sparks1970

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by sparks1970 4y ago
I have done a lot of experimenting with Brython and like you, I would expect it to be more popular. Pierre (the author and primary maintainer) is amazing but something holds it back from large scale adoption. I can only list my reasons for
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by sparks1970 4y ago
Astro Slide? https://store.planetcom.co.uk/products/astro-slide
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by sparks1970 5y ago
In the UK the government runs the booking of driving tests from a central online system. Because of Covid, and because the test has a 50% pass rate at best, there is now a lot of pressure on this system. People wanting a test are getting te
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by sparks1970 5y ago
As I have got older (I'm in my early 50's) I have gained the ability to step back from situations and think about them from all sides. Sometimes that makes me more mellow about it, not always. I'm not much into meditation but
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by sparks1970 5y ago
Anyone who has had a panic attack or suffered from a social anxiety will tell you that you cannot always choose behaviour. Sometimes you simply cannot get your body to do what you will it to.
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by sparks1970 5y ago
"These are my principles. If you don’t like them I have others." - Groucho Marx.
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by sparks1970 5y ago
UK here, I use credit card for almost everything: 1. (As everyone says) consumer protection. I can dispute a charge to a CC and am not standing out the cash (unlike debit) 2. Debit transactions don't have any inherent limit. The bank m
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by sparks1970 5y ago
> There is another fundamental that is ignored by a lot of computer users. I think everyone who spends a lot of time behind a computer should learn how to touch type, since typing is still the main way of interacting with your computer.
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by sparks1970 5y ago
We need more identity politics? Really?
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by sparks1970 5y ago
But it's bad advice compared to a random selection because these are all numbers with meaning for people. Many people who enter lotteries use meaningful numbers such as days of birth. So 1 2 3 4 5 6 is just as likely as any set of numb
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by sparks1970 5y ago
I don't think so. Belief in a supernatural god is literally training your brain to suspend disbelief. This makes you more susceptible to conspiracy theories and other mental viruses.
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by sparks1970 5y ago
This is a central tenet of the Lean Startup by Eric Ries and the Startup Owners Manual by Steve Blank et al. Lean Startup is the faster read but if I recall correctly Steve Blank was Ries' mentor/inspiration.
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by sparks1970 5y ago
I don't agree that our understanding of ideas improves with time. For example, do we understand the teachings of Jesus better today than someone who heard them first hand? I would argue no, because we don't have anywhere near th
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by sparks1970 5y ago
So you're arguing that immigrants seeking permanent residence in the USA should not be required to be vaccinated for Measles for example?
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by sparks1970 5y ago
South Kensington is also home to Imperial College London. See this map to get a feel for the extent of it in the area: https://www.imperial.ac.uk/media/imperial-college/visit/publ... You did explicitly say ho
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by sparks1970 5y ago
Can you explain that further? I'm interested in the idea that our understanding of an idea like Marxism can improve the further away we are in time from it. That seems counter-intuitive.
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by sparks1970 5y ago
The original poster says, "I want to make money". OK, if they were handed $1B what would they do with it? What do they really want? Physical security? Financial security? Political influence? Love? Hedonism? Existential meaning?
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by sparks1970 5y ago
Might be worth stepping back and thinking about why you want to make money. Money is a store of opportunity but useless in itself. If you were to be shipwrecked with no hope of rescue would you rather be washed up with a cargo container of
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by sparks1970 5y ago
Thanks, this was very helpful !
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by sparks1970 5y ago
Offtopic but my son is thinking of taking Chemical Engineering. Would you recommend in 2021?
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by sparks1970 5y ago
I have increasingly come to believe that part of the purpose of university education in the UK is to transfer money from taxpayers to the private owners of student housing via student loans.
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by sparks1970 5y ago
I'll do that, thanks.
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by sparks1970 5y ago
Yesterday I was in the village of Broadwell, just outside Stow on the Wold, UK. I sat on a bench which had a plaque on it. It was a memorial to Malcolm Jeffries who died on his birthday in 1974 aged 20 years. His birth day and month was not
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by sparks1970 5y ago
I work in this industry and this doesn't ring true. It would never be the case that a single researcher does some tests and reports them to the boss except in the very earliest stages of drug development. The "boss" in this s
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by sparks1970 6y ago
I worked at a company where they decided to change their titles away from industry standard norms (specific to their industry). They quickly changed back because it made working with their customers really hard. I walk into a meeting and I&
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by sparks1970 6y ago
Best one yet!
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by sparks1970 6y ago
A note that the Daily Mail is not considered a reliable news source by Wikipedia ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Reliable_sources/Per... ). There is a similar link from the New Yorker which is considered a
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by sparks1970 6y ago
Qooxdoo? https://qooxdoo.org/ ?
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by sparks1970 7y ago
I was born in 1970 in the south. I guess I was lucky that my dad was an engineer and tinkerer, somehow I got introduced to electronics via a magazine "Practical Electronics"? I recall building basic circuits with a soldering iron