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Comment · 2 years ago
VSCode with the platformIO plugin is pretty good
Comment · 3 years ago
If you read his old blog posts from about 10 years ago he didn't reiterate anything. If you then read the comments on those posts you'll understand why he now does!
Comment · 3 years ago
why add the complexity of bcd when you can just put in it units (e.g. cents) where there's no decimal point?
Comment · 3 years ago
'The figures do not specify how people died, or whether the death was related to the care they were expecting from the NHS. The data also does not contain ages or medical conditions' This is a mischievous use of statistics

If an eighty year-old dies from a heart condition while waiting for an appointment at their local hearing clinic, they make this list

All this data really tells us is that the NHS is underfunded and badly managed, leading to backlogs and delays in treatment

Which is already obvious to everyone

Comment · 10 years ago
House prices in london have always been expensive. That 200k house in Earls Court adjusted for inflation would be £410k now.

But back in 1990 interest rates were a whopping 14% - that means that a 25 year mortage would have cost the equivelent of £4935 each month.

Today that house is worth 1.5 million. The same 25 year mortgage at today's interest rates would be £5158 a month.

So really house prices haven't changed that much, it's just that the money is going to different places.

Comment · 11 years ago
It's not an affiliate link. Affiliate links have "?tag=". The "?ref"= is for internal tracking within Amazon.
Comment · 11 years ago
It can simplify templates; allowing you to treat free functions and class methods the same way.
Comment · 11 years ago
sounds very expensive, surely there must be a more efficient way?
Comment · 11 years ago
How do you has words so that polynomial hashes to the same value as pollinomial?
Comment · 11 years ago
The introduction of the smartphone has changed children for the worse. The children now love luxury; they have bad manners, contempt for authority; they show disrespect for elders and love chatter in place of exercise. Children are now tyrants, not the servants of their households. They no longer rise when elders enter the room. They contradict their parents, chatter before company, gobble up dainties at the table, cross their legs, and tyrannize their teachers.
Comment · 11 years ago
Can someone explain how this link has made it to number one on the front page, when it seems from the comments that no one understands what the page is saying?
Comment · 11 years ago
Things that didn't happen, this.
Comment · 11 years ago
I think this comes with lots of difficulties.

For example should you be evicted from your family farm that you've worked on your whole life when your 80 year old mother dies just because you haven't saved up enough money to buy it on the event of her death.

What if you are a subsistence farmer in Cambodia in the same situation - should you lose your family land to the state on the event of the death of your parents?

Comment · 12 years ago
It's probably not banned because someone who could take over a plane with a lithium battery could take over a plane without a lithium battery.

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