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by phillc73 9y ago
Summer time all year would work for me, but I do appreciate that there are many occupations where this wouldn't be acceptable. I can imagine a dairy farmer at 05:00 in mid-winter might appreciate a little extra warmth and earlier dayli
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by phillc73 9y ago
Only if everyone else did the same thing and my son's school decided to start an hour earlier too.
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by phillc73 9y ago
> Many believe the clock change negatively impacts on people's mental and physical health. This is absolutely not true for me. An "extra" hour of daylight during summer evenings has a large positive impact on my mental and
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by phillc73 9y ago
> Adobe Premier - This thing is a BEAST but it is the defacto standard. I must admit, I've not really heard of Adobe being used in professional editing contexts. With a little research I've found some articles suggesting the BB
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by phillc73 9y ago
It's not just Permanent Residence applications. Something similar happened to my wife with a Tourist Visa application. I'm a UK citizen, my wife is not, nor is she an EU citizen. At the time, she was studying for a Masters level d
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by phillc73 9y ago
Many cosmetically coated pharmaceuticals also use TiO2 in the coating formulation, to make the coating nice and shiny white. Iron Oxide is another common pigment used for coating tablets and pellets.
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by phillc73 9y ago
I can see flaws in that potential approach too. For example, if a country has high R&D investment/capacity, but most manufacturing or commercialisation activities happen abroad, then simply measuring output of new technologies does
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by phillc73 9y ago
No, it's an ellipse with infinite radius.
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by phillc73 9y ago
There is still a significant R&D element in that "press it into a pill" step. This is manufacturing and process R&D. For example, continuous (rather than batch) manufacturing is the big hotness at the moment. Also new tec
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by phillc73 9y ago
Nothing, if only a single engine helicopter. However, many (probably all, but I don't know for sure) heavy lift or rescue helicopters are multi-engine. For example, the Westland Sea King (Powerplant: 2 × Rolls-Royce Gnome H1400-2 turbo
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by phillc73 9y ago
I'd be happy to give the Android app a chance, as long as it's available to install from somewhere other than Google Play Store, which I don't use.
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by phillc73 9y ago
I don't know about the app, but following the instructions on that website I have just set my phone to monochrome mode. I'm not sure it will assist me to use my phone less, because initially I really like it! The main use for my p
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by phillc73 9y ago
I've heard that you can allocate roughly 25% FTE by version 14.0. I'm only on v3.5 of the first product. Generally the AI is working well, deep learning is starting to show dividends in many areas. Last night the Self Tidying func
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by phillc73 9y ago
There are alternatives[1][2], it's just that it doesn't feel like they have critical mass outside certain markets. XING is focused on German speakers and claims circa €150 million in revenue. Viadeo claims 65 million users. They&#
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by phillc73 9y ago
Cloves and nutmegs may have been somewhat more widespread than just the Molucca islands, although the Dutch and Portuguese did much to try and protect their spice trade monopoly by limiting production to those few islands. Visiting Mindanao
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by phillc73 9y ago
The demand for tea amongst the English aristocracy predated production in India. The main impetus for the English to grow tea in India, was that it was costing too much to buy from the single monopolistic source, China. Basically, the Honou
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by phillc73 9y ago
Are you sure? I thought the English brought tea to India after stealing it from China in the 19th Century.[1] Was there another source in India which the Portuguese had earlier access to? My initial cursory investigation via Wikipedia seems
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by phillc73 9y ago
It was the same for me, growing up in rural Australia in the mid-70s and 80s. However, my parents were working class raised in Sydney. I am not sure this is universal for Australia and may also not be the case now. I'm fairly certain m
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by phillc73 9y ago
I left Australia 17 years ago, for what seems like similar reasons, although I have a hard time articulating them. Perhaps in another 13 years..... However, as time passes, my views are starting to change somewhat. There is a large enough b
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by phillc73 9y ago
One doesn't have to be "dumb" to be in some danger from the fangjectors. A friend of mine was driving around his property and found the track blocked by a fallen tree. He started pulling branches off the road and trod on a ti
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by phillc73 9y ago
If the benefit of manufacturing optical fibre cables in a low gravity environment was so great, would it be more economically viable to build a 'low gravity' factory on earth?
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by phillc73 9y ago
The step counts are completely inaccurate. I have the flu and haven't left the house all day. My Charge 2 HR tells me I've done 4,044 steps. Not likely. What I've always wondered is if it is consistently inaccurate. I really
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by phillc73 9y ago
'Reach out' also annoys me. Instead I would just use 'contact'. E.g. 'contact Joe to ask about the spec.' 'Shuttered' is another one I personally detest. 'Closed' is a perfectly good word, w
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by phillc73 9y ago
Because cricket is the number one game in town.
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> Engel says. “A nation that outsources the development of its own language – that language it developed over hundreds of years – is a nation that has lost the will to live”. I believe something similar applies now to Australian English.
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What was the outcome of that startup? Did the product make it to market? I'm currently working on commercialising a pharmaceutical manufacturing monitoring device[1], based on the work from someone's PhD. [1] https://ww
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by phillc73 9y ago
Using the UK, as an example, there are two very distinct types of taxis: 1. Those hailed on the street or found waiting at a taxi stand/rank. These are metered services. They drive you somewhere and you pay the amount shown on the mete
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by phillc73 9y ago
I recently paid for Hiri[1], which very smoothly connected with my corporate Exchange server. I haven't used it extensively yet, but the interface is interesting and they seem to be trying to do something different with email. [1] htt
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by phillc73 9y ago
When I was a child, probably between the ages of 6 to 8, I liked to make model gliders from balsa wood. My father taught me how to cut the balsa wings and fuselage from a plywood template. Once he's seen me do it a couple of times, awa
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by phillc73 9y ago
I think you need to reference the data files from the working directory, not the directory where the script currently is. The two aren't necessarily the same. The current working directory can be found with getwd() and set with setwd()

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