Normille

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by Normille 4y ago
AKA Polystyrene in ROW
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by Normille 4y ago
The graph looks really odd to me too. Even allowing for an uneven distribution of inflation rates, The 'Eurozone average' is way down near the bottom, suggesting most countries have above average inflation --which seems a bit lik
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They should have thrown it out anyway, on the grounds of bad grammar. The adverb is "Differently"
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For as long as I can remember, every new Apple computer was "up to" 5... 10... 15... times faster than the one before. The use of "up to" is a clever marketing ploy. Because if all those were actual figures then, with al
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by Normille 4y ago
I know you just used Uber as an eg. but, as I alluded to before, many apps [inluding Uber] allow you to fine tune what kind of notifications they are allowed to send anyway. Go under the 'Advanced' tab for App Notifications and, f
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How terribly terribly hipster. As someone who grew up with film photography and spent many an hour in the darkroom, I say 'give me digital, any time!' But, to restore some of the admitted magic of film photography, I've long
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by Normille 4y ago
How is this different from what's built-in to Android? You can silence notifications from individual apps, set 'Do Not Disturb' times and, with quite a few apps, you can even fine-tune which kind of notifications it's a
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by Normille 4y ago
>And yet, they do. According to Ofcom, 5m calls are still made from phone boxes annually. Five million! It seems impossible. >Thousands of people apparently still use them. I wanted to know who they were and why, when technolo
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by Normille 4y ago
Why do people with no grammatical sense insist on re-wording the original headlines?
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>I suspect you are in the minority. Well, if s/he is, s/he's in a minority of at least two. When I see vertical video I instantly think "moron". The reason landscape is the sensible choice is because our
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by Normille 4y ago
>The first launches were supposed to happen in 2026, but that timeline was changed by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. ESA halted all cooperation with Russia’s space agency over the war. The tensions have derailed a planned Russian–Eur
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by Normille 4y ago
The Arc Forum looks eerily familiar: http://arclanguage.org/forum
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It's not. Blue is my least favourite colour. So there! >One study of 330 children between 4-11 years old found they used their favourite colours when drawing a "nice" character and tended to use black when drawing a &q
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Reading that guff on the news page [0] made me want to reach for the sick-bag. Do big corporations really think anyone believes this "It's all about you. We love you so much..." bullshit? [0] https://proton.me&#x2F
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The conversion was done with the built in converter in OSX Calculator. I don't know where that loads is conversion rates from?
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$5/[US]Gallon = $1,32/litre = 83p/litre Last week when I stuck some diesel in the van, here in UK, it was: £1,81/litre = £6,85/[US]Gallon = $10,87/[US] Gallon You don't know you're born!
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by Normille 4y ago
It's not really up to Turkey [or Türkiye] how the English language spells their country's name, is it? Any more than it's England's* business how Turkish speakers spell İngiltere *[other English speaking countries are av
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by Normille 4y ago
Weird article. It's basically an 'edited highlights' summary of another article, which it references. Here's the original: https://cacm.acm.org/magazines/2022/5/260357-the-go-programm... I
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Actual non-clickbait article title: CRISPR-Cas9 editing of the arginine–vasopressin V1a receptor produces paradoxical changes in social behavior [sic] in Syrian hamsters Nome of the words "mutant", "rage" or "mons
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>Dahn appears to have hit the motherload It's "lode", you ignoramus!
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Not unless they train it to output that horrible badly drawn vector cartoon style that seems to have taken over everywhere these days. Examples: https://miro.medium.com/max/2104/1*6WZlID-hgh64dD0Hi_sUmg.pn... htt
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by Normille 4y ago
The trouble is that, with a lot of these names, [although, to be fair, not in the case of SLIM] the acronym is so tortured it is of no help with remembering what it stands for, anyway. For example, they sometimes use the second letter of th
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Rural UK £26/month fibre ~40 Mbps down / ~6 Mbps up. Pretty rock solid. I can't remember having to reboot the router once in the past 6 months. I thought my broadband was pretty quick until I saw the figures posted by others.
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>>José Blanca, a genetics professor ... doubts that this advance will come out of the laboratories soon. “In Europe, and especially in Spain, vitamin D deficiency in the population is quite common... Really? Given Vitamin D is
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Thart's not what I'm objecting to. It's those tortured acronyms that hurt my brain.
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* South Korea’s Korean Pathfinder Lunar Orbiter (KPLO) Good. Carry on. * Japan’s SLIM (Smart Lander for Investigating the Moon) No! Please stop! * India’s Chandrayaan-3 Good. Carry on. * Russia’s Luna-2 Good. Carry on. * United Arab Emirate
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Yay!-- GAAS* *Gazumping As A Service
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It must be really tiring for people who feel the need to spend their entire life policing the written and spoken words of others for signs of 'rayyy-cism' where none was intended. I bet you also get outraged if someone refers to a
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Actual non-clickbait title: Hubble Reaches New Milestone in Mystery of Universe's Expansion Rate
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An even better comparison would also distinguish between differently fuelled ICEs. A diesel powered car is much less likely to catch fire than a petrol one. And, as previous commenter points out, age comes into the mix too. I used to be inv

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