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by komadori 2y ago
I once did something in a similar vein, but with much less sophistication. We had 8 players and 2 copies of Catan. The games were played simultaneously and the rule was that the first player to win a game was the overall winner. Everyone wa
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by komadori 2y ago
Indeed, I prefer to openly display information that, were it kept nominally secret, could be determined anyway via lots of tedious bookkeeping.
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by komadori 2y ago
At least at the point you receive a 429, the Retry-After header provides some guidance as to how frequently the resource should be polled.
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by komadori 2y ago
When I visited South Korea some years ago, I took a delightful photograph of bag of Samsung-branded kimchi.
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by komadori 3y ago
Boilers in the UK are usually mounted on the inside of an exterior wall to provide for venting exhaust gases outside. They may provide hot water on-demand without a tank (combi boiler) or fill a hot water cylinder on a schedule (system boil
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by komadori 3y ago
Note that if the employer is found to be engaging in "disguised employment" then, in some jurisdictions such as the UK, they may be found liable for these things anyway plus penalties.
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by komadori 3y ago
I share your intuition, perhaps unfairly, that it's indeed not as hard in absolute terms. However, it certainly requires a different set of skills and organisational practices. Just because an organisation is extremely good at one thin
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by komadori 3y ago
Singapore has something akin to a state-run dating agency since 1984: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_Development_Network
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by komadori 3y ago
I also struggled to get into Shenzhen I/O, but I loved TIS-100 because the "fake hardware" is so distinctive and interesting compared to most real microprocessors.
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by komadori 3y ago
Prior to the changes made by Theresa May in 2012, it took 2 years for a spouse to be eligible for ILR and further year for citizenship. I believe in some cases it was possible for a spouse to immediately aquire ILR if the couple had lived t
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by komadori 3y ago
I was so surprised by your comment that I had to check that I hadn't been using the wrong word all this time! However, I don't think it's a veganisation, as you put it. Usage of "ends meet" dates back to at least th
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by komadori 3y ago
Anyone can bring a private prosecution in the UK and I don't believe the Post Office has any specific additional powers in this regard.
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by komadori 3y ago
I suppose if the PBC was in debt then it could sell its assets, such as the Ello site, to pay its creditors and then dissolve.
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by komadori 3y ago
You can write Cantonese, although most Cantonese speakers' "formal" written language is more closely related to spoken Mandarin (Modern Standard Chinese) than to the way they normally speak. I recommend "Cantonese as Wri
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by komadori 3y ago
Has a cargo cult really ever successfully caused a plane to land? Isn't the point that despite superficially imitating an sharp airstrip, "the planes never come"?
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by komadori 3y ago
I prefer The National Museum of Computing, which now occupies a site just outside the Bletchley Park museum perimeter. For example, the last time I visited Bletchley Park they were exhibiting a mock-up of one side of a Bombe with a video sc
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by komadori 3y ago
If you can get at them, it would be best to take out the batteries as soon as possible to minimise future damage. It might not be too late.
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by komadori 3y ago
Presumably, they could sell their business operations and the associated assets, and the non-profit entity would be left with the proceeds of the sale. I guess that could happen if the non-profit thought they could fulfill their purpose bet
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by komadori 3y ago
Is it an aquihire if the original product line isn't killed off?
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by komadori 3y ago
That system seems very convoluted to me. In the UK, only the seller pays a commission on the sale price (typically ~1.5%) and the seller's estate agent is responsible for showing buyers around the property. The buyer doesn't need
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by komadori 3y ago
Well that service probably could charge $20 per user off the top because there would only be one of them :-).
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by komadori 3y ago
I have a story which predates WordPad, but concerns OLE support in it's predecessor Write: At my secondary school, a long time ago now, they used PCs from educational vendor Research Machines (RM). These ran a locked down version of th
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by komadori 3y ago
I think it was originally planned for five series, but then they thought that they were going to get cancelled after the fourth series so they squeezed the planned plot arc in to conclude the end of the fourth instead.
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by komadori 3y ago
Sometimes there's a separate union for managers, like the National Association of Head Teachers (NAHT), or the Association of Local Authority Chief Executives and Senior Managers (ALACE).
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by komadori 3y ago
A first-party editor is planned and Bevy's UI library and other infrastructure is getting to the point where it might to start to materialise in a few releases. However, I personally love the code-first experience Bevy offers in compar
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by komadori 3y ago
Ditto I have accidently flagged 12 submissions without noticing (but no comments). This is in addition to the many times where I've noticed an accidental flagging and immediately unflagged it. In my case, it's entirely a consequen
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by komadori 3y ago
ANGLE is a portability layer for Windows which provides the OpenGL API on top of DirectX, since Windows clients aren't guaranteed to have good OpenGL drivers installed. WebGL is itself closely related to OpenGL so it makes sense to bui
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by komadori 3y ago
> Lochridge had alleged major safety issues: there had been almost no unmanned testing of the craft; the alarm system would only sound off “milliseconds” before an implosion https://www.forbes.com/sites/katherinehami
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by komadori 3y ago
My AI lecturer at University told both the tank story and a similar London Underground story. In his version of the latter, the NN was measuring platform occupancy but sometimes produced anomalous results. After investigation it was determi
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by komadori 3y ago
It was BA flight 5390. Admiral Cloudberg has a good write-up: https://admiralcloudberg.medium.com/the-near-crash-of-britis...

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