Normille

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by Normille 4y ago
Brilliant! --just what we need. An even easier way for people to thoughtlessly submit articles without spending a couple of seconds looking first, to see if they've already been submitted a dozen times.
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TRIVIA CORNER: In Irish Gaelic the island of Great Britain is Breatain Mhór [Big Britain] and Breatain Bheag [Little Britain] is the name for Wales. Obviously coming from the historical fact [much trumpeted by the Welsh] that they were
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by Normille 4y ago
Stars have always been popular. How's about a red star?
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by Normille 4y ago
Said it before and I'll say it again: I love the look of Crystal [I've always been a fan of Ruby's syntax] but I'm completely put off by: 1: Lack of decent tooling [C'mon. Any language which doesn't have a full
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Shouldn't title be AYSOAC?
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Actual title: Snowdon: Park to use mountain's Welsh name Yr Wyddfa If you'd kept that, you'd not have misused that apostrophe on it's
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>o their 1793 measurement of the distance from the equator to the North Pole was off by less than 2 km.... Or, like a lot of people, the Earth's put on a bit of wieght in the intervening 200+ years
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by Normille 4y ago
I use AnyDesk [0] to connect to my Linux media centre from OSX*. That's not headless though, so not sure if it would work for you *Actually "used". It no longer works since I switched from Ubuntu to Manjaro [0] https:/&
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by Normille 4y ago
>My solution: uBlock Origin... Wow! --this is a brilliant idea. I'd been trying to hack something together in GreaseMonkey to do something like this. But unfortunately my JS-foo is practically non-existent. So I never got v
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>I'm not sure how I'm going to get through the rest of this semester without zlib. Telegram and Tor are your friends: https://t.me/firstlibrarybot http://bookszlibb74ugqojhzhg2a63w5i2atv5bqar
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'Hacker News'? I thought it was 'Twitter News' these days.
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>but that in no way undermines the legitimacy of the current government... I never said it did. But you [deliberately?] failed to mention that the previous pro-Russian government was also democratically elected. Pointing out ins
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>a senior associate at the Washington DC based... Sounds ... partisan
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As I said, referencing this story in another thread [0], where we were discussing media bias: Nice use of the word 'circling' there to suggest a predatory shark, about to move in for the kill on aa hapless victim. Methinks the wor
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>It seems unreasonable to me to call Ukraine fascist when it has a democratically elected government and Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in 2014 was a consequence of Ukrainians getting rid of a highly corrupt, dubiously elected leader
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smiley face. crying face. row of hearts in different colours. strange yellow thing that might be a banana or an arm flexing its bicep. sports trophy. winking face. My god! --you're right. This is so much better and clearer than using
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>HN is manipulated at its finest It's patently obvious to anyone who is honest with themselves that all coverage of the Ukraine conflict is biased to one side or the other. And here in the west, it's biased towards the
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Point taken. I didn't actually follow the link. Just saw the domain and, in my mind 'Mastodon = Twitter-Lite'. >If something's of interest but poorly formatted, posting it here doesn't seem that unreasonable?
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by Normille 4y ago
Oh great! Now people are posting 'toots' as news stories, as well as tweets. Why don't we just go the whole hog and embed Twatter inside an iframe on HN and discuss our favourite Tweets entirely via emojis?
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>A modern solution is simply to have non-breaking space easily accessible in your keyboard layout An even better solution would be --for grown up people who have progressed beyond cave-painting and want to communicate using, you
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I think Amazon do.
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Hey, Guardian. That massive blocking begging bowl which obscures half the page every time I open your site is really, really not annoying at all /sarcasm Even Jimmy Wales is more subtle than that.
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I really hope so. The sooner Twitter ceases to exist, the better. Just think; journalists would actually have to start researching stories again, instead of the endless 'X tweeted this and Y tweeted that' which seems to pass for
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>AdBlue, a mix of urea and deionised water... De-ionised water is easily obtainable in any filling station, or place that sells motoring spares. And urea?.. well given the amount of 'truckers' lemonade' found in la
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Hmmmm.. presumably this won't apply to underground carparks?
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Why are you asking? It's your own site, so you should know.
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Gotta love modern journalism. Go on Twatter and grab a load of tweets. Put them on a page and then write them out underneath again.
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Twitter = millions of people who think the rest of the world is interested in their inconsequential shite. Mastodon = thousands of people who think the rest of the world is interested in their inconsequential shite.
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I'd have thought the book would sell more copies now her premiership turned into a car crash and she goes down in history as Britain's shortesr lived PM [sub: Fact check this. I can't be arsed] . ASIDE: How many copies would
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If ever there was a case for 'This thread is useless without pics!' coverage of this story is it. No-one is publishing photos of the guy in question, so we can judge for ourselves. And, before someone mentions 'libel'

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