keithpeter

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by keithpeter 7y ago
A couple of quotes from OA with a personal 'translation' "GCHQ told Sullivan that Sidebottom "had a small but dedicated following" among its staff." Couple of people do Sidebottom dialogues as an in-joke to t
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by keithpeter 7y ago
I have years of sunburn to prove that the Mersey can be warmer than Spain...you just have to pick your times.
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by keithpeter 7y ago
Age and education selection when comparing HN with general population.
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by keithpeter 7y ago
Pop up to Liverpool one day and see what you think. Best when it isn't raining and the wind isn't too strong. Bold Street and Jamaica Street might be good starting points, then there is Renshaw Street and the Baltic area.
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by keithpeter 7y ago
Education and the health service (think buildings and land as assets for the latter) are the two remaining ones apart from something like the road system. I'm sure they will try these soon.
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by keithpeter 7y ago
Quote from OA "The first journey is a bus from the south of the city, Stirchley to, Birmingham. This 3.5 mile journey takes about 20 minutes between 6am and 7am, and about 40 minutes between 8am and 9am." That would be the schoo
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by keithpeter 7y ago
Using common goods to finance tax cuts is a conservative party policy and it has been mentioned in their manifestos, although not in bald terms. They could therefore argue for a mandate for the policy.
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by keithpeter 7y ago
UK, non-government public sector, very senior people still have secretaries - often described as personal assistants. The PAs handle interfacing and information flow, the senior people can get on with the thinking .
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by keithpeter 7y ago
https://www.oii.ox.ac.uk/people/luciano-floridi/ Publication records help to separate the wheat from the chaff.
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by keithpeter 7y ago
Spiral curriculum is actually a widely used concept in teaching... https://www.teachwire.net/news/ever-increasing-circles-what-...
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by keithpeter 7y ago
UK 1976 I was doing a computer science O level at the local technical college (Wednesday afternoon release from my school). There was a 19" rack modem with accoustic coupler on the front and a dial to dial the number. That was connecte
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by keithpeter 7y ago
May3 as dead as the Monty Python parrot. Odds of no deal being offered 2/1, as is 2019 referendum Fri Mar 29 17:34:54 GMT 2019
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by keithpeter 7y ago
"I have no idea how you guys are going to get out of this one" Neither have I, but I imagine that time, geography and economics will sort it out. EU changing, old guard turning over. UK voters changing each year due to the grim
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by keithpeter 7y ago
But when librarians got their OPAC systems, they started writing reports to analyse lending patterns and identify stock that was not being borrowed, and identifying lenders that had overdue books &c. So the decrease in effort needed lea
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by keithpeter 7y ago
"I fondly remember her making her grocery lists and taking notes on the used punch cards that she'd bring home from work." Old cards were useful for making revision notes as well. And the 'paperthrow' command got
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by keithpeter 8y ago
Good quality 1960s buildings made of concrete with stone flagging and wood paneling inside are nice spaces. I always remember the feeling of light and space in the 1960s blocks I worked in at University (1980s, buildings then 20 years old)
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by keithpeter 8y ago
Probably works out a tad lighter than the X200 with whichever battery the user decides to use. The unmodified X220 I'm writing this on weighs 1.6 kg with the 'stick out' battery and I recollect that my old X200 was about the
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by keithpeter 8y ago
"The fan only turns on if I’m doing something intensive like compiling go or scrolling in Slack." Things like scrolling down a recent issue Web site are the main reason I'm not still using a vintage unmodified X200. I reali
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by keithpeter 8y ago
Acoustic isolation is a motivator for double glazing in some locations. And the vents are small (6mm by 30cm full open). Most Victorian era houses have 'air bricks' in various locations (terracotta bricks with a small grid of ho
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by keithpeter 8y ago
Just reached 4:30 sec and he has mentioned lack of ventilation in their house, which I know to be a common problem with new build housing through dealing with condensation problems. UK: most of the bog standard double glazed windows have a
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by keithpeter 8y ago
Quote from OA "The UK is facing a maths crisis: according to a 2014 report from National Numeracy, four out of five adults have low functional mathematics skills compared to fewer than half of UK adults having low functional literacy
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by keithpeter 8y ago
Isaac Newton was doing chemistry with a range of nasty heavy metals for years . A sample of his hair was analysed some time ago and found to contain significant levels of lead [1]. Boyle, Cavendish and their cohorts investigated a variety
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by keithpeter 8y ago
"I think it depends on one's requirements." Computers are tools, endpoints these days. I have been happy with Linux but then again my needs are not super-complex. I have a recent freetype with a defaultish configuration and
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by keithpeter 8y ago
Personally I get along with nmtui from the command line (as user) but I appreciate the desire for a tray icon of some kind.
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by keithpeter 8y ago
bas55 [1] is the closest I can find to a Dartmouth style basic (so 70s rather than 80s). Alas constants are truncated at 6 places (internal calculations are all doubles). It compiles fine and works well complete with LOAD, SAVE and limited
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by keithpeter 8y ago
Alas, the L series thinkpads have the trackpoint but rely on the trackpad for clicking. Nice fast machines that have good battery life (e.g L440) but...
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by keithpeter 8y ago
Yup, I have an X61s running Xubuntu 18.04 quite nicely. 2Gb and a cheap 64Gb SSD.
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by keithpeter 8y ago
Getting around 7h to 8h off my X220 with a 'no-name' battery (the larger kind that sticks out at the back). Fine for the last couple of years.
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by keithpeter 8y ago
I learned to cherish manual controls and to think about the will and documenting the basics (I'm 14 years younger than Tom West was when he died).
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by keithpeter 8y ago
John North's book Stonehenge: Neolithic man and the cosmos explored the consequences of the precession for early structures in the UK that he interpreted as having astronomical significance (opinions vary on that one).

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