😼 mogge

A thought I had this weekend: Would the election result have been different if that dreadful fire had been one/two weeks earlier?

this channel should be renamed to politics-uk 🙂

😂

“we should all stop already with our silly spellings and switch to using the IPA ” <-- THIS

imagine being able to read foreign languages (even if you didn’t understand them)

(we should probably write all programming languages in AST too, then Lisp wouldn’t seem so foreign)

the barrier to entry would be too high most likely

people are lazy i find, so they will just shorten words whenever possible

(not that being lazy is bad, its just an observation)

that doesn’t have to a be a problem for phonetic spelling - you just change the spelling

but can you still shorten phonetic spelling for text speak for example

and historical or regional texts would become a record not just of what was said, but also of the accent used

Sorry to see another attack on innocent ppl in London early this morning.

😞

On a lighter note, my youngest daughter is laughing at me because I'm heading back down to London and it's going to hit 33°C whereas peak temp up here is only 26

yeah its lovely here today

at least its much windier

yesterday was so hot and no wind either

we went to the beach yesterday (late) evening and I even managed to get a little bit of sunburn.

impressive

yeah... we got there just before 5 and 1.5 hours later my face was quite red according to my wive... but today no problems.

Anyone else read the new Clojure characters page ...I learned something I didn't know... namespace map syntax https://clojure.org/guides/weird_characters

it's only available in 1.9 alphas

not in any stable release yet

@bronsa I saw that

goes hand in hand with the namespaced keys destructuring

(let [#:foo{:keys [a b c]} #:foo{:a 1 :b 2 :c 3}] [a b c])

Yeah, that's really useful. We had a talk in http://Style.com about the difficulty of namespaced key destructuring without this

Hello All - Greetings from The Trossachs...

hi

@maleghast I think you can get an ointment for that

@otfrom Hahahaha 🙂

sorry, easy jokes are easy

@otfrom Not a problem - really did make me laugh... Things happen slowly in The Glens - we won't have our own internet connection until Weds / Thurs

don't worry @maleghast we'll send you updates via telegram 😉

Splendid @thomas thanks awfully 🙂

@maleghast is that where you've ended up since you've moved back to the UK?

got a google maps link?

@otfrom It is, yes! 🙂

We're going to live up here and I will be down in London a couple of days each week, most but not all weeks.

One sec, will send you a map...

how are you managing to be in London?

flights? sleeper? where are you staying when you are here?

Going to fly down on Sunday evenings, fly back on Wednesdays. Currently using AirBnB for "Private Rooms" (very reasonable in the main)

how have you found the private rooms? I've heard various reports (from OK to weird)

I've been very careful, but so far I've had great experiences

Have a list of "safe" places, and I am going to try and re-use them as much as possible...

When I have a better internet connection available I will try to let you know who the good ones I've experienced are, if you're interested..?

I've had some that were really good, one lady that I stayed with a couple of weeks in a row and we'd end up having breakfast & dinner together. Which was nice. Then others are just strange, like the guy who refused to give me a front door key, which meant I always needed to ensure that he was in before returning and then complained about me using a hairdryer at 8am

o_O

@alexsays - The former sounds lovely - I had breakfast with my host trip before last, she was a lovely lady, a retired teacher - but the latter sounds like the kind of "weird" I've bee warned about... 😉

@maleghast watch that traveling...it'll kill you, take it from me! Traveling Sunday is probably a good idea. Only reason I don't is I'd only be at home less than 2 days if I did!