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by pacaro 5y ago
I definitely had a decade of my life where whitewater kayaking was my drug of choice, and I agree 100%. I think one of the things that we have so little intuition for is how massive water is. I don't even know if that is the right word
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by pacaro 5y ago
It's a relief to read an article about Enumclaw that doesn't mention horses
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by pacaro 5y ago
or the bot script is using uint16
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by pacaro 5y ago
Some academics apparently use "Atlantic Archipelago"
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by pacaro 5y ago
From the same Wikipedia article "Claudius Ptolemy referred to the larger island as great Britain (μεγάλη Βρεττανία megale Brettania) and to Ireland as little Britain (μικρὰ Βρεττανία mikra Brettania) in his work Almagest (147–148 AD)&q
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by pacaro 5y ago
No. It was simply the descriptor applied to the largest island in the archipelago. The cultural layer followed, sadly England in particular and the UK in general have done little or nothing to address colonial and imperial legacy
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by pacaro 5y ago
Definitely still a thing in the US
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by pacaro 5y ago
Names are funny things, the name in question has been used for the entire archipelago, in one form or another, for thousands of years. Maybe part of the problem is the casual use of Britain to mean "The United Kingdom of Great Britain
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by pacaro 5y ago
A little more digging finds that it was written in 1971, so echoing in a sense other comments on here that this isn't such a new observation
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by pacaro 5y ago
For those who might not know the reference this is "This Be The Verse" by Philip Larkin https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philip_Larkin
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by pacaro 5y ago
Has anyone noticed that in the UK, posties work for the Royal Mail, whereas in the US, mail carriers work for the US Postal Service. It's a curious inversion
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by pacaro 5y ago
This made me think of Gödel Numbering¹, which was used in the plot of "The Gold at the Starbow's End" by Frederick Pohl² 1) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G%C3%B6del_numbering 2) https://en.wik
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by pacaro 5y ago
Hermit-in-residence doesn't sound so terribly different from artist-in-residence or writer-in-residence. It seems like more of a framing issue, "garden hermit" feels like an eccentric ostentation, writer-in-residence feels li
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by pacaro 5y ago
For reasons, I abandoned a storage unit containing (among other things) numerous prototype and unreleased hardware devices, the storage company will just have auctioned the contents. Sooner or later one will appear on here I'm sure
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by pacaro 5y ago
Compound words do have the potential to throw this for a loop. The pronunciation is regular if you can decompose the word, but if you miss where the word boundaries are all bets are off. For example "linkshändig"
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by pacaro 5y ago
Building a DIY centrifuge is a great way to become a Darwin award candidate.
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by pacaro 5y ago
My parents' house is a good example of this. The rear boundary of the property is defined as being some distance from the road. It's not totally clear (although I assume that there is a standard) whether this means the curtilage o
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by pacaro 6y ago
Same. When the company I worked at in the mid-nineties got our first color copier, the sales rep told us explicitly about the yellow dots, including how to use the zoom and contrast features to see them (i.e copy a copy on the highest level
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by pacaro 6y ago
For me the key statement on this site is "A website created by The Scottish Government written in partnership with autistic people."
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Supporting and Celebrating Different Minds(differentminds.scot)
3 points by pacaro 6y ago|1 comments
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by pacaro 6y ago
Maybe I'm being picky, but I think that the author means poseur when they are saying poser
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by pacaro 6y ago
I've always considered Nempnett Thrubwell to be setting a pretty high standard on the bizarre English place names index. The Wallops (Nether Wallop, Middle Wallop, and Over Wallop) are good too
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by pacaro 6y ago
Randomness is definitely a factor, there are so many things that can go wrong, from having a bad day, an interviewer having a bad day, just bad luck on the set of questions you are asked, the list goes on. I have performed a lot of coding i
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by pacaro 6y ago
My brother was their lighting designer for the Daftendirektour in 97, so I got to see them play the Cambridge Corn Exchange, and experience a very mellow backstage. IIRC there is little footage of the tour because they actively discouraged
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by pacaro 6y ago
The defendant wasn't present, so the plaintiff's assertions about damages will presumably have been taken at face value. IANAL
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by pacaro 6y ago
France, Italy, Spain, and Israel all have laws about the weight of fashion models. https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-39821036
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by pacaro 6y ago
A friend and I have discussed doing something similar (i.e a luggable system in a wooden box) with rPI and a commodity 1080P display. We were thinking more of a campaign furniture aesthetic though
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by pacaro 6y ago
I've never seen compelling evidence that Glacier isn't just a different API and pricing policy on top of S3
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by pacaro 6y ago
Several other comments are alluding to saccade [1], where your eyes unconsciously jerk around (saccade is the french word for jerk) any vision control system would have to allow for this. In the simplest approach this would be a low pass fi
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by pacaro 6y ago
IIRC the Norfolk Broads (an interconnected series of lakes and waterways in the same part of the country as Norwich and Ipswich) were dug by the Romans who burned peat to make salt We get the word salary from salt too

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