billyruffian

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by billyruffian 1y ago
They ask if you have a licence with a Yes / No choice. They don't ask for the licence number, which I'd be surprised if anyone in these islands could recall. Rather charmingly, they assume you will be honest in your answer.
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by billyruffian 2y ago
I hear this a lot. I've got quite a leaky 400+ year old Welsh farmhouse (long and thin, heat-sucking 4ft deep stone walls) and I'm one of those who installed last year with the grant. It's bloody brilliant. Way, way more comf
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by billyruffian 3y ago
There is a gate, with a warning. That stops most of the delivery drivers. Tourists, not so much.
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by billyruffian 3y ago
I live on an old farm. I'm connected to a neighbour by a track that is narrow, has a steep drop with no barrier and a ford at the bottom. After decent rain, the ford is more like a full-blown river. It is a public footpath but otherwis
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by billyruffian 3y ago
Well, my attempt at a humorous aside didn't land. To be strictly serious we are talking about block parameters in ruby which contain the values yielded to it which, in an enumeration, is likely to be a value object from a collection an
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by billyruffian 3y ago
I can see the appeal, but I offer: 1. thickly cut doorstops of wholegrain crusty bread 2. apply very mature crunchy cheddar 3. cut banana, not mushed, is layered on top 4. a blanket of either ready-salted or salt and vinegar crips 5. and th
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by billyruffian 3y ago
sigh, I once encountered a PFY junior who named all variables some variation on `nx`, so `n1`, `n2`, `n99` because they 'were all just numbers'.
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by billyruffian 4y ago
I work in an environment which has dozens of products, very significant complexity and legislative needs. Cucumber works very well for us because we use it for specifying outcomes. There's way to much Gherkin out there which tries to u
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by billyruffian 4y ago
I see you are not British nor, according to your bio, do you live in Britain. I'm not sure how 'our' applies to you.
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by billyruffian 4y ago
In what way? From mini skirts to punk rock to gay liberation to extinction rebellion to pro- and anti-brexit protests, we seem to be comfortable with challenge. Citation required.
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by billyruffian 4y ago
Well, it would be a lot harder to sack president Boris /s. I defer to the historian Niall Ferguson who said (I paraphrase) that purpose of monarchy is to protect the people from its government. From a UK perspective, it seems to work.
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by billyruffian 4y ago
> The dominant paradigm is "if it is not permitted it is forbidden". Oh gosh. It’s the exact opposite. The a principle of Common Law is ‘everything which is not forbidden is allowed’ (the US for example has done reasonably well
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by billyruffian 4y ago
I live in a smallholding. When the Milford Haven gas transit pipeline was being layed just by the corner of my field they found a henge. Yep, a stone circle, or the remains of it burried right in my back garden, along with countless Beaker
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by billyruffian 5y ago
I love (and donate to) mailcow, it's an amazing piece of work which makes it simple to get up and running and to maintain a email stack. The problems you end up with is dealing with the big fish in this space. For instance, Microsoft a
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by billyruffian 5y ago
I live in a reasonably rural part of the UK in an old farmhouse with historic public rights of way criss-crossing the land around here. One day google decided that a footpath through a wooded area just wide enough for a quad was public high
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by billyruffian 5y ago
The Async gem and Ruby 3+ is an incredible piece of work. If you need to coordinate 3rd party services, it's the way to go in ruby and it just reads beautifully.
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by billyruffian 5y ago
I went to an agreed petrol station, they'd authorised spend there. From memory, I think I just told them my name and that was all I needed to do: fill up, thank the staff, drive off.
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by billyruffian 5y ago
I had my wallet nicked in Padstow on the last day of a trip there and was just about take the 3.5 hour drive home. Problem was I didn't have enough fuel to make it. My CC providers took ages to even answer the phone and cancel the card
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by billyruffian 5y ago
BlockBear is free
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by billyruffian 5y ago
Research I grant you, but for treatment, quality is very unevenly distributed. The Welsh NHS is appalling enough that I've considered relocating to England for this reason alone.
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by billyruffian 5y ago
> If I remember right, didn't the Queen refuse to give her assent to table this bill to the Parliament? The Queen, acting upon the advice of her government , refused to grant her consent for the Bill to be debated. You see how this
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by billyruffian 5y ago
Thank you for taking the time to do that and I know we are drifting massively off-topic. The blogs posts fail the PROMPT test for me but the Zahraa, 2001 paper is much more interesting and makes a decent case that this isn't a settled
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by billyruffian 5y ago
I don't believe anything without evidence. It seems like a reasonable piece of tidying up that settles the legal juristiction of vessels in those waters but I look forward to seeing the evidence that it was a spiteful landgrab (water
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by billyruffian 5y ago
> Now scotland has independent tax raising powers, the border with england for sea resources was carefully restruck to favour england The maritime border used to be a straight east-west line despite the east coast of England being curved
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by billyruffian 5y ago
It really rescued Britain from the financial mire it found itself in the mid 70s when the country was bust and had to go the IMF. It paid for the economic restructuring which was desperately needed. Dominic Sandbrook's books (Seasons i
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by billyruffian 5y ago
Some of that is correct, the Queen has soverign immunity (a bit wider in scope than, say, the immunity afforded US presidents), and her household has excemption from some laws. Some of the power you are referring to is the Royal Perogative
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by billyruffian 5y ago
I built a small wildlife pond in the corner of a field. A couple of months pass and it magically pops up on the OS maps, right shape and dimensions too. Meanwhile google maps is merrily directing vehicluar traffic down a precipitous footpat
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by billyruffian 5y ago
The work at Bletchly wasn't declassified until the 70s. The house and the site was a near ruin when I visited in the 90s. Hardly a government promoting anyone or anything. There is some, quite rightly, national disgust at the way Turin
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by billyruffian 5y ago
I'm in the middle of writing some of this right now. For 'reasons', I need to add callback hooks into a particular HTTP Client library my org uses across several dozen of projects. The library we commonly use doesn't hav
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by billyruffian 5y ago
Just clicked to try -- found the display currency I wanted, British Pound Sterling between Egyptian Birr and Georgian Lari. Was expecting it to be amongst the other 'B's.

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