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https://archive.org/details/big-book-of-jerkcity/page/119/mo... > HUGLAGHALGHALGHAL, interj. An all-purpose sound, denoting the act of performing oral sex, the act of receiving oral sex, taking drugs,
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T DEUCE ME TOO HUGALUGAHGLGHLAHALHGGGGG https://archive.org/details/big-book-of-jerkcity/
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While that's true, it glosses over the battle to make DVDs convenient. Hollywood did not want them to be convenient, they wanted them region-locked and unrippable, and spent a fortune prosecuting anyone who thought otherwise: https:&#
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3mo ago
It's those hackers on steroids again ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GGUIFeNo9ZU )
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Not even "Rent". Rentals are priced by the time you rent for. If you want to rent something for 30 years, you can, and you'll keep paying for 30 years. This is a one-time cost and you just don't know when they're
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3mo ago
It's a magical superpower. It kept https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gary_McKinnon from being extradicted to the USA. Apparently the courts don't accept "your opsec is shit and I got in with default password
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In case you're wondering why there's so much interest in the Count, the reason is his opponent. Nigel Farage is a populist gobshite. He's in trouble because he refused to declare a £5 million donation from a crypto billionai
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As the Count might say himself: why not? - interview on BBC Morning Live: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kAXT5xf9ot4 - interview on The Today Programme : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aGOmzQbRT_E - inte
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> all else being equal, most C software would indeed benefit from being written in Rust instead I don't even think this is true. You can certainly say "the security of computer systems would be a little bit better if most sof
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4mo ago
This is somewhat deconstructive. So you need the solo developer not to contract out or buy in existing music, graphics, 3D assets, animations, marketing, or you won't call them a solo developer. Right, so do you also need them to creat
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4mo ago
The most amazing thing would be if he removed his helmet on entry to Parliament and underneath was https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Sidebottom
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4mo ago
But if Count Binface convinces them to tactically withdraw, that would be a Loony–Bin pact
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> Unfortunately this sputtered out during the SSD transition I advise people to backup their data (emails, writings, pictures, photos, home videos, phone contents, etc.) and worry about their music/TV/film/game collecti
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https://public.tableau.com/static/images/U_/U_S_RecordedMusi... In the USA, 8-track was always less than half vinyl singles sales, compact cassette exceeded 8-track's sales by 1980, and 8-track was dead
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I think Bad Apple the literal version compares well: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ReblZ7o7lu4
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It's not. I prefer the bardcore version: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nx-x_1lIXh4
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4mo ago
It pretty much was. It was filmed in a Victorian sanitorium, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holloway_Sanatorium (built 1873-1885) which is in keeping with your (and JK Rowling's) vision of public schools, in partic
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4mo ago
You could stick it in an arcade cabinet and pretend it's the real thing, like Billy Mitchell https://perfectpacman.com/2022/09/06/new-technical-analysis/
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4mo ago
It can't. The GP is mistaken. The stock A1200 floppy drive cannot read/write HD disks, though you can format most HD disks as DD and physically use them as DD (depending on the brand of floppy disk; back in the late 1990s I us
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4mo ago
OpenBSD wouldn't say anything like that. They're well aware of the 40+ year old codebase's limitations, but accept it because they're not so stupid as to "rewrite it in <other language>" which will bring
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So you can understand why the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quartz_crisis had Swiss watchmakers fearing for their industry. Mechanical watches couldn't hope to compete with electronics on accuracy. Hence their piv
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That's a fair use for the data, but it would be hilarious if StreetComplete asked users to get a trundle wheel and measure the width of roads around embassies or seats of government...
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If StreetComplete starts asking road width and loading capacity for bridges and viaducts... start to get suspicious :) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_bqzwsM6eoQ
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The UK Government just replaced Stripe with Ayden for most payments, so good suggestion. https://gds.blog.gov.uk/2026/06/02/building-for-the-future-m...
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Spicy autocomplete
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I would probably accept a report from a reputable news agency confirming that someone was admitted to hospital after having some accident that the subject themselves referred to as "bonesmashing"... even if others might try to n
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4mo ago
The gate is reliable secondary sources . These sources, for the most part, don't check their facts using Wikipedia. These sources also tend to have feedback mechanisms, so if they have make a mistake , their response is to correct
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> hitting one's jaw with a hammer was a real phenomenon It isn't? I thought the main notoriety of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clavicular_(influencer) was his promotion of "bonesmashing" Ah, but
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I knew nothing about this language, despite being a programmer, until today. My takeaway from TFA was this language's claim to relevance is the fact that it's used to produce a product, and the CEO of the company producing the pro
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> Deleting the article means you can't even see the edit history to see why it was deleted. You can see why it was deleted without that. Picking an example deleted article; the very first line, in a red box, is the deletion log en
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