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by larsga 2y ago
This article is right, but also misleading. Yes, people did drink water. But they preferred to drink beer, and basically they drank beer for thirst if they could. And they did this not just in the Middle Ages, but into the 20th century. I w
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by larsga 3y ago
From the page: > any help writing the RFC would be greatly appreciated (see issue). I guess you can sign up if you want an RFC.
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by larsga 3y ago
> MIME type may be application/jsonl Don't do this. Don't encourage people to use a value that's not registered yet. Say "x-jsonl", and you're OK.
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by larsga 3y ago
That's the point. It finishes the last bit of fermentation in the cask in the pub, so what you get served is at absolute top condition. At least initially. That, with the low CO2 and the relative warmth, makes for an experience that&#x
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by larsga 3y ago
It's still much warmer than craft beer.
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by larsga 3y ago
> The US has one of the most well developed craft beer industries on the planet. It absolutely does. And those beer styles you mention are also very good. But cask ale is still better. Lambic and Flanders red ale are not central European
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by larsga 3y ago
You left out a couple of things here. One is that ale can also be served from keg, and commonly is, so the cask version is often known as "real ale". Guinness, for example, is a keg ale that uses nitrogen to mimic the mouthfeel of
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by larsga 3y ago
A bit strange that they write that timing is essential, yet don't actually allow the GA to experiment with timing. They could have added to their representation a symbol for "no change". Surprised they didn't.
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by larsga 3y ago
It's extremely unlikely to be air residue, since what they're finding is grain and yeast protein. That stuff won't be flying around in the air, particularly as the Danes did their brewing indoors. But, yes, the Danes did brew
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by larsga 4y ago
This is why a graph of a quantity over time is much superior to just seeing the realtime number. Had they had a graph of fuel remaining they would have been able to see that fuel level had started dropping faster. In monitoring IT systems s
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by larsga 4y ago
Possibly medieval. As the first sentence says, it might be from 1850.
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by larsga 4y ago
Possibly medieval. It might be from 1850.
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by larsga 4y ago
These illustrations were used in the first edition in 1937. My edition is from 1992. I don't think frequency of use has changed at all.
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by larsga 4y ago
Little-known? My edition of The Hobbit is illustrated with these. In fact, quite a lot of editions are. I guess what this means is that the book is little-known.
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by larsga 5y ago
If you want to hear some modern examples of oud-based jazz: Anouar Brahem - Bom dia Rio: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=noYCkiPrqS8 Dhafer Youssef - Les Ondes Orientales: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K9I
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by larsga 5y ago
What is baffling about it? There's huge numbers of reports in western media about the extremely severe lockdown in Wuhan. In addition they did testing and tracing to a quite frankly unbelievable extent. They had both the will and the a
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by larsga 5y ago
Human action is the key. The US was very well prepared, but when the federal government and many state governments weren't interested in stopping the virus of course being prepared doesn't help. Same with the UK: the response from
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by larsga 5y ago
What the hell kind of bullshit is this? Everyone knows they did not let it explode and had things under control until the last few weeks. Compared to most of the world China has seen almost no covid. That's what the official numbers sa
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by larsga 5y ago
Covid is the disease. The virus, SARS-CoV-2, has never been found in the wild. The closest known relative, RaTG13, was found in Yunnan. But SARS, a very similar disease (caused by SARS-CoV-1) broke out in Guangzhou, which is 1000km from Yun
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by larsga 5y ago
SARS was a random outbreak of a very similar disease that was just barely stopped. It was really close to becoming a pandemic.
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by larsga 5y ago
It's no mystery where it came from. A very similar virus (SARS-CoV-1) came very close to sparking a global pandemic in 2004. In late 2017 that virus was found in bats in a cave in Yunnan, China. The closest known relative to SARS-CoV-2
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by larsga 6y ago
The elements defined in HTML have meanings. That's the semantics. If you use the elements according to the meanings defined in the standard, then your markup is semantic. Whether you use lots of classes is neither here nor there, altho
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by larsga 6y ago
The point is that the marketing is false. This CSS framework forces to you to abuse HTML semantics if you want to use it, which is exactly what it claims it doesn't do. What's extra frustrating is that it would be so easy to fix,
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by larsga 6y ago
"In total covid has killed under 6,000 people in a country of ten million. A country with an annual death rate of around 100,000 people." This is basically deliberate disinformation. In April and early May Sweden had 30-50% excess
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by larsga 7y ago
I'm not discussing whether their safety outcomes were changed. My point is that management deliberately set out to create a completely different company culture that would no longer be engineering-driven. I don't see how anyone ca
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by larsga 7y ago
> This great culture was all lost as a result of the merger with McDonnell Douglas Not because of the merger, but because management deliberately set out to change the entire company culture from being engineering-driven to being busines
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by larsga 7y ago
I've tried using Soundex in practice, and I found it to be too coarse-grained to be really useful. Metaphone is much better, even if it's more complex.
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by larsga 7y ago
The main culprit is the FAA. Private companies should be expected to take shortcuts for short-term gain. That's why there is government regulation and oversight. It's the oversight part that failed here. Yes, Boeing also failed, b
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by larsga 8y ago
Clay Shirky unfortunately has no idea what he's talking about. You can interpret a CSV file as a set of syllogisms, too, if you want. RDF is data, just like CSV, except the shape is different. CSV is good for some things. RDF is good f
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by larsga 8y ago
These mappings is exactly what I'm talking about. I advised the OMG on one of the mappings in the ODM and I don't think they understood what they were mapping. To model OWL with UML gives you very little. To then map Topic Maps in

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