Normille

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811.
Why Would Severe Chronic Pain Evolve?
2 points by Normille 5y ago|6 comments
812.
by Normille 5y ago
Please link to the actual article and not someone's bloody tweet about it! Also your headline is complete clickbait. Elon Musk's reply to the article was: "This is inaccurate. Tesla only sold ~10% of holdings to confirm BTC
813.
by Normille 5y ago
Duh! My bad. I don't use Twitter, so I just glanced at the page and saw the tweet at the top was from 2016. I didn't notice it was an old 'pinned tweet'
814.
by Normille 5y ago
It's back now. Isupme and the like were reporting it down for everyone, when I posted the above
815.
Pinboard Is Down
1 points by Normille 5y ago|5 comments
816.
by Normille 5y ago
Because the American economy is completely dependent on continually being at war [whether cold, hot or tepid] with 'someone'. China just happens to be the current 'flavour of the month'.
817.
by Normille 5y ago
...and they say Americans don't do irony!
818.
by Normille 5y ago
VimR [0] is a nice OSX GUI for Neovim. FireNvim [1] is a browser plugin which embeds a Neovim editor window in HTML textareas [0] https://github.com/qvacua/vimr [1] https://github.com/glacambre/fir
819.
by Normille 5y ago
>I wonder if this is what people in the 17th century felt, a bit of melancholy at the dream that hundreds of years from now someone may be able to walk on the then newly-discovered moon... I'm no historian. But I'm pret
820.
by Normille 5y ago
>Trinitite takes its moniker from the nuclear test, named Trinity, in which the material was created in abundance (SN: 4/8/21). “You can still buy lots of it on eBay,” says geophysicist Terry Wallace, a coauthor of the stu
821.
by Normille 5y ago
I think the real one's made quite a bit of money too, from 'scammy' behaviour around cryptos
822.
by Normille 5y ago
Signal! Signal!
823.
by Normille 5y ago
I really hate this trend too (I call it the 'Cyan Filter'). It's become so prevalent of late that I almost sigh with relief when a film or TV series comes on that doesn't have the "Cyan Filter turned up to eleven&qu
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by Normille 5y ago
And what percentages of those jobs will be actual careers as opposed to "piss in a bottle" shelf-stacking in the warehouse, or "defecate in a plastic bag" delivery van driving ones? https://www.startpage.com&#
825.
by Normille 5y ago
>The European Space Agency’s Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer (Juice)... Ugh! --all of Europe's vast cultural, literary, scientific and mythological heritage to choose from, when naming their craft. And they insist on aping the Am
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by Normille 5y ago
>Face of the company" and "figurehead" have different meanings. The latter is pejorative.. Figurehead is not a pejorative term. Quite the reverse.
827.
by Normille 5y ago
>Note for devs: Find a way how people can export their data from the app At the risk of meandering off-topic; this is one of my all-time bugbears with software. Or, rather it's half of one of my all-time bugbears. I'd
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by Normille 5y ago
Interesting list. When doing genealogy, I have sometimes wondered what terms on ancestors' death certificates equated to in modern parlance. One or two odd ones in that list though. Especially considering they've supposedly appear
829.
by Normille 5y ago
I really think you should look up 'Dunning Kruger Effect'
830.
by Normille 5y ago
> The US cultural hegemony is real... > I’d drawn soldiers and fighter jets etcetera and they mostly had US flags... I think this is the cleverest and most insidious thing the US has managed to do. For some reason, in spite
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by Normille 5y ago
Oh "going forward" is another good one! It's obviously designed to imply so much more 'progression', 'improvement' and 'boldly striding into the future' than the wholly unambitious "from now
832.
by Normille 5y ago
"often times" ?! Where did I put that cat'o'nine tails?
833.
by Normille 5y ago
>What alternatives would you suggest?... How's about the ones we've used for centuries already; "contacted" or "got in touch with". >"Reached out" at least has a warm diplomatic conn
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Why Does VPN Not Work When Logged In as Root?
2 points by Normille 5y ago|0 comments
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by Normille 5y ago
It's fun to compare the headlines when these things happen involving US, Chinese or Russian space vehicles. Those nasty Chinese and Russian ones are inevitably "hurtling" and "out of control" while the US ones are &
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by Normille 5y ago
Could have been interesting.... ...were it not for the fact the maximum zoom level leaves the text too small to read [for my middle-aged eyes]
837.
by Normille 5y ago
Yes. Prime "One Day Delivery" used to nearly always mean you got the item the next day. Now it seems to mean "One Day Delivery --after we get around to dispatching it"
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by Normille 5y ago
>I would love to boycott amazon, but its near impossible I've found I use Amazon a lot less since they upped the price of Prime. When it was £49 for the year, I used to buy almost everything on Amazon because I really hate a
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by Normille 5y ago
>Amazon's product offering is also seemingly getting worse, lots of five-star rated products which feature obviously paid reviews... I find ReviewMeta[0] pretty useful for flagging up this kind of thing and returning a ratin
840.
by Normille 5y ago
>I used to do NYT crosswords with my American partner (I'm British) and the wordplay never made sense to me Can't say I've ever tried an American cryptic [I regularly do the UK Guardian and Telegraph ones] but the

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