wizofaus

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by wizofaus 3y ago
> for any reasonable definition of terms like "economy", "wealth"... By today's standards, I'd probably agree. But in 100, 200, 500 and certainly 1000 years time, I suspect we'll have quite different id
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by wizofaus 3y ago
> because the weather is miserable Last time I was in London (early March, though many years ago) it was pretty bloody miserable too, but it seemed to be doing well enough despite that! If any given day being well be suitable for hanging
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by wizofaus 3y ago
Were seaside towns in the UK in the past particularly dependent on tourism though? And has a similar phenomenon occurred in other cooler-climate countries, in Europe or elsewhere? Tasmania's climate isn't so far off the UK's,
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by wizofaus 3y ago
From an Australian perspective the idea that "seaside" towns are especially susceptible to economic decay and being left behind seems quite odd - even in parts of country without year-round beach weather, coastal localities here a
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by wizofaus 3y ago
It would be slightly more amusing if room 418 turned out to be where the coffee machine was after all.
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by wizofaus 3y ago
Yes but some forms of death are a good deal worse than others. Many cancers in particular can be an awful way to go, especially when it's happening with your full knowledge of its inevitability and lack of ability to do anything about
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by wizofaus 3y ago
I just assumed it was because the window owner wasn't set properly (but it's a long time since I did windows desktop app development). Strangely I can't reproduce the problem now - you can certainly send the dialog behind the
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by wizofaus 3y ago
True, but it also seems the fatal occurences are more common in southern Europe. In Australia we have the worst of both worlds - large numbers of us with northern-European heritage, hence fairer skin, yet very high levels of UV (esp. due to
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by wizofaus 3y ago
I think that was the guy I meant - not "Coach", who was actually 58 when the show was filmed. But I know guys in real life in their 30s that arguably look older than I do (despite being 10+ years younger!), usually because of thin
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by wizofaus 3y ago
Skin cancer, on the other hand, is my one of own country's bigger killers (11th biggest cause of death I think).
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by wizofaus 3y ago
That and an arguably a better work/life balance, and lack of SAD from excessively dark/cold/long winters.
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by wizofaus 3y ago
Must be just me but aside from the oldest guy, none of the faces from that Cheers shot look obviously older than I'd expect from their age. Which is not to say I disagree with the basic idea that the average 30yo today looks younger th
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by wizofaus 3y ago
Yet supposedly the "Mediterranean" lifestyle is better for us overall...
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by wizofaus 3y ago
I'd heard similar stories of customers buying goods they knew they only needed temporally that they simply returned afterwards and obtained a full refund for. It does surprise me a little that stores don't have mechanisms in place
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by wizofaus 3y ago
Which always struck me as a nice idea in theory but of limited use if people can just avoid state-based laws by moving interstate or even registering businesses interstate. In this case however it makes perfect sense to trial it at a state
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by wizofaus 3y ago
No it's all Qt. I've tried fixing a few cases but yeah, seems something fundamental to the Qt library. I'd like to think that dialog will probably go away and be rolled into the properties pane, which I gather is Martin&#x27
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by wizofaus 3y ago
Huh? That's simple - just change "actual" (vs "nominal") time signature in the measure properties. What is a problem for me though is that the measure properties dialog opens up behind the main window...
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by wizofaus 3y ago
You actually check your list of upvoted comments?
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by wizofaus 3y ago
Yes but you'd have to keep doing it every month unless they cancelled your card.
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by wizofaus 3y ago
If I had to pick one it'd probably be proper support for score instructions that appear over multiple staves. I was involved in trying to design the feature and was supposed to help implement it but a change of circumstances at the tim
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by wizofaus 3y ago
I'm not aware of being able to revoke permission to charge a card for a particular merchant with banks - at any rate these days the "merchant" from the banks' POV is often a processor like PayPal or Square etc. But you&#
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by wizofaus 3y ago
In principle that might even be possible with a plugin, but the commands to double/halve durations can also help. Usually I end up just copying and pasting though. I agree it'd be nice to be able to easily arbitrarily shorten or l
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by wizofaus 3y ago
What goalposts are you talking about? At any rate, plenty of other countries have their own rags-to-riches stories (India being the first to come to mind). I don't think such isolated/exceptional cases tell us much about what sort
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by wizofaus 3y ago
> team because all report to same manager That's actually not been the case in many teams I've worked on - but we have all been working on the same set of related products (or subset of a product). Actually the managers often w
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by wizofaus 3y ago
Regardless of whether her parents were even able to feed properly her as a child? I'd actually be quite curious about her own views on the degree to which government-provided assistance made it possible for her to get where she is toda
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by wizofaus 3y ago
If you're all picking unrelated tasks off the same kanban board I would think a quick daily stand-up would still be worthwhile then. Just needs to be sensibly run so individuals don't get bogged down in describing every little de
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by wizofaus 3y ago
How many people actually believe the "nothing to hide" argument though? I don't doubt some do, but I'm pretty sure most of the pushback against privacy laws etc. comes from corporations who stand to benefit from collect
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by wizofaus 3y ago
Sounds like a good argument for socialism then :)
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by wizofaus 3y ago
Sure, my own team work on multiple products, but it's all the same codebase and all of us share the work for all products between ourselves. There is another team in the company that works on an entirely separate product with a very di
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by wizofaus 3y ago
Not sure how, but I will say statistically there's little evidence that in general higher inequality leads to greater overall wealth anyway: https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/gini-coefficient-vs-gdp-p... - if any

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