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by twic 3y ago
The ship's managers (which I believe means the company which chartered it from its owners, and were operating it) say there were two pilots on board: https://www.synergymarinegroup.com/dali-imo-9697428/
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by twic 3y ago
I know an organisation that was hiring shipwrights. The interview was to make a wooden box.
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No, but there was a reasonably priced French red wine riot.
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by twic 3y ago
My local supermarket, in London, had an internet outage yesterday, and couldn't take card payments. Their cash machine was out of action too. They had staff outside telling everyone as they came in; some carried on in, many went elsewh
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by twic 3y ago
> boat Brunswick Corporation has a market cap of about 6 billion.
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by twic 3y ago
I think the question is, how many people watch sports to be close to the action, and how many watch sports to be close to their friends?
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by twic 3y ago
I got invited (i'm not a mod, but i evidently use Reddit more than a normal person), but i'm not in the US, so i can't participate.
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The orange cat on the orange site at last!
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by twic 3y ago
Oh, that's stunning! Ancient people really did like digging holes and hanging out underground. Mind you, modern people do too.
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There's a particularly impressive one from Malta, although much later than many in the article, 3000 BC: https://artsandculture.google.com/story/VAWR7KPNk-UDKw
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The comment you're responding to wasn't written by "the rust community", it was written by kerkeslager, who has written a bunch of C programs, but has found that the Rust build tools are better. There is nothing new or s
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by twic 3y ago
My favourite definition of an intellectual: 'Someone who has been educated beyond his/her intelligence'. -- Arthur C. Clarke
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by twic 3y ago
Changing it is perfectly reasonable, but specifically advertising that you've done it in a footnote is extremely Rust community.
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I want to know specifically what saucy retro Mac content this is about, because i have trouble imagining any. It sounds like you didn't understand what i was asking.
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I really want to know more about why this guideline was added: > DON'T... produce adult or "NSFW" content in connection with the event. Your PG-13 review of a classic Mac FPS game where you use language you'd hear on
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Pan-Amdahl’s law?
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Reminds me of the bit at the end of Shaun of the Dead, where zombies are seen doing minimum-wage jobs and being used in a wacky gameshow: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rIG36gncSxs&t=33s
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by twic 3y ago
That would only be correct if the cost of the time slot was set according to the maximum amount that any show could pay to be in it (determined via cross-universe market research?). But it isn't, so it's incorrect.
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That doesn't mean it wasn't profitable, just that the network thought another show in that slot might be more profitable. Talking about audience thresholds for profitability of TV shows is a bit pointless though, because there&#x2
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by twic 3y ago
Rather than putting identifiers into MOckiNG sPongeBob CasE, it should apply a standard case convention (including initialism, Systems Hungarian with incorrect types, etc) at random for each identifier. function Make_List(firstString, s
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by twic 3y ago
How does this compare to Jupyter notebooks and the ecosystem around that? Do the use cases overlap, or are they completely different things?
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by twic 3y ago
In the UK it's free if there is some reason to think you may be carrier: https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/genetic-and-genomic-testing/ As the cost of doing it comes down, i would expect it to be offered more wid
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Down syndrome is caused by a chromosomal aberration that comes about during formation of an egg, not a mutation. It's not possible to detect it by screening the parents' DNA.
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The underlying quote from a driver is even better: > And you’ve got to remember there were elevated lines on Sixth Avenue as well as Third Avenue and Second Avenue and Ninth Avenue and all those el pillars and all the trolley cars undern
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> Traffic, according to Salit, is better today than it was 30 years ago, except that he has a plan which would make city driving a “thriving pleasure.” > “The trouble is the law. They’ve got no teeth in them. What they should do is ma
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by twic 3y ago
IME, YAML appeals to people who like Ruby. I find both of them a nightmare, but it's clear that there is a kind of mine quite different to mine that sees something in them that i don't.
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The one kind of late-night party where you absolutely want a clock is a new year's eve party! Some friends of mine often host such a party. They have an antique grandfather clock, which is ideal for this purpose. Except it's in po
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And at railway stations, although there are somehow never enough clocks at railway stations.
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> By making corporate funders, and not startup founders, their primary customer, Techstars built a centrally-controlled sales- and operations-driven culture that made startups the product, not the customer. As soon as the top tier of sta
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I wonder how many of them were originally set up there because of proximity to the tower and its communications links. Other than that, isn't Fitzrovia basically UCL and early 20th century novelists? Although I suppose there is Broadca

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