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by pja 3y ago
Yes. GG&S might be wrong, but the claim that it's explicitly racist has always seemed to me to be an astonishingly tendentious misreading. It turns out that there are lots of readers out there who wilfully confuse "is" fo
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by pja 3y ago
An incomplete description of a more complex reality, perhaps.
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by pja 3y ago
Weirdly, the village the town was built around had that name originally: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Middleton,_Milton_Keynes Milton is a contraction of Middleton & Keynes was from the Norman de Cahaines family.
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by pja 3y ago
People who care more about finance & economic analysis than they do about signalling political affiliation. There’s strong overlap with the WSJ in the USA I would imagine, except the WSJ is notoriously pro-Republican, whereas the FT has
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by pja 3y ago
Yes, you can do the same with the 5000 series. The 5600X can be restricted to 45W max tdp & the 5800X to 65W.
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by pja 3y ago
Quite apart from Magna Carta, the outcome of the Civil War determined very effectively whether the British Monarch had divine right to rule. In the negative.
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by pja 3y ago
A little digging suggests that photo was taken at the end of a six month deployment. Which probably explains the state of the hull - it’s absolutely covered in barnacles & other marine growth. The crew must have been shattered. Six mont
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by pja 3y ago
Binary deb packages are extremely simple. It's just a cpio archive with a couple of tarballs & almost every system integration is implicit. Very easy to build by hand. Last time I shipped a debian package to clients we just had the
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by pja 3y ago
Ripped from my .emacs: (setq gc-cons-threshold (\* 100 1024 1024) ;; GC sometime after allocating 100Mb read-process-output-max (\* 1024 1024) company-idle-delay 0.0 ;; company completions should be fast
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by pja 3y ago
These are all great series, but they are also on three different streaming services, which from a consumer POV is exactly the problem. Everybody wants a marquee drama series to draw the punters in, but the punters don’t really want to be sh
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by pja 3y ago
No, I understand precisely. The context of my original comment was someone expecting that a cup of water at the centre of the earth would explode due directly to gravitational effects. This is wrong, as I pointed out. Even on the surface of
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I will not be writing a post about Ofcom's Online Safety Act consultation(webdevlaw.uk)
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by pja 3y ago
Fill the hole with air at 1atm & it’ll sit there very slowly evaporating though, same as it does on the ISS or on the surface of the earth. Gravity is irrelevant.
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by pja 3y ago
No, it won't explode. If you somehow made a spherical hole in the middle of the earth and placed a cup of water inside the hollow (anywhere inside, doesn't have to be the centre) it will just sit there: Newtonian gravity is 0 insi
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by pja 3y ago
He did - see the replies to the top tweet.
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by pja 3y ago
If you ask politely on the IRC & share a bit about who you are it’s fairly likely someone will send you an invite. No guarantees though - the likelihood probably depends at least partially on how long it’s been since the last bunch of s
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by pja 3y ago
The rules were always clear, it's just that crypto people didn't like them & wanted new rules specially made for them. Crypto exchanges were always money transmitters that were required to follow KYC regulations, ICOs were alw
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by pja 3y ago
GSK is the GTK Scene Graph Kit: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GTK_Scene_Graph_Kit
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by pja 3y ago
I was referring to the truck here, not the individual bars putting their bins out. They closed relatively early for Spain, as it was mid-week & not high-summer. The truck then came crashing down the street a little later...
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by pja 3y ago
This was midweek in the autumn after the bars had all shut & everyone had gone home. It might even have been a bit later! Either way, my point is that it was the worst possible time to be upending bins full of glassware in a residential
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by pja 3y ago
The Spanish just don’t seem to care about noise at the institutional level. I spent a week in a small Spanish city last year & the local rubbish collection went down the street outside the door, pouring bins full of bottles from the loc
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by pja 3y ago
“An easy method to reduce calories” is fairly revolutionary in the academic diet world. Consistently losing weight is something that people find hard to stick to. A diet that is safe & makes it easy is in and of itself something very in
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by pja 3y ago
The difference is that people report that the potato diet is /easy/. No cravings, no endless hunger & having to force yourself to calorie count and stop eating when you hit your target. Eat as much as you like, when you like.
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by pja 3y ago
I think you might argue that the a in bade is stressed whereas the a in made is unstressed? Otherwise I agree, there’s no difference between the two in my dialect. Wiktionary suggests that it can be a homophone with bad in some dialects tho
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by pja 3y ago
Neither!
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by pja 3y ago
IIRC with the current XPS range only the "pro" variants offer you the choice of a Linux install.
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by pja 3y ago
BIK rate on EVs is 2% in the UK & there are probably a lot of finance/IT types in Edinburgh who were happy to funnel their income into what was effectively a half price car if you were a higher rate paying consultant. For a while T
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by pja 3y ago
Oh wow. I’ll have to recompile some of my old AoC Code to see how fast it really runs now! Like you I had assumed this was simply runtime startup / teardown overhead.
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by pja 3y ago
Yes, good point: that could also be a good (legal) reason for the bundling of YT Music with no-ads YouTube.
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by pja 3y ago
An uncooled Pi5 is faster than a Pi4 running the same code. A Pi4 is still a perfectly fine microcomputer.

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