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by gvurrdon 4y ago
I’m reminded of a previous house move. A two-bedroom flat 20 miles from work was £125k, and one within a mile, but otherwise similar, was about £350k. I could barely afford the first one.
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by gvurrdon 4y ago
That depends on the distance and the manner of loading. Smoothbore muskets are inaccurate, aren't they? Hence the need for 18th century armies to fire big volleys in order to get any hits. A part of this is that the manner of loading
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by gvurrdon 4y ago
The pistols are not necessarily any less accurate than a modern one, in my experience. But, of course, marksmanship with handguns at further than a few paces is often difficult. I'd guess the big danger for duelists would have been dam
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by gvurrdon 4y ago
This is indeed a total pain. I’d like to find some other means of handling music in Mac and iPhone to get around it.
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by gvurrdon 4y ago
I just received as a gift a hand-made harness for attaching a hot water bottle to one's chest or back. It is rather effective. https://pothies.co.uk/hotwater-bottle-carrier-from-pothies/
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by gvurrdon 4y ago
Cinemas as well - I remember in the mid-late 70s the smoking section of the local cinema was to the left and in front of where my family usually sat. As the film progressed we could see the smoke drifting up into the lights of the projector
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by gvurrdon 4y ago
Cleaning is indeed quite easy and could indeed be done with a bit of hot water and soap. It can take a while, though. I've heard that about the sale of these guns in the US. Presumably there's not much demand given the prevalence
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by gvurrdon 4y ago
We do still have some handguns, such as single-shot flintlocks, muzzle-loading revolvers of 1850s design, and some modern handguns which have been extended with long barrels and counterweights to make them >= 60cm in length (IIRC). I thi
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by gvurrdon 4y ago
There's a scene in the 1979 film Scum ( https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0079871/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0 ) where one of the warders in a young offenders' institution allows a bullied inmate to be framed by his peer
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by gvurrdon 4y ago
I have seen ChatGPT mentioned on Twitter from time to time, but no-one who has done so has ever posted a link (that I have seen).
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by gvurrdon 4y ago
This stuff is great. The host of "Jazz Club" is actually a musician, and wrote this article: https://www.theguardian.com/music/2016/nov/11/john-thomson-l... I'm an amateur jazz musician my
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by gvurrdon 4y ago
Assuming this refers to https://chat.openai.com/ , it's rather difficult to try it out. After creating an account it demanded a phone number. Of course, I will not supply my own, and temporary ones I tried were either r
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by gvurrdon 4y ago
I've heard them referred to as the "tin snail" in the UK, but I'm not sure how common that is. I had one of the last ones, in the early 1990s; it was a bit of a pain to maintain.
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by gvurrdon 4y ago
I would agree - the round edges are a PITA. The glass back makes it very slippery as well. I'm using an 8 Plus still as it has TouchID (I find FaceID far too creepy) and a large screen, which helps with my failing eyesight. It would be
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by gvurrdon 4y ago
I work with two of them at the moment. One is planning to apply for a PhD studentship soon, but the other does not intend to do so.
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by gvurrdon 5y ago
This is also important for jazz. Should I wish, for example, to find albums where a particular bassist is playing then this would be rather difficult unless they happen to be the leader for that particular recording. Also, it would be part
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by gvurrdon 5y ago
Oxford, UK | £33-44k full time | Possible remote/flexible (UK only) | Web development (mostly Vue.js). This post is for the ongoing development of FAIRsharing ( https://fairsharing.org ). It's an academic salary, but hol
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by gvurrdon 5y ago
Strange, indeed. A "sorry, no thanks, good luck elsewhere" email would have been fine. Feedback would have been very useful but I suspect they'd be reluctant to offer any.
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by gvurrdon 5y ago
> Then a bunch of weird generic scenarios - what have you done that fits this scenario and how did you handle it. That part was particularly frustrating; often I couldn't think of anything relevant to the specific wording. At lea
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by gvurrdon 5y ago
There's a lot of "ye olde business logic" in what I'm building, for people who often change their mind about what they want. A Rails API (with Postgres and Elasticsearch) makes this fairly easy to handle, especially wit
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by gvurrdon 5y ago
I very much agree; particularly as I may wish to hear particular bassists and they are usually not listed as the band leader. It would also be useful to able to add multiple tags, both "jazz" and "post bop", for example
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by gvurrdon 5y ago
That first was a good book - there's still a copy on my shelf in the office, I think, though I've not had chance to go there in person to check recently.
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by gvurrdon 5y ago
Perl was extremely popular 20+ years ago in biology; I made the jump from the lab bench to bioinformatics with Perl and Bioperl ( https://bioperl.org/ ). But, after a while I discovered Ruby, and later Python, and moved on, a
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by gvurrdon 5y ago
40-60 minutes each way for me, occasionally worse. One colleague did have 2+ hours each way (train via London) and so he was permitted to come into the office once per week, even pre-covid.
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by gvurrdon 5y ago
I was also slightly perplexed by the recent trouble "master". I'd not have thought of it in the context of slavery at all - the term that I'd understand would be a "slave owner". For me, it's a somewhat ar
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by gvurrdon 5y ago
The usual complaints I get (as an admin of an instance) are: 1. "Hard to search"/"Can't find anything". 2. Off-topic responses because people post in whatever the most recent thread they used happens to be (res
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by gvurrdon 6y ago
The street on which I live is probably about 900 years old. The houses have been rebuild many times, but there is still wood in some houses here that's been dated to the 1530s. My own house only dates to c. 1870-80, though it's ma
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by gvurrdon 6y ago
It's great; I've used it for over a decade. These days it's only on my servers, though, due to lack of time. I'd very much like something along the lines of Sabayon with OpenRC for my laptop (currently using Fedora/
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by gvurrdon 6y ago
So it would seem - I'd not noticed that. Thanks.
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by gvurrdon 6y ago
Indeed, it's very much the same thing. I have brought up the similarity to email, but it's been of limited help. I'm hoping that moving posts between topics will become possible at some point, which will allow me to clean thi

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