Personal blog of Mark Amery
Modal negation An odd thing about modal (and "semi-modal") verbs in English that is natural to native speakers but completely illogical: sometimes putting "not" after the modal verb negates the modal verb itself, and other times it negates the main verb. For instance, consider these sentences:
Here is a point I only figured out recently, that I have rarely seen anyone explicitly make, and that I suspect the vast majority of normal people with savings and investments are completely unaware of: if you live in the UK, and you pay at least basic rate income tax
My plan: multiple times a week, post something interesting I learn or do get comments enabled on this blog get a favicon have only modest standards for post quality Should help me get into a habit of writing!
Suppose I want to extract all substrings of a text that consist of one-or-more letter a s followed by a letter b . This is obviously both: trivial to do with a single short regex trivial to do in linear time but if you try to do it with a regex
[Disclaimer: I am a layman, NOT a qualified lawyer of any kind.] Something curious I noticed today: https://www.cps.gov.uk/legal-guidance/self-defence-and-prevention-crime currently claims that: Self defence and the prevention of crime originates from a number of different sources. Defence of the person is governed by the common
Spiked magazine have published an article by their chief political writer, Brendan O'Neill, about the ruling against Laurence Fox in his libel case . I've seen it shared by a bunch of Twitter users I follow and by the Free Speech Union . It's a bad
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Today I created this blog. It's hosted in AWS and runs on the free and open source version of Ghost - although if you take a glance at the Ghost homepage , you might not even realise that there is a free and open source version, given the prominent