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A couple of quotes from OA with a personal 'translation' "GCHQ told Sullivan that Sidebottom "had a small but dedicated following" among its staff." Couple of people do Sidebottom …

I have years of sunburn to prove that the Mersey can be warmer than Spain...you just have to pick your times.

Age and education selection when comparing HN with general population.

Pop up to Liverpool one day and see what you think. Best when it isn't raining and the wind isn't too strong. Bold Street and Jamaica Street might be good starting points, then the…

Education and the health service (think buildings and land as assets for the latter) are the two remaining ones apart from something like the road system. I'm sure they will try th…

Quote from OA "The first journey is a bus from the south of the city, Stirchley to, Birmingham. This 3.5 mile journey takes about 20 minutes between 6am and 7am, and about 40 minut…

Using common goods to finance tax cuts is a conservative party policy and it has been mentioned in their manifestos, although not in bald terms. They could therefore argue for a ma…

UK, non-government public sector, very senior people still have secretaries - often described as personal assistants. The PAs handle interfacing and information flow, the senior pe…

https://www.oii.ox.ac.uk/people/luciano-floridi/ Publication records help to separate the wheat from the chaff.

Spiral curriculum is actually a widely used concept in teaching... https://www.teachwire.net/news/ever-increasing-circles-what-...

UK 1976 I was doing a computer science O level at the local technical college (Wednesday afternoon release from my school). There was a 19" rack modem with accoustic coupler on the…

May3 as dead as the Monty Python parrot. Odds of no deal being offered 2/1, as is 2019 referendum Fri Mar 29 17:34:54 GMT 2019

"I have no idea how you guys are going to get out of this one" Neither have I, but I imagine that time, geography and economics will sort it out. EU changing, old guard turning ove…

But when librarians got their OPAC systems, they started writing reports to analyse lending patterns and identify stock that was not being borrowed, and identifying lenders that ha…

"I fondly remember her making her grocery lists and taking notes on the used punch cards that she'd bring home from work." Old cards were useful for making revision notes as well. …

Good quality 1960s buildings made of concrete with stone flagging and wood paneling inside are nice spaces. I always remember the feeling of light and space in the 1960s blocks I w…

Probably works out a tad lighter than the X200 with whichever battery the user decides to use. The unmodified X220 I'm writing this on weighs 1.6 kg with the 'stick out' battery an…

"The fan only turns on if I’m doing something intensive like compiling go or scrolling in Slack." Things like scrolling down a recent issue Web site are the main reason I'm not sti…

Acoustic isolation is a motivator for double glazing in some locations. And the vents are small (6mm by 30cm full open). Most Victorian era houses have 'air bricks' in various loca…

Just reached 4:30 sec and he has mentioned lack of ventilation in their house, which I know to be a common problem with new build housing through dealing with condensation problems…

Quote from OA "The UK is facing a maths crisis: according to a 2014 report from National Numeracy, four out of five adults have low functional mathematics skills compared to fewer …

Isaac Newton was doing chemistry with a range of nasty heavy metals for years . A sample of his hair was analysed some time ago and found to contain significant levels of lead [1].…

"I think it depends on one's requirements." Computers are tools, endpoints these days. I have been happy with Linux but then again my needs are not super-complex. I have a recent f…

Personally I get along with nmtui from the command line (as user) but I appreciate the desire for a tray icon of some kind.

bas55 [1] is the closest I can find to a Dartmouth style basic (so 70s rather than 80s). Alas constants are truncated at 6 places (internal calculations are all doubles). It compil…