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Comment · 7 years ago
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 dialogues as an in-joke to the extent that it begins to annoy co-workers.
"[After random outer triangles explained] 'Right, we've cracked it during a light-hearted training exercise.'"
Took a couple of minutes as a starter in a session.
PS: I use a Playfair style grid to jumble up my pass phrases to try to make them less susceptible to rainbow table attack. Am I wasting my time?
Comment · 7 years ago
I have years of sunburn to prove that the Mersey can be warmer than Spain...you just have to pick your times.
Comment · 7 years ago
Age and education selection when comparing HN with general population.
Comment · 7 years ago
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 there is Renshaw Street and the Baltic area.
Comment · 7 years ago
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 these soon.
Comment · 7 years ago
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 minutes between 8am and 9am."
That would be the school run. To test my hypothesis, I'm going to try to run the results during a school holiday in a bit.
Very pleased someone has actually done what I have often thought about (but done nothing about) while standing at the 97 bus stop in the rain early in the morning... getting the data from the departure system. I wonder how I can get my hands on a sample of the data...
Comment · 7 years ago
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 mandate for the policy.
Comment · 7 years ago
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 people can get on with the thinking.
Comment · 7 years ago
https://www.oii.ox.ac.uk/people/luciano-floridi/
Publication records help to separate the wheat from the chaff.
Comment · 7 years ago
Spiral curriculum is actually a widely used concept in teaching...
https://www.teachwire.net/news/ever-increasing-circles-what-...
Comment · 7 years ago
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 front and a dial to dial the number. That was connected to a teletypewriter. We did some BASIC 'interactive' programming (the main projects used coding sheets).
The system was vulnerable to thunder storms I remember (line noise). All good fun.
Comment · 7 years ago
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
Comment · 7 years ago
"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 over. UK voters changing each year due to the grim reaper and 17 year olds turning 18 (about 600k churn each year).
Charts are really useful. Hope they are updated.
Comment · 7 years ago
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 had overdue books &c.
So the decrease in effort needed lead to an increase in analysis of the information captured in the system - new uses.
Comment · 7 years ago
"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. And the 'paperthrow' command got accidentally put inside a loop on my batch jobs sometimes so I had plenty of nice large lineprint paper for notes. 1970s at university in UK. (We did Algol 68 but then I had to deal with fortran later as a postgrad)