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by smackay 6y ago
The skies here in Portugal are a beautiful blue colour. Before, because of the stable air created by the Azores high pressure weather system, they would criss-crossed by the contrails of all the passenger jets flying over.
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by smackay 6y ago
This might be a simple explanation to the buffet problem. After you've taken your random walk to see what's on offer you now decide that one of the first three items was what you wanted after all. Now you have the difficult social
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by smackay 6y ago
Years of downsizing of the British Navy and the reduction of the merchant fleet to cheaper flags of convenience left the UK with a very poor capability for a maritime invasion. The Task Force that sailed to the Falklands was a rag-tag group
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by smackay 6y ago
It seems that successive administrations have lost sight of the benefits of soft power and only go for the hard version instead. Having world-leading institutions with the ability to advise other goes a lot further, for a fraction of the co
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by smackay 6y ago
4) It's not possible to express a thinking system sufficiently clearly in writing - after all we've been thinking for far longer than we've been writing. 5) (related) The assumption that all aspects of thinking are conscious.
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by smackay 6y ago
I grew up in a place with hyper-local news. Let's say, I'm not a fan.
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by smackay 6y ago
Did several months on one of the more remote islands in the Falklands - population: 6 humans, several thousand penguins and several million petrels. Apart from a rotary phone and generators the only other tech experience was the Internation
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by smackay 6y ago
I tried it with "waders" which are either the things that you to put on your feet to go fishing or a category of birds (shorebirds or herons). The results after going for all the options were still exclusively stores wanting to se
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by smackay 6y ago
So Agile Scrum is not working so what you really need is Value Scrum. Since we are clearly in a post-agile world. There appears to be little added value in reiterating all the reasons people believe that the management of software developme
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by smackay 6y ago
I wrote a django-crispy-forms template pack for the GOV.UK Design System. I was working on a project for Public Health England when the project got put on hold because of the lock-down and this was an itch that needed scratching. Hopefully
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by smackay 6y ago
It will be interesting to see how this finally plays out. Initially the BBC were downplaying the body count and there was little acknowledgement of the fatalities in care homes. Only the Sunday Times (?) was reporting a total, based on thei
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by smackay 6y ago
Errol Morris' documentary on McNamara, The Fog of War is well worth your time to watch. The parallels with Donald Rumsfeld's time as Secretary of Defense are remarkable - it seems Rumsfeld was making all the moves and mistakes tha
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by smackay 6y ago
This is the journey that everybody who likes music is expected to take. Just make sure that you don't travel too far and end up where you just assess the quality of the performance - a situation where the music itself is of secondary
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by smackay 6y ago
It's likely the place where that energy is expended is not being taken into account. Injecting water vapour and combustion products from burning jet fuel high in the sky is probably a lot more harmful than just the amount of energy is
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by smackay 7y ago
Don't forget that Scots is generally spoken in the south. There is a rich selection of dialects around the country, notably in the the north where Norse is the strongest influence. http://www.caithness.org/dialect/
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by smackay 7y ago
The post is about how the state is able to abuse it's position in the pursuit of people who oppose it's agenda. Craig's position is that the Alex Salmond trial is just a continuation of what happened to Julian Assange. Craig
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by smackay 7y ago
So where does all this dirty water go?
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by smackay 7y ago
One chilling comment, among many, from the doctors in Italy, posted here a couple of days ago were that stroke victims were not being treated in any way. Basically they were on their own. A condition that was at least manageable, with inten
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by smackay 7y ago
It's probably strategically important, particularly with regards to China's Belt and Road Initiative, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belt_and_Road_Initiative
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by smackay 7y ago
There might be significant risk for any grandparents attending. All the older members in our extended family are preparing to hunker down for a while.
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by smackay 7y ago
American freshwater crayfish infest all the rice fields here in Portugal. They cause a lot of damage to irrigation and drainage ditches but the number of things that eat them is enormous. It's probably the major reason White Storks her
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by smackay 7y ago
Sorry, but I see a lot of people, kids especially, with expensive smart phones because of status not because they can afford one.
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by smackay 7y ago
I think the human race will rue the day it took the first step down the path to a metaverse. Fortnite has already show millions of parents how it's impossible to get their kids to disengage from a game which carries a high social cost
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by smackay 7y ago
It's mainly the difficulty of getting sufficient information to people to let them understand what they are seeing. Field guides are generally detailed but you need to have some identification skills and know how the field guide is org
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by smackay 7y ago
Democratizing has also been my experience with eBird.org also which made it a lot easier to find out where to go birding and what species had been seen exactly where. Before you had to be involved in various inner circles which generally we
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by smackay 7y ago
There are few details in the abstract but wing length is notoriously difficult to compare across measurers - the standard method of measuring the leading edge of the wing by gently straightening the primaries along a stopped ruler can easil
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by smackay 7y ago
And utterly predictable - and nice to see - there is also https://pythonforgood.org/
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by smackay 7y ago
Limited scientific resources means our ability to map change is extremely limited. As a result we cannot easily tell if changes in one area are replicated elsewhere which is clearly cause for concern or simply that things have shifted local
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by smackay 7y ago
Given that most democratic nations have a (relative) diversity of political parties and opinions in principle that seems like a reasonable idea. However unless you institute a strong system of oversight then the same problems with commercia
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UK's disused mine shafts plan to store renewable energy(theguardian.com)
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