Re: 4 Day Week
In the 1970s, though, you worked for three days and were paid for three days. I'm only just breaking even being paid for five days.
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In Hong Kong (when I lived there) you could buy a ticket that lasted until you had used up the value of the ticket. Sorta like buying a ten-pound note for eight pounds. Also, when you got to the last few cents, that was good for any journey, so I used to save up cards with a couple of cents left on, and then use them for the longest journey I needed. :)
British postal addresses are particularly variable and therefore difficult.
Do you mean postcodes? They're not. One or two letters, number 0-99, possible additional letter, space, digit-letter-letter. And the outward code is human-readable and so has a built-in error trigger.
If you mean the whole address - well, that's the same the whole world over. The Caravan, The Farm Annex, Tom's Farm, Warren Farm Lane, Flyde Moor, Heskthorpe, XY0 0XZ
Similarly leading zeros: Folio 0020
Stings of digits with an 'E' in them: product code 12E3
Long strings of digits: Source ID: 12345678901234
Slashes with digits: house number: 12/13
Things that look like dates. serialnum: 01DEC
The work-around around work-around around work-arounds I've had to go to. It's. A. String. Ooooo, it looks like a number. NO. IT'S. A. STRING!
A common method is a sliding window, eg $thisyear-60 to $thisyear+40 assuming more dates in the past are going to be manually typed in. (Because most of the dates my code flings around go into file stamps, I use 1980-2079.)
But really, the solution is for the software to scream at the user and refuse to accept manually typed two-digit years.
If the goals are so hard to reach, abandon them.
As with everything in life, you have to balance costs and benefits. The costs of having children are HORRENDOUS, yet, in the face of such evidence people keep on making them, so the benefits must outweight the costs.
If the cost of spending seven times as much effort abolishing modern civilisation is worse than the cost of not doing so, then don't do it.
Which is the greater benefit? Not shivering in medival hovels, or preventing Norfolk from flooding?
"Now our global boss is pushing that we should have equal numbers of genders and colours."
While you may not have meant to write it that way, that is some of the moronic idiocy that's being pushed.
There's only 20% of black actors on the telly! We must have more!
Why? Only 5% of the population is black.
NO! We must have equal black, and equal indian, and equal chinese, and equal elbonian, and equal etc... And there are 66 difference genders, so the workforce must be equally 1/66th each gender.
But the "forced change" required is to force women to enter engineering professions against their personal preference? Isn't that some sort of human rights offence? We call it conscription when it's the military. Historically, that sort of thing has also been called serfdom and slavery.
If we had coal mines, we wouldn't have any coal miners, it would all be machine-mined. Close to all the "easy" hand-mineable coal has been mined, what remains is super-deep coal that hasn't been mined because it was too deep for human miners, and previously there a) wasn't the technology to get it and b) we had plenty of human-mineable coal to get.
Ditto - I picked everything up from the depot, and then went to a service station, bought a cup of tea, and spread out a route atlas (remember them, y'know, paper) so I could see all of the North East in one glance, and plan my route. Add on some cross-checking with online streetmaps for the final hundred yards (which of these lines is Acacia Crescent, and which end is number 1?), sort my delivery sheets in my order, and off I went.
It was a temporary summer job, and when it got to trying to do Huddersfield/Hull/Harrogate all before 5pm I was glad to leave.
the five top ranked countries ... are all either very small or islands
They don't have the Western Hebridies, Shetland, and the North York Moors to wire up. Having a significant chunk of your country sparsly populated wildernesses isn't going to help push you up the connectivity ranks. I remember in Sheffield - a city of more than half a million people - 20 years ago there were still some houses so isolated that they had a night soil collection.
And... technology is giving us screens that are wider and wider. What shall we do? I know, let's use up loads and loads of the up/down screen estate!
Some of the document working I now do it's like looking through a letterbox - and it even inflicts websites, with a fixed, immovable, irremovable banner across the top of the screen.
They even break file formats.
I've just had to spend quite some time digging into the exact hows of how MSWord renders RTF files in different versions (programmatically generated data, worked fine for 20 years, identical files flow from column to column, page to page differently, which is a right bugger when the content is columnar data), and dig into the how of getting it to stop it.
Agreed. I've tidied my Start menu to be almost consistanly one level deep, except for Programs -> Office -> MSOffice, Programs -> Office -> OpenOffice and Programs -> Office -> LibreOffice, and various "helper" stuff, for instance Programs -> Programming -> Vinculum (program) and Programs -> Programing -> Vinculum Support (folder)
There were things I could do under the hood in XP that were a LOT more difficult to do in Win7, and virtually impossible/impossible in WIn10.
Proper full screen. mode con cols=80 lines=25, runs as full screen should give me EIGHTY BLOODY COLUMNS AND 25 BLOODY LINES!!!! This is (one of the many) reasons I keep my XP installation going for connecting to remote machines like my PDPs 'n' stuff.