davidhbolton

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by davidhbolton 1mo ago
Here's a prediction. The standards committee won't do a recall. The reason, Farage won this election despite the accusation over the £5 million. Having another byelection would get the same result so it would be a complete waste o
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by davidhbolton 1y ago
They did back around 2008. I used Wiki on a stick - see https://stickwiki.sourceforge.net/which was kind of neat) but after a few years, Chrome etc stopped letting it save itself.
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by davidhbolton 2y ago
A bit more nuanced attack on Stockwell. He and his team started with 3,248 relevant studies of which 3,125 were immediately discarded. This left 123 cohort studies to which they added 87 relatively recent cohort studies. They then discarded
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by davidhbolton 2y ago
There's diet versions of it available. Tesco in the UK sell a really nice one that is 1Kcal (one Cal) per 330 ML can.
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by davidhbolton 2y ago
This NS piece is complete misinformation. This below is by a writer who has been writing about this sort of thing for years. "Tim Stockwell has been up to his old tricks. In a study that was widely publicised this week despite being pu
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by davidhbolton 2y ago
Here in the UK, almost 17% (about nine million people) live outside towns and villages. A trip to the local shop can be several miles on roads that don't have pavements and public transport is of the "one bus a day" type if y
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by davidhbolton 2y ago
Wouldn't there be a better outcome for those misidentified and publicly slandered and inconvenienced if they sued for stress? Some unlucky sod could have a heart attack from this.
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by davidhbolton 2y ago
No mention of the fraud involved in pushing Germany to phase out Nuclear? https://dailysceptic.org/2024/04/27/new-document-release-rev...
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by davidhbolton 3y ago
I recommend Jutoh. It's a commercial (but not expensive) cross-platform system written by the WxWidgets creator Dr. Julian Smart. It's on Jutoh.com. It's very good with images, tables and code.
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by davidhbolton 3y ago
Why do people keep repeating this lie; there is no Brexit disaster. Life goes on as normal in post Brexit Britain; lockdowns did way more harm than Brexit and we've mostly recovered from those. The rest of the EU seems to be suffering
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by davidhbolton 3y ago
Watch some old British comedy series. BlackAdder series 2-4. Also with Rowan Atkinson, Not the Nine O'Clock news.
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by davidhbolton 3y ago
I wrote the postal game Quest back in 1989-1990, a 1,000 player postal game. 40,000 lines of Turbo Pascal. Others came after and fixed some of the bugs and it's now run over the internet. https://kjcgames.com/quest&#x2F
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by davidhbolton 3y ago
Did anyone say "Mysterons"?
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by davidhbolton 3y ago
There are no hard and fast definitions of programming or coding. To me they are the same but coding is more like slang. The formal name for both is software development.
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by davidhbolton 4y ago
From the BMJ *British Medical Journal). "Analyses of the dose of alcohol consumed showed that 2.5–14.9 g alcohol (about ≤1 drink) per day was protective for all five outcomes compared with no alcohol (table 2⇑). For coronary heart dise
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by davidhbolton 4y ago
The IMF forecasting accuracy for the UK has been out quite a lot. https://order-order.com/2023/01/31/all-hail-the-latest-imf-f... "Since 2016 the IMF has consistently underestimated UK GDP growth. Every
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by davidhbolton 4y ago
I learnt original Pascal at University in 1979 (Queen's University Belfast). It was very spartan compared to what Turbo Pascal would later add. Strings were a type alfa and were ten characters long.
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by davidhbolton 4y ago
You think Labour wouldn't try and pull the same type of shit? The freedom loving "Lets have ID Cards" Labour party?
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by davidhbolton 4y ago
Other rankings of programming languages are: 1. RedMonk. Puts C++ at 7th. 2. StackOverflow Developer Survey (2022) puts it at 9th. 3. GitHub Octoverse puts C++ at 6th. 4. Reddit's programming language subreddits has it at 4th. (Rust
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by davidhbolton 4y ago
There's no limit to the contempt I have for people who block roads and thus ambulances and result in needless deaths.
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by davidhbolton 4y ago
It's old but still working. Revealing the anatomy of cyoa books. https://samizdat.co/cyoa/ The flash animations don't work though.
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by davidhbolton 4y ago
I prefer text files, specifically the likes of WikidPad or Obsidian which let you use links to other documents.
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by davidhbolton 4y ago
This is a vile bit of legislation. See https://webdevlaw.uk/2022/07/11/your-compliance-obligations-...
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by davidhbolton 4y ago
I took a screenshot of the address and pasted it into OneNote. The 'Copy Text from Picture' extracted the text with no issues.
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by davidhbolton 4y ago
Or spend non-cash money - i.e. debit or credit cards. You can buy prepay credit cards that you top up with cash but I wonder how long those will exist?
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by davidhbolton 4y ago
Nope. Most people voted for Brexit because we wanted our sovereignty back. We welcome legal immigrants and 6 million or EU immigrants so have chosen to stay here after Brexit. We don't welcome illegal immigrants. While in the EU we had
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by davidhbolton 4y ago
Sounds like someone is believing the SNP koolaid. They didn't have a majority in 2014 and it's unlikely they have it now.
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by davidhbolton 4y ago
It may be simple but that simplicity is its downfall. How many databases, compilers, modern games. OOP classes or even file handling routines do you see in assembler? Few or none at all. Writing assembly language is slow and painstaking wor
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by davidhbolton 4y ago
I thought one reason for the reduction in crime was the introduction of unleaded fuel in the 90s. The lead tetroxide anti-knocking agent in leaded fuel prior to this had pulled down IQ.
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by davidhbolton 4y ago
I came across this with System.Drawing on Ubuntu and successfully managed to replace it with SkiaSharp code instead. It was drawing a map for a game in memory then saving to a .jpg file. I use VS 2022 Community on Windows, tested it there t

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