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by noneeeed 3y ago
There was an interesting two-part series on the Freakonomics podcast about academic fraud, and it covered this case. It's all incredibly depressing. I really feel for all the junior researchers who end up wasting their time, and often
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by noneeeed 3y ago
Likewise. When we went to Spain last year I was trying to understand how to book tickets and this site was invaluable in explaining how it was all set up and what we could and couldn't do online or in advance.
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by noneeeed 3y ago
I assume because farm work is quite seasonal. There are other seasonal jobs (like summer holiday resorts or pre-christmas shop work) but I don't think they are as significant.
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by noneeeed 3y ago
Well, the "and"s are all English... :)
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by noneeeed 3y ago
That sounds interesting, I think I need to put that on my reading list. It's hard for people now to think about history outside of the context of the relatively ordered national boarders that exist today. Most of the modern countries o
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by noneeeed 3y ago
"Niche" is the one that bugs me every time I hear someone pronounce it to rhyme with "itch". For some irrational reason that just irritates :)
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by noneeeed 3y ago
You've lost me a bit on this. Are you saying people who don't pronounce their aches should use "a" and not "an"? Because that would sound weird trying to pronouce two vowels like that. We have two main ways of
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by noneeeed 3y ago
Nice :)
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by noneeeed 3y ago
Curious. Obviously this is just just anecdote, but all the shops I use regularly (in the UK) have been increasing the number of self-checkouts and upgrading the systems. My local Waitrose has stripped out a whole load of basket tills and re
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by noneeeed 3y ago
One of the hills on which I am prepared to die on is that "The C Programming Language" is the best programming language book I've ever read. Every developer should read it and learn C at least once, even if they promptly forg
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by noneeeed 3y ago
Hah, yeah, I think that's a pretty accurate portrail. There was a real feeling that we were part of the future. Now we just seem to be part of turbocharging the worst aspects of ultra-capitalism. Combined with the endlessly frustrating
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by noneeeed 3y ago
Oh ffs, not another one.
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by noneeeed 3y ago
Likewise. Adam should be a national treasure. I miss all those relatively unflashy science programmes. They all have to be a bit over the top and made into rather showy but shallow “event” TV, probably featuring Brian Cox on a mountain or i
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by noneeeed 3y ago
I used to run a decent size event that would get about 70-80 people. Part of me wants to try an bring it back, but I'm not sure I have the engergy or enthusiasm for it, and I'm just not sure there is the demand any more. It feels
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by noneeeed 3y ago
I have friends who have done exactly this. They grew a small agency to about 15 people and are happy with it. They enjoy what they do, it’s a nice place to work, they make plenty of money from it and have no desire to be rich.
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by noneeeed 3y ago
I feel the same to an extent. I realised that as of this year I've been programming in one language or another for 37 years. Right now, if I stopped writing code I wouldn't miss it for a while. Like you, I think I got into coding
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by noneeeed 3y ago
Wait, a university can claim sovereign immunity in the US? That's wild.
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by noneeeed 3y ago
Well, essentially the libertarian anarcho-capitalist bits. TBH, I can can just strongly disagree with people like that, but what got me worked up about this pile of high-school grade political science was the way it conflated all that liber
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by noneeeed 3y ago
This isn't a techno-optimist manifesto. This is a libertarian, anarcho-capitalist manifesto with a sprinkling of 1960 tech boosterism so that they can point at people who disagree and call them luddites. I'm a massive techno-opt
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by noneeeed 3y ago
Why can't employees sue the US government? That seems absolutely bonkers. (I'm British, so don't have a huge context for these things)
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by noneeeed 3y ago
Goodness, everyone seems to be getting very worked up over my typo. I meant to type "walking". Downvoting you for asking was silly.
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by noneeeed 3y ago
I've definitely heard people refer to Lakeland the place. But it's unusual, mostly people seem to just refer to it as "the lakes".
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by noneeeed 3y ago
The footpaths and Ordinance Survey maps. Combining those with the fact that most of the UK can be walked by a moderately fit and healthy person is kind of special.
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by noneeeed 3y ago
This made me chuckle: "And of course the many high-school students doing Duke of Edinburgh’s Award hikes, often with looks of total dejection and sadness, and certainly with much stink, but always with an impressive commitment." B
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by noneeeed 3y ago
Were I used to work they did all the things you suggested and it worked well. Every desk had a good setup, nice chair, massive screen etc. There were plenty of lockers and other storage if you needed to leave things in the office. Some of u
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by noneeeed 3y ago
One of the things Prolog taught me was the importance of teachers who can put themselves in the shoes of the student. At university we were largely taught Prolog by mathematicians who exclusively worked in such languages. Prolog was a very
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by noneeeed 3y ago
It probably wasn't outsourced. Local authorities have their own GIS and data people because it's essential to a council being able to do most of the jobs it does. Keeping track of things is a really necessary function of any counc
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by noneeeed 3y ago
We have two cats and it differs from cat to cat, and with age. When they were young our female would hunt quite a bit, certainly several times a month. Our male was hopeless at it, occasionally bringing back a live mouse and then not knowin
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by noneeeed 3y ago
I feel like BBC Sounds is some senior manager's vanity project that they have staked their career on. Their obsession with trying to get me to use it instead of normal RSS feeds or third party radio services like TuneIn is incredibly f
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by noneeeed 3y ago
Good point, I’d forgotten about that weird bit of the band. I wish we would simplify the tax and NI system into one set of bands, but that’ll never happen.

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