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by FearNotDaniel 1y ago
"It is the most shattering experience of a young man's life when one morning he awakes and quite reasonably says to himself: 'I shall never play the Dane.'" https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2
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by FearNotDaniel 1y ago
There’s already such a thing as an “SE” business registration, which is a pan-European publicly traded entity [0]. Presumably this is talking about a similar, privately owned structure? [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki&#x2F
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by FearNotDaniel 1y ago
For those on the UK tech scene during the first 1990s dotcom bubble, my favourite misuse of this was in the infamous NTK newsletter [0], where in-person events where listed under the heading “Event Queue: GOTOs considered non-harmful”. [0]
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by FearNotDaniel 1y ago
This is the tabs vs spaces of SQL. Pick one and stick with it. If you join a project that has already chosen the “other” option that is not your favourite, just grow up and deal with it. Once decided, try to apply it consistently, unlike th
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Jaguar Land Rover staff told to stay home after cyber-attack(theguardian.com)
2 points by FearNotDaniel 1y ago|1 comments
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by FearNotDaniel 1y ago
Your comment is very confusing. The article is about making a connection with someone, the measure of which is that you have achieved a shared understanding. It sounds as if you have managed that. And yet it seems that this is not enough fo
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by FearNotDaniel 1y ago
Once you get into learning German, it’s surprising how many compound words like this are actually direct translations of the Latin or Greek roots of the same English words. Hydrogen = Wasserstoff (water material); television = Fernseher (di
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by FearNotDaniel 1y ago
Really? I tend to associate it more with bourgeois folks who are well-off but certainly not wealthy, but most definitely want to remain in their own cultural bubble and do everything to avoid learning the local language or integrating with
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by FearNotDaniel 1y ago
I've taken part in 12 Step programmes and even occasionally attended AA meetings. After browsing the site for a while I can confirm it seems pretty faithful to the AA methodology, except for the addition of the "top/middle&#x
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by FearNotDaniel 1y ago
Yeah reminds me of the time a real UK bank employee insisted that I should give him an SMS onetime code, even telling me to ignore the part of the message that I should never give the code to anyone else, not even a bank employee. I verifie
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by FearNotDaniel 1y ago
The question is, if you assume for just one moment that the rental firm is operating fairly… are you sure the scratch wasn’t there when you rented the car? I’ve never rented a car without the firm giving me a damage report to sign before
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by FearNotDaniel 1y ago
> can’t really be transferred into databases Of course they can, it's up to the person designing the database schema to anticipate what is a common artistic practice and model the data accordingly. It might be that specific databa
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by FearNotDaniel 1y ago
> the reader knows a gallon of water weighs roughly eight pounds Haha, you have to love those quaint, backwards Americans and their “freedom units”. Meanwhile, in the rest of the world, we can peacefully enjoy the fact that 3.785 litres
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by FearNotDaniel 1y ago
As someone who’s been learning German for the past 10 years or so, I’m surprised I never noticed before what is the literal meaning of “umlaut”, I guess I just internalised it as a concept. The prefix “um-“ usually modifies a verb to indica
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by FearNotDaniel 1y ago
To be fair, they actually missed the curfew by half an hour, plus those seconds. They had requested the allowed 30 mins extension and failed to arrive within that window. To people living near airports, this matters. I used to live under th
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by FearNotDaniel 1y ago
I’m not sure what kind of spam merchants operate the website “kiss & fly”, but none of the following claims [0] are true: “IATA code – ZPR. Rosenheim Bus Station operates domestic and international flights. Friendly staff will help pass
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by FearNotDaniel 1y ago
> Everything that has an IATA code is an airport I used to travel fairly often between Salzburg and London Heathrow, which has very few direct flights outside of weekends in the ski season. One option was to book a through ticket on the
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by FearNotDaniel 1y ago
I used Duolingo maybe ten years ago to get myself up to approx A1, mid-A2 level German. Back then every new piece of grammar actually had an explanatory page that you could study before jumping in to the quiz games. As the enshittification
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by FearNotDaniel 1y ago
> Wise (formerly transferwise) Off-topic, but: this is possibly one of the world's dumbest rebranding exercises. I forget now how many years ago they made the change, but I've never heard anyone outside the company itself refer
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by FearNotDaniel 1y ago
Yes. Exeter is a city in England. Co-op (short for “co-operative”) is a chain of grocery stores that was originally founded on principles of shared ownership [0]. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Co-operative_brand
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by FearNotDaniel 2y ago
https://archive.is/2025.03.01-094349/https://www.telegraph.c...
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by FearNotDaniel 2y ago
Jein, as we say in my part of the world. Working on IT projects in German-speaking countries I’ve quickly found that English is often the lingua franca of a team made up of both German native speakers and random other Europeans. Euro Englis
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by FearNotDaniel 2y ago
To be fair, the question of whether it’s historically accurate is irrelevant because the film obviously doesn’t depict real events with real cardinals… even to the viewer who knows nothing about who is who in the real-life Catholic hierar
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by FearNotDaniel 2y ago
Illegal in which jurisdiction? The Vatican is an independent sovereign state so whatever laws you think apply are unlikely to be in force there.
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by FearNotDaniel 2y ago
I'm no longer UK based, but from what I can observe at a distance, it's transformed the market rather than killed it. Listings for contract roles seem to be labelled either "inside" or "outside" IR35 depending
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by FearNotDaniel 2y ago
> Recruiters? Is he sure he's a freelancer? My experience in both UK and EU is that a heck a lot of "freelance" aka "B2B contract" style work does indeed come via recruiters. Either they charge the client an upfr
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by FearNotDaniel 2y ago
I found the answer to the "when and why" question via ChatGPT, after multiple web searches failed to turn up anything useful, and even after discovering the specific release that included the change (2.46, by the way), learning th
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Ask HN: When and why did Git config change from –list to list?
2 points by FearNotDaniel 2y ago|1 comments
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by FearNotDaniel 2y ago
Sing a song of sixpence, a pocket full of rye, four-and-twenty blackbirds, baked in a pie… I had schoolteachers who still spoke like this in 1970s Yorkshire. I don’t know if it was a regional dialect thing or a generational thing across a
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by FearNotDaniel 2y ago
It’s hilarious that an English language website has so many enthusiasts for the regional differences of their favourite foreign languages while all pretending that English is monolithic and consistent everywhere. Try driving around the nort

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