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by willyt 5y ago
To quote myself from a comment on high speed trains the other day “[The French] build high speed lines for between 1/5th and 1/20th of the cost of the one the UK is building. Just to prempt the France is flat and land is cheap arg
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by willyt 5y ago
Is it my imagination or does British English seem to retain more French grammar than US English? I’ve often noticed in Duolingo that a sentence that I translate into English that seems correct to me gets me a “alternative answer you could h
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by willyt 5y ago
Is this really a big thing? I went expecting hundreds of angry comments but there are 11 comments in this discussion and 11 on the macrumors discussion that someone mentioned?
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by willyt 5y ago
Typically it’s a rule introduced by naive politicians who say you have to take the lowest bid. In Britain this came top down from central government in the 1980s, previously it was more typical to take the bid closest to the average across
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by willyt 5y ago
Exactly. You put it better than I did.
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Better to compare to France then. They build high speed lines for between 1/5th and 1/20th of the cost of the one the UK is building. Just to prempt the France is flat and land is cheap arguments. 1/5th is the cost of the sec
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by willyt 5y ago
If you listen to the omega-tau episodes on fusion and ITER the 20 years thing is discussed quite a bit, it’s a question of money, not time. The technology is known to be possible but the experiments that need to be made to confirm how to do
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by willyt 5y ago
Depends how easy this is to do on the fly. Lots of people thinking about it like it's a spy thriller. But could a creep with a laptop use it to harvest phone numbers from random school girls that they like the look of in starbucks? Not
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by willyt 6y ago
I had someone tell me my architect’s fee was too expensive at 7% they said that thier previous architect had charged 3%. I need to remember to prempt this in my sales patter by working into the conversation what estate agents charge for tak
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by willyt 6y ago
You would need to provide professional indemnity insurance cover. Most policies likely don’t cover advising the whole internet.
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by willyt 6y ago
Pelagic fishing in Britain literally only employs about 10,000 people. Prawns, crabs, lobsters and fish farming employ more but they have all been thrown under the bus by the brexit deal that the halfwits in charge have negotiated. The indu
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by willyt 6y ago
I’m not best qualified to answer, but some processors can have a watchdog timer that has to be reset by your software every so often otherwise within a set interval otherwise the chip resets. This works like a ‘deadmans handle’ that can be
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by willyt 6y ago
> The other thing I found is my kids have plugged the lighting adapter into an electrical outlet on a surge protector... Yikes! Oh well at least they are protected from power surges...
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by willyt 6y ago
My kids have destroyed countless lightning cables and usb micro cables. They have also destroyed 3 amazon fire tablets and a nexus tablet by yanking on the cable but they’ve never destroyed any apple devices this way. Thats why the lightnin
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by willyt 6y ago
This happens with other papers as well. It's always the opinion pieces that get shared because they press people's buttons. Then everyone piles on with 'Oh this isn't journalism' obviously! of course it's not,
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by willyt 6y ago
Listen to this to find out. https://omegataupodcast.net/333-flying-and-simulating-the-f-...
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by willyt 6y ago
You can imagine that people in Ferguson might be unwilling to report petty crime until the police can’t do much about it as the punishment for stealing a low value item can be summary execution and you might not want that for the kid down t
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by willyt 6y ago
Did he phone them to check? I get a lot of fake invoices in my junk mail. I also know someone who lost £50k paying an invoice with bank details that had been tampered with by hackers. I hate phoning people but I always phone about invoices.
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by willyt 6y ago
Well quite, that's why they might have waited for more favourable conditions instead of trying to take such a big ship through in force 7 'near gale' with poor visibility due to a sandstorm. Seems like a risky thing to do, no
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by willyt 6y ago
Not used it, but ic seems to be compatible back to python 2.7 so not really comparable. I can't use the builtin thing in my python code because the host software for my plugins is running python 3.6 embedded and only recently upgraded
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by willyt 6y ago
> Unavoidable Not really, weather forecasts are readily available and windage calculations are a thing.
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by willyt 6y ago
Or in certain forecast weather conditions ships over a certain windage will require to be escorted by a tug or will have to wait.
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by willyt 6y ago
‘Journalist’ should be a regulated profession like ‘Doctor’ or ‘Structural engineer’ or ‘Airline pilot’ or ‘Architect’. It seems very likely that poor journalism has incited violence that has caused death and injury. Other proffessions that
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by willyt 6y ago
I’m a native British English speaker with two postgraduate degrees and I still come across words that I know the meaning of but when I think to use them in conversation I realise that don’t know how to pronounce them. Sometimes you just hav
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by willyt 6y ago
You’re right, I misremembered. I’m not saying that the IRA weren’t bad, they killed more people than 9/11, but they learnt that killing random people was bad for PR and adapted thier tactics to economic targets in the 90’s. I’m from Lo
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by willyt 6y ago
But who cares if it terrorises? I mean, I care if my tube train seems scarier than last week but I'm irrelevant. If the goal of Islamic terrorists is to have America or Britain change its foreign policy towards Islamic countries, I thi
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by willyt 6y ago
No they’d be geniuses because they would cause economic losses to powerful people a lot like how the good Friday agreement came about quite quickly after the IRA broke every office window in the finicial district of London with a truckload
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by willyt 6y ago
It was caused by a power blackout meaning no-one was in control of the ship. It’s possible someone pulled a breaker or something but I don’t know how easy that would be to do in a way that would not look like sabotage.
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by willyt 6y ago
That paragraph is not the journalist's writing, it's a quote, presumably transcribed from a verbal interview.
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by willyt 6y ago
How on earth will this cope with medieval European or Asian cities if it cant cope with a generic American grid city with spacious lanes.

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