Colombia's Constitution of 1991 with Amendments through 2015www.constituteproject.org
In meeting reviewing bugs from our backend testing system.
<Me> This is the class of bugs I was talking about last week. This whole codepath is dead and not used by anyone. We're testing functionality we don't care about. NUKE THE SITE FROM ORBIT.
<coworkers> So.... that's you volunteering to delete this?
<me> (Realizing my hype level) Yeah! Got that Red Diff Energy, baby!
I need that on a Tee shirt.
Red Diff Energy
Let's delete some code
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Absolutely, delete the things! Then delete the !@$$@ codegen for some extra meta-deletion energy.
My one last work goal is that my total LOC contributed to the repository is negative.
An open source simulator based on the classic game Transport Tycoon Deluxe. It attempts to mimic the original game as closely as possible while extending it with new features.www.openttd.org
Blatant nerdsniping bid. Given any two railway stations, you can compute p, the cheapest price of a return ticket between the two, and d, the Levenshtein edit distance between the names of the stations. Find two stations which maximise p/d. And no, "Queen's Park" and "Charing Cross" do not get to omit their "(Glasgow)" and "(London)" disambiguators.
A super off-peak return between Nottingham and Mottingham is ninety quid, but we can surely do better than that?
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These are good for showing what’s going on with Hugo voting. (And why ranking things matters) zoeoconnell.co.uk/@zoe/1129500…
OK, here we go: Visualising the #Worldcon #Hugo2024 voting results.Alternative Title: Why ranked voting matters.
As a quick explanation, the last placed candidate in each round is eliminated and their votes transferred to the next candidate on each ballot.
This is the first place ballot only, the second place is calculated by treating the winner as eliminated and rerunning the election. I have not included the final round runoff against "No Award" as this year that's all uninteresting.
Visualising the #Worldcon #Hugo voting - still working on this, but first pass for the Best Fancast voting.
Coode Street Podcast transfers won it for Octothorpe, after a late surge for Worldbuilding for Maschocists fuelled by Publishing Rodeo transfers #Glasgow2024
Original data at glasgow2024.org/wp-content/upl…
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I realise this is just the difference output looking silly but I am easily amused by Harris’s burst of groceries bsky.app/profile/nytdiff.bsky.…
Can we talk about baby Moorhens? 🐥
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A song by James Baillie, about small creatures growing up. Dedicated to Beatrice Catchpole-Simmons.Chords and lyrics: https://exilian.co.uk/forum/index.php?t...YouTube
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Passing random felicitations of (to him) strangers might increase his “mother is weird” level.*
*all teenagers have a parental weirdness gauge
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With time a transnational facility might include this structure that has been gaining traction slowly against the will of fascists and empires
You need a tachograph if you are driving under UK/AETR working hours rules UNLESS you are collecting sea coal. You still need to keep to the time rules, but don't need the tachograph.
There are similar exemptions if you're going to repair a lighthouse, or are transporting a circus, or carrying live fish to an entrepreneurial activity within 100km(*), or returning milk containers to a farm...
But strangely, while all those exemptions are given in a schedule to the act, but sea coal is included in the main statute, ie roughly, "if in the schedule (lighthouses, circuses, entrepreneurial fish, etc) OR sea coal".
As far as I can tell (it's complicated; I'm not sure), a lighthouse repair person or their friend taking fish to an AGM doesn't have to *follow* the rules.
The unique thing about sea coal hauliers is that they (and only they) *do* have to follow the rules, but don't have to prove it.
But why? Delving into it further ... 🧵
(*) I assume these are entrepreneurial fisherfolk, not entrepreneurial fish.
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As far as I can tell this is because sea coal transport, uniquely, was included in exemptions to "Community Recording Equipment Regulation" (EU 3821/85) but not in exemptions to "Community Drivers' Hours Regulation" (EU 4820/85).
Sadly, I've been unable to navigate these regulations but, as I currently have no proximal intent to transport sea coal, I will leave it here, unless inspiration strikes.
My mental image of sea coalers is a romantic one, of rugged men with horse and carts in the waves. Now I mention it, I've never seen a horse with a tachograph.
The attached (~2min) video includes not only Hartlepool sea-coalers, but some fencing in St Moritz, and a man from Sunderland who survives bricks being smashed on his head.
Titles read: "Caught By The Camera".Various locations of events.Various shots of a fencing demonstration in a nightclub in St Moritz. The diners in the club...YouTube
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@pseudomonas Maybe even 'as opposed to pickled with vinegar or lactic acid'?
The Dutch word for hydrochloric acid is 'zoutzuur' (literally 'salt acid').
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If Kamala Harris picks Josh Shapiro to be her VP pick, understand that this is who will be on the ticket with her:
"Palestinians will not coexist peacefully. They do not have the capabilities to establish their own homeland and make it successful even with the aid of Israel and the United States. They are too battle-minded to be able to establish a peaceful homeland of their own.” - Josh Shapiro.
Josh Shapiro volunteered to serve in the IDF.
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I know much of the commentary around the Olympic a boxing thing is well meaning, but please avoid using or boosting the term “biological woman”.
“Cis woman” is more accurate. “Biological woman” is meaningless. Which bit of someone’s biology do you mean? Hormones, primary sex characteristics, secondary sex characteristics, chromosomes? (Bear in mind most people don’t know what their chromosomes are)
The term comes from transphobic efforts to other trans women and has no other value.
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My submission for Slanted - Experimental Type 3.0:
Unicode Spaces
There are invisible characters in the UTF-8 unicode character encoding standard. This experiment measures the width of each invisible character with p5.js to dynamically manipulate the kerning of single characters. By analysing the brightness of pixels of an image and inserting white spaces at the corresponding lines and characters, image patterns are emerging in the text through white space.
#utf8 #typography #p5js #slanted
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The British Medical Association, the professional organization representing doctors in the United Kingdom, has called for a public critique of the review and to bar its implementation.Erin Reed (Erin In The Morning)
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British Medical Association calls anti-trans Cass Review “unsubstantiated”. bma.org.uk/bma-media-centre/bm…
This is major: the BMA is the major union for doctors in the UK and not a niche group, most doctors are members.
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Cis people: Here’s a fun thought experiment! What would it be like to live as the other sex?
Trans people: Well, we might have …
Cis people: There’s no way we can ever know, lol!
Trans people: Er, hello?
Cis people: It will forever remain a mystery
Trans people: We’re right here
Cis people: So unknowable
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@Eric the Cerise I’ve read accounts from cis people who tried, gave themselves gender dysphoria, and got suicidal.
Caveat emptor
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Mainstream social media: "wah wah satanic Olympics last supper"
My social media: "Actually the Jesus/Dionysus syncretism thing has a history going back at least to the 12th Century"
Honestly the more I hear about European railways the more I appreciate those in GB. troet.cafe/@serac/112854885100…
Arrived on time, would have had plenty of time to make our connection of 15 min. But No. This was not bookable, only the one with 75 min layover. And thanks to the mandatory reservations, you can't just hop on the earlier train. Spain, wanna work on this or invest another billion on a new high speed line? Both saves one hour. Choose wisely.
#Madrid Puerta de Atocha, #Castilla #España
#TrainTravel #connection #Reservation
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British court upholds stochastic homicide of trans youth in UK.
Didn’t really expect anything else, but how bloody bleak.
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Cases of Covid have increased at a number of popular holiday destinations including Greece, Portugal, Cyprus, Belgium, Poland and MaltaChronicle Live
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France: Any journey shorter than 4 hours by train should not be allowed to be taken by plane.
Me, after using French railways for a couple of weeks: They’re running plane services for distances of only 100km?
I’m honestly shocked at how functionally useless French railways are. “Welcome to our interchange. Please wait 2 hours surrounded by screaming kids and chain smokers for your connection. No you can’t have a fucking coffee”
Dear the UK, you have it better than you could possibly believe.
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