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by keithpeter 8y ago
I outwalked a traffic jam this morning as I often do (admittedly in a narrow time frame)
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by keithpeter 8y ago
UK: I don't actually know anyone with one of these. I do know one chap who has a nespresso machine but he also has an aeropress. I just use my mokapot. Having said all that, the nespresso sales stand in a local city centre shopping arc
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by keithpeter 8y ago
Excellent book in a journalistic style. Good present. You will (both) have your own views on Krebs' strategies to make complex issues accessible to 'civilians'.
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by keithpeter 8y ago
Interesting. https://www.buckingham.ac.uk/foundation-dept/foundation-path... The fees they are charging tend to suggest that the University is not claiming skills funding agency money for this foundation course. In t
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by keithpeter 8y ago
UK: further education colleges are state funded, I can't think of any purely private ones off the top of my head. The funding organisations would act to 'protect provision' if a college did fail - the funders can require merg
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by keithpeter 8y ago
UK: Local universities have developed new building syndrome. In some cases a definite enhancement (Birmingham University's new sports centre adds an olympic sized swimming pool and offers community engagement, BCU is moving everything
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by keithpeter 8y ago
Seems close to the Dilbert geezer's Goals vs Systems. I work on systems more than goals myself and it seems to work for my humble tasks. https://blog.dilbert.com/2013/11/18/goals-vs-systems/
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by keithpeter 8y ago
Teacher training is subject to OFSTED every two years (or was) and so things are pretty tight. Teaching standards in general undergraduate courses are being slowly pulled up - but I know what you mean.
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by keithpeter 8y ago
UK: when I was involved with teacher training at a local university, I had to act as placement tutor for around 15 training teachers - all graduates with good UK first degrees in a range of subjects. I had to observe each of the training te
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by keithpeter 8y ago
$10 per day seems a low price to me. I have no experience of co-working spaces but I'm thinking of the costs of running a room with say 20 working spaces in it at the usual rent/rates/utilities...
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by keithpeter 8y ago
No local university building with some public access or similar?
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by keithpeter 8y ago
Strikes me as a sensible business model if you can actually cover the recurring costs by getting enough people in. UK version... https://www.theguardian.com/travel/2014/jan/08/pay-per-minut... London: h
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by keithpeter 8y ago
Calder Hall -> Windscale -> Sellafield Calder Hall fire 1957: I was in the womb 100 miles downwind at that time and have reasons to be grateful for 'Cockroft's folly' [1] Windscale Enquiry 1978: I was 20 then and THORP
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by keithpeter 8y ago
That quote struck me as well. The 'effective engines' for search are there I suppose but perhaps not so much for choosing.
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by keithpeter 8y ago
UK: Breeze block inner, cavity with rock wool and brick outer with internal walls of basically studding with plaster board for my 1985ish 'compact and bijou town house'. Some medium-rise blocks of flats use steel frame floor plate
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by keithpeter 8y ago
Chandrasekhar's "Newton's Principia for the common reader" is a reading of Newton's book in modern mathematical notation and with commentary on the methods Newton was using.
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by keithpeter 8y ago
Also Gnome is keyboard driven to a large degree. I used dwm/dmenu for quite a time then went back to the default DE which was Gnome and it felt similar (small screen by the way so not too many tiled windows in dwm)
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by keithpeter 8y ago
Thinkpads and Dell Latitude series (5xxx something). Currently Thinkpad X220 and L440. Wifi non-free drivers but in most distros, trackpad on L440 seems to recognise multiple finger use for scrolling &c. I admit that I tend to use at mo
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by keithpeter 8y ago
Half a currency (Eurozone has common currency value but national banks can still set bank rates) is the problem I think. UK stayed out of Euro because of the Black Wednesday experience during the ERM I suspect.
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by keithpeter 8y ago
So banks in Germany should be allowed to lend huge amounts of money to countries with the same currency but much higher bank rate without regard to loss? 'Moral Hazard' is something I have reservations about.
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by keithpeter 8y ago
http://www2.politicalbetting.com/index.php/archives/2018/11/... YouGov poll on labour voters would suggest caution on Mr Corbyn's part. I voted remain mainly because I could not see how UK could dis
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by keithpeter 8y ago
I've not updated that page for the new release as yet. The first paragraph summarises the changes. OA has an example of the new wifi autofind feature which I need to bottom out.
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by keithpeter 8y ago
L540s (4 or 5 years old now) used by the dozen in one of the places I teach, the managers have them as portable work machines. They seem reliable, they get a beating. Quite big 15inch screen, thick bezel &c.
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by keithpeter 8y ago
The authors of Capitalism without Capital would argue that Starbucks are reaping the rewards of their investment in their process as illustrated by the staff manual that sibling comment mentions (just finished reading the book - really th
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by keithpeter 8y ago
Is it possible that people take 'doing email' as including facebook and other social media - messaging in any form? Lets face it we tend to do those things through Web interfaces on desktop/laptops or in messaging style apps
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by keithpeter 8y ago
Hexagonal arrangements of circles are about the easiest thing to draw with a pair of compasses as OA mentions. I wonder if we can distinguish 'meaningful' hexfoil's from the maths homework of previous centuries somehow?
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by keithpeter 8y ago
The rolling GUI/LTS underpinning is the unusual thing about KDE Neon. So I'd find a second review after about 6 months and at least one major KDE version update of interest - any glitches? config files need delete/or OK? That
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by keithpeter 8y ago
They do allow people to walk up and start building models with minimal introduction. Low floor, and, alas, as many know here to their cost, a high ceiling in the sense that spreadsheets often get used for more advanced modelling that would
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by keithpeter 8y ago
Mainly that a spreadsheet program is available on most laptop/PCs. And most people have been taught how to use an 'office' package at some point. And the UI is sort of built in and familiar. Perhaps you will be able to sleep
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by keithpeter 8y ago
Thanks, memory fails... a condition of the coalition was having the vote of course.

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