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Casio do have a tide watch, which presumably uses that algorithm: https://www.greatwatches.co.uk/collections/men/products/casi...

*Isaac Asimov Maybe a subtle nod to: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spell_My_Name_with_an_S ?

This is a wonderful game! If you don't have access to a country house library, then there is a card-based version: https://oxfordgames.co.uk/shop/ex-libris/

I was told that a bank would not approve a transaction because the signature I had provided in a Word document was not similar enough to the one on file. Helpfully, they provided m…

Langewiesche himself wrote about exactly this paradox in this (excellent) piece on the Air France 447 crash: https://www.vanityfair.com/news/business/2014/10/air-france-...

The Serverless framework provides offline functionality ( https://github.com/dherault/serverless-offline ) to do this - I've found it works pretty well.

It’s also worth noting that he also describes the ‘primitive’ world and it’s awful. He was encouraging balance, not a rejection of one or the other.

When I was hitchhiking, people would say 'nobody hitchhikes anymore'. I'd point out that a good hitchhiker is in a car, not by the side of the road...

I wonder if you might compare this to Bonobo [ https://www.bonobo-project.org/ ] which I think has similar design goals?

The majority (> 80%) are life peers, appointed in theory for being distinguished in their field. So yes, many experts among them. For example: https://www.parliament.uk/biographies…

The slightly snooty Daily Telegraph style guide: "Christmas lunch is what most of our readers would eat, not Christmas dinner. Use the latter only if referring specifically to an e…

The worst is if you turn off notifications from Messenger, it flashes up the red number to tell you you need to turn them back on. I found it very, very annoying at first... now it…

Turkey is very definitely a NATO member, and has been since 1952.

Yep. For me it was running instances that didn't respond to requests to delete or stop. They kept charging anyway. Support was somebody in a different timezone who complained when …

Thanks, that's really interesting. The usage of 'pipeline' to describe both sorts of system made me think there was a lot of overlap, but I'm understanding now how they are complem…

How would you see Airflow in relation to Apache Beam / GC Dataflow?

The Olympic park in London is bringing lots of new facilities - an innovation park, a university campus, a theatre etc and thousands of new homes. London is an exception to olympic…

I do the same, but I've had trouble with the overhead of virtual machines (admittedly on an older laptop). Have you not found this to be a problem at all? As deployments get simple…

Yes, it's awful how East London got great new transport links, sporting facilities and a huge park.

They do support a lot of other languages, although the words aren't the same between languages as far as I can tell (so they can't be 'translated'). Still, I bet they cover most of…

You mean, like http://what3words.com/ ? I really like the idea.

Location: London Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: For the right offer Technologies: CTO / product leader. Background in Python and associated web frameworks. Particularly intereste…

I made up this demo: http://whatpostcodeamiin.com which uses browser location finding to tell you what postcode you are in (more or less). If you'd be interested, I have a beta API…