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kurtisc··on My name causes an issue with any booking
Since it sometimes comes through as 'Amrmr', I guess some agents are trying that but for their system it isn't stripped.
kurtisc··on Estonia has a new way to stop speeding motorists
Exactly. Sometimes there's someone else on the road driving so badly that the safest thing to do is get away from them. It's much more difficult if you're on a road with lots of speed cameras and no cruise-control because then you have to stare at your speedometer.
kurtisc··on My name causes an issue with any booking
I only learned they do have the accents from your post. I was taught to omit them about a decade ago (as a second language).
kurtisc··on Estonia has a new way to stop speeding motorists
Cool idea but they'd never do it here (UK) because they couldn't spare the police time.
kurtisc··on Why UTC is used as the acronym for Coordinated Universal Time
I disagree. https://dictionary.cambridge.org/grammar/british-grammar/adj...

With this the type (?) (universal) comes before the the purpose (co-ordination)

Despite the URL I don't believe this adjective order rule is limited to British English.

kurtisc··on “We have no reason to believe 5G is safe”
The original post included 'overweight'
kurtisc··on A Cheating Scandal Rocking the Poker World
It is enough for civil court.
kurtisc··on China laying tracks for 1,000km/h maglev trains
I'm not aware of any city-local maglev trains. American cities are still spread out from one-another.
kurtisc··on When Dickens Met Dostoevsky (2013)
When I read Crime and Punishment, I realised many of what I saw as flaws could be explained by the fact that it was published as a serial. You can't retcon what's already released.
kurtisc··on China laying tracks for 1,000km/h maglev trains
These are maglev trains in vacuum tubes. What's the difference?
kurtisc··on China laying tracks for 1,000km/h maglev trains
That's only if it does stop 4-5 times, though. Japan's HSR has trains where some stop at intermediate stations and some just go between major cities.
kurtisc··on China laying tracks for 1,000km/h maglev trains
China is dense? This is a study working towards connecting cities >900 km apart.

edit: article says 2200, maps says 900ish

kurtisc··on Bounded Integer: Header-only C++ library replaces integers, adds explicit bounds
High level languages are sold on the concept that customers' machines are powerful enough that the reduction in performance is worth it for the reduction in development time. For the same reason, it should be worthwhile to give developers powerful machines so they spend less time fixing runtime bugs.
kurtisc··on Australia’s 4G network is faster than 5G: study
I thought 5G and 4G are both LTE?
kurtisc··on Mortgage Market Reopens to Risky Borrowers
>long term variance

That's not a phrase I used. I'm sorry the sentiment upsets you; please don't conflate it with mine.

kurtisc··on Mortgage Market Reopens to Risky Borrowers
I've noticed a trend on BBC news.

'[X market/stock] slumps as [thing related to X] [does something]'

Yet when you go and look at the long-term graph, it's well within normal variance. There's no evidence they're connected at all. I'm sure it happens with other media providers too.

Why? Because they didn't have the numbers right, or just didn't check at all. Well, if I'd written a statement like that in an essay during my schooling, I'd be marked down for unsubstantiated claims at best or admonished for plagiarism at worst.

I find it irresponsible that the news rarely cites its sources beyond admitting they bought it from AP/Reuters. I believe it should be enough to prevent them being cited as a trustworthy secondary source until they at least have their justifications to a level that would be considered adequate by a high school history class. It's the only reason citogenesis happens on Wikipedia.

kurtisc··on Résumés Are Starting to Look Like Instagram, and Sometimes Even Tinder
That guideline doesn't exist everywhere. You may just be seeing CVs from non-UK applicants.
kurtisc··on Uber, losing billions, freezes engineering hires
This seems based on the assertion that people are only using Uber because it's cheaper which, as far as I can tell, is completely unfounded.
kurtisc··on TV detector van
The radio stations are free from commercial adverts but they're bound by the same logistical problems as other radio stations, meaning a decent proportion of airtime is listening to the same adverts for other BBC radio shows over and over.
kurtisc··on The Washington Post's bestseller lists have been wrong
If it's on a bestseller list, it's already discovered. It's also going to be pushed by every book retailer.
kurtisc··on New York City to Consider Banning Sale of Cellphone Location Data
They are voters, it's proposed legislation. Blame editors for using headlines like these.
kurtisc··on Art's sale value? Zero. The tax bill? $29M
I disagree. Markets react to election results.
kurtisc··on Art's sale value? Zero. The tax bill? $29M
They couldn't sell it currently, if the law changes in the future (or if it can be moved to another jurisdiction) then it could be sold for a non-zero value.
kurtisc··on At what time of day do famous programmers work?
I've been meaning to do something very similar to this for a while to see what hours people at large tech companies are committing at
kurtisc··on Alan Turing to feature on new £50 note
Winston Churchill is on the £5 and he was and is controversial. Controversial in India, the Liberal party, the Conservative party, the Liberal party.
kurtisc··on Playing with a Raspberry Pi 4 64-bit
True but the newbies will slowly drift away from all the projects that don't want to split focus from aarch64.
kurtisc··on Playing with a Raspberry Pi 4 64-bit
Shortly after the Pi 4 was released I looked into it and found that, for the Pi 3 at least, the foundation weren't really interested. It essentially adds another distro for them to maintain. It's a shame.
kurtisc··on Zelda speedrunners are attacking the memory allocator
The Gamecube version of The Wind Waker
kurtisc··on PDP2011: A re-creation of the PDP-11 computer systems in VHDL
(In)famous for being 'middle-endian'

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Endianness#Middle-endian

kurtisc··on In Japan, a growing number of car-sharing users don’t rent cars for driving
For a horror screenplay
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