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What do you think shareholder meetings are for?

How do you know? Your “UK” set is liable to have some Irish accents in it. You need to break down regions more

No, it’s “grift”: https://www.wordnik.com/words/grift

The entirety of Great Britain is farther north than the entirety of the contiguous 48 USA states.

The lowest paid employees get no less than 1/50th of the CEO’s allocation.

Has anyone found a static analysis tool which understands C11 annex K (aka “safe C”) functions? I’ve found some tools like CLANG static analysis will raise errors for potentially i…

For best filtering, place the filter so air is “sucked” through by the fan, rather than “pushed”. (Quite possibly what you meant; I just found “in front of” easy to interpret in ei…

The concept I use is that the next stage is all about how you implement the previous one: the spec is how you implement the requirements, the design is how you implement the spec, …

“Would Be Nice If”. Often used even when the “if” expansion doesn’t really make sense.

I disagree with the author. Requirements are a precursor to the spec, and are a list of MUSTS, SHOULDS, and WBNIS which need to go into the feature/product. The Spec is a descripti…

Note that legal tender != can buy milk with. Legal tender is only about payment of debt. A shop selling you something doesn’t have to accept any specific form of payment, as they d…

Windows allows you to use a PIN for regular device logon - so you have a longer, more secure password for general use of the account, but an eg 8 digit numeric PIN _only_ for that …

How did you find/calculate the floor area from Rightmove? In my experience listings _might_ have the area in the floor plan image, so you’d be hoping for floor plans then running O…

I think the speed _for all passengers_ was increased, because of the reduction in queueing.

On the underground you’re meant to stand on the right of escalators to leave room for those walking up on the left. However, TFL ran a trial a few years ago instructing people to s…

This seems a poor article for not mentioning the St Patrick’s Cross - one of the flags “making up” the Union Flag / Union Jack, representing Ireland. It’s contentious, but arguably…

So am I right in understanding you aren’t saying photography isn’t “an art”; just that it isn’t “fine art”? In which case I think you’d see much less disagreement here.

Does your art class perhaps only cover “fine art”? Or does it also include the performing arts like music, theatre, even cinema? In my experience in the UK, “art” in school commonl…

I agree? In the above I'm assuming equal likelihood between each lab and each city, rather than equally likely to have come from any lab vs any city. The second is a poor starting …

To get the 1% figure you have to include an unstated assumption, which is that a novel virus is just as likely to emerge from this lab as from all top 100 cities put together. If w…

My guess is “red and at” -> “redundant”

Tim Hartford addresses this: “ the Landsburg rule can only be imposed in controlled environments such as a theme park, perhaps” He’s using it to explain reverse logic, and then mov…

Ditto. I always edit themes to make comments brighter than code. Fairly easy in sublime text, more-so now there’s a built-in “edit theme” function.

Hah - I’ve assumed for years that days weren’t accessible because the section of ASCII art for them is greyed out!

You can see any year by changing the url: https://adventofcode.com/2021 I think it started in 2015. On the AoC website you need to provide solutions for each day in a given year to…