igitur

When I saw the headline I immediately thought that TigerData is somehow related to the TigerBeetle.

I'm waiting for the NY Times to sue this one too.[1]

[1] https://apnews.com/article/new-york-times-wordle-clones-take...

Long time user of HeidiSQL here. I respect the author a lot. He's been tirelessly working on this project for many years, mostly alone. Of course, that's due to the closed nature of Delphi.

It's great news that this is now available for Linux, but the better news for me is that I can now build it on Lazarus / FreePascal. Even if it doesn't support all the features (eg MSSQL), at least I can now contribute fixes for some UI issues that have been bothering me.

I can successfully build the FreePascal version on Windows and it runs... fine. Feels a little less snappy than the Delphi version and there are some UI padding issues. But it's a massive step in the right direction.

If you can, please support this project, either financially or through code. contributions. IHMO what is dearly needed is for the different SQL dialects to be abstracted out properly. It's currently done in a bit of a crude way (no disrespect to the author) and it will require a big refactoring to get it right, but will open doors to more dialects.

I assume you're referring to Cape Talk 567 [1], which broadcasts on 567 kHz AM/MW in the Cape Town region. I also enjoy it, although the late night political debates can become tiring. It has a sister talk radio station in Gauteng, Radio 702 [2]. Both are owned by Primedia.

[1] https://www.primediaplus.com/station/capetalk [2] https://www.primediaplus.com/station/702

I run ultramarathons and whether true or not, we sometimes joke about this. We'd say that the typical Springbok would fall down from exhaustion after 30 km and that's why we runners hit that metaphorical wall after 31 km; we evolved because we needed to outrun the gazelle by only a bit. From there on, it's a tough grind to complete the race.

Very tongue-in-cheek, but too good of a story not to tell.

In that notice, they claim:

We have given the owner a chance to remove all references to Wordle and alter his code to not infringe The Times’s copyright, but he has doubled down on knocking off The Times’s copyrighted content.

This is just false. The owner of the original Reactle repo (now deleted) was never contacted previously.

I know a site that does this, except they run their own SMTP server that sometimes blocks up, so the emails never arrive.

Depends on which part of South Africa you're referring to. Cape Town (Western Cape) had a much publicised drought 2015-2018 [1], but that's been broken. This drought was partial attributed to El Niño.

At the moment dams in the Eastern Cape are empty [2]. My mother's taps in Gqeberha are on a trickle only. No idea whether (El|La) Niñ[ao] is responsible here, but maladministration of available water has also been mentioned.

In summary, in ZA we look forward to La Niña, so this article is good news for us.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cape_Town_water_crisis

2. https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2022/06/19/south-africa...

In South Africa La Niña is also associated with a wetter season and El Niño with a dryer season.

I'm a decent leg spin bowler, but I'm a terrible batsman. I know a big reason is that I don't watch the ball after the bounce. I didn't learn the skill as a child and I find it very difficult to learn as an adult.

When I do force myself to watch the ball onto the bat, my head position lags and it throws my balance off, resulting in worse shots.

I'm quite sure he knew what would happen if he didn't accept it. I would rejoin the queue and use another counter.

Similar issue at our version of the DMV, the Traffic Department.

Had to provide proof of address and the only thing I had was the rental agreement with my landlord. But the copy I had was signed by me, but not countersigned by my landlord.

The clerk didn't want to accept it. I told him I could just walk out and fake a signature. He said that's OK and that he isn't a policeman. So I countersigned it in front of him. He paused and then accepted it.

That's just how it's _spelt_ in the UK.

But this is why it's somewhat dangerous to infer tone from text without knowing more about the context.

Might I suggest https://12ft.io for you?

I'm a student at the Actuarial Society of South Africa. I have been for the past 20 years. This demo question, while not easy for a non-technical person, should be a piece of cake for someone who has completed the initial few technical subjects of the curriculum, the core technical series of subjects. I actually think any numerical calculation isn't a very good example or benchmark of what a good actuary should know or be.

Most students who start Actuarial Science here are mathematically strong and getting through the technical subjects just needs dedication to study and know the numerical theories and proofs.

It's the latter subjects that are the really difficult ones. They are wordy questions and answers. The exams don't necessarily exclude numerical calculations, but if calculations occur, it will be relatively simple (compared to the initial subjects). Exams of the final subjects require you to think out of the box and questions often involve areas that weren't included in the subject's literature. You are expected to apply your knowledge of earlier subjects to a novel scenario and propose solutions that you can't study for ahead of the exam. You can practise using past exam papers, but your exam is guaranteed to throw you a real curveball.

Example: F202 LIFE INSURANCE SPECIALIST APPLICATIONS

November 2021 Exam [1]

November 2021 Examiner's Report [2]

And this is the test of a true actuary. Is he/she a problem solver and not just a number cruncher? (It's also why I haven't been able to qualified yet.)

I remember in my first year at university a professor claimed that the actuarial science curriculum is like initially learning the basics of the decimal number system. 10 digits, 0 to 9, carry over or borrow digits from the neighbouring power of 10. 0 is a placeholder, etc. Then, in your final exam, you see a question: Design an abacus. You have all the knowledge, but now you have to apply it.

We all thought he was exaggerating to scare us. 20 years later, I'm totally on board with him. It was a realistic analogy.

[1] https://www.actuarialsociety.org.za/download/f202-november-2...

[2] https://www.actuarialsociety.org.za/download/f202-november-2...

Ah, thanks. Then I misremembered my high school chemistry from 25y ago. I thought rust (the verb) is oxidation and that when you add an acid, it would be reduction (to get back the iron).

Does that mean if you have acid rain, it reduces back to iron?

The red-brown of South Africa (and I guess Argentina and Australia too) are basically midway points of their lush green regions and dry desert regions.

South Africa is as green as neighbouring Eswatini (formerly Swaziland) in the east and south coast and almost as arid as the Namib desert in the far north west.

I suppose that's stating the obvious but still interesting. And could probably add some comment about how this shows the dangers of averages of any heterogeneous data.

Fantastic. Thanks for the quick addition.

Absolutely love this. Thanks so much.

Is there a way to stream this playlist to my Kodi box. Maybe with an m3u file?

Shovel, a fork of scoop, is being maintained however. https://github.com/Ash258/Scoop-Core

I had a similar problem recently, but it was self-inflicted.

Try changing the status of the "Beta: Use Unicode UTF-8 for worldwide language support" checkbox.

You can see this option by going to Settings and then: All Settings -> Time & Language -> Language -> "Administrative Language Settings"

Every event-driven architectural pattern I've read about can quite easily fall apart and I have yet to find satisfying answers on what to do when things go south.

Just a kind request from someone living in the southern hemisphere not to use "south" as a synonym for "bad" or "fail".

I'm a quantitative finance / actuarial programmer. I've flipflopped between the programming and business side a few times in my life. At one stage I was in the Actuarial Valuations team, responsible for the periodic valuation of a set of life insurance books. Timelines were very tight, input data was a mess, the products themselves were complex. This wasn't easy stuff. During valuation time all of us were on edge.

But for some reason, being interrupted then didn't cause nearly as much damage to my mental house of cards as they do now, where my day job involves translating messy actuarial spreadsheets to code.

I can't put my finger on it. Both tasks were complex. Maybe the fact that actuarial valuations (like most financial roles) are based on spreadsheets and you have a visual model right in front of you, or accessible within a few clicks. I think that relieves some pressure on the mental model.

Programming, on the other side, even with all the IDE tools like a watch list and call stack, seems to require a larger mental stack, given the same complexity in another field.

Side note: work from home has been a dream come true in terms of the disappeance of interruptions. But I do miss the coffee breaks with colleagues (or what others would call water cooler conversations).

In general, genetic differentiation in populations of India is low (0.26-1.7%), but overall genetic differentiation in 18 mixed populations of India is higher (2.23%), similar to the largest single study on 16 tribal groups from central India (2.18%).

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/8908794/

This is exactly why I despise it when I people say "things go south" then they mean "get worse" or "north of" when they mean "better".

I'm now in the habit of typing the opening backtick, ctrl+shift+v to paste some line of code, then having to WAIT a second or 2 and then type the second backtick. That usually formats it correctly. But I'm also very quick on the backspace and retyping the closing backtick, which is sometimes necessary.

Starting a new chat with someone in your organisation that you haven't chatted to is also annoyingly slow. This one I keep forgetting. So I search their name in the search bar, choose the hit from the dropdown and immediately start typing, only to notice that my initials 10 keystrokes didn't register, because the new chat was still initialising.

I'm curious, do you touch type? I'm also at about 100wpm, but only thanks to learning to touch type.

Do you have a link to the other channel? Thanks

Not really. Currently watching a good cricket game. Take it or leave it.

The experience of Sea Witch, a yacht, in traversing the Suez Canal might give some context on this big brother version.

http://www.sailsafely.com/suez_canal.htm