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There was no snark - just a need to come up with a set of different names for Mozilla software modified as necessary by Debian.

I'm curious as to how this (which I know as a "French Prussik") could possibly be jammed. IME, and that of the guides who recommended it to me, this is far less likely to cause jamming problems than a traditional single or double prussik.

For ascending, I believe their recommendation was to use a traditional single prussik for the harness, and this for the leg loop. This is certainly easier to move up an untensioned rope than a traditional prussik, but may also slip slightly more readily, I think.

Personally, I've used it mainly as a backup when abseiling; I can't understand why it's not universally used there (attached to leg-loop and below the abseil device) - you just keep your hand on it and it will allow descent, let go or allow it to move up and you are stopped.

I'm sure there are several valuable lessons hidden away in there - concerning assumptions, human factors, jumping to "obvious" solutions without having verified the actual cause of a problem, unintended consequences etc. etc.

Would be interesting to look at a system where it does actually work well and see what's different.

When I lived in London, and used buses fairly regularly, I started thinking about ways to improve the service and stop bunching. I considered the reason stated here, and some of the solutions, but later realised that the root cause was that the drivers liked to stop and chat and perhaps play cards with each other at the (presumably unsupervised) "bus station" at the far end of the route. Once I'd observed 3 of them waiting for each other, chatting, and then all leaving at once on the same route, my interest in trying to think of ways to fix the problem waned.

No, it doesn't. There's no reason for the proportion of people looking for perl related stuff who use "perl language" as a search term to change over time. That proportion might affect the absolute numbers, but not the trends.

If you read "Into Thin Air", make sure you also read "The Death Zone" by Matt Dickinson - an interestingly different perspective on the same event.

"My fear is that teachers will now choose for Windows on the RPi, since that is what they know."

Well, no. Almost none will have used Windows without the GUI.

Seems more likely Broadcom have been helpful than MS from what the RPi folk have said. I'd guess that they weren't originally expecting it to be feasible to get what appears to be a custom SoC made.

Note that when the B+ board was designed, they already knew the pinout of the new chip and were leaving space for it.

I noticed libreoffice doing this yesterday. Very disappointing.

In the UK and France, the +1 was available for use by traffic travelling in either direction. It sounds like in this case, they're talking about one side being allowed to use it for a spell, and then the other. Similar to the overtaking lanes provided here in NZ.

If you saw them, they weren't doing it right.

A lot of people seem to miss the point that the Knowledge also acts as a deterrent to bad behaviour by proper cabbies - they have too much invested in their license to be likely to throw it away lightly.

A neighbour of some of my bees had a Labrador pup that kept trying to catch bees in its mouth. It apparently reacted badly (which became expensive), and didn't learn. Had to move the hives in the end.