jamiecollinson (u/jamiecollinson)

jamiecollinson commented on The UK’s delta surge is collapsing nymag.com/intelligencer/2... · Posted by u/donohoe

lucb1e · 4 years ago

For anyone else not from the UK, ONS seems to be some official body doing some sort of, well, sampling.

Do you have a link to their current stats? I found this page[1] but it's not very accessible, not sure this is what you mean.

[1] https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/healthan...

jamiecollinson · 4 years ago

This is a more friendly presentation of the same data, though note there’s a lag in the ONS data as it’s from ongoing sampling rather than self reported tests. At time of writing this is up to 30 July (next update 6 August):

https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/healthan...

jamiecollinson commented on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (May 2021) · Posted by u/whoishiring

jamiecollinson · 4 years ago

iSDA | Head of Business Development | REMOTE / Africa | https://isda-africa.com

iSDA is a mission-driven company bringing advanced technologies to the small farm sector in Africa. We harness the market in order to reach millions of farmers, and use the best science to maximize profitability for our clients and their farmers. Our current focus is to prove our business models through delivery of fertilizer advisory for low-income farmers, intermediated by local agents and based on technologies we have tested in Kenya and Ghana: handheld spectral soil scanners, and iSDAsoil, the first farm-level soil map of Africa.

We are looking for someone with diverse experience and a track record in the African private sector, a strong entrepreneurial spirit, and a history of building new business opportunities to deliver on our mission to improve the profitability of small-scale farmers.

We're a remote-first team, the position is Africa-based and will involve extensive travel.

If you're interested please take a look at a more detailed job description at https://www.isda-africa.com/head-of-business-development/ or reach out with any questions.

jamiecollinson commented on Avoiding the Global Lobotomy meta-nomad.net/avoiding-t... · Posted by u/_fnhr

twic · 5 years ago

Who's James Mason?

jamiecollinson · 5 years ago

I can only assume this is a #MeToo reference as he was the male lead in Lolita - c.f. https://www.theguardian.com/film/2018/feb/16/times-finally-u...

jamiecollinson commented on Bullshit.js mourner.github.io/bullshi... · Posted by u/sandebert

ghettoimp · 6 years ago

Thanks, looks great. I need to get this hooked into Emacs!

jamiecollinson · 6 years ago

This may help :-)

  (flycheck-define-checker proselint
      "A linter for prose."
      :command ("proselint" source-inplace)
      :error-patterns
      ((warning line-start (file-name) ":" line ":" column ": "
                (id (one-or-more (not (any " "))))
                (message (one-or-more not-newline)
                         (zero-or-more "\n" (any " ") (one-or-more not-newline)))
              line-end))
      :modes (text-mode markdown-mode gfm-mode org-mode))

(More details in my config at https://jamiecollinson.com/blog/my-emacs-config/#syntax-chec...)

jamiecollinson commented on Some Were Meant for C (2017) [pdf] cs.kent.ac.uk/people/staf... · Posted by u/chauhankiran

e9 · 6 years ago

I would change it to: some were meant to c

jamiecollinson · 6 years ago

From the intro it's a reference to a song lyric (which I wasn't familiar with):

  While some were meant for sea, in tug-boats ’Round the shore’s knee,
  (Milling with the sand,
  and always coming back to land),
  For others, up above
  Is all they care to think of,
  Up there with the birds and clouds, and Words don’t follow.
  —Tiny Ruins, from “Priest with Balloons”