trmsw

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by trmsw 4y ago
Agreed! Plus with my handwriting, who's ever going to be able to tell the difference?
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by trmsw 4y ago
my knee-jerk reaction is: and because streets aren't just for cars! But more pragmatically, vehicular cycling is often the best choice because of visibility and predictability, and also as regards driver awareness and expectation: it a
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by trmsw 4y ago
Definitely. Brussels was designed for cars (and Belgium is very car-centric in many ways) but it's got much better for cycling in the ~15 years I've been here, thanks to a mixture of incremental improvements and political "bi
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by trmsw 4y ago
This reminded me of the rules for fiction in Flaubert's Parrot. They don't include any mention of whimsy, in fact, but it was fun rereading them.
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by trmsw 4y ago
The "all sorts of other whimsical attractions" is especially bad.
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by trmsw 4y ago
Upping the sensitivity and switching to the soft rim cap makes a huge difference. We have ThinkPads at work and I'm not surprised most of my colleagues don't like the Trackpoint with its default cap and settings; Lenovo aren'
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by trmsw 4y ago
So "tightening the DUI laws" here means giving cops greater latitude to charge people below the legal limit - as opposed to, e.g. increasing the penalties for people who are above it? Here (well, UK and Belgium) I think the police
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by trmsw 4y ago
What would make it a frivolous charge? I mean, if the test is reasonably reliable and shows the driver had more than the legal limit of alcohol in their blood, What's there to contest?
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by trmsw 4y ago
Mandatory helmet laws for cyclists are a red herring intended to shift blame and attention onto cyclists' behaviour rather than address the real problems, namely: bad infrastructure, cars, and drivers. As long as policymakers do nothin
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by trmsw 4y ago
A better way to make cyclists and pedestrians safer would be more stringent laws against dangerous car designs, and some enforcement of the existing laws. We are starting to see US-style monster pickups and SUVs here in Belgium and they are
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by trmsw 4y ago
You might lack the emotions, but you've absolutely nailed the mentality. Bravo.
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by trmsw 4y ago
He didn't deeply insult an entire people - have you read the book?
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by trmsw 5y ago
I found those burners too weak for stir-frying. I suspect that unless you have special ventilation, a burner that's hot enough for wok cooking will not be safe for indoor use. Ours is used outside because that's where the gas bott
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by trmsw 6y ago
For me it's gel pens. Pilot G-Tec ones are great.
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by trmsw 6y ago
You're welcome. It's an attention economy these days
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by trmsw 6y ago
Upvoting this just for the title ... and was disappointed by the article. Rats.
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by trmsw 7y ago
Well technically it's priority not right of way. My guess is that the concept was only codified with the introduction of traffic laws, which in most places didn't happen before the 20th century. Until then, "priority" in
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by trmsw 7y ago
Rule 170 of the highway code: "watch out for pedestrians crossing a road into which you are turning. If they have started to cross they have priority, so give way"
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by trmsw 7y ago
In what sort of situations have you needed to write more Java to use a Java library from Clojure? I've never felt the need to do this. It's sometimes helpful to write a Clojure wrapper for a Java library on order to use it in a mo
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by trmsw 8y ago
Gel pens are even nicer IMO. Pilot do very nice ones but the 0.38mm Muji ones are also great and a bit cheaper
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by trmsw 8y ago
If only some people (like me) want to see street names, maybe it could be an optional layer. You enable the layer it adds a pointer and a label above the map showing the name of whatever's under the pointer. To get the name of somethin
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by trmsw 8y ago
And even in 1911, Scott's expedition suffered from scurvy, mainly because they misunderstood its cause! http://idlewords.com/2010/03/scott_and_scurvy.htm
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by trmsw 9y ago
YMMV - I was raised a Catholic and never got any literalist stuff about creation, or nonsense about dinosaur bones being planted to confuse us. Nor is it in the catechism as such - there is quite enough unbelievable stuff in there as it is.
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by trmsw 9y ago
It's only rude if you believe that the customer has to respect the hard work and good intentions that went into the product, and make allowances if it doesn't "just work". They don't.
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by trmsw 9y ago
Calling a thing a "piece of shit" and leaving a critical review isn't rude behaviour. This isn't tea time at Buckingham Palace.
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by trmsw 10y ago
I think "berate" is unnecessary: in the context the type of shouting is completely clear, and "engueuler" is used much more commonly than "berate" so IMO using it would be to change the tone without improving t
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by trmsw 10y ago
And when robots get there I wonder if they will resent cyclists for the computational cost they impose - and if they will find endless ways to rationalise that resentment (cyclists break the rules, cyclists don't pay road tax etc). I
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by trmsw 10y ago
XPath 2 supports conditionals so you could put all that in a single select expression.
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by trmsw 10y ago
I agree. The general standard is good (my wife's experience of giving birth here was much better than my sisters'in the UK) and if you have the money you can choose to pay more for comfort or convenience.
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by trmsw 10y ago
Only "on" in French is specifically for persons whereas "it" is for things and not persons. It is properly considered derogatory to refer to a person as a thing - hardly a quirk. "On" is also non-specific and c

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