amiga386

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by amiga386 1mo ago
Yeah, not for much longer though: https://keepandroidopen.org/
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by amiga386 1mo ago
Not Google's first rodeo. They pulled the same move in 2019: https://www.phoronix.com/news/WireGuard-Ejected-Play-Store This is why software should not be subjected to an "app store" type distribution
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by amiga386 1mo ago
> people sleeping Junkies' heroin-induced stupor.
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by amiga386 1mo ago
I just wanted to get across that there's more detail to be wrung out of even the first line. You don't need to get all nuances on first read, but they're there. Dickens was known for his observational detail, and also he&#x27
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by amiga386 1mo ago
Most people outside the UK, and a good portion inside, would not know: - what Michaelmas is (it's a somewhat archaic Christian festival in September) - what Michaelmas term is (and that it's specific to the upper courts of the U
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by amiga386 1mo ago
> What was that study recently, that fifty-eight percent of English majors at two universities couldn't read the opening paragraphs of Bleak House and that only five percent could read it acceptably? Yeah about that, that was a tin
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by amiga386 1mo ago
And if they'd written in it in Perl 5.8 from 2002, they could stick "use v5.8.0;" at the top of all their files and run it today in Perl 5.42, because the language interpreter maintained backwards compatibility. You can'
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by amiga386 1mo ago
Perhaps the most succinct explanation of British class difference is the famous Frost Report sketch featuring John Cleese, Ronnie Barker and Ronnie Corbett: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Class_sketch https:/&#x
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by amiga386 1mo ago
Specifically, upper-class Brits pronounce the "h". See this classic Monty Python sketch which makes fun of it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pnq96W9jtuw&t=66s Praline: 'Ello. I would like to buy
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by amiga386 2mo ago
That sounds like a wheeze that I've heard before. Site builders argue to themselves that what the regular user would want to do -- e.g. close the site and browser, come back to it and expect the items in the cart are remembered (for so
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by amiga386 2mo ago
It doesn't sound normal. "worse-" doesn't fit as a replacement for the "im-" prefix, because the "se" ending doesn't flow well into the plosive "prov". "disimprove" works much
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by amiga386 2mo ago
If you're in a shopping site and "add to basket" -- explicity requested. If each page you browse on the shopping site shows what's currently in your basket -- explicitly requested. If you checkout and get a list of what&
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by amiga386 2mo ago
The banner is not needed for the website to work, otherwise how would the "decline" button work? They can store cookies, otherwise how would they remember your choice? They can track a functional session just fine, full shopping c
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by amiga386 2mo ago
> unopenable windows for "security" Fenster zu! Es zieht! https://www.thelocal.de/20190625/only-germans-believe-air-dr...
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by amiga386 2mo ago
Primarily it's social media forced deanonymization, with "think of the children" as an excuse.
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by amiga386 2mo ago
To answer that question, you could also look up bus stops in an app (for example OsmAnd, but there are others) powered by OpenStreetMap data, which I know has all bus stops in the UK, known in government as National Public Transport Access
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by amiga386 2mo ago
Other websites for "bus times" that show the NL2 ferry service from Aberdeen to Lerwick say their data comes from the Traveline National Data Set (TNDS): https://www.travelinedata.org.uk/ > TNDS contains public
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by amiga386 2mo ago
It can also be your choice to lobby your government to shut down the rent-seeking behaviour of Visa and MasterCard. It can be done. The UK and the EU capped fees at 0.3% for credit cards and 0.2% for debit cards
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by amiga386 2mo ago
Oops, yes. In that case, if the answer was AGAIN, both As in MAMMA would be yellow (as opposed to one yellow one grey)
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by amiga386 2mo ago
The sibling comment pointed it out; MAMMA is revealed with one yellow A and one grey A, meaning it has told you there's only one A. If the answer was AORTA, then both As in MAMMA would be yellow.
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by amiga386 2mo ago
In an alternative universe, the government could require banks to refund victims of theft and fraud. It's entirely possible for banks to do this without requiring you use a credit card, they just don't want to. https://
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by amiga386 2mo ago
The best I could do with today's word, and the wordlist, but no scoring function to minmax the rules: - FUFFY (8159) (shipping of Faith and Buffy from Buffy the Vampire Slayer) - IMMIX (4544) (to mix or blend) - ZOCCO (2142) (low plint
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by amiga386 2mo ago
Having 12 options possible on the last guess is actually very good.
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by amiga386 2mo ago
12935 -> TIZZY (5625) -> OXBOW (2674) -> GRUFF (858) -> MAMMA (195) and I'll let you guess the rest but my next choice left 43 words, and I survived with only 4 words possible. The rules not letting use a letter you know is
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by amiga386 2mo ago
Prices do, in fact, go down. For example, eggs in the USA went down from $6 to $2 in the past few months. https://www.macrotrends.net/3052/us-egg-prices Long term average? Sure, it goes up, that's inflation. But d
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by amiga386 2mo ago
That also includes accomodating guest preferences and allergies, and the staff being empowered to act . For example, let's say you're allergic to nuts. Not only should the menu list all allergens, but also you should be able to s
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by amiga386 2mo ago
You break out Court Packing 2 Electric Boogaloo: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judicial_Procedures_Reform_Bil...
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by amiga386 2mo ago
I understand the government would have difficulty excluding Fujitsu under its own procurement regulations at the time (Public Contracts Regulations 2015). Fujitsu voluntarily withdrew its bids in 2024. The goverment passed the Procurement A
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by amiga386 2mo ago
> In Commonwealth countries, it's possible to initiate a private prosecution (by a person who hasn't received criminal justice). These don't usually get very far This is what happens when they do: https://en.wik
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by amiga386 2mo ago
The Go language is by itself more than enough to get a trademark. They only additional thing you can do with a font is get a design patent... for the font . It's more likely that they don't feel the need to use the font they gave

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