@proactivepaul I used to work in Cannon St. I was on a project that used the Post Office Address File when I discovered that the postcode we had printed on all our official material and business cards was in fact the postcode of the wine bar next door.
I am reading an article about how every time ancient art depicts a goddess as sexually alluring, they always get labeled a "goddess of fertility". Even when there is no indication of children, pregnancy, or anything fertile.
The article argues that some goddesses were deities of sex and pleasure, without the maternal fertility aspect.
I am like 🤯 🤯 I have a whole entire archaeology degree and we never addressed this...
@TarkabarkaHolgy do you mean that in 2000 years, you'll have archaeologists looking through the remains of red light districts going: "so they had all those shops dedicated to fertility gods and godesses"?
I just found out about the SQlite code of ethics, and now I'm feeling bad about ever recommending that database to anyone. https://www.sqlite.org/codeofethics.html
EDIT: this is a gag, I know you don't have to follow this to use it, I just find it impossibly cringe (and not the bad-good kind of cringe) to find this sitting like a turd in the middle of my favorite solve for SQL DB problems.
I just wish you could complete laundry, like one day you have done Sufficient Laundry and never need to do it again, everything just reappears clean, dry and folded. Surely that isn't too much to ask.
#TradeUnion stats are out this week, and there’s some new detail on membership density by age group, so I’ve been able to do some rough estimates of the time-varying age profile of the UK #union movement…
This isn’t quite the story we’re in the habit of telling ourselves!
We all know we have a problem bringing young workers into unions, right? Well… yes: density is indeed lowest among the youngest brackets of the workforce - that’s true (and for reasons not simply to do with age)…
@drandrewv2 could that be related to the rise of white collar workers in the service economy? People who don't think they need a union despite being at the bottom of the ladder because they work in an office rather than a factory?
Honest question: I measure gases as a career, and I’m always fixing leaks in my instruments*. How do people who push #hydrogen as a home heating solution propose to avoid catastrophic leaks?
*I use Swagelok fittings, the same ones used on airplanes and in industrial settings.
@fmarini@uoou@davidho considering that the main way we detect gas leaks in residential settings today is by smelling it and calling the gas line, using a gas that leaks more easily and is odourless seems suboptimal 🤔
Great news for iPhone (and Apple Watch) users: the latest iOS update now allows you to use the device as a 🇫🇷 Paris Navigo Pass - no need for a physical card, especially handy for those just arriving (last month there was a 45-minute queue for the card machines at the Gare du Nord...)
@burger_jaap yep, main downside of only checking the ticket on entry rather than entry + exit as London does: it makes it difficult to implement distance based pricing as needed by the RER.
@burger_jaap indeed but you need to know when the ticket has been "consumed". There's no way to differentiate between a RER ticket or a single metro ticket being consumed when you enter the network in the central zone, where both are valid, unless you scan on exit too.
@burger_jaap yes, that's the use case I had in mind as it's mine: regular visitor to Paris who sometimes need to take the RER. Time limited passes don't make sense as I'm here a few days at a time so I always have a bunch of single tickets on my Navigo. Considering Paris is in the top 10 most visited cities in the world, it's possible that this use case is significant enough to make Navigo RER tickets difficult.
Any chance any of you have a favorite open source way of mapping and cataloging trees? I don't think I need a lot of bells and whistles but would like to have a journal of maintenance for each tree.
@djsundog I'm trying to do the same for our community orchard. For now it's a spreadsheet and records in OpenStreetMap but I'd like to improve the process and make the data entry usable by non technical volunteers.