One of the bigger problems was all the manure on the streets. I believe this is one of the reasons why there are stoops in New York, the steps up to brown stones.
Also there’s a dump site in New York called Dead Horse bay.
Now doubt there’s many people here who have been to New York, I’ve just seen YouTube videos about this.
Stoops in London? I’m guessing quite a few properties have steps up to the entrance. Going through YouTube videos of shooting locations of the Sweeney and it doesn’t seem that prevalent.
S for solidus (Latin again). The pound symbol £ is an L. The names are way older than grammar schools.
The way to write and "pronounce" a sum is like this: £2 3/6: "two pounds, three and six".
There are lots more "rules": 1d is a penny, 2d is tupence and 3d is thrupence, 1/2d is a ha'penny (pronounced something like "hayp-knee"). So 2 1/2d = tuppence, ha'penny.
For good measure you also have terms such as: "ha'perth" (half penny worth). So: "For want of a ha'perth of tar, the ship was lost" which is what your ISO9000 system should be all about.
Well traditionally a price might also be said as "two and six" or so. I believe written as just 2/6 as you put it. A £ was a lot so guess didn't see most of the time.
“ The wrecks in the Royal Port were discovered through a new high-resolution sonar survey of the seabed. This produced enormous quantities of data that was fed into a machine learning algorithm trained to recognise the “signatures” of shipwrecks. The initial results were promising, with excavations on targets generated by the algorithm revealing a small boat and a 30m-long merchant ship. “
Any tips on how machine learning can be used to find hints of sunken ships from sonar images?
“ There are so many generational differences. Neighbours were saying: ‘I did hear a noise but the chap behind me is always beating his wife so I just thought it was that.’” “
This is really a great point to make - people, so many people say nothing is better today - but if you know the past, and have heard the tales of yesterday, you know better. This is a great example of that.
We've got a kinder more verdant world than our grandparents grew up in, better than our parents, and if we do everything we can, hopefully our children will have a better one yet.
Having had to wait a few months to work on a project I realised I had been thinking it through in much depth for so long.
Once I was able to get some time in Windsurf I churned through my ideas in 2 hours.
It’s a bit weird, normally at the end I would regret having procrastinated for several days in total, it’s quite dizzying.
As a spike I had free range, but I am starting to wonder just how much decisions and approval for clearance to use tech can strangle the exhilaration of doing things.
Maybe it would go back to being underground, for people who aren’t so adept at reasoning.
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