I_complete_me

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by I_complete_me 3y ago
I'd re-phrase it as "Ireland Won the Global Tax Game, and Dublin Is Swimming in Money". The Pale still exists even though it's gone! I live in rural Ireland and the Economic Crash of 2008 still hasn't washed through
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by I_complete_me 3y ago
I've listened to a lot of episodes. The quality varies quite a bit. But for those who are new to IOT, Bird Migration gives an example of how good it can be. https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b08wmk5j
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by I_complete_me 3y ago
Let me add the You Tube series - Git and GitHub for Poets - for the poets, students and teachers. Not to everyone's taste but what is?
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by I_complete_me 3y ago
I started watching this. I will watch it all. What a humble guy.
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by I_complete_me 3y ago
I like your username so here's my answer: canvasbacks omits letters from the top row counterconvention omits letters from the middle row photofluorographies omits letters from the bottom row Presumably the longest word
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by I_complete_me 3y ago
I remember seeing a cartoon of Einstein at the blackboard on which the equation E=ma^2 (crossed out) then E=mb^2 (crossed out) and finally E=mc^2 with a beaming Einstein.
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by I_complete_me 3y ago
It wouldn't suit Paul Simon, I guess.
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by I_complete_me 3y ago
My imagined reply - as I am not a chef: "What do you think I am? A hen? If you want an egg dish, ask for it. An extra word won't hurt you. I can't work with tight people, I'm outta here."
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by I_complete_me 3y ago
Two points: It's important to note whether the milk goes in the tea first or the tea first and then the milk. When the host is serving the tea, if the milk goes in first, then the host is admitting that they have inferior (non-china) c
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by I_complete_me 3y ago
Depends. I have zsh running on Linux and Mac. On Linux, smorrebrod wins. And on Mac slowmovingtarget wins.
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by I_complete_me 3y ago
From the book “Shady Characters” by Keith Houston "Among Tiro’s notae was an innocuous character representing the Latin word et, or “and.” Though this was only one symbol among many (in their most elaborate medieval form, a system des
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by I_complete_me 3y ago
I think you might be confusing ampersand with the Tironian et which looks like a 7 - Unicode point U+204A. It is still visible in Ireland on the old Post 7 Telegraph boxes. Tiro invented a shorthhand system and his Tironian et represented t
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by I_complete_me 3y ago
I use both vim and doom-emacs almost daily and jump between the two. I like using <spacebar> to call command mode in vim to do things like :tabe or :bd or :ls etc. (I have <leader> set to , ). I have this remap in my .vimrc >
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by I_complete_me 3y ago
It looks like there is a bus factor of 1. Is this not a concern for you?
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by I_complete_me 3y ago
100..200
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by I_complete_me 3y ago
Martin Amis, may you rest in peace. And thank you for giving us your mind.
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by I_complete_me 3y ago
For a second there I thought it was throwaway responding to his own comment. I loved him for one second!
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by I_complete_me 4y ago
At eighteen and a student of Civil Engineering in Cork, I got a J1 student visa to work in the USA for the summer. I recollect that I came across Gravity's Rainbow in a random bookshop in New York. It was lionized and it looked diffic
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by I_complete_me 4y ago
Lots of great contributors to the show over the years. My favourite is Steve Jones for his huge intellect, humility, knowledge and listenabilty - yeah it's the right word for someone like him. I've listened to a lot of episodes (s
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by I_complete_me 4y ago
Do they by any chance live on Electric Avenue?
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by I_complete_me 4y ago
And of course "How to drill a square hole" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L5AzbDJ7KYI
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by I_complete_me 4y ago
But a very enjoyable 200 years it must be said!
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by I_complete_me 4y ago
In fact Putin is completely correct in his attempt to retrieve Ukraine for Mother Russia and it is the West that is the aggressor. Now, if you just had a visceral (negative) response to this, I am with you. The point I am trying to make is
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by I_complete_me 4y ago
Apropos tips for inexperienced hikers (I do quite a bit of solo hill-walking and mountain biking). One thing I do at an unfamilar site is mark my parked car's location on OSMAND - OpenStreetMaps on Android. I don't need any cell s
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by I_complete_me 4y ago
Here's my take on this not listening to the "expert": A few years ago there was a problem with storm-water infiltration into my (elderly at the time) mother's property from her neighbor. I, being a dutiful son and a civi
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by I_complete_me 4y ago
For bushcraft, camping, survival, outdoor fun these are a small selection of great ones; Surprised no one else mentioned this category. TA Outdoors Simon, A bloke in the woods The MCQBushcraft Archive Joe Robinet Ove
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by I_complete_me 4y ago
If it's any consolation, I interpreted your question as "outside of this person's experience". It seems fair to ask the seemingly knowledgeable eurasiantiger such a question. In the interests of charitable interpretation
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by I_complete_me 4y ago
The cat jumps from the fifth floor of a burning building and survived and it's on camera. Not a single other cat in the whole world knows about it. Not one cat. Now, people, what if...?
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by I_complete_me 4y ago
It's about gecko tape, tape that imitates how a gecko's feet adhere to surfaces. By Veritasium, FYI.
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by I_complete_me 4y ago
I built a LAN pastebin using flask and htmx. I wanted to be able to copy short text, URLS etc. to / from my laptop to / from my smartphone without going to the web. Works great. Didn't even realize that there was such a thing

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