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by tengwar2 8mo ago
Thumbs: true, but I think some take it way too far - up to seven keys per thumb! The thumb is articulated at the wrong angle to move very far, so I find that two or perhaps three keys per thumb in a single arc is about as much as I can use
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by tengwar2 8mo ago
I used Modula-2 to build an automated lab system. It worked, but I found myself being annoyed by small features. For instance the type conversion keywords seemed to have no pattern to them, and the case sensitivity meant you were always ham
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by tengwar2 8mo ago
They have to prove the case to the jury "beyond reasonable doubt". The jury are at liberty to decide that they don't believe an unsupported claim by the defence, and that the evidence provided by the prosecution is sufficient
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by tengwar2 9mo ago
I'll have to recuse myself if the application comes across my desk, but good luck with the application.
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by tengwar2 9mo ago
Probably depends on the department. I do grant and loan assessments for Innovate UK, and they have a rigorous and largely (+) transparent method for assessment which I would be happy to explain in detail. If we award money, it's accomp
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by tengwar2 9mo ago
This is HN, not Reddit. You can safely assume that every single person here knows how to use man, particularly if they mention using troff to format it properly. There remains a problem.
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by tengwar2 9mo ago
And I said that the man pages would be a part of what you have to examine. 95 pages in the case of bash (that's after running it through troff). man pages were fine when they were three pages long, but their lack of any internal index
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by tengwar2 9mo ago
One of the annoyances of Linux is working out where configuration information is, following through multiple layers of indirection and files over-riding other files. This looks like adding another layer, another place to look, and if you&#x
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by tengwar2 9mo ago
With HMRC, the reasoning is that this forces the company to have an accounting package. They don't care which, they just define the API. Not unreasonable. There are more issues with MTD IT (making tax digital, income tax) due to some d
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by tengwar2 9mo ago
Could Garibaldi read Narn?
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by tengwar2 10mo ago
A library card etc. are useful, but a very long way from the usefulness of a planned and taught course. And no, I haven't missed the point - you most certainly have. There are useful methods of networking, and they are based on breadth
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by tengwar2 10mo ago
HTCPCP. Btw, the RFC is buggy. I once used it as a comprehension test for first round interviews, and had to be careful to avoid the bugs.
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by tengwar2 10mo ago
It is easy, yes. About the equivalent of two or three A levels for anyone in the UK. However the point is not networking, but understanding large areas of business operation that you don't already know. For people like us, that's
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by tengwar2 10mo ago
If the map labelled the whole of Tanzania, Kenya, and Malawi as being Kilimanjaro, yes, I would have a problem with that.
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by tengwar2 10mo ago
I'm finding it difficult to believe that map relates to the title. It's not showing just the Scottish Highlands (roughly speaking the north-west half of Scotland), but the whole of Scotland, Ireland and Wales, plus about half of E
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by tengwar2 10mo ago
The current models are apparently ok. Wet clutch, which realistically won't wear out and is certainly not vulnerable to the engine seal failure which traditionally took out BMW clutches, and from what I gather they don't require t
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by tengwar2 10mo ago
BMW bikes have improved. It used to be with the last of the dry clutch flat twins that when the clutch failed (and it would fail), you had to remove the back half of the bike. Literally. As in not figuratively, to avoid doubt. The front h
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by tengwar2 11mo ago
This is an area I have some peripheral involvement with. For retrofitted sails on bulkers, the figure of 10% saving in fuel is the usual one mentioned rather than 20%. However given the long life of ships, there is much more interest in ret
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by tengwar2 11mo ago
Also if possible, use a unique email address for each site. I know that's not feasible for most people, and some sites (e.g. LinkedIn) are structured so that email addresses become linked, but it does provide useful isolation.
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by tengwar2 1y ago
There you are discussing ability and responsibility. Those are entirely different matters from a professional association requiring you to sign up to a code of ethics.
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by tengwar2 1y ago
No. I oppose any formal requirement to practice software development. And this isn't because I disagree about the requirement to be ethical, but because it would draw a moat of "professionalisation" around software developmen
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by tengwar2 1y ago
You are mistaken. It was dated by the lab I did my DPhil at (Research Laboratory for Archaelogy and the History of Art, Oxford University).
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by tengwar2 1y ago
It's always interesting to read of "soft" things like customs lasting, as opposed to "hard" archaeology and architecture. While far simpler, one of my favourites is the Uffington White Horse ( https://en.w
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by tengwar2 1y ago
Circular blue signs are orders (i.e. you must do this).
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by tengwar2 1y ago
Sort of. That used to be the case, and it's still what they teach on those courses. However there are now "20mph zones". These are signed on entry, but do not have the repeated small 20 signs of a normal 20mph limit. This mea
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by tengwar2 1y ago
It's Compulsory Basic Training. Of course he hadn't been on the road before.
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by tengwar2 1y ago
Similar with VAG.
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by tengwar2 1y ago
From memory, I think we put ours (an FX80 rather than the MX80) in a box to keep the sound down. It was used with an [HP86]( https://archive.org/details/PersonalComputerWorld1982-10/pag... ) controlling some lab equ
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by tengwar2 1y ago
Are we talking about Word, or a text editor? They seem to be saying the latter, particularly given the comparison with vi. I consistently get about half a second to open TextEdit on an M1, and that seems to be due to the opening animation.
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by tengwar2 1y ago
Back in ?1990, I was working on a collaborative project for multivariable control for heating and blowing plastic bottles. I think I was writing the back end, and a colleague in Germany was writing the front end, both to run on the same QNX

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