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For England as well, assuming a conservative definition like: Norman or later, mortared stone construction with remaining walls at least 4m high, not something like a fortified farm house for a single family. If you include Iron Age hill forts, the number becomes absurd.

Just checked, and it's gone from the list. Did you happen to find out what the problem was?

Firstly, I'm not intending any slight on you personally! In fact this might be more of an issue for you interacting with the site than for people just reading an article.

There are multiple versions of the list. The authoritative site appears to be https://github.com/hagezi/dns-blocklists, and making a fairly random choice, I used the "medium" version of the "Threat intelligence feed", and specifically the one marked "Link" for AdBlock. That took me to https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/gh/hagezi/dns-blocklists@latest/adb..., and manualmeida.dev does appear in that list.

The software I'm using is Little Snitch on a Mac, but since the entry is in the list, that's not the problem.

My system is blocking that site as it is on the HaGeZi blocklist. I don't have any further information, and I'm not expressing an opinion on the site. An alternative might be https://noiselang.com, which is not on the blocklist.

They have, but antiquity is not necessarily a good argument. I attended a university which required examinees to wear a black suit, white bow tie, bands, and a gown. I don't recommend it.

But this is missing the point. The issue is not that people in general can't write by hand for hours, but that these particular people may have difficulty.

Nothing to do with weight. It's a cramp in the muscles of the hand from holding the pen and making fine movements for hours. I'm guessing you are from a generation after keyboard use became common, so you haven't encountered it.

I'm 60+. I'd be more concerned about the student's physical ability to write for several hours continuously. Writer's cramp used to be a problem, and that was when we were used to hand-writing everything. Legibility is also a consideration: I have to hand-write a lot(keyboards would not be socially acceptable for some of my work), and even with decades of practice and a hand that I designed for legibility, sometimes I have difficulty reading my own writing.

81k - which is interesting, because last time I did something similar, about 20y back, it was 50k. I'm not sure if I've improved.

Yes - a very marked step rather than a gradual increase, I thought.

It's probably more meaningful to force a guess, since you may guess on the basis of word elements that you do know. At worst, it's possible to compensate for a 25% chance of getting the right word by chance.

Yup, and I suspect that even if OP is honest in this respect, if proof-of-work gets established as a normal practice for web pages, it's going to be used this way.

But just taking this as-is, what is the environmental impact likely to be when multiplied up by the number of users? Proof of work is a bad idea.

Different species, similar niche. Highland cows are a breed of small cow bred to thrive in the rough conditions of the Highlands of Scotland, but sometimes kept in England for interest. Very hairy, and placid enough that they are always allowed to keep their horns. Yaks are a small domesticated bovid bred to thrive in the Himalayas. Very hairy, and apparently placid enough to ride.

And if those requirements include the need to supply passport information, that's a reason not to host in Germany.

Credit card is a largely fixed risk of financial loss, with some legal safeguards for recovery, and the ability to get a replacement card with a different number. Passport carries an open long-term risk of impersonation and you can't just get a new passport because some company has a copy. Just the financial side of that risk can have much greater impact. Unless a company has a legal requirement to "know your customer", e.g. a financial institution, this is a red flag.

Or English has only two tenses (present and past perfect) and everything else is done with modifiers.

This happened with more than one letter. For instance the Scots language had a letter yogh (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yogh), which was written somewhat like a rounded "3" but lower on the line. Early printers had only the characters of the English language, and since this character looked like a hand-written z, that is what they used in its place. Hence the name "Menzies" is pronounced "Ming-is", since that isn't actually a z.

Welsh suffered more: it used to be full of "k"s. When the first Welsh Bible was printed, the English printer did not have enough "k"s, and substituted "c", and the language now does not use "k" at all. Apparently the printer's note on the matter still exists.

I'd say the last versions of CP/M for the Z80 - particularly on the Amstrad CPC128, PCW256 and PCW256. We had a whole lab using PCWs as standard equipment, including one sitting at a 3000V DC offset in a perspex cage (controlling part of a C14 accelerator). CP/M 3.0 did bank-switched memory, so the graphics were switched out and you could copy the user-space utilities in to a RAM disk on startup. It was reasonably easy to write RSXs (analogous to TSRs on MS/DOS), which can be handy on a single-tasking OS.

DR-DOS (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DR-DOS) was reasonably popular, and was a derivative of CP/M-86. I never saw the original OS in the wild, though.

UK: ours usually have a thin serrated metal edge.

This doesn't look like anything to do with tax. You would definitely need to cover it in the normal tax return in addition to this.

I really wish the ferry over to Norway still ran, but the one I just missed by a couple of years ran from Denmark up to Shetland, then to Faroe and Iceland. I had wanted to ride up to Shetland and then take the bike up further. I think you can still do it as a foot passenger, but there is no vehicle service.

Well, I certainly didn't make them up. But it was common to follow a reference and find that there was no paper on the other end.

In physics, references which just didn't exist. That could be that the author made it up, but often it's because they transcribed the reference from another paper without reading it - we know because a few people have deliberately introduced fake references to trace how far they would go. The reasons are not the same as for AI, but the problem they produce is the same.

References which don't accurately reflect the quoted material seem more common in other subjects.

It's not just AI, though. I did a doctorate in physics about 40 years back, and bad references were a problem back then.

Not nasal demons in this case (https://groups.google.com/g/comp.std.c/c/ycpVKxTZkgw/m/S2hHd...): thaumasiotes shows that we can expect a numeric answer.

I've found that in Italy (at least Milan and Turin), not making eye contact is key.

I am still trying to forget setting up sendmail.cf in that era.

Just looking back, we were using the hybrid ".uucp" pseudo domain in 1995, e.g. see the contact details for the third author on this papes: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/2291331_Beyond_Hack... (not me, a colleague). For those who don't recognise this, .uucp was an unofficial "TLD" used for UUCP-based email systems accessible via an Internet relay by a dial-up modem. The relay would rewrite jlc@bmtech.uucp to bmtech!jlc, a short UUCP bang-path email address.

We could have had a world without spam

You might have had an American walled garden, but I don't see this being accepted internationally.

Could you explain the bit about "all NaNs are equivalent"? IEEE requires that NaN ≠ NaN, but I suspect that I am just misunderstanding what you mean.