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Dell's ultra-popular XPS 13 exclusively used Intel chips – until today(pcworld.com)
2 points by agurk 2y ago|1 comments
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by agurk 2y ago
There is a very well written version of this from many years ago on the Daily WTF: https://thedailywtf.com/articles/special-delivery It is written well enough that I could just about convince myself this actually happe
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by agurk 3y ago
> 8 reached EOL in the last year or two Java 8 is still under Extended Support until 2030 (and indefinite sustaining support). Java 11 left Premier Support September 2023. "Java SE 8 has gone through the End of Public Updates proces
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by agurk 3y ago
I went around Oregon in 2008 and it seemed every beer bar (like brewery taps and specifically beer themed, not just a regular bar) had a single beer engine, usually with some local real ale on it. I've seen a few in NYC, usually Willia
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by agurk 3y ago
I have an English uncle who grew up around the time lager became the go to beer in England. He drinks a variety of beers these days including ales and lagers, but when he was young only drank lager. Many years ago I asked him why he switche
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by agurk 3y ago
> more sugar is added, called "the dosage" A dosage is added at the very end of production, but this is to already fizzy wine to sweeten it for the market, and leads to the classification like brut (dry) or doux (sweet). "
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by agurk 3y ago
For those wondering how bowling balls and pantyhose caused problems the linked article has this to add: > Pantyhose would become entangled in machinery and bowling balls would break machines I'm surprised bowling balls are that comm
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by agurk 3y ago
I believe it was banned in the EU by the EFSA a few years back due to it containing E222 (sodium hydrogen sulphite)[0]. Googling suggests it's also banned in the UK, but finding reliable sources proved hard. [0] https://www.
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by agurk 3y ago
I would hazard a guess that you and GP live in different countries. In Europe it is generally rare to remove wisdom teeth after the mid 20s, as if they haven't caused acute problems while erupting then they probably won't. In the
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by agurk 3y ago
A notable difference between spaghetti and ramen is the addition of an alkali to ramen which has a profound effect on the texture. Ramen fit into the group of Alkaline Noodles[0]. So more different than just the shape. [0] https:/&#x2
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by agurk 3y ago
Ah, but don't forget the Saxophone was a Belgian invention! Well the inventor was born in the Netherlands, but Belgium didn't exist then, and that territory is now in modern Belgium. And he did invent it after he permanently reloc
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by agurk 3y ago
Safety glass just means the glass has added safety features - these can be of different types. Laminated glass is a common one, with multiple layers of glass bonded together. If the glass is broken, the bonding material will (should) hold t
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by agurk 3y ago
Could we get a (2013) in the title please.
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by agurk 3y ago
> Swiss women didn't get the vote at federal level until 1991 To be pedantic it was one Canton (Appenzell Innerrhoden) that the supreme court finally forced to let women have full voting rights, as in the rest if the Cantons, in 199
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by agurk 3y ago
The Scandinavian Mile[0] exists, but it's not a thing in Denmark - just Sweden and Norway. There is a separate Danish mile, but I've never heard anyone talk about it in Denmark, although you can still find the odd mile stone [1] u
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by agurk 3y ago
It could also have been about time perception changing whilst on ketamine (its slang name in DK is hest, after its reputation as a horse tranquilliser).
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by agurk 3y ago
I can't comment to how one would use that phrase in French, but in English it does seem to be a correct synonym of the French loan-phrase [0][1] - especially in British English. Looking on n-grams it seems to have been used since the m
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by agurk 3y ago
> It's "bon vivant", not "bon viveur" According to Wiktionary bon viveur is a valid [English] synonym of bon vivant[0] although noted as "pseudo French" in wiki[1]. [0] https://en.wiktionary.
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by agurk 3y ago
Danish pricing is off the scale due to the very high registration tax, on top of the 25% VAT. Registration rates are of the value including VAT[0]: 25% of DKK 65,800 85% of DKK 65,800-204,600 150% of the rest. This is actually a
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by agurk 4y ago
A key excerpt from the wikipage is: > A campanologist is one who studies campanology, though it is popularly misused to refer to a bell ringer I once used the term to describe my sister, who quickly told me she was a bell ringer, and tha
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by agurk 4y ago
As someone who's casually browsed the local for different countries before, I'm interested if you could expand on how they're not representative? Are there better English language equivalents you know of?
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by agurk 4y ago
Looking at the wikipedia page for bank notes[0] there is no mention of salt or Bruges on the page. It suggests that bank notes first originated in China during the 7th century the knowledge of which European explorers introduced to Europe i
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by agurk 4y ago
One I always liked was Finnair's AY, as its original name was Aero oY. OY being Finnish for Limited Company, like AG in German, or AB in Swedish. As both Finish and Swedish are official languages in Finland that allows for the cleverly
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by agurk 4y ago
> Occasionally people put the space in the wrong place, like 0207 77777777 for a London number To expand on this, the codes have changed a lot over time. London used to have separate codes for inner and outer London, which at their last
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by agurk 4y ago
I've created similar functionality just using a simple bash script that will send the latest version of ZFS datasets to S3/Glacier, including dealing with incremental changes. I have mentioned this previously on HN and got a few u
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by agurk 4y ago
A Yamaha XSR900 - probably not what people would think of as a natural bike to go on a 5500 km journey from Northern Europe to the Balkans, but you really can tour on anything. It was great in the alpine roads - especially the few days I di
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by agurk 4y ago
I got a new (to me) motorcycle this year for a long trip I was planning and one of the things that surprised me was how much countersteer it needed to navigate tight mountain turns. I could definitely feel it in my arms at the end of each d
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by agurk 4y ago
I got a version of this alert for the first time on a OnePlus 9 last week whilst using my phone on a long motorcycle trip. It also suggested there might be a foreign object in the port. Curiously it wasn't raining at the time and had
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by agurk 4y ago
With CO the issue is that it binds to haemoglobin and stays bound to it permanently. Only a small proportion of CO2 in the blood is bound to haemoglobin (~10% [0]) so the real issue is that the O2 carrying capacity is reduced. As red blood
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by agurk 5y ago
I was recently in a very similar situation to you and found that the $PATH of my git bash contained a network drive. Removing this for me made it still slow but useable. This also made any programs I was running in it - like vim - useable t

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