AngusH

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by AngusH 2y ago
High speed 1 in the UK Section 2: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_Speed_1 Section 2 finished in 2007 (just within your 20 year cutoff!) It links the channel tunnel with London St Pancras. Much of the London part is
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by AngusH 2y ago
Are you thinking of the Shanghai maglev? It is pretty impressive and they're looking at building an extension. however oddly its operation speed has been significantly reduced from 268mph to 186mph. https://en.wikipedia.org&
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by AngusH 4y ago
ArsTechnica has an article (from 2020) on the topic which seems somewhat balanced and seems to have interviewed some legal experts: https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2020/06/publishers-sue-i... A complete d
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by AngusH 4y ago
Uranium is a mineral and can be purchased from many places and stored then used as needed. 15 countries mining it currently: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_uranium_p... There are also more countries
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by AngusH 4y ago
I think the closest US equivalent in this case is chapter 7 bankruptcy. If I've got it right chapter 11 is more a reorganzation and restructuring, while chapter 7 is disposing of the assets to pay off the creditors. This is the latter
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by AngusH 4y ago
Yes, I'm in the Uk and it sounds the same as you describe in the US. Inflation rates are very variable depending on the product. From memory, in my local supermarket for example, tea is still about 0.90/1.00 a box. Freshly squeeze
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by AngusH 4y ago
I think this is the current developer page: https://developer.android.com/topic/google-play-instant/over... Now renamed to Google Play Instant, but still ok for apps (I think?)
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by AngusH 4y ago
Yes definitely agree. Overall the UK grid is probably too dependent on wind energy, with all the variability that involves. Right now gridwatch.org.uk is showing about 13.5GW from wind (40% of demand), but I've seen some days when ther
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by AngusH 4y ago
Unfortunately the government (of all stripes) tends to reject predictions it doesn't like: try this one from 20 years ago: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/3034088.stm (it's on this topic of energy)
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by AngusH 4y ago
:-) Very broad indeed, though I think it's just qualification for asking, not grounds for acceptance, (thankfully) One thing I'm curious to know is what it's like on the distribution side though, getting these requests and th
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by AngusH 4y ago
This appears to be a contingency plan 'in the "unlikely" event supplies of gas fall short of demand.' The report showed, under a base case scenario, that margins between peak demand and power supply were expected to b
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by AngusH 4y ago
Do you mean that you had to buy the same book 3 times? (or otherwise copy) That's astonishingly bad.
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by AngusH 4y ago
I like it. Personally I've always preferred HTML tags to markdown, primarily because I can usually understand simple HTML by looking at it, while the markdown needs a cheatsheet if I haven't been working on it recently. I think th
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by AngusH 4y ago
The whole package has now been deprecated by the maintainer: 'PyPI wants me to enable 2FA just because I maintain this package, and both that and the mess resulting from a stunt of mine, I thought it'd be a good time to deprecate
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by AngusH 4y ago
So I've read through this, but the docs seem to assume you already know what it does. (Which I'm still not sure that I do) It seems to be a way of generating a website from a shared google drive or MS sharepoint setup. The google
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by AngusH 4y ago
Yes they would do that wouldn't they? Difficult. hmmm. I guess it would need to be a standard wording only. A specific sentence with 'fill in the blanks' only for the changed items. "Now __ tablets instead of __"
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by AngusH 4y ago
If it was really transparent maybe... I would think that means that if the number of washing tablets went from 12 to 9, then packaging would display in prominent letters "Same price, now 9 tablets instead of 12" Similarly for unit
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by AngusH 4y ago
We could look at historical laws that did exactly this. Set standard sizes and only allow sales in those size on penalty of prosecution. For an example from the uk, until a few years ago bread could only be sold in 400g or multiples thereof
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by AngusH 4y ago
Also size and population though? Bath, being a major city, has far more residents and visitors than Maerdy, a small rural village. My guess in Maerdy is that the residents probably drive somewhere (Aberdare?) with a supermarket. I'm no
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by AngusH 4y ago
More likely covid was the issue (assuming you went in 2021?) A lot of unavoidable staff sickness has caused major troubles in manufacturing and delivery of goods. Plus some real stupidity relating to tax and licensing of lorry drivers. :-(
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by AngusH 4y ago
I once wrote a software release checklist system with custom values in php which worked quite well, if you have a server to run it on. But I'm not sure thats the best bet for new work today. It might be worth looking at interactive fic
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by AngusH 4y ago
I'd say the UK situation has some good, some bad. A lot of the rail replacement currently is due to staff sickness ... Covid has hit a lot of things very badly. Positively, the government has heavily supported rail through the pandemic
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by AngusH 5y ago
I can't help thinking the usage model you want is more like a router or network appliance than a normal web server. Have you considered running your software on a synology box or similar high end NAS? Not sure it would work well if exp
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by AngusH 5y ago
Although it looks like Dyson was not actually paid anything and covered the £20m development cost themselves: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-52409359
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by AngusH 5y ago
I'm not sure it can be properly judged as a success or failure until the situation returns to normal. (Covid19, etc) This is only dates to May 2021 after all. I don't think I would move countries right now unless absolutely necess
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by AngusH 5y ago
The Wikipedia page has detail on this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dartmoor_line Essentially the line went through the closure procedure and was completely closed to passengers back in the 1970s, however it remained
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by AngusH 6y ago
For those, such as myself, who were not previously familiar with it: "MirageOS is a library operating system that constructs unikernels for secure, high-performance network applications across a variety of cloud computing and mobile pl
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by AngusH 6y ago
I'd probably want it grouped by category with a drill down interface for the specifics. Probably arranged so you can type in a figure at the bottom for monthly expenditure and it would balance out the requirements based on typical use
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by AngusH 6y ago
You need separate costed quotas for each type of activity with a combined total at the bottom. You could also have a setting in the admin panel as to what the system should do: [ ] I want to keep going beyond my quotas (but email me) [ ] Pl
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by AngusH 6y ago
If the amount of storage that you can use is limited by quota (say 50GB) the problem becomes relatively easier. You set a quota for 50GB of storage and no more. The server then restricts you by disk quota to that amount of storage. The cos

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