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by seabass-labrax 1y ago
> I don't know much about your examples, but did any of them turn down an offer of great power? Not parent, but I can think of one: Oliver Cromwell. He led the campaign to abolish the monarchy and execute King Charles I in what is n
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by seabass-labrax 1y ago
That is unfortunately my experience. My household between ~2005 and ~2015 acquired a VCR every year or so, keeping pace with the rate at which they would pack up. These were second-hand machines at the end of their life, so although I would
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by seabass-labrax 1y ago
You've got to be a bit more specific when comparing 'Windows' to 'Linux'! Both operating systems are used with a dozen different graphics libraries, each with multiple possible configurations, and sometimes more tha
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by seabass-labrax 1y ago
Soup can? That's a bit boring; why not make that, say, an apple, oh and also balance it on the head of the archer's child? Much better!
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by seabass-labrax 1y ago
Not yet; Thunderbird is going to release such a feature in the near future: https://blog.thunderbird.net/2025/04/thundermail-and-thunder... > Assist is an experiment, developed in partnership with Flower AI, a
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by seabass-labrax 1y ago
Location: Great Britain Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: Yes Technologies: Willing to work with all technologies, but with a particular penchant for functional programming and Linux Résumé/CV: https://seabass.systems/cv
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by seabass-labrax 1y ago
It certainly didn't start with 80s cartoons - anthropomorphized depictions of animals feature among the oldest written works. Aesop's Fables are 2500 years old, and the geographic dispersal of similar stories indicates that they o
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by seabass-labrax 1y ago
Why couldn't one part of the journey be by rail, and the other by air? There is a already a lot of shared planning to allow this to happen, with some railway stations even having IATA codes.
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by seabass-labrax 1y ago
The opinion that parent was expressing is much the same as the motivation behind the Principles of Community-Oriented GPL Enforcement[1], which are endorsed by all the GPL enforcement initiatives. The principles acknowledge that copyright a
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by seabass-labrax 1y ago
> I don't believe that's historic; the landmine convention was drafted in 1997, and the cluster bomb one in 2008 Not historic in the sense of 'old', but still motivated by real horrors that Europe witnessed. The Bosni
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by seabass-labrax 1y ago
In the UK, a story is legally considered libellous if it's written in a way that could harm its subject, even if the facts are true. That means it would be a tort against the convicted criminal to name them if it wouldn't be in th
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by seabass-labrax 1y ago
> In Finland sentence can be reduced if the case has been publicized widely, i.e. the "shame" is seen as a punishment itself. This is to some extent true in the UK as well. Pubic figures are likely to lose their income if convi
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by seabass-labrax 1y ago
> You're welcome to go to the front lines and attack the Russian tanks with your own preferred tools! By that logic, we should skip the depleted uranium and head straight to thermonuclear weapons, and throw in some Sarin for good me
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by seabass-labrax 1y ago
Not an American but have been involved in lots of US legal things for a charity. Generally "their lawyer" refers to a lawyer (solicitor in British usage) who is 'on retainer', which means that the client either pays a mo
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by seabass-labrax 1y ago
I wouldn't say it's that different from how the Royal Mail currently recommend one write the address: https://help.royalmail.com/personal/s/article/How-to-address... My father writes the address sta
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by seabass-labrax 1y ago
The Deutsche Post '#PORTO' method does not apply to international shipments, unfortunately. However, you can still purchase barcode labels online for printing, and conventional stamps are simply values in Euro cents so can be used
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by seabass-labrax 1y ago
I find it hard to believe that waiting two hours is normal for customers of the USPS. You can order stamps online, they have (collection) postboxes and even offer a pick-up service for parcels. At $0.73 to send a letter anywhere in the USA,
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by seabass-labrax 1y ago
The first thing that comes to mind is that Qt now has a WebAssembly port[1] using Emscripten[2], so depending on your use-case, you could possibly just run Qt on the Web platform and avoid the need for a JavaScript framework entirely. [1]:
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by seabass-labrax 1y ago
Do SMART records contain enough information to prove that the laptop had not been used in years (assuming you had a suitably effective barrister to make use of this information)? RTC (clock) drift could also give a hint that the laptop had
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by seabass-labrax 2y ago
> syndicated in realtime here: https://bsky.app/profile/samuelpepys.bsky.social That really is wonderful! Reading how Pepys arranged for his diary to be preserved makes me think that he would have enjoyed this more
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by seabass-labrax 2y ago
Charles Darwin actually only lived in London for a few years, and spent most of his life in what was at that time the county of Kent. Although in any case, as you say, his home did not involve a farm.
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by seabass-labrax 2y ago
It's the way Hacker News bumps articles to the top (second-chance pool). Everyone's old comments get a new timestamp! (Actually the timestamp stays the same; it's the 'time ago' which is counted differently. Very co
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by seabass-labrax 2y ago
> Does "electrified" mean pulling power from a third rail? Yes, or more precisely either third rail or using overhead lines (catenaries). Overhead lines have many benefits over third rail so they make up the majority of new ele
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by seabass-labrax 2y ago
> This isn't flat land. There are expansive mountain ranges that make it difficult to build and any flat land that is buildable is ALSO prime agricultural land that is worth millions. Flat land is convenient of course, but I don&#x2
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by seabass-labrax 2y ago
I don't see why it's a problem for a potential rail service for San Francisco and Los Angeles that there are no heavily populated areas between the two cities. There's no reason why you couldn't fill up a train with pass
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by seabass-labrax 2y ago
I find these kinds of projects really exciting. Does anyone know if the people behind this project have any connection to #ScanAllFish[1], which was also featured on Hacker News last year[2]? [1]: https://www.adamsummers.org&#x2F
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by seabass-labrax 2y ago
Thank you for the warning. I once used up my Internet package's entire monthly quota by following a similar link on Hacker News.
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by seabass-labrax 2y ago
If you want mind-expandingly interesting theoretical physics, give the Wolfram Physics Project[1] a look. It is a refreshingly different look at fundamental physics, and one that is perhaps more familiar to a computer scientist's persp
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by seabass-labrax 2y ago
Parent never said that political parties were forbidden from having a religious affiliation. Yet, the 'Christian' in European 'Christian democracy' is not remotely comparable to the role of religion in the society of the
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by seabass-labrax 2y ago
I am forgiving of this defect for the reason that my attempts at aircraft in Kerbal Space Program have mostly had the same issues! There is a very, very small difference in design between an unstable plane and one with practically no pitch

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