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by teh_klev 7y ago
That whole stuffing 240v into a BabyBel cheese and Co-op mincemeat pies thing was quite amusing, I guess the festive season can be "slow news" days even for video bloggers. That said, back in the early 90's when I was a field
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by teh_klev 7y ago
For the first few minutes he had me going as well, even as a Jock :)
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by teh_klev 7y ago
One of my favourite Big Clive moments was when he turned up on Barry Lewis's channel (a thoroughly nice and decent British amateur cook and kitchen gadget tester) when Barry had plugged a 120v rated grilled cheese toaster into a UK 240
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by teh_klev 7y ago
You know, you don't need to buy the theatre's popcorn, just stuff your drinks and snacks into a smallish rucksack. At least you know what you're stuffing into your face. Also, I'm guessing the reason theatres charge so m
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by teh_klev 7y ago
In .NET standard (i.e. not .NET Core) you can load and unload assemblies without tearing down whole processes by creating AppDomains within a process. You then load your desired assemblies into these app domain(s), consume and when you ne
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by teh_klev 7y ago
Back in 2002 a flight I took from Boston to London arrived into LHR airspace about 45-50 mins earlier than it should have due to a decent tailwind from the jetstream. Sadly we stacked for an hour and a half and ended up arriving later than
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by teh_klev 7y ago
Can confirm this. Tried to set up a new Twitter account for business use, got the phone number challenge but wasn't able to go any further because the number I wanted to use was "already in use" i.e. my own number I already s
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by teh_klev 7y ago
Interesting...and looks like I'm wrong. I'd always assumed digital reproductions held copyright. Sadly I can't edit my comment now to acknowledge my erroneous assumption. zerocrates comment below links to the Bridgeman case w
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by teh_klev 7y ago
It'll be the digital (and any physical) reproductions that will be subject to copyright, not the maps themselves.
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by teh_klev 7y ago
> I've recently used the wine 5.0RC from Debian testing, and my experience is mitigated . Not sure you really meant "mitigated" here, perhaps "mixed" is what you meant?
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by teh_klev 7y ago
I had a similar thing a few years back. Left my mobile phone on my seat, had already passed various gates and checkpoints and they did exactly the same thing. Within ten minutes I was re-united with my phone. I couldn't thank them enou
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by teh_klev 7y ago
> I’d argue the The Barbarian’s Scottish dialect in The Bridge was a precursor to Bascule. I'd certainly agree with you there. He's variously introduced his readers to Scots, the Doric and the vernacular in his books over many
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by teh_klev 7y ago
That's a decent article thanks for posting.
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by teh_klev 7y ago
There are multiple inspection trains, not all of them need to be high speed. The well known "flying banana" is used to cover high speed lines, but for lines with lower top speeds there's also a fleet of loco hauled measuremen
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by teh_klev 7y ago
When I was at college in the mid 80's and studied relational databases (and stuff like CODASYL :) ) we pronounced it "sequel". This was long before I was aware MS had their own SQL product (edit: which first shipped in 1989 o
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by teh_klev 7y ago
I think when you write "SQL", regardless of pronunciation, it should be "a".
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by teh_klev 7y ago
Just a wee grammatical nitpick about the article title if the original author is reading: Sharing an SQLite database -> Sharing a SQLite database
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by teh_klev 7y ago
> Anne Sacoolas has diplomatic immunity Others would beg to differ, I suggest you have a read of: https://www.craigmurray.org.uk/archives/2019/10/jonathan-sac... https://www.craigmurray.org.uk&#
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YouTubers face £4,600 bill over copyright claims(bbc.co.uk)
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by teh_klev 7y ago
> I was going to tease you about the Brexit and how your village won't be in Europe for long Lol :) I'm in Scotland so it'll not be long before we're independent and back again.
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by teh_klev 7y ago
> You didn't need to make such a condescending comment. I didn't find anything in their comment condescending, it seemed quite helpful.
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by teh_klev 7y ago
> Isn't book club an American thing though ? Never heard of one in Europe. Not really. They're quite popular in the UK; my village has one that meets once a fortnight or so.
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by teh_klev 7y ago
Because it evaporates or seeps into the ground and is no longer in a useful form any more. That's why it's a "waste"ful use. > become irreversibly contaminated Well if you're spraying pesticides and fertilisers t
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by teh_klev 7y ago
> It's actually not controversial at all among the people actually impacted by it. Confirmation bias much? > a lot of people are transphobic and are offended that trans people are allowed access to gender-affirming medical care.
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by teh_klev 7y ago
There's a wee bit of me feels I need to ask the question, is this years later, the Andrew Wakefield effect rearing its head again[0]? Very small samples of and affected medicated population being used to push an agenda? Sure I realise
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by teh_klev 7y ago
InfoQ has some gems, but their video content presentation is terrible (tiny box, or full screen): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YYkOWzrO3xg
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by teh_klev 7y ago
I've vouched for your comment which was flagged, I think you make some reasonable points, if somewhat clumsy, but are valid for discussion, especially in regards to children. If the parent poster is an adult then I'm fine with w
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by teh_klev 7y ago
> I don't have statistics on-hand, but as I understand it, bottom surgery (SRS, GRS, whatever you want to call it) has one of the absolute highest patient satisfaction rates of any major surgery (including lifesaving surgeries I thi
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by teh_klev 7y ago
If you read to the end of the article: He’s considering launching a songwriter’s union, something akin to the Screenwriters Guild, that would give songwriters more leverage to extract better deals from the industry’s power brokers. Is tha
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by teh_klev 7y ago
> I'm not offended by words Then why defend people who are offended by words? That's their problem, not yours. > some are apparently offended by others being offended. O_o

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