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by bloak 6y ago
What do you make of his accent?
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by bloak 6y ago
I really don't understand how the word "wildlife" is used in this article. If it's being bred in captivity, on a farm, how is it "wildlife"? Perhaps it's a peculiar technical term or a literal translation
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by bloak 6y ago
If they're adding `elifndef` to the C preprocessor they should definitely add `elsunless` to Perl.
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by bloak 6y ago
There used to be the idea that a member state could only ask for one of its languages to be an official language of the EU. If this were true then the EU would have to drop at least one of: English, Irish, Maltese.
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by bloak 6y ago
This comment perhaps illustrates the most likely explanation of why people keep on suggesting we should have permanent "summer time" rather than permanent "winter time": they genuinely believe or subsconsciously imagine
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by bloak 6y ago
As I see it, in the summer there's plenty of daylight so it doesn't matter very much how you set your clock, but in the winter it does matter: children would be cycling to school in the dark if you moved the clocks forward (and th
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by bloak 6y ago
The word "outwith" is used in Scotland. I'm not Scottish, but I've heard Scots use the word, and Oxford English Dictionary has recent quotations for it from Scottish newspapers.
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by bloak 6y ago
"Netflix has previously said it was comfortable with users sharing their passwords" ... "Password sharing is something you have to learn to live with because there’s so much legitimate password sharing, like you sharing with
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Netflix weighs up crackdown on password sharing(theguardian.com)
1 points by bloak 6y ago|1 comments
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by bloak 6y ago
I'd say "no", or at least "not particularly". Obviously there are careers that require even less knowledge of English, for example in music (I knew someone who chose to study music specifically because they didn&#x2
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by bloak 6y ago
In railway timetables things like 24:37 are sometimes used, for example for a train that leaves at 23:45 and arrives at 24:37 on weekdays. It would not just be confusing but totally incorrect to claim that the train arrives at 00:37 on week
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by bloak 6y ago
I think there are two aspects to "simplest" here: 1. You want a compiler that's short and easy to understand. 2. You want a simple definition of what this subset of C is so someone using it knows what's allowed and what
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by bloak 6y ago
I tend to agree with you, despite the famous quotation: "Die ganzen Zahlen hat der liebe Gott gemacht, alles andere ist Menschenwerk" ("God made the integers, all else is the work of man")
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by bloak 6y ago
The most complex machine of the Roman era was perhaps a water organ. (I would guess that for long historical periods the most complex machines were keyboard-controlled musical instruments.)
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by bloak 6y ago
To someone who's read https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Permutation_City , what's new here?
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by bloak 6y ago
"I'm starting my journey of learning Portuguese and totally understand the difficulty in avoiding gender in certain languages." Indeed. Gender isn't just about pronouns, and about half of the world's population uses
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by bloak 6y ago
Every house I've lived in has had several things - doors, window blinds, appliances - that only I can operate because it takes practice to work around their brokenness. It's only when I see someone else trying and failing to use t
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by bloak 6y ago
So much "plastic" packaging nowadays (in the UK) is labelled with "Do not recycle" but no indication of what it's made of. This has annoyed me from an environmental point of view, but probably one should look at it
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by bloak 6y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reproducible_builds ?
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by bloak 6y ago
Cornish is an interesting case: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cornish_language_revival
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by bloak 6y ago
> I feel the standard interchange format for datetimes really should be 64 bit Unix timestamps. Several people have already replied pointing out that for scheduling events in the future, particularly recurring events, it's practical
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by bloak 6y ago
This has since appeared on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26061637 Coincidence?
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by bloak 6y ago
The blog post currently says: "I would love a many cities". I would guess that "a" should be replaced with "so" rather than "for". Perhaps the author will correct it and we'll find out.
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by bloak 6y ago
Somebody at https://fm.schmoller.net/2010/01/if-ever-you-need-a-really-c... quotes a list of 133 choices of title offered by the Royal Opera House ticket booking system. It's not a lot of bytes so perhaps I c
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by bloak 6y ago
Does anyone feel like filtering this table ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_stars_in_Orion ) with a script to find the stars that are within the quadrilateral of Orion to get an idea of how many stars one might be
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Star Count 2021(britastro.org)
2 points by bloak 6y ago|1 comments
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by bloak 6y ago
Sergio Leone's spaghetti westerns had a mixture of languages spoken during filming. In the English releases it certainly looks as though some of the minor characters are dubbed from another language, but my multilingual lipreading skil
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by bloak 6y ago
This is all rather off-topic, but there are several legal requirements in the UK: * driving licence (for the driver; possible exceptions for agricultural vehicles and armed forces who sometimes employ people under 17) * vehicle tax (for the
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by bloak 6y ago
England? You need a licence to drive certain motor vehicles but even that doesn't, I think, though I may be wrong here, have anything to do with roads, in that you'd need the same licence to drive the same motor vehicle in any pub
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by bloak 6y ago
It's fun to do the DNA calculations, but the article says "can be proposed by an heir of the convict", so it's probably not really about genetics.

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