tomatocracy

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by tomatocracy 1y ago
For the Conservatives it's all about irregular/illegal immigration. Labour are hugely unpopular on that having apparently no idea what to do about it but they also have massive challenges on the economy/cost of living and the
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by tomatocracy 1y ago
The original intent was supposed to be that Adams and others would not be on TV at all. The TV broadcasters relatively quickly realised that there was a loophole which meant that as long as his voice wasn't broadcast they were within t
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by tomatocracy 1y ago
The early 8MHz ARM2-based Archimedes machines arguably also outperformed contemporary 16/20MHz 80386 machines (due to the x86-based machines being slower to access RAM before the advent of on-motherboard cache and zero waitstate RAM) a
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by tomatocracy 1y ago
I think the most effective solution is to work to ensure that people who have sensible views and are able to think in a reasoned way on topics like this stand for election themselves. As much as many people have distaste for the existing pa
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by tomatocracy 1y ago
SpellMaster for the (6502-based) BBC Micro was seriously impressive given the space limitations. It did both spell checking and correction (and had an anagram finder as a bonus), had integration with several different wordprocessors, check
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by tomatocracy 1y ago
> Fix a leaking toilet – leaky loos can waste 200-400 litres a day. I suspect this one dwarfs the others. It's why some water companies have campaigned to ban new dual flush toilets in the UK (there's a common failure mode for
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by tomatocracy 1y ago
I don't think high insurance costs would result in brand damage as such. But it absolutely would result in reduced sales and/or reduced resale value, because sufficiently many people comparing which car to buy will look at the ins
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by tomatocracy 1y ago
At least in London it's usually a condition of the licence these days that they have CCTV.
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by tomatocracy 1y ago
I had a similar experience in Korea recently. Going for lunch in a shopping mall, many people were routinely placing their phones on tables to "reserve" them while they walked off (out of sight of their phones/tables) to coll
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by tomatocracy 1y ago
Yes. The police have the ability to find and arrest the perpetrators pretty quickly, if they prioritise it. There was a phone theft which (unusually) turned into a stabbing/slashing a couple of years ago when the victim fought back. Pe
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by tomatocracy 1y ago
It's not just time but cost of building out charging infrastructure and grid connections. I looked at some numbers on this a couple of years ago and the costs back then were big enough to make anything medium or long distance non-viabl
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by tomatocracy 1y ago
Another model would be for the EIB to commit money to an investment fund and then run a tender process to select a private sector firm to manage the fund. At the individual investment level, give that manager the usual discretion to invest
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by tomatocracy 1y ago
The problem with the column limit is not so much about huge datasets as limiting flexibility in how you can lay things out - 65k rows and 16.7m cells are plenty and I’d be wanting to use a database well before I got there. But 255 columns d
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by tomatocracy 1y ago
Although I agree about the ribbon and UI, I think Excel 2003 in particular feels quite limited today - it can deal with a max of 255 columns in a sheet and is missing some of the most useful functions (SUMIFS and XLOOKUP spring to mind espe
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by tomatocracy 1y ago
Plenty of places still do, and in those places district heating still is usually the cheapest source of heat.
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by tomatocracy 1y ago
How about just keeping two dishwashers? One starts full of clean stuff and you use it like a cupboard, taking stuff out of it as you use it. The other starts empty and you add stuff to it after using it until you have transferred everything
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by tomatocracy 2y ago
For raw at high frame rates, high end cameras don't use SD cards but things like CFexpress which absolutely can keep up (and there are also various compressed RAW formats these days which apply a degree of lossy compression to reduce f
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by tomatocracy 2y ago
The fact that it's already installed on almost everyone's computer in any given corporate environment also has a lot to do with why it's so widely used for these types of things I think - noone needs to ask permission to get
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by tomatocracy 2y ago
Microsoft also has Power BI which occupies this "database which looks like a spreadsheet" space. But it's not well known.
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by tomatocracy 2y ago
There are indeed tools like this available for Excel. And there are also whole practices within the big accountancy firms, and independent firms which focus on providing "audit" of Excel files like this, which are used commonly wh
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by tomatocracy 2y ago
> issues obtaining drugs for lethal injection, lack of medical professionals willing to assist, lack of training, etc I would say these all extremely relevant factors that you would want to take into account in assessing "safety&quo
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by tomatocracy 2y ago
One of my earliest memories is not of an actual event/place but of a nightmare I had. Given the tendency to forget dreams very quickly I've always wondered how common retaining memories of dreams from early childhood is - eg I&#x2
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by tomatocracy 2y ago
In terms of tooling there's scoop[0] which does a lot of the capture part of what you're thinking about. The files it creates include request headers and responses, TLS certificates, PDF and screenshots and it has support for sign
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by tomatocracy 2y ago
I haven't been in banking for a while (I'm on the investment side of finance now) but I have been in finance for 20 years now. I'd say that at least in London, my experience is that a majority have degrees which weren't
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by tomatocracy 2y ago
Absolutely - Hardy and Wright's An introduction to the theory of numbers is excellent but definitely doesn't need to be restricted to postgrads - its also fine for undergraduate level number theory (indeed it was a recommended tex
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by tomatocracy 2y ago
Yes, I am a landlord and have had multiple awful experiences with them on move in/out. The worst involved them referring my tenant to a debt collector for a totally incorrect bill (issued for a period after which they were not responsi
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by tomatocracy 2y ago
While it's true that the UK doesn't have nodal electricity pricing per unit of energy (and Ofgem, the regulator, agrees that this would have benefits[0]) I'm not sure we'd be in much of a different position if we had. We
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by tomatocracy 2y ago
Yes. I think a good example of this is the attempt to force everyone to use CFLs c20 years ago for light. Huge step backwards in quality of light, plus for many use cases they had a higher lifetime cost and shorter lifespan. Then decent LED
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by tomatocracy 2y ago
Yes. Edit /etc/dkms/framework.conf, set mok_signing_key to something like "pkcs11:id=%01", and mok_certificate to point to a file containing the certificate. You can extract the certificate using eg "pkcs11-too
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by tomatocracy 2y ago
Thanks. Looks like the buying limits are a legal requirement: https://www.gov.uk/drug-safety-update/pseudoephedrine-and-ep... ) Seems like it was also classified as Pharmacy only (behind the counter) or prescription i

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