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by whenc 8mo ago
I could have sworn your comment originally said "track and trace" not "test and trace". Perhaps not enough coffee.
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by whenc 8mo ago
Test, track, and trace. https://fullfact.org/health/NHS-test-and-trace-app-37-billio... "The NAO said that of the approximately £13.5 billion spent on the NHS Test and Trace programme in 2020/21, £35 million
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by whenc 9mo ago
Out of an abundance of caution, I've deleted it. So there we are.
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by whenc 9mo ago
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by whenc 9mo ago
It went un-noticed here, I think, but The Pragmatic Bookshelf recently fired most of its staff and are taking on no new books. In the email they sent to authors, they quoted a 40% YoY fall in non-fiction sales, industry-wide.
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by whenc 10mo ago
And when they came back, they were blacklisted by order of the government: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-16287211
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by whenc 11mo ago
You can do: cpdf -output-json in.pdf -o out.json (Modify out.json as liked) cpdf -j out.json -o out.pdf (Disclaimer, I wrote it.)
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Landline and mobile networks down across UK(downdetector.co.uk)
3 points by whenc 11mo ago|0 comments
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by whenc 1y ago
PDF annotations sit within the file.
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by whenc 1y ago
The last big RISC OS program written in BASIC and assembler. I published something through Cerilica called TextFX, also in BASIC and assembler. There was also Composition, by a chap from New Zealand. Multiple transparent layers of any size
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by whenc 1y ago
Try with cpdf (disclaimer, wrote it): cpdf -output-json -output-json-parse-content-streams in.pdf -o out.json Then you can play around with the JSON, and turn it back to PDF with cpdf -j out.json -o out.pdf No live back-and-fo
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by whenc 1y ago
"....financial precarity (his income through the 1970s averaged £7,600 a year)" £100000 in today's money in 1970. £35000 in today's money in 1979. Minimum wage today about £23000.
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by whenc 1y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rules_of_origin
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by whenc 2y ago
"Management is that for which there is no algorithm. If there's an algorithm, it's administration." (Maurice Wilkes, IIRC)
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by whenc 2y ago
Trains in operation: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Rail_Class_139
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by whenc 2y ago
I suspect they are confusing "total market capitalization of companies on stock exchange" with "financial industry".
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by whenc 2y ago
We come mentally of age when we discover that the great minds of the past, whom we have patronized, are not less intelligent than we are because they happen to be dead -- Cyril Connolly, The Unquiet Grave
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by whenc 2y ago
No, they don't. Whilst Switzerland is not in the EEA, it does have agreements with the EU which include FoM.
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by whenc 2y ago
Iceland already has freedom of movement (to live and work) due to its EEA membership; and it is only somewhat to do with Schengen, which is about passport free travel not living and working. You can have FoM without Schengen - e.g Romania u
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by whenc 2y ago
Iceland is not in the CFP.
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by whenc 2y ago
Pedantry: Cyprus is in the levant, and the UK has two sovereign areas there.
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by whenc 2y ago
This has now been remedied: https://pdfa.org/sponsored-standards/
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by whenc 2y ago
Here's one to look at: https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/2980179.2982434
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by whenc 2y ago
I know it as a "toffee hammer".
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by whenc 3y ago
"We come mentally of age when we discover that the great minds of the past, whom we have patronized, are not less intelligent than we are because they happen to be dead." -- Cyril Connolly, The Unquiet Grave
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by whenc 3y ago
Sweden being a member of the customs union, the cars can be brought in via any other custom union state i.e the EEA plus Turkey.
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FastSpring phish
3 points by whenc 3y ago|2 comments
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by whenc 4y ago
The days of 99p tickets on Megabus are gone, but booking ahead it's still just £6.88 from London to Manchester on Megabus. Mind you, Ryanair will fly you from London to Venice for £9.99.
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by whenc 4y ago
Miles is good fun. Also Manhattan to Montauk on local buses: https://youtu.be/fKQmp0spxhs
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by whenc 4y ago
You might find this interesting to add functionality to this website: it's a JavaScript version our commercial PDF tools, and can run entirely in the browser. It's AGPL, so you wouldn't need a commercial license for your use

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