musiciangames

Yes, it’s really disappointing to see Monash doing that - not a mention of mouse or mice.

I feel like lots of people hate on Ryanair because of experiences from years ago. For me, both the booking experience and the actual flights are far better than they used to be. Legroom seems the same as other airlines. And I much prefer them being strict with carry on bags, compared with those National carriers that let people onto the plane with way too much baggage, then the flight is delayed while they try and sort out the mess. The loudspeakers are no longer turned up to excruciatingly high volumes. They don’t seem to make any effort to sell you scratch cards. They even seem to have removed their policy of preventing any staff from smiling. They run in time and they’re cheap.

Does anyone know why casein phosphopeptide (Recaldent) hasn't had more success? https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/9294493/ You can buy the Japanese gum with Recaldent online, but I expected it to be in the gum display in retail shops by now.

I think my Mother would have disagreed with you about Welsh. She remembered the Welsh not:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Welsh_Not

From Wikipedia:

In a review article published in 2010, after Wakefield was disciplined by the General Medical Council, regular columnist Phil Hammond, who contributes to the "Medicine Balls" column under the pseudonym "MD", stated that: "Private Eye got it wrong in its coverage of MMR" in maintaining its support for Wakefield's position long after shortcomings in his work had emerged.

I had visions of the customer at a teller machine, trying to withdraw $81 trillion in cash

I found Modafinil really helped. Had to persuade my consultant to prescribe it 'off-label', it's approved for narcolepsy.

Original betting book

https://www.genome.gov/sites/default/files/inline-images/gen...

Ewan Birney opened a betting book at a meeting of the Human Genome Project in 2000. For a dollar a bet, he asked the world’s top geneticists to predict how many genes a human has. The prize for the nearest guess was the pot and a bottle of scotch. The winning bet, by Lee Rowen, was 25,947. The real number is around 20,000.

-Adam Rutherford, A Brief History Of Everyone Who Ever Lived 2016

I wish you success, however...

In my current team we all sit down about every six months and agree how we should communicate, giving our own preferences.

After a few weeks, it's back to normal, i.e. 90% of the team making real-time interrupts in Teams, irrespective of stated preference, urgency, whether info is supplied as agreed, etc.

I don't see it being much different because an AI tells them so.

Does that apply in the case of war, which was intended by ‘strategic’? I’m reminded of Australia’s supply of iron to Japan before WWII. Which earned future prime minister Robert Menzies the nickname ‘Pig Iron Bob’.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/1938_Dalfram_dispute

As I understand it, Britain will no longer be able to produce steel from iron ore, only from scrap. Which doesn’t sound good strategically.

I’m not sure that’s the case. I worked for Irish subsidiary of a financial software company. Management openly said the main reason we were there was for the tax benefit. We cut standard code for the product, then once a year had to fill out a form describing the ‘R&D’ component of what we had done. As I understood it, that was required for the tax treatment we received.

(Aside). To expand slightly, what robertsdionne is highlighting is the changing usage of this expression. In its original sense, e.g an issue is so important that it is impossible to overstate its importance. It is now increasingly used the other way around.

Old me would have said it’s used wrongly, but this happens all the time with language. Especially things being used in the opposite of their original sense, e.g. inflammable for flammable.

And of course Gemstone is itself a Smalltalk

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/GemStone/S

Also reminded me of William Ricketts near Melbourne

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Ricketts

> telling them in proper legal language to 'fuck off'

I refer m'learned friend to the precedent of Arkell v Pressdram

https://news.lettersofnote.com/p/arkell-v-pressdram

As a sample of 1, it seems to me that this is particularly an issue with American non-fiction.

You choose an interesting case at 1. What does 1 times less errors mean? To me it means no errors.

I would never say times fewer, because it is ambiguous.

7 times 70 =490. 490 fewer than 70 is -420. But words mean what you want them to mean, so 7 times fewer to mean 1/7th is becoming commonplace.

(edited because formatting swallowed asterisk for times)

One of my favourite nitpicks, but IMO 7x fewer errors means -6 times the error rate. Maybe error rate reduced by 86%.

Interesting to compare e.g. Sweden, Norway Denmark which had different attitudes to lockdown.

Seems the settings aren’t captured in the URL. Change to cumulative deaths, show unselected countries, add Peru (the highest).

Provides some insight on the relative success of otherwise of the strategies applied by different countries.

Not sure of the relative timing, but the new CEO is super focused on profitability/cash flow. In comparison to what he described as a ‘burning platform’ when he took over. So supersonic would have needed a brilliant business case to have survived his strategy.

https://www.reuters.com/business/aerospace-defense/rolls-roy...

I saw this on front page of HN, then it had disappeared, I don't know why. So I reposted it. Happy for it to be assigned to the original poster.

I can't find a reference, but I'm pretty sure that someone on the Australian Financial Review's rich list, got rich from Taxi medallions. When Melbourne was to host the olympics, the licence authority decided there would not be enough taxis. They invited people to apply for free licences, and lots of people did apply for a licence. One person applied for a shedfull - something like 200?, and received them all.

I get no overlay on france.fr

I agree, how to use the resources available is an underrated skill. I find an increasing part of the value I add is in being able to find answers in our vendor’s less-than-optimal documentation and search.

I do think the subject of the article has something much deeper going on.