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> For instance, I remember looking at a grocer's shop and the sign that said "Oranges", which looked very much like "Πορτοκάλια" in Greek.

And interestingly to extend this chain of connections I just read your comment and through my basic knowledge of the Greek alphabet gained through maths, and a rough proficiency in pronouncing Cyrillic I could spot that the word is very close to the Turkish “portakal” (I know a few words from spending some time there over the years).

‘After the Ice: A Global Human History, 20,000–5000 BC’ by Steven Mithen was excellent when I read it ~10 years ago.

https://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674019997

No, I don’t think you can fairly say a country is an archipelago unless it’s solely composed of islands all of which are entirely the territory of that state.

The UK is not an island.

> I know people who've kept Macs running for nearly a decade (e.g. 2011 Macbook Air)

It’s no longer my primary machine but my 2009 MBP is still running just fine (new memory and disk 5 years back, battery is a bit shagged at this stage) and I use it all the time for storing and casting media, light dev work, office apps etc.

I don’t see how it does at all - the point isn’t C versus Java, it’s native versus managed. Any reasonably proficient team running managed services needs to know how to deal with native dependencies, but the reverse is not true.

You’ll note the word “likely” in my comment. And there’s nothing special about C in my argument - I was responding to a comment which used it as an example. The point is simply that one way or another any given team likely knows how to tune, monitor and/or diagnose issues in native bits - in fact even a Java focussed team likely has these skills. But the reverse is clearly not true.

The JVM that Java shop is using is likely written in C, which should make you question the straight equivalence you’re setting up. There is an operational difference between getting a native executable and having something that sits on top of Java (or any other managed platform).

> In practice, how many developers write C# on a non Windows platform? I'd say a very, very tiny minority.

Plenty do - think of deploying c# web services on Linux servers / containers.

Historically this just isn’t correct - for example in accounts of labour agitation and union formation in the 19th century it’s noted time and again that the organisers and ringleaders were often the cream of the workers in each industry despite the attempts of capital to put forward the impression you have. The very best of humanity can see further than their own little bubble.

Not to go off on a tangent but this really struck me:

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There is a big difference between someone in my position and someone who has come from one of the countries that belonged to the British Empire. There is a very special and very potent relationship between someone brought up in India, with a very powerful notion of Britain as the mother country, and the source of modernity and culture and education.”

Perhaps someone from India could give their opinion but as someone from another country that was made part of the British empire this strikes me as nonsense - of course there are some small circles in my country where the idea might persist in some attenuated form but in general the above would considered utterly offensive and - more importantly - just plain wrong.

We have “Iarlaith” in Irish which I believe is cognate with it.

FWIW “Mary” is sort of the stereotypical female name here in Ireland, though I see from looking at the stats that its use has dropped off a good bit (#92 in girls names last year). I’d bet that drop-off is precisely because it’s seen as a very common old-fashioned name redolent of pre-90s world which modern Ireland has a very complex relationship with.

The one the drives me mad the most is when I type a word which it incorrectly autocorrects to a proper noun (which gets capitalised), I then use backspace to delete that word and type the - completely different - correct one, but it insists on upper-casing the first letter to match the original casing of the incorrect autocorrect. It really should keep track of the fact that it introduces the case-change and invalidate it when the automated action itself is invalidated. This happens frequently to me.

I can only speak for myself, but I’m in a group of ≈50 working on prime software R&D (as you term it) in a very trendy space in Dublin for a large multinational. I don’t want to say too much beyond that - and you’re probably right that it’s the exception rather than the rule - but it does exist.

What nonsense, firstly OP clearly is specifically referring to the budget outlay for education, and even if taken more broadly I can assure you throughout the world there are plenty of governments whose spending is constrained by current income and who very much do aim to minimise expenditure for a given outcome (predictably often with the effect of greatly worsening outcomes).

> why would you expect Americans to know about it in the first place?

I’d expect anyone making specific public criticisms of the GDPR to have a general understanding of it and the legal context it sits in.

Perfectly sensible, issues like this are automatically detected and enforced in shipping codebases where I work. As a commenter on the issue says the result is frankly clearer and more understandable anyway.

> Yes, and over 24 hours, they are 12 hours in darkness: on a 90-minute orbit, 45 consecutive minutes are spent in Earth's shadow => half the day, they are in darkness.

FWIW I don’t think that’s correct. The effect isn’t significant in really low orbits but going by my hasty maths even at the ISS’ orbit of 350km a satellite spends - at worst - about 10 hours a day in darkness. I say at worst because the plane of the orbit also has an effect here. I make it that you can roughly calculate it as: 24 * ((asin (EarthRadius/OrbitRadius) *2) / (2 pi radians)).

Thanks for the explanation - very helpful. I was wondering if you might have time to go into more detail on this:

> A random sample of additional people also receive notification messages which their phones are able to discard as invalid decoy messages

All I can say as a speaker of non-US English is that “Metallica is” and “Nirvana is” still sound completely wrong to my ear.

Orbits can be quite unstable, for example read (one theory) or the early dynamics of the solar system: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nice_model

I’m keen to hear what problems you’ve had with AKS if you’ve got time to share them here.

The poster said ‘a mass extinction’ which does not mean what you seem to think it does: “An extinction event (also known as a mass extinction or biotic crisis) is a widespread and rapid decrease in the biodiversity on Earth.” https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extinction_event

It seems very fair - even overly cautious! - to push the inevitability of that out to 2100 when many would say it is already in progress.

Source here: https://www.nioz.nl/en/news/een-dam-dwars-door-de-noordzee-w...

It’s not a direct answer to your question and I don’t have a reference to hand but I found it interesting. I read that the 74-75 fires were a fairly different situation - the year before there was anomalously high rainfall which lead to a large amount of unsupportable grass growth. The grass grew over a huge but primarily uninhabited area, died, and dried out. When it caught fire the next year it was allowed to burn uncontrolled. So it was primarily grass being allowed to burn in remote areas versus the current situation which involves more forest and is being actively fought.

They’re forgiven - but if you’re saying NOAA are saying the trend is linear and will continue to be you’re wrong. All the site is saying is it displays the “average” trend over the period as a straight line. It’s a comment on how the data is presented, not on the underlying dynamics.

No, I’m not. The NOAA site does not posit that the underlying trend is linear over the period - it simply displays a linear fit on the graphs. See here for more details https://tamino.wordpress.com/2018/04/16/recent-sea-level-cha...