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The Library of Congress very generously provides a scan of the Paul Carus translation [1].

The transliteration of the Tao starts on page 159 and consists of columns of the characters each with a literal meaning and occasional comments by the translator. I found the first few chapters in that presentation very interesting, like a kind of puzzle (I don't read Chinese to any extent at all).

[1] https://www.loc.gov/item/34009062/


"In England, by law children are to be taught about the Holocaust as part of the Key Stage 3 History curriculum; in fact, the Holocaust is the only historical event whose study is compulsory on the National Curriculum. This usually occurs in Year 9 (age 13-14)."

https://www.het.org.uk/about/holocaust-education-uk

So not Province of Northern Ireland, Scotland or Wales. Note that WW2 is not a statutory requirement in any of the key stages although it does feature in the examples (which are non-statutory). And a reminder that history is a required subject only to Key Stage 3, so many students won't take it after they are 14 and won't study for an exam.

Reporting on education in the UK does tend to be rage-baity and most situations are more complex when you look at them a bit closer.

(I have never taught history and never taught in the school sector)


It is, indeed, impressively fast. The results seem to be sorted by first name of author. Is that a deliberate choice?

Which Thinkpad model is that?

A quick Web search shows examples from more recent models with any OS.


This was a ThinkPad X1 Carbon (4th Gen).

TIL I learned about coffee-badging[1].

Sounds like, oddly enough, eighteenth century London when coffee houses provided venues for business transactions. People (ok men of the right class) toddled around visiting various offices and patronising coffee houses. Everyone knew the players. [2][3]

I think this might be a good development. Meet to drink beverage and achieve 'common understanding' in the sense of the Royal Navy. Then disperse to various private locations to actually carry out the tasks. Would suit a '15 minute' city layout very well.

[1] https://www.peoplemanagement.co.uk/article/1864443/buzz-phra...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_coffeehouses_in_the_17...

[3] https://www.layersoflondon.org/map/records/virginia-and-balt...


The parakeets have reached Birmingham as well. Often seen in Canon Hill park, Highbury park or Yardley Old Village around the church. Always brightens my day.

https://www.paradiseroad.co.uk/the-parakeeting-of-london-an-...


Also on Wikimedia at various resolutions

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Michelangelo_Buonarroti_-...

I've cropped that little blue sailing ship at the bottom of the canvas to make a wallpaper.


In my case I have an old Thinkpad that is chugging on reliably into its third decade soon, that ran XP when it left the factory. Newer linuxes don't work too well (accelerated graphics components such as mesa have accelerated beyond the hardware's capabilities) and the BSDs are a little spartan (very little software for i386 now for understandable reasons).

So I'm thinking of putting an XP install back on the thing with my licenced MS Office 2000 and a few other bits and pieces of software just for retro fun, and a reminder about how things were 20 years or so ago to avoid the rose tinted glasses effect.


Perhaps a rough look-up table for (say) each 10 degrees of azimuth around the observing point that gives the altitude to solve for? Finally a couple of iterations to find what azimuth the Sun will be nearer the actual setting time, perhaps taking the 'flat horizon' setting time as a starting value?

https://stjarnhimlen.se/comp/riset.html#2

I live in a street that faces roughly north/south so we get an early dusk at this time of year in the front room. I feel a spreadsheet coming on...


Does Sweden not have the equivalent of the UK's civil contingency act?

Section 2 basically allows the Westminster government to make regulations as they see fit during an emergency, but with a short time scale (like a month or so) before parliament gets a say.


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