards in Sweden for decades. Source: I worked as a teller and knew the procedure. Passports only became legal IDs in the last decade or so.
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by gerikson 6y ago
As a Swede, I'm glad this is the case.
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by gerikson 6y ago
Also used by the short-range ferries in Stockholm's Hammarby Sjöstad. Source: have travelled on these many times and observed the weird wake.
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by gerikson 6y ago
I live in Sweden, so I actually do use ISO...
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by gerikson 6y ago
I've been aware of the Emacs function 'spook'[1] since the late 90s. Here's a current output from `M-x spook` on my machine: > Europol BATF bluebird secure Narco banners Blister agent BVD fraud SADMS UKUSA mania weapo
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by gerikson 6y ago
Yes, if everyone follows ISO.
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by gerikson 6y ago
I’m down for the years to be counted from the storming of the Bastille, personally...
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by gerikson 6y ago
C wart, rather.
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by gerikson 6y ago
I can’t say I’ve noticed that - I saw most Tarkovsky movies in the late 80s before I knew about these details. When it comes to Stalker (which I recently rewatched) I’d imagine the sound would add to the strangeness.
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by gerikson 6y ago
That's when I stopped learning how to admin systems so I am very down with this...
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by gerikson 6y ago
OK I see, the very short sequence in your example was a stand-in for a potentially infinite one. I got nerd-sniped into understanding what was happening as I found the behavior surprising.
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by gerikson 6y ago
I found this very surprising so asked a Python-knowledgeable acquaintance who mentioned that this works as expected >>> seq = [x for x in range(1,11)] >>> list(filter(lambda x: x % 2 == 0, seq)) [2, 4, 6, 8,
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by gerikson 6y ago
Bring back the French Revolutionary clock!
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by gerikson 6y ago
The United Kingdom itself is a good test when trying to answer "what is a country?"
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by gerikson 6y ago
I'm ashamed to say I've never read any of Butler's novels, although I've been aware of her since I got into SF in my teens.
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by gerikson 6y ago
I drafted a long comment but you put it better.
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by gerikson 6y ago
I think Gab split from the Fediverse? I.e. it’s no longer federating with other instances.
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by gerikson 6y ago
I hate not being able to integrate links in running text - it's been a feature of the web since the start, having to awkwardly add "see this link:" followed by a newline everywhere would drive me mad.
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by gerikson 6y ago
I like this idea, but that means you need to be able to decide what the "lowest" level is at the beginning (i.e. I seldom use anything below <h3>.)
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by gerikson 6y ago
This is the same as HTML's <ol> though...
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by gerikson 6y ago
That's the future defense against this kind of short squeeze. Funds will engage these subs (or hire people) and deflect interest from the stocks they're shorting and maybe steer it towards competitor's.
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by gerikson 6y ago
Ah, testicles. Copy and paste to avoid the referral-based content.
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by gerikson 6y ago
The Culture doesn't have money, nor scarcity.
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by gerikson 6y ago
You're supposed to disable javascript in your browser.
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by gerikson 6y ago
From https://www.sudo.ws/license.html > THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS" AND THE AUTHOR DISCLAIMS ALL WARRANTIES WITH REGARD TO THIS SOFTWARE INCLUDING ALL IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS. IN
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by gerikson 6y ago
Worth noting that the license fee is now paid as part of the regular tax payment. So the tax authority manages the collection, as opposed to previously when it was a separate agency.
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by gerikson 6y ago
So it's Perl?

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