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by phillc73 7y ago
The Hong Kong Jockey Club, in particular is excellent with regards to the free data they provide. They really do try to publish everything, from track work times to horse weights.[1] Other jurisdictions not so much. There are various scrape
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Two-stroke engines don't have to be environmentally a poorer choice than four-stoke engines. Evinrude's e-tec two-stroke outboard engines are quite popular and have received awards for low emission levels.[1] [1] https:/&#x2
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by phillc73 7y ago
I understood a completely different point from the article. The old mediaeval city was destroyed to essentially disenfranchise the working poor. No longer would they have strong defensive positions in small winding streets during revolution
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Which Hemingway would you like? You know how it is there early in the morning in Havana with the bums still asleep against the walls of the buildings; before even the ice wagons come by with ice for the bars? - To Have and Have Not He was a
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Actually, I thought more like "cozzie osko" There's also a beer marketed under this name in Australia.[1] [1] https://www.ratebeer.com/beer/kosciuszko-pale-ale/116538/
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I thought the article was mostly a shorter, cribbed version of his Wikipedia entry.[1] [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tadeusz_Ko%C5%9Bciuszko
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by phillc73 7y ago
The problem with this approach for me is that, not being a CEO, much of my email requires additional action other than simply replying to the email. E.g. Please review this 30 page contract or proposal. Once I start down that route, the ema
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by phillc73 7y ago
I'm Australian and khaki for me is the same as the picture centre left in the article's top picture (it looks like some kind of voluminous skirt, the model is wearing red socks). Definitely not military green (which I would call o
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by phillc73 7y ago
> But there's no way to make it start with the stereo off. If the car is on, the stereo is on. The only way to turn the audio off is to twist the volume knob all the way down to zero before you turn off the car. I have a 2016 Hyunda
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I'm pretty sure the Caledonian Sleeper to Fort William does stop at Edinburgh Waverley, just not terminate there.
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I think some search/browse filters could be incredibly useful too. For example, I'd be interested in a split between recommendations by founders running on VC money versus those growing a more organic business, such as Basecamp pe
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by phillc73 7y ago
I seem to recall U2F sign-in always failing with Firefox for a long time. I remember having to switch to Chrome for U2F and frankly ended up using a different 2FA method for a couple of years because of that.
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by phillc73 7y ago
> about:config security.webauth.u2f I still have this set to Value: "false" in Firefox 66.0.5 and it's working fine for Google Accounts. Edit: I'm pretty sure I registered by Nitrokeys with Google back in 2017 using C
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by phillc73 7y ago
I have a U2F Nitrokey and noticed it's been working in Firefox 66.0.5 for the last few weeks. I thought it was just an announcement I missed. I can confirm it works signing into a Google Account.
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In the mid-19th Century it was called a Wardian Case[1], named after the inventor. I recall the issue was with the transported seeds failing to germinate after arrival in India. This NPR article is a review of the book linked to above and h
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After initial transportation failures, sealed terrariums were used by Robert Fortune to send stolen tea seedlings from China to India,[1] thus helping the British to break the nineteenth Century Chinese monopoly on tea production. [1] http
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Also did something similar two weeks ago.[1] It's a big work in progress! I'm using Rstudio's Distill framework[2], writing RMarkdown, hosting on Gitlab and publishing on Netlify. Netlify is dead simple to setup, even the dom
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by phillc73 7y ago
> Nobody outside the UK wants a 'Flying Scotsman' train set as it is a British train that never made it onto the wider European network or further afield. Your point is broadly correct, but I think you chose the wrong example.
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I'd say it's mostly about vested interests. Mining is a huge industry in Australia. Big business have politicians in their pocket. To some extent it's also about jobs. Where I grew up, in the Hunter Valley, coal mining is a m
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That's a very useful site! Clicking the little France icon top left switches to the French equivalent. At the moment ~92% nuclear and ~11% hydro! What really depresses me is looking at the Australian electricity generation mix: https:
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Cl-ana: Common Lisp library for data analysis(github.com)
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I've just found that Cryptpad offers a whiteboard feature.[1] I know nothing more about them and was just checking them out after seeing the comment in this thread. [1] https://cryptpad.fr/whiteboard/
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I've planted some hops in my garden this spring and am really interested to watch that grow. Apparently up to 30cm per day is possible in ideal conditions. I'd just be amazed with 10cm per day.
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> why is the week view not a normal week view for example? Can you please clarify this a bit further? I'm not a regular Evolution user, but happen to have v3.22.6 installed. There's a Day, Work Week, Week, Month and List views.
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Adding further detail in agreement. While many people are aware of the anarchist influence and success leading to the Spanish Civil War, much less well known is the large anarchist region established in southern Ukraine fifteen years earlie
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Vernor Vinge: A Deepness in the Sky and A Fire Upon the Deep. Iain M. Banks: Consider Phlebas (and then spend the following months reading all the rest of the Culture series)
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Incanter[1] has been around for a long time and I recently discovered kixi.stats[2]. Links to some other resources can also be found on the Skymind wiki.[3] [1] http://incanter.org/ [2] https://cljdoc.org/d&
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My memory is a bit vague, but I do seem to recall that there are some older GA twins where the maximum takeoff weight can exceed the maximum landing weight. Therefore, if you have an engine out immediately after takeoff with full load, you
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by phillc73 8y ago
> Pipistrel (electro) did it for their ultralight. The Pipistrel Alpha was the aircraft I immediately thought of when I saw this AOPA press release. A Light Sport Aircraft (LSA) already FAA certified.[1] The Sustainable Aviation Project
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> VFR is the most dangerous situation to lose all systems in your aircraft. You're low to the ground, and relatively slow... I disagree. You don't have to be low to the ground to fly VFR. You could be at 10,000 feet. You don&#x

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