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   by jfk13 4y ago

   The one I most commonly see is Geo Watkins Mushroom Ketchup -- and checking the ingredients, it is indeed pretty light on mushrooms: > Water, Salt, Spirit Vinegar, Hydrolysed Vegetable Protein [Water, Hydrolysed Vegetable Protein, Salt],
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   by jfk13 4y ago

   Sindh does also have a pretty extensive irrigation network; e.g. see https://www.arcgis.com/apps/View/index.html?appid=21082183d1... . (I don't know how it compares to that in Punjab, though, nor whether it is
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   by jfk13 4y ago

   So true. "It's XML, so it must easy to parse and manipulate" is such a naive, even misleading attitude. If what you do is take a byzantine, legacy-encrusted implementation and just serialise its data strucures to an XML repre
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   by jfk13 4y ago

   > Back in 2004 when I lived in the UK, the NHS was really good. And I remember hearing at that time that it was nothing compared to the NHS in the 80s and 90s. That sounds like some seriously rose-tinted nostalgia to me. Yes, the NHS cer
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   by jfk13 4y ago

   Sounds like he was looking at downloading a complete TeX Live distribution; XeTeX itself isn't anything like that size (by a couple orders of magnitude, at least).
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   by jfk13 4y ago

   Aside from any such associations, they mean different things. People often use the terms imprecisely, but (for example) if Scotland were to leave the United Kingdom, it'd still be part of the island of Great Britain.
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   by jfk13 4y ago

   Would they be allowed to go supersonic for LAX-JFK?
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   by jfk13 4y ago

   Your link doesn't seem to be publicly accessible.
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   by jfk13 4y ago

   I suspect that many of the "impressive" examples that we see from tools like this have been carefully selected by human curators. I'm sure it's not at the level of "monkeys + typewriters = Shakespeare [if you'r
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    by jfk13 4y ago

    You just have to condition them appropriately, so that they happily accept their place. See Brave New World for the blueprints.
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    by jfk13 4y ago

    The title has been updated since the article was originally posted.
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    by jfk13 4y ago

    See also https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32354969
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    by jfk13 4y ago

    Interesting that the announcement includes long lists of "testimonials" from W3C members and from "industry", but there are some glaring omissions. Why no endorsement from Apple, Microsoft, Google, or Mozilla? Even small
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    by jfk13 4y ago

    Worth recalling that some major concerns have been expressed about this stuff. See discussion a month ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31939871
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    by jfk13 4y ago

    > I would argue the rich would much prefer to let everyone live at some <low but "okay"> standard of living than have a few more zeros on their bank totals and live in constant fear. I suspect many of the rich don't
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    by jfk13 4y ago

    https://www.oatridge.co.uk/poems/j/john-betjeman-slough.php
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    Neutron stars: New telescope detects dead suns colliding(bbc.co.uk)

    2 points by jfk13 4y ago|1 comments
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    by jfk13 4y ago

    In my childhood, our reference for paper planes was Capt. Barnaby's classic: http://www.jumpjet.info/Offbeat-Internet/More/Misc/How_To_Ma...
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    by jfk13 4y ago

    I can vouch for the fact that this works, though I'd consider it something of a last resort.
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    by jfk13 4y ago

    But we like to claim that Yes, Minister isn't a comedy at all, it's a documentary. ;-)
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    by jfk13 4y ago

    Nice and smooth in Firefox, too. But yes, it's quite laggy in Safari.
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    by jfk13 4y ago

    There's a vast difference between Mozilla's telemetry and Google's user tracking.
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    by jfk13 4y ago

    Yes, and yes. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unicode_character_property#Dep...
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    by jfk13 4y ago

    The Swedes get this "right", and call it [ˈdɵ̂bːɛlˌveː]. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swedish_alphabet
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    by jfk13 4y ago

    Ah, the familiar HN bubble, where people instinctively think of "simply start using VPNs" as the solution. No; some tiny minority of UK users may do that, but the overwhelming majority will just use whatever services are "app
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    India: Police rumble fake 'IPL' cricket league(bbc.co.uk)

    3 points by jfk13 4y ago|0 comments
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    by jfk13 4y ago

    You could always make your own: https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x4whf9o
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    by jfk13 4y ago

    Report in English: https://gardendrum.com/2015/08/25/german-man-dies-after-eati...
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    by jfk13 4y ago

    The article is dated 2019, so it's not a case of "purposefully ignores what's happened"; the last three years hadn't happened yet!
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    by jfk13 4y ago

    > With Tesla very likely losing the 'biggest EV maker' title Since you mention it... https://uk.pcmag.com/cars-auto/141332/tesla-is-no-longer-the...