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3y ago
This is also they way in the UK. A large screen of everyone over 60 via stool sample. Then ONLY if that shows issues then a CT scan and then a colonoscopy.
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3y ago
vidarh 18 hours ago | parent | context | flag | on: What Transport for London can learn about us from ... >> The problem for your case is that there are not enough train paths to add a new train, >I can find no indications that the
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Unfortunately our right wing ruling party totally disagrees and has so for 60+ years. They do not want to subsidise anything.
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3y ago
The problem for your case is that there are not enough train paths to add a new train, also your case would not produce a viable service as not many would use it. The speed of the services also matter as the Clapham Junction to Guilford dir
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3y ago
Unfortunately people who have travelled the superloop say it is not much quicker than existing bus services many of which are slowed by traffic not the number of stops and there are no orbital routes they can use to speed their routes up (e
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3y ago
Well they were net positive before COVID. Then the fares crashed and needed bailing out by the central government who don't like public transport or the London mayor. The government are now much more car boosting than they were so anyt
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3y ago
This is an important point - single platform apps for Windows and macOS or iOS or Android behave and look much better than cross platform apps let alone browser based apps. I will put up with less functions for the better feel. However many
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3y ago
No just fat fingers and poor eyesight :)
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3y ago
Yes but RSS was and that is what is in discussion here - smtp is for mail which is not mentioned here.
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3y ago
And I think some of the severance pay is tax free at least in the UK.
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3y ago
For gardening leave. You have X months notice ie the company has to tell you X months before yoir severance date. Often the company will want somone they let go out of the office ASAP. Thus you spend your X months on gardening leave paid as
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3y ago
They are blkaming the process that is uncontolled which uses Excel. They also blam Oriel which is another system
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3y ago
IDEs have improved so integration of Swift and searching is easy. Objective-C now could do without headers but I used it 25 years ago and having headers made life easier.
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3y ago
Yes but is any of that a simple rename from .c to .m chnages the language but no need to change the code.
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3y ago
I find this and odd comment. How is it an absurd price for electronic copies as they are less than the paper version. I have bought hundreds of ebooks and all were cheaper than the mass market paperback.
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3y ago
Not in publishing publishers have different contracts in North America and the Commonwealth and won't seel under one contract in the other region. Publishers have forced Amazon et al to enforce this.
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3y ago
It is not the author who decised on DRM or not - it is the publisher. E<G all TOR or Baen books are DRM free. Unfortunnately in the paper world there are separate North American and CommonWealth contracts. Many publishers do only one thu
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3y ago
Yes but I was talking about the game - I ignore cover designs partiually for this reason. Springer-Verlang textbooks and gollanz fiction are much better - pretty plain black (or simple pictures) on yellow or white
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3y ago
WHat do you mean by levels? I see no white (well the key names are but you don't see them until you click. Purple on purple is just not readable. Purple on white as the text on the page is would be much better. The keys in the game ar
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3y ago
And people started putting credit cards into websites where there were standards and government approval for it. So that fraudulent websites can be procescuted and the credit card companies will refund your money. ie the user is not at risk
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3y ago
This is unreadable. Contrast exists for a reason. Grey on grey is not contrast. Please make it readable. Well I won't buy the book obviously written by artists who think things just need to be pretty but not by designers who look at th
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3y ago
Everything should be in the manual - but it is not nowadays. Many projects just say read the code which is difficult to first find the correct code and then understand it as the code might be more complex than the uisers knowledge or be in
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3y ago
By interesting question I mean that ones that I did not know and were not a simple read the manual. They would be ones I would have find fun in researching the answer. Your definition of interesting is a discussion which is not what SO is f
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The answer here is that "putting effort into my questions" A lot of questions show people have not done that by either reading manuals or searching SO. Why should a answereer put effort into writing a good answer when the question
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3y ago
It should be with the manual but current ones are not that good. So it will be with the possibly wrong answer from ChatGPT. When learning nothing replaces a book or tutorial that has had some proof reading or editing. Just picking up small
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3y ago
Better tell Stack Exchange that. See answer https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/391625/136010 and a StackExchange employee saying the page count is down due to the cookie changes
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3y ago
Volume. Most SO answers tend to be near the correct way as they explain why they answered. A good answer should also gove references as to why the answer is correct.
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3y ago
I stopped viewing due to LACK of moderation. There were too many questions asking the same thing that had been answered many times before. Too many where the answer is RTFM. SO used to have interesting questions, questions that I needed an
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No it is not. The issue is that current AI answers invent 'facts' or produce wrong code. AI might help improve how people questions and possibly help them find an answer e.g. improve searching but to answer you must be correct and
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3y ago
The views being lower is partially due to StackOverflow implementing a legal cookie confirmation dialog, that is as easy to reject cookies as to accept them You need cookies to count the views.
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