Normille

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by Normille 4y ago
As someone living in the eternally rain-drenched and cloud-wreathed north of Europe, you lost me at "The sun..."
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by Normille 4y ago
There's a blast from the past. Remember on the old Nokia dumbphones with T9 [0] predictive text. Belatedly realising you'd insulted somebody by calling them a 'duck' or an 'aunt' [0] https://en.wiki
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by Normille 4y ago
Swipe-to-type on Yandex keyboard on Android had a similarly infuriating habit of "correcting" my English spelling to American. So I'd swipe c-o-l-o-u-r and it would insert 'color', c-e-n-t-r-e and it would insert &#
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by Normille 4y ago
>i just turned auto correct off completely a few versions ago... I don;t use autocorrect at all. Never have. But I do use 'swipe-to-type' [or whatever it's called] on Android and run into the same annoyances, as i
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by Normille 4y ago
For me [on Android, which is just as excerable] it's changing "has" to "had", which it does every fucking time. No matter how many times I change it back. I'll re-read what I've written and find I've
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by Normille 4y ago
>I would prefer it to ask for confirmation instead of doing it automatically... Not on Windows, so it doesn't affect me. But I agree with you. One of my major annoyances is having to go preference diving becasue some appli
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by Normille 4y ago
>Rust is arguably future-proof in its syntax. I'm not so sure about that. Given how many people dip a tentative toe in the Rusty waters and give up, baffled by the arcane syntax, I really wouldn't be surprised if Rust-2
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by Normille 4y ago
I like the look of Crystal but lack of decent tooling and slow compile times put me off.
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by Normille 4y ago
The plant app I use [0] gives a percentage confidence rather than saying "this is definitely X or Y". I've found it pretty accurate on the various plants and trees I've used it to ID. But I limit my foraging to nuts and
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by Normille 4y ago
It's almost like the whole thing was a big publicity stunt all along. But, of course, that can't be true. We all know how Elon hates publicity.
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by Normille 4y ago
Being white and not self-loathing is practically a hate-crime these days. If you happen to be male and heterosexual too, you're worse than Hitler and should begin self-flagellation immediately. Personally I find it offensive to be cont
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by Normille 4y ago
>what's next? They learn to write clickbait headlines?
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by Normille 4y ago
Looks interesting. Any plans to make it available through MacPorts?
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by Normille 4y ago
TLDR; It's all everybody else's fault.
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by Normille 4y ago
I just tried this: >echo bollox >history | grep bollox and got a long line of results, dating back to 2019 [Who knew I swore so often in my terminal!] I don't have any of the fixes suggested in the article in my .zshrc
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by Normille 4y ago
I ditched Thunderbird for Mailmate last year, after getting frustrated with just how slow and clunky Thunderbird was, so much of the time. I really wanted to like Mailmate. It does tick a lot of boxes. But it's expensive and I found it
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by Normille 4y ago
If ever there was a case for 'killer satellites', this is it! I can't believe the origin of this story is actually one of the companies proposing to do this. And leading the article with a bragging "Ad-block this: Space
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by Normille 4y ago
Eric Clapton's hand
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by Normille 4y ago
>Germany and the Soviet Union also had pretty close economic ties right up until the German invasion of the Soviet Union in 1941 And a lot of the British upper classes [including quite a few people directly and indirectly related
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by Normille 4y ago
I'd give my right arm to be ambidextrous! [Sorry. Someone had to]
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by Normille 4y ago
>Ukraine was a part of Russia then. Just as a Pole I am not surprised a bunch of nukes was targetting my home country - we were a vassal state to Russia back then, so that was to be expected. So you hate Russia for saving you fro
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by Normille 4y ago
> Glad I live in the very south of Australia. Don't get too complacent: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/On_the_Beach_(novel)
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by Normille 4y ago
>It really doesn't make much sense to lookup Putin's speeches... It does if you're arguing not about whether what he said was true or not, but whether he eactually said what you're accusing him of saying.
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by Normille 4y ago
>The only country that is threating 1st strike is Russia. >All of Putin's speeches are available in english on the kremlin website. Shh! --you're spoiling the doublethink. It's the same as how the energy cr
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by Normille 4y ago
Logically then, you should approve of Iran and North Korea having nuclear weapons. Because, otherwise, they might leave themselves open to invasion by some 'bully' [mentioning no names]. In fact, let's give every country in
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by Normille 4y ago
Tsk! Tsk! USA! --94 nukes targetted on brave little Ukraine. And yet you love them so much!
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by Normille 4y ago
Will there come a point where a large 'conventional' weapon can cause as much devastation as a small tactical nuke? If that happens how will the 'red lines' that no nation dare cross, for fear of massive global retaliati
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by Normille 4y ago
Is it part of their emegency plan to generate heat this winter, when the gas runs out?
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by Normille 4y ago
Agreed. It's also quite concerning to me how, even amongst HN's supposedly enlightned readership, a lot of this discrimination against people just for the 'crime' of being Russian is either approved of or tacitly accepte
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by Normille 4y ago
>It's is a contraction and should be used where a sentence would normally read "it is." The apostrophe indicates that part of a word has been removed. Its with no apostrophe, on the other hand, is the possessive word,

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