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by willyt 5y ago
Within the UK we have the same law in Scotland, basically pretty similar to what you describe. This is different to England where you definitely cannot do this. Not sure about Wales or Northern Ireland.
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by willyt 5y ago
Depends. Something I use all the time, like a music player or a chat app, I hate having to use a web app or a app that just wraps a web interface as they are usually slow, clunky, glitchy, power hungry and with non-standard interfaces espec
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by willyt 5y ago
Option click plus window button in top left of window to maximise without going into full screen. Everywhere except Britain and Japan drives on the right.
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by willyt 5y ago
Sounds broken? Return it.
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by willyt 5y ago
I don’t write swift, but didn’t you miss a comma and a label for your Text(“Hit me to toggle”) argument in your second example? Did you mean: Button(action: self.isWarningEnabled.toggle, label:{ Text("Hit me to toggle"
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by willyt 5y ago
Exactly, same in the UK. So a typical first question in the maths exam we take at age 14/15 might be ‘Factorise the quadratic x²+5x+6’. No calculator needed.
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by willyt 5y ago
We were allowed to use calculators when I took my school exams in the uk. But our exam questions often asked us to give the answers in surds i.e 3/4*√2 not as a decimal which our calculators couldn’t do then. Our teachers told us there
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by willyt 5y ago
Oh yes I completely agree with being able to work with the hardware and software without getting sued. I was thinking of it purely from the hardware design for repairability and adaptability point of view. My point was that the original all
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by willyt 5y ago
The catch is that in this hypothetical scenario most people would have had to decide that they wanted a big clunky hackable computer for apple to have been successful enough to have all this money... Judging by what people chose to buy, thi
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by willyt 5y ago
That sentence would be perfectly fine in British English. But I've noticed that British english seems to have kept more similarities to French grammar than US english.
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by willyt 5y ago
Adobe creative cloud works on macOS as well. In fact Photoshop and I think Illustrator were originally Mac only back in the 90's.
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by willyt 5y ago
Interesting, but trying to make a house out of lots of bits of 2.4x1.2m (4’x8’) sheet is painful, especially if you’re trying to span any kind of distance and you still need to seal the joints between panels carefully, probably with tape, t
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by willyt 5y ago
On a recent sar mission, I was navigating and the chart plotter software crashed and had to be restarted, we had no electronic charts for 5 minutes at 20kts, we were losing primary GPS intermittently, meanwhile it was hard to read the radar
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by willyt 5y ago
I’ve not tried 15 yet, but I really like the idea of named groups of tabs. I have groups of stuff in windows for things that I’m researching and i hate having to open and look at every minimised window to see if that is the group of tabs I’
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by willyt 5y ago
Anyone know why they dive for them instead of putting creels down? Not sure what creels are called elsewhere but they are like weighted traps that sit on the seabed attached to a line with a buoy at each end.
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by willyt 5y ago
I'm not talking about Wholefoods, that's overpriced here as well. I'm talking about a slightly grubby supermarket in an unfashionable part of Brooklyn about 5 years ago. Maybe food prices vary a lot across the US, they don&#x
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by willyt 5y ago
Not really. It's actually the opposite, the merchants of the city rebelled against the Monarchy basically for very similar reasons that the merchants of America rebelled later and as a result there is still a tradition where the queen
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by willyt 5y ago
I was really surprised how expensive basic food is in New York compared to UK[0]. Things like fruit, veg, cheese, cereal were more than twice the price. The only things that were cheaper were hotdogs and hotdogs buns. Eating out is very exp
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by willyt 5y ago
In Britain there’s the concept of a ‘vexatious litigant’ a person or other entity who makes frivolous legal actions for purposes other than seeking redress for a wrong that has been done to them. You can be put on a register which makes it
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by willyt 5y ago
Planning enforcement is 12 years from the date at which it became obvious that building works had been completed. So if you build a castle inside a agricultural shed and take the shed down after 12 years, the timer starts after you take dow
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by willyt 5y ago
Can someone explain why they need to implement this in Rust rather than python? What operation is the author doing to a font that is compute intensive enough and happens often enough that you would gain anything by implementing this in a co
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by willyt 5y ago
Towing with a car is normal, you need to let your insurance know if you fit a towbar to a car that didn’t have one. You are limited to a max trailer weight of 750kg without an upgraded driving license. Also many normal sized cars have a ma
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by willyt 5y ago
I don't think that is true. Small bits of the Northeast corridor were opened in 1834 but the whole thing wasn't complete until 1880 or something like that. I think a lot of Europe's infrastructure is as old or older. Especial
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by willyt 5y ago
The UK has quite high speeds (125-140mph) on its conventional rail lines all on lines that were first built between 1850-1900 but have been gradually realigned to be faster. Most war damage was to the junctions not the route alignment out i
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by willyt 5y ago
Most damage was to nodes not to the links between them. So important junctions were rationised but routes weren’t realigned.
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by willyt 5y ago
The ship or the woman?
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by willyt 5y ago
Well lat long is the standard for marine operations and a mayday call uses it. In order to get a marine radio licence you have to demonstrate that you can correctly transmit a mayday. It works OK in noisy conditions because we say it in a s
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by willyt 5y ago
I've travelled London-Glasgow quite a few times over the years since the 90's and I've noticed that the timetable has got gradually slower and slower recently and now it's no faster than the 40 year old trains they repla
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by willyt 5y ago
I’m a native English speaker and you all write well enough in English that I didn’t notice that you are not native speakers from your writing. I went back and looked more carefully and noticed a few little mistakes, but nothing I wouldn’t w
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by willyt 5y ago
Mine was the UK english one. I don't know what present perfect is, as I said many UK state schools didn't teach English grammar in the late 80's/90's.

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