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Simon Wright

@simonjohnw.bsky.social
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Ada programmer, retired but still at it, on Mac. At the other place,I was a "Deeply unhelpful cave-dwelling liberal-elite filthy remoaner citizen of nowhere. Moralising cog in an engine of evil." github.com/simonjwright

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Simon Wright @simonjohnw.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
Both are used.
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Simon Wright @simonjohnw.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
Could it be Big Sugar? or just "here's a target, let's shoot at it"
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Simon Wright @simonjohnw.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
Better if all sports were banned to a different channel. Especially football.
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Simon Wright @simonjohnw.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
The image that came into my head was Charles I - now that would have been some letter! with added warnings
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Simon Wright @simonjohnw.bsky.social · 09/02/2025
Is there an international award for The Most Undiscoverable API?
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James O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social · 02/02/2025
Hope it’s a negotiating tactic. Fear it’s just bloody stupid.
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Ennius @enniusredloeb.bsky.social · 18/01/2025
A punch & judy show in the margin Bodleian Library MS. Bodl. 264; Romance of Alexander; 1338 CE–1344 CE; Flanders; f.54v @bodleianlibraries.bsky.social
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Simon Wright @simonjohnw.bsky.social · 10/01/2025
... actually, it was fortune.com
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Simon Wright @simonjohnw.bsky.social · 10/01/2025
@remike.bsky.social 's command of English seems pretty good to me. 'Sum of water' is not at all idiomatic.
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Simon Wright @simonjohnw.bsky.social · 04/01/2025
@ohgodwhatnow.bsky.social My daughter gifted me a sub but I couldn’t claim it because I was already a member, so (absent any obvious way to contact you) I cancelled my existing membership; still can’t claim the gift!!! What was I supposed to do? What can you do to help?
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Simon Wright @simonjohnw.bsky.social · 15/12/2024
Two-column layout is a Bad Idea for documents that are to be viewed on the web
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Simon Wright @simonjohnw.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
... has risen by a factor of 10
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Simon Wright @simonjohnw.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
I’m saving my copy up for the holidays
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Simon Wright @simonjohnw.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
Today would have been the 209th birthday of Augusta Ada, Countess of Lovelace
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Simon Wright @simonjohnw.bsky.social · 24/11/2024
Pipp & Co’s doughnuts at Stroud Farmers’ Marked on Saturdays. We like the mixed berry sort - you do have to be careful not to get jam squirted on your clothes!
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Simon Wright @simonjohnw.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
Why is it that people post the headline three times? and nothing else? Looks like incompetence
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Simon Wright @simonjohnw.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
We used to have a copy of this, long gone to dust :-(
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Simon Wright @simonjohnw.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
Have been looking at Unicode Normalization Forms (www.unicode.org/reports/tr15...). O. M. G.
unicode.org
UAX #15: Unicode Normalization Forms
Specifies the Unicode Normalization Formats
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Simon Wright @simonjohnw.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
Like the possibly apocryphal comment 'you are not meant to understand this'
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Simon Wright @simonjohnw.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
I didn't listen to the whole thing, but it felt shouty. And C hadn't started shouting when I left. It's like living in your parent's mansion with little income: come IHT you'll need to sell up
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Simon Wright @simonjohnw.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
J O’B was talking (shouting) over his comments and not making the slightest attempt to understand what his point was. It may or may not have been a good point, and there might be counter-arguments. It would have been good to have had a discussion rather than a flat-out rejection.
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Simon Wright @simonjohnw.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
In this case, Charlie is quite right
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Simon Wright @simonjohnw.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
Continuing to live on the farm might well count as benefiting from the trust, depending I guess on how clever your lawyers were (relative to HMRC's lawyers, ofc). The taper element does apply if the gift to the trust was above the IHT threshold. Listen to me sounding as though I was an expert :-(
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Simon Wright @simonjohnw.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
A settlor (the person who gave the property to the trust) can be a trustee, but can't be a beneficiary.
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Simon Wright @simonjohnw.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
That happens at the other place, too.
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Simon Wright @simonjohnw.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
The settlor can't be a beneficiary. And, unless rules are different for farms, the 7-year rule applies.
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Simon Wright @simonjohnw.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
But I’ve only been here for a couple of days ...
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Simon Wright @simonjohnw.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
Including mine, @simonforstroud.bsky.social
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Simon Wright @simonjohnw.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
oops, Alexander *Wilson* Flett
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Simon Wright @simonjohnw.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
My mother, with her brother Alexander William Flett, before her wedding on 14 November 1944. Yesterday would have been her 105th bitrthday.
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Simon Wright @simonjohnw.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
Tautology of the day
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Simon Wright @simonjohnw.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
Make is worse, *requiring* tabs.
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