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by rusk 5y ago
Queen Cake - oh well what could have been
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by rusk 5y ago
> My corpse would arrive there probably in 130,000 years It is infinitely improbable that you would arrive instantly and alive. Or could just turn to the ol janx spirit ;-)
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by rusk 5y ago
I don’t want to get too into the details cause this is just idle speculation but I came across a less wholesome association with 42 in another numerological discussion …
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by rusk 5y ago
More specifically, Marvin claimed to have a brain the size of a planet . Adams alluded elsewhere to how the march of technology had brought about galactic scale advances in miniaturisation and exponential growth in the capability of techno
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by rusk 5y ago
I have a pet theory that though Adams believed he picked the number at random, that it probably had some significance to a person of his social background at that particular point in time. That is, in the spirit of the books themselves he d
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by rusk 5y ago
I can put 16MB on my c64 with my 1541 ultimate. Haven’t looked at ir much but I believe there were some commercial productivity apps such as GEOS with very basic multitasking capabilities would be well able use this. Imagine they’d had an a
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by rusk 5y ago
Not as smart as you thought, eh
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It really would solve a lot of problems, in a relatively straightforward and abundant manner …
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by rusk 5y ago
Well Germany has access to lots of cheap coal so not so much stupid as teutonically pragmatic. Who knows might have been the coal lobbyists in this campaign as much as environmentalists
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They wouldn’t be so foolish as to reveal their identity would they! But we see their cronies front and centre on the political stage.
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by rusk 5y ago
It was a few different reasons, along with a lovingly nurtured swing from the centre, planted in racism and watered with dark money, all gathered together and reined by a cabal of cynics, crooks, and their cronies.
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by rusk 5y ago
Not the ECJ anyway!
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Irish public are intensely europhile, not just politically and economically but culturally and socially. It’s not even close to being on the list of options.
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Excuse me? are there not senior officials [0] in these organisations that convene these things, set timelines and such? I’m sorry if I am using some definition of the colloquially term “brass” that you are not familiar with. You condescendi
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by rusk 5y ago
It doesn’t have any enforcement power, but this is an agreement that Ireland have had to sign up to out of political necessity. It’s not the OECD forcing Ireland, it’s the other OECD members.
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by rusk 5y ago
> hence the name Londonderry This explains far more than just the name … thanks!
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Official Ireland were dragged into this kicking and screaming. There really wasn’t much choice involved - unless the OECD brass were thinking in generous terms towards Ireland. If anything I’d say the timing of this is in part what drove Br
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But, You're Not Facebook(kitze.io)
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Too wet
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The climate wars
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Moderation, but also a community that is by and large more intelligent than the general pop. Add to that a set of common reference points grounded in tech. We almost al understand logic, math, have good language skills and tertiary educatio
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by rusk 5y ago
> anyone with a computer could connect to the Internet, publish a website, and communicate with people across the world It’s funny how obvious it is with hindsight, that there could be downsides to this
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by rusk 5y ago
It just refuses to learn! This is inarguably worse than what we had with T9 like 20 years ago, all running without cloud support on a limiting embedded platform.
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by rusk 5y ago
Yes https://discussions.apple.com/thread/252621788?answerId=2554... If you’re wondering why “Access is denied” then that should inform you about how Apple deal with negative customer feedback these days.
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by rusk 5y ago
> an organization that hasn't actually thought through all its failure modes Move Fast and Break Things!
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by rusk 5y ago
There was one company I worked at where they went into Scrum with both feet. Sponsored it at senior management level, did offsite training for developers and product managers and accepted that there would be a productivity hit for six month
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by rusk 5y ago
In fairness were it the meaning of synchronous that engineers are familiar with now that would be truly astounding. I’m happy to accept the more liberal interpretation of the term as not all knowledge of merit need be readily appreciated
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by rusk 5y ago
But they did try to help! They spent years trying to negotiate some kind of trade deal, as many European economies stood to lose out ... but it's clear that the unilateral no deal approach was the plan from the outset.
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EU membership conferred privileges which were seen as entitlements, so when inevitably withdrawn it seems like punishment. It has to be said though, that the EU did go to great lengths to try to find some kind of common ground that would le
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by rusk 5y ago
> it's more like low-end datacentre hardware yep covered that

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