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Casio do have a tide watch, which presumably uses that algorithm:

https://www.greatwatches.co.uk/collections/men/products/casi...


*Isaac Asimov

Maybe a subtle nod to:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spell_My_Name_with_an_S ?


This is a wonderful game! If you don't have access to a country house library, then there is a card-based version:

https://oxfordgames.co.uk/shop/ex-libris/


I was told that a bank would not approve a transaction because the signature I had provided in a Word document was not similar enough to the one on file.

Helpfully, they provided me with a screenshot of the one they had on file... one copy and paste later and the problem was resolved.

One copy and paste


Langewiesche himself wrote about exactly this paradox in this (excellent) piece on the Air France 447 crash:

https://www.vanityfair.com/news/business/2014/10/air-france-...


The Serverless framework provides offline functionality (https://github.com/dherault/serverless-offline) to do this - I've found it works pretty well.


It’s also worth noting that he also describes the ‘primitive’ world and it’s awful. He was encouraging balance, not a rejection of one or the other.


When I was hitchhiking, people would say 'nobody hitchhikes anymore'. I'd point out that a good hitchhiker is in a car, not by the side of the road...


I wonder if you might compare this to Bonobo [https://www.bonobo-project.org/] which I think has similar design goals?


Pypeline is a library you use in your code while Bonobo seems to be a framework that use your code. I tend to think that you lose flexibility with the latter.


The majority (> 80%) are life peers, appointed in theory for being distinguished in their field. So yes, many experts among them. For example: https://www.parliament.uk/biographies/lords/lord-winston/177...


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