graemep

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by graemep 4mo ago
> I was walking in central London .... there are no trees in central London (the City). It makes me wonder whether they know which bit is actually the City. later on: > Sure, you have a small/big park here and there What big park
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by graemep 4mo ago
I think KDE's approach is a greater danger. They both come with warnings, but with AUR (depending on tools) allows you to inspect the PKGBUILD. KDE just gives you a warning and no easy way of looking at what you are installing, it is n
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by graemep 4mo ago
I agree, but its also somewhat weird that the main reason kids learn to write cursive is for exams - its not a skill most of us use in adult life, and even for kids writing outside exams is often done on computers (e.g. my daughter's
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by graemep 4mo ago
One to one human tutors are the best way of educating kids and they are not scoped to what a class is covering. They teach the kid as an individual: they are effective because they can adjust to the kids abilities and interests.
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by graemep 4mo ago
British schools are often pretty clear that kids are not there to socialise - they will say it in so many words. It also depends what you by socialisation. in terms of school people usually mean two distinct things: have opportunities to sp
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by graemep 4mo ago
I am not sure whether GP means the City or central London in general. It gets greener as you go further out. One of the big problems in the UK has been the rise of low maintenance gardens, replacing plants with decking concrete, gravel etc.
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by graemep 4mo ago
There is already a predator species that eats red deer. Just up our venison consumption!
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by graemep 4mo ago
They are not. Quite a few have Latin roots and the like that corresponding French words share.
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by graemep 4mo ago
KeepassXC browser integration will do that.
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by graemep 4mo ago
I think you mean open source in the second bit in quotes.
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by graemep 4mo ago
True, but that is why I am sceptical about benefits of re-nationalisation. The skills are not going to come back. The default assumption these days is that everything will be contracted out. It needs a cultural change and a lot of investmen
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by graemep 4mo ago
It looks like an interesting language but hard to learn and not a huge ecosystem. I refuse to consider it until they change the name back :)
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by graemep 4mo ago
With Mandelson its not so much the amount of money directly received, it is the damage done by leaking information.
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by graemep 4mo ago
The rail infrastructure was re-nationalised in 2002 - Network Rail is government owned. The train operating companies are mostly privately owned but they do not build the infrastructure. Quite a few are state owned though (LNER, Thameslink,
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by graemep 4mo ago
me too!
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by graemep 4mo ago
I am surprised that you encountered bugs that long ago. KDE was at its buggiest in the early days of KDE 4 2008 onwards. If those dates are not exact and it was early KDE 4 you had problems with, then yes, its much better now.
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by graemep 4mo ago
There is no CO2. It produces carbon instead.
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by graemep 5mo ago
You are missing the point. This makes it possible to distribute something that is actually banned. The included books are just examples. It also makes it possible to provide free access to books that libraries decide against. A project host
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by graemep 5mo ago
The UK bans a lot more than the US does in terms of actual government bans on books and speech, especially under terrorism law.
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by graemep 5mo ago
> You don't call airlines "banks" just because they make all of their money from currency-like "miles", The article you link to does!
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by graemep 5mo ago
I only use open source browsers, but there are quite a few with adblocking. Firefox and a few Firefox forks, Brave and a few other Chromium based ones.
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by graemep 5mo ago
CERN is not an EU project, predates the EU, and is not located in the EU. EuroHPC JU includes a number of non-EU members. I think that is the way forward: work with whoever has common interests and is willing to work together. I think the p
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by graemep 5mo ago
On the rivers catching fire. Wow! I think I may have heard of it as a freak event (e.g. an oil spill) but the same the same river catching fire 14 times is not something i realised happened.
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by graemep 5mo ago
I often have discussions of substance about religion! I love them. I think one of the problems is that,as with many political things, people assume bad faith on the other side in this argument so there is no point having a discussion about
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by graemep 5mo ago
Even with the obvious danger the Nazis presented it took a long time for most countries to respond. Britain and France could have stopped them (from a much stronger position) earlier but did nothing until after they had conquered Austria, C
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by graemep 5mo ago
> The ozone hole problem has been essentially solved, acid rain has been essentially solved, mass scale water pollution like rivers catching on fire All far less expensive to fix. Never actually heard of rivers catching fire? Has acid
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by graemep 5mo ago
There is also a lot of low quality PHP code out there, and a lot of legacy code in a language that I am told (I have not used if for years myself though) has changed a lot.
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by graemep 5mo ago
I do not know about crazy, but certainly sub-optimal. For example a loop over DB query results instead of modifying the code to work with a single query.
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by graemep 5mo ago
I am not assuming anything. Military force is not the same thing as economic sanctions. Are you suggesting the US would be willing to use military force to stop the UK or France using technology developed in their own countries? Or from usi
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by graemep 5mo ago
Proper separate infrastructure (i.e. not just painting a dividing line on the pavement as happens around here) is expensive and requires a lot of space. It is not always practicable, and even where it is the money would often be better spen

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