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by pacaro 4y ago
It will be interesting to observe, I'm sure that TV and radio before it had a measurable impact too. I mean some people attribute the loss of the Cornish language to the railway making Cornwall less isolated
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by pacaro 4y ago
Specifically Fred's accent is from Bolton, which is just NW of Manchester. It also encodes social class signifiers in that it is distinctly working class. It is also dated, accents have evolved a fair amount in the 50 years or so.
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by pacaro 4y ago
My sister worked at a bank in northern France in the mid nineties, she found it hard that all her coworkers went home for lunch, and her apartment was too far from the office and on her income eating at a bistro couldn't be a daily thi
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by pacaro 4y ago
You may well be correct, the instructions might just have been to code along with the book, I know that part of the exercise was definitely to ensure that I could use the tools. It was 28 years ago, I'm fuzzy on the details :)
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by pacaro 4y ago
Absolutely! My first software job back in 94, on my first day I was given a battered copy of Petzold and told to read and do the exercises up to chapter 7. It was an extremely effective boot camp for a novice windows programmer
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by pacaro 4y ago
I'm surprised that nobody has mentioned the d120 which AFAICT is the largest fair dice that you can just go out and buy. Sadly it's a smidge under 7 bits, but you can "reasonably" roll up 32 bits of entropy with a mere 6
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by pacaro 4y ago
I mean, clearly you could do this with a shell script, but I believe that tcl is installed by default on MacOs, so there's that too, both wish and tclsh are available so you could even have UI (as long as you don't care about acce
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by pacaro 4y ago
Also memorize a lawyers number if you're going to need it when arrested. If you call a buddy the police can and will listen to your call. If you call a lawyer then they can't. https://www.aclu.org/know-your-rights&
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by pacaro 4y ago
Scheme's explicit #f is false and everything else is truthy takes some getting used to, but conversely look at Tcl where boolean values are any numeric value (0 is falsy) or the strings: true, false, yes, no, on, off
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by pacaro 4y ago
You bring up some interesting concerns. It's a good example of why there isn't a one size fits all answer. The UK gov site has high standards for these kind of things so will do it right anyway, but for a small shop leaning on a f
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by pacaro 4y ago
I believe that sortition is a solution to this. Being a politician should be like jury duty, there's a low but significant probability that you can lose the lottery and have to be a representative for a couple of years. The same mechan
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by pacaro 4y ago
So TFA addresses the expense/waste issue. If you're using a safety razor (or a leaf[1] if you prefer the multi blade style), and are buying blades from feather or similar. Technique will eliminate ingrown hairs/cuts etc, The
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by pacaro 4y ago
I worked for a small British GIS company in the mid-nineties. Having an entire country on a single rectilinear coordinate system really makes life easier. The OS grid makes sense for mapping a country the shape, size and location of the UK.
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by pacaro 4y ago
I buy Canson sketchbooks[1] and use them for everything, although mostly drawing/sketching. I can blow through them pretty quickly but buying them in 6-packs isn't bad The 5.5×8.5 format is portable enough, each notebook is 100 pa
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by pacaro 4y ago
One origin story for April Fool's suggests that it's to do with getting the year wrong. My understanding was that new years was always January, 1st, but that the year number changed on Lady Day The UK's tax year still reflect
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by pacaro 4y ago
I also do this. I recently picked up an Acer Spin 713, which I'm very happy with. On the one hand it can be a terminal to a honking desktop machine, or something beefy in the cloud, but it also runs Linux just fine, so I can do a fair
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by pacaro 4y ago
The "no derivatives" clause is a little disappointing
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by pacaro 4y ago
I may be misunderstanding you, but it feels like strings and datetimes are library related more than language related. I know that higher level languages will have primitives that aim to represent strings, but if you need to get into the we
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by pacaro 5y ago
Definitely tunnelling through rock is a more straightforward proposition. Bertha famously hit an allegedly uncharted steel pipe part way through and had to have extensive repairs. Clearly tunneling under a city is a very different propositi
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by pacaro 5y ago
Probably, I was lazy in my miles to km conversion. I assume the distances aren't on the nail anyway, so probably $1b/km is the reasonable number in this context
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by pacaro 5y ago
In contrast, the 2 mile long SR-99 tunnel under Seattle cost $3.3 billion, whereas this is 55km for $11 billion. I.e. in Europe they're tunnelling for $0.2 billion per km compered to the US at $0.97 billion per km.
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by pacaro 5y ago
I love it. At some point for me, there seemed to be a bug, circles started disappearing
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by pacaro 5y ago
That feels like an untenable solution, it wouldn't take much to create a denial of service...
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by pacaro 5y ago
I very much doubt that there is any human interaction on the Amazon end of this workflow. What seems more likely is that because this doesn't generate revenue it gets the minimum resources necessary to complete the request within some
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by pacaro 5y ago
IIRC a lot of our data about human splenectomy comes from World War II, where it was performed often enough that some long term followups were possible with sufficiently large n
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by pacaro 5y ago
Ha! In my initial draft I too spelled it Grauniad. And I agree, it's a totally different newspaper, but as far as I can tell, that's true for all the broadsheets (although in different ways)
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by pacaro 5y ago
This must be a generational thing. For me, Peak Guardian occurred in 1994 when Richard Gott was outed as a Russian agent of influence. At the time he was their Literary Editor, previously he had been their Features Editor. He had been takin
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by pacaro 5y ago
Irda was most definitely available on phones. It was possible to get a laptop online by correctly aligning it and a phone on a desktop. Also very commonly used by printers
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by pacaro 5y ago
I think that the observation about raccoons in Germany is made because they aren't native to Europe. Probably the correct word is feral My mother (who lives in the UK) recently visited me (in the US). While walking we saw a bald eagl
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by pacaro 5y ago
I worked on a database (in a desktop GIS) that used PICK style record, field, value, sub-value separators. This worked for us because all data were text based. But it didn't work for us because we used characters 0xFC to OxFF as the se

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