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by timellis-smith 5y ago
Brexit may be a (small) part of it, but it certainly isn't the whole picture. Btw much of Europe faces a shortage of drivers as well. There are a number of factors at play including delayed testing because of covid, relatively low wage
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by timellis-smith 5y ago
Is there a point to this post other than to be nasty?
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by timellis-smith 5y ago
I've always wondered if you could combine CSP with water distillation (i.e. you evaporate salt water to steam to power turbines and capture the condensate) so that at the end you get both power and desalinated water.
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by timellis-smith 5y ago
Indeed so, but I'm talking about a fair bit of speed improvement with better io (eg. usb type c) and offical support of Windows
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by timellis-smith 5y ago
As an intermediate to advanced Python text book, I would highly recommend Fluent Python. It covers a lot of the fundamental concepts in Python explaining why a lot of things are as they are.
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by timellis-smith 5y ago
I wonder if the next version of the raspberry pi would serve as a good system to run Windows on Arm on. If so, I could see opportunity for it to capture a large part of the low-end Windows market.
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by timellis-smith 6y ago
You don't think that threatening a trade war, threatening to break the NI agreement which was a red-line for the EU, blaming the British for your failures and closing off vaccine exports to the UK warrants a degree of hostility? Edit:
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by timellis-smith 6y ago
Yes there was. Section 6.2 of the contract: "To the extent that Astra Zeneca's performance under this Agreement is impeded by any such competing agreements, AstraZeneca shall not be deemed in breach of this Agreement as a result o
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by timellis-smith 6y ago
Mr Hancock, a former culture secretary, told BBC One's Andrew Marr Show. I would hardly say that this counts as free time, and I would argue keeping up with the news is the job of a government minister.
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by timellis-smith 6y ago
I really thought that HN was a place where logical arguments were supposed to be conducted NOT unsubstantiated ad-hominem attacks. I really can't believe this comment is the top-rated one.
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by timellis-smith 8y ago
https://www.businessinsider.com/survey-uk-drivers-say-tesla-...
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by timellis-smith 8y ago
Not in my experience. Most companies I know much rather have permies than contractors. Pay tends to be quite a bit higher for contractors but without all the perks like pension contributions and leave that a permanent position has. However,
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by timellis-smith 8y ago
I commute daily to work. By car it would take about an hour. Taking the train takes 1:15 (of which 40 minutes is train). However, I can use this time productively (in my case studying). Because of this I'm most of the way in getting th
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by timellis-smith 8y ago
Lucid and maverick where possibly the best desktop experiences I've had. Going to Natty (and oneric), with its many bugs was such a huge shock that I pretty much stopped using Ubuntu and switched to Mint
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by timellis-smith 9y ago
Fiction War and Peace Crime and Punishment Count of Monte Christo 1984 God of Small Things Paradise lost Divine comedy Non fiction Selfish gene Meditations Madness explained (the best book I've encountered for explaining how the mind w
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by timellis-smith 9y ago
The largest of the dams supplying Cape Town (Theewaterskloof) has a massive surface area (around 5000 ha). Given that the area also tends to be very windy due to its altitude and the prevailing South Easter that blows right throughout summe