Digit-Al

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by Digit-Al 2y ago
> When I was an undergraduate physical chemistry student 137 years ago Wow! How old are you? Lol
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by Digit-Al 2y ago
Makes me laugh. When I got my first computer in 1987 it took so long to load a small game from cassette that I could go downstairs, boil a kettle, make a cuppa, and bring it back to my room, and the game would be just about finished loading
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by Digit-Al 2y ago
That's odd, it loads in a fraction of a second for me; and I'm on a mobile running android Firefox. Plus I'm on hotel WiFi at the moment.
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Have I Been Pwned Employee 1.0: Stefán Jökull Sigurðarson(troyhunt.com)
4 points by Digit-Al 2y ago|0 comments
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by Digit-Al 2y ago
Personally, I am against the idea of adults having to prove their age before being able to access certain types of content - particularly if that means giving their identity. I am not, however, adverse to the idea that big tech companies sh
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Translation Tech Is Amazing, Except When It's Not(wired.com)
2 points by Digit-Al 2y ago|0 comments
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by Digit-Al 2y ago
I say Sainsbury's because the name is exactly that. I don't say Tesco's because the name, as you say, is Tesco. I would guess those who say Tesco's (and maybe Asda's) are just getting confused because of Sainsbury&#
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by Digit-Al 2y ago
Rumbelows was a white goods store, so didn't sell medicines. I think some of the symbols may refer to duplicate items. I'll give you my guesses using the letter above to refer to the symbol. The R, U, and L symbols are all from a
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by Digit-Al 3y ago
This is mentioned in the article.
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by Digit-Al 3y ago
It's even more confusing when you look at how many cup sizes there are around the world. There is the US Customary Cup at about 236mL, the US Legal Cup at 240mL, the Metric and Canadian Cups at 250mL, the Imperial Cup at about 284mL, t
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by Digit-Al 3y ago
The "cup" size for measuring ingredients is massively confusing as there is the US Customary Cup at about 236mL, the US Legal Cup at 240mL, the Metric and Canadian Cups at 250mL, the Imperial Cup at about 284mL, the Latin American
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by Digit-Al 3y ago
> The funds, typically used to finance rail infrastructure, could now be tapped to help developers of office-to-residential conversions sited near transit facilities. The problem here is that they tacked this onto a program designed for
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by Digit-Al 3y ago
But, for little Timmy to buy diamonds in a mobile game from an alternate store he would have to install the alternate store then "borrow" his parent's credit card to register with the new store. If "little" Timmy is
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by Digit-Al 3y ago
Try turning on reader view in your browser. This puts the text into a much more readable column.
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The appendix is not, in fact, useless(npr.org)
309 points by Digit-Al 3y ago|157 comments
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by Digit-Al 3y ago
There is probably a lesson here on the importance of having a culturally diverse team as well.
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by Digit-Al 3y ago
New slogan: Cybertruck! Separating the men from the boys and the boys from their limbs. /s
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by Digit-Al 3y ago
https://archive.is/jxG6C
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by Digit-Al 3y ago
The problem with replacing "googling" for me is that, as far as I can tell, no one has come up with any better term. I, like yourself, tend to use DDG mostly and would prefer not to say "googling", but saying "web s
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by Digit-Al 3y ago
I've flown to Newquay as well.
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by Digit-Al 3y ago
I'm sorry, but I have to respectfully disagree with you. Some years ago a work colleague went on holiday to America (I'm English) and brought back some Hershey chocolate. At that point I had never heard about American chocolate ta
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by Digit-Al 3y ago
Something that occurs to me might be a problem in grocery stores is vegetables sold by weight. I can purchase potatoes, carrots, tomatoes, and other vegetables by weight and the scale will print a barcode to be scanned. Can one just print o
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by Digit-Al 3y ago
It seems to me that the three accidents mentioned all appear to be the responsibiliy of the human driven vehicles rather than the Waymo vehicles. The July one doesn't give enough details to be certain; in the August one it is pretty cl
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by Digit-Al 3y ago
I just don't see it happening. I remember the days of dial up internet - when I would be paranoid every minute I spent on the internet because every second I was online was costing more and more money. The sense of freedom I felt when
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Elon Musk's luck has finally run out(businessinsider.com)
6 points by Digit-Al 3y ago|0 comments
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by Digit-Al 3y ago
There are some leaks where passwords are cracked and included in plaintext and there are some leaks where passwords are not cracked and included only as hashes. If the leak includes cracked passwords in plaintext then they will be added to
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by Digit-Al 3y ago
Mine was issued from a burning bush by the voice of dang himself, whereupon it inscribed itself permanently into my brain in letter of fire.
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by Digit-Al 3y ago
Why would you want that? The whole point of a crisp is that it is... Well, crisp. What you are describing is, for want of a better term, a soggy.
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by Digit-Al 3y ago
Speaking of 24 hour clocks: my oven clock shows midnight as 24:00, and then changes to 00:01 at 1 minute past midnight. I've never seen any other clock show that; very strange.
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by Digit-Al 3y ago
You can get to the same thing by choosing "Feeds" in the menu and then selecting "Friends". That one works in the app as well.

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