willyt

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by willyt 7mo ago
Your voting system is shit. It results in a two party state. If one party fails to present a coherent offering and the other one is infiltrated by nut jobs then the system breaks down. After all, if it was such a good system, why didn’t you
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by willyt 1y ago
And also ignoring British English (and probably other international Englishes too); writing ‘try put’, ‘go put’ or ‘go see’ for example would get a red mark and a correction from the teacher in the UK.
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by willyt 1y ago
‘Try and’ is correct British English and the Register is a UK publication. If the author had written ‘to try make’ they would have gotten in trouble with their editor and ‘to try to make’ doesn’t flow as well, to my eyes at least.
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by willyt 1y ago
But you would have your essay corrected if you wrote “go put” in any British school (and possibly other ‘commonwealth’ countries) but it’s fine to say it in informal speech; sometimes we hint at ‘and’ by saying the ‘n’ and sometimes we don’
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by willyt 1y ago
In written British English it would be correct grammar to say “try and” or “go and”. In speech it would be said “go’ n ” with very little emphasis on the ‘n’ and some dialects drop the ‘n’ completely but would still write ‘and’. I suspect t
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by willyt 1y ago
Yes, I would understand it and that’s probably what people naturally say informally where I live in Scotland and in other dialects it’s said more like ‘go’n put your shoes on’ where the ‘n’ is very soft. But especially if I saw it in writin
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by willyt 1y ago
‘Go and put your shoes on’ is correct British English. We consider ‘Go put your shoes on’ as incorrect grammar. So ‘try and put your shoes on’ would also be natural. I’m trying to think what other verbs this would work with because ‘find an
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by willyt 1y ago
That is a common usage in British English as well. E.g “I will update the draft document and revert back to you”. One of the most annoying things about Duolingo is that they haven’t spared a week of an intern’s time to come up with a way of
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by willyt 1y ago
I’ve been learning french and for the most part once you learn that you just start but don’t finish saying the last letter of any word and you understand which letters you don’t pronounce on the end of the verb that change between je/i
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by willyt 1y ago
I got an electric shock plugging in a zip drive once. They used to arc when you plugged the mains cord into the back of the drive or the power brick, I forget which.
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by willyt 1y ago
Couldn't you have an exam room with raspberry pi's flashed with a fresh install of debian (or whatever) and no internet and just say you are allowed to lookup anything that's preinstalled on the system plus a PDF of the go to
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by willyt 1y ago
Yes. I would say it probably makes more sense that whoever designed the chatbot system for the airline will need indemnity insurance. Then the airline has somewhere to go if it starts giving out free plane tickets willy nilly.
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by willyt 1y ago
Static site with Jekyll?
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by willyt 1y ago
I was quite surprised to discover that I couldn’t interact at all with my home battery without internet. I wanted to see how much power is left in it during a power cut but because in a power cut there’s no internet the app didn’t work. Int
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by willyt 1y ago
The ones recorded in the US probably are legal to listen to and the ones in the UK probably are not. I think I remember reading somewhere that it’s not legal to record ATC in the UK. IANAL SIUKRTCL
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by willyt 2y ago
Been running nextcloud on a raspberry pi 4 on prem for a very small business <5 users for about 3-4 years ish. It’s faster than most clouds because it’s local. I’ve had very little trouble with it. Don’t tend to use much the features apa
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by willyt 2y ago
I wonder what the legal implications are of ignoring a disease until it spreads to your neighbour's farm. Can the neighbour sue for negligence or something?
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by willyt 2y ago
Apologies you’re right, I looked it up but my brain had obviously already decided it was NSW as that’s what I wrote. It’s a great interview, he seems like a good guy.
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by willyt 2y ago
There’s an interview on The Rest is Politics Leading podcast with the politician Peter Malinauskas the premier of New South Wales who started the introduction of this law in his state first. I think it was maybe then taken up by the federal
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by willyt 2y ago
Citations please. I believe the opposite of much of what you said is true. Here are my references. SNCF is profitable: https://www.lemonde.fr/en/economy/article/2023/02/24/sncf-re... Pre-pandem
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by willyt 2y ago
One of the most frustrating things about Duolingo is that they refuse to have an International English setting for the language you are learning from. I’m trying to learn french but WTF is a ‘stroller’ or an ‘eggplant’ or even more frustrat
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by willyt 2y ago
The TGV in France makes a profit. As does the Shinkansen in Japan. Intercity routes in the UK aren't high speed but are all profitable. Rural rail lines are not profitable and commuter lines are about break-even, depending on the fares
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by willyt 2y ago
All that track connected to the depot you are talking about is high speed passenger infrastructure. Just touching the south side of the factory is what looks like an old single track line if you follow it to the west there's a passing
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by willyt 2y ago
In Britain you just upload a digital photo so it would work here.
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by willyt 2y ago
But if the train is that busy it likely couldn’t be replaced by people travelling in personal cars anyway as they would take up to much road space and cause a huge traffic jam and there would be nowhere to park at the end of the journey in
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by willyt 2y ago
Yeah I was surprised about that one ‘Handling stolen goods’ is a criminal offence in Britain and if you can prove ownership of something you get it back. If you’re an innocent intermediary and you bought a stolen item without knowing you ha
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by willyt 2y ago
I just painted a whole area as university by accident. No idea how to undo that.
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by willyt 2y ago
I think you can even eat raw horse meat in France. https://www.vice.com/en/article/inside-frances-fading-love-a...
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by willyt 2y ago
Well you didn't read the article because the comparisons of the energy consumed are listed in Ws (Watt Seconds) e.g. > We can now boot into a Linux user space program in less than 3.5s! >~400ms is spent in the Linux kernel (diffe
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by willyt 2y ago
According to the back of my jar of mayonnaise there is 8400kJ stored in it, enough energy to power this rpi for ~62 days. This is probably a stupid question but just out of curiosity, why do people express electrical energy in Watts per sec

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