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I have found that my preferred purple track becomes more or less visible against brown roads depending on whether I view the screen through the top or bottom of my varifocals. Looking through the bottom (close focus) and the purple fades out. Looking through the top (distance but my handlebars now out of focus) and the purple is quite distinct. It is a progressive shift, not a step change. I think I might be able solve that particular problem with a different colour scheme.
Paragraph 2 makes my blood boil: if you're a programmer and you can't make your interface to the database work properly taking account of characters that have special meanings to your system, then you simply shouldn't be in your job. Changing the data to make your job easier is never the right answer.
Exactly what I said to my wife when I read this story! I have limited experience of coding databases in MySQL but even I know this. Even if it were genuinely necessary for the database, why should it require changing the street signs themselves? Absolutely nuts.
I don’t really care about the apostrophes but I do care about the lazy and idiotic programming.
Paragraph 2 makes my blood boil: if you're a programmer and you can't make your interface to the database work properly taking account of characters that have special meanings to your system, then you simply shouldn't be in your job. Changing the data to make your job easier is never the right answer.That's not https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/article/2024/may/05/north-yorkshire%27s-dropped-apostrophe-for-street-signs-upsets-residents, now, is it?
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/article/2024/may/05/north-yorkshires-dropped-apostrophe-for-street-signs-upsets-residents
Exactly.Total nonsense. 2 examples. Library provision in lowland Scotland, all built by empire returnees.
Cotton printing industry in Lancashire built on cheap imported cotton.
Your second point; the cotton was cheap because it was grown by slaves. The export market was greatly expedited by the destruction of local industries in the stolen countries. In particular, weaving in Bengal.
Beardy, not so sure about the cotton industry in Lancashire/Derbyshire. I understood it was local workers some of whom may well have been pushed off their land but still local. Happy to be corrected if you have a reference. I grew up in Lancashire/ Derbyshire and my father ran several cotton printing mills.
The main point though is that all of this is clearly available information.