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I could have sworn your comment originally said "track and trace" not "test and trace". Perhaps not enough coffee.

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 was spent on the app.

The vast majority of the spending in that year was accounted for by testing (£10.4 billion)."

Out of an abundance of caution, I've deleted it. So there we are.

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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.

And when they came back, they were blacklisted by order of the government:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-16287211

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.)

PDF annotations sit within the file.

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 and position, and and interesting system-wide plugin system.

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-forth though.

"....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.

"Management is that for which there is no algorithm. If there's an algorithm, it's administration." (Maurice Wilkes, IIRC)

Trains in operation:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Rail_Class_139

I suspect they are confusing "total market capitalization of companies on stock exchange" with "financial industry".

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

No, they don't. Whilst Switzerland is not in the EEA, it does have agreements with the EU which include FoM.

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 until 1st Jan 2025.

Iceland is not in the CFP.

Pedantry: Cyprus is in the levant, and the UK has two sovereign areas there.

This has now been remedied:

https://pdfa.org/sponsored-standards/

Here's one to look at: https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/2980179.2982434

I know it as a "toffee hammer".

"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

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.

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.

Miles is good fun. Also Manhattan to Montauk on local buses:

https://youtu.be/fKQmp0spxhs

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 case, so long as you release your source, as you say you plan to in another comment:

https://www.npmjs.com/package/coherentpdf

Looks like 0% for all items under 8525 under the new Global Tariff (i.e for countries with which the UK trades under WTO terms). It would be 0% for countries with an FTA as well, of course:

https://www.trade-tariff.service.gov.uk/headings/8525

The distinction in law between sub-30 and 30+ minutes still exists, inherited from EU law, but the tariff is 0% in both cases:

https://www.gov.uk/guidance/classifying-electrical-equipment...

Summary of the changes from the "Common External Tariff" of the EU to the "UK Global Tariff":

"The net effect of the tariff regime according to a summary by the Department for International Trade is as follows:

- 47% of products will be tariff-free, compared to 27% under the CET and

- Average tariffs will be reduced from 7.2% under the CET to 5.7% under the UKGT

This is achieved through changes to rates of tariff by lowering rates, reducing rates to zero or rounding rates down."

  cpdf -upright in.pdf -o out.pdf

will set the page rotation to zero, counter-rotating the page dimensions and content to compensate, leaving it visually unaltered.

(Disclaimer: I wrote it)