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by darrenf 5y ago
https://fullfact.org/online/coronavirus-textbook-1989-common...
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Raku provides explicit methods for #1, #2 and #4 on strings: $string.encode('UTF-8').bytes; #1 $string.chars; #2 $string.codes; #4 https://course.raku.org/essentials
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> When they invented antibiotics, people began predicting "the end of disease." Fast forward a few decades and we have the rise of scary antibiotic-resistant infections. > Medical stuff doesn't work the way most peop
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I worked for several years on an extremely large and popular sports news/results website, meaning all our deadlines were absolutely set in stone by the outside world – sporting events start on specific dates. The Tour de France sure as
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Came here to say something similar. Common swifts are amazing. Quoting Wikipedia: > Except when nesting, swifts spend their lives in the air, living on the insects caught in flight; they drink, feed, and often mate and sleep on the wing
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I had the WF-1000XM2s and my experience was pretty similar. In particular when I used to travel into London for work, they would basically stop working when I entered a busy railway station at rush hour. But for me at least, upgrading to th
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> People are hearing actual voices inside their heads? Yep, and pretty much constantly. Mostly my own, but if I think about someone else speaking - like, say, recalling a conversation or even something from TV/film/radio - th
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I'm in the UK too, finding myself unwilling to pay the new Mac prices and getting impatient for the framework. So, recently I've been considering a StarBook Mk V from https://starlabs.systems/ They publish a full
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UploadVR asked Andrew Bosworth directly. https://uploadvr.com/quest-2-unlinking-facebook-accounts/ Quote: We asked Bosworth directly if we could unlink and delete our Facebook accounts from Quest and still keep our so
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Also Top Secret! ZAZ 1984 (and my favourite of the lot).
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Indeed. The 1983 BBC mini-series "The Mad Death"†, about an outbreak hitting the UK, portrays it gruesomely. † https://www.horrifiedmagazine.co.uk/television/the-mad-death...
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Happy CityStrides user here too, since June when I really started exploring the area in which I live (moved here in Feb) in earnest. I'm not trying specifically to pick off every single street as the CityStrides community intends, but
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I've genuinely no idea why this is phrase is most frequently associated with May. As best I can tell she was just regurgitating a line from her predecessor: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-21694944
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By big I mean overweight. I’m 5’9”/175cm. Lightest I’ve been as an adult is 90kg.
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I’m not sure times are really the point, and certainly not the most recent handful. I’ve never been objectively fast - I’m a big bloke, and have asthma severe enough that I’m on 4 drugs for it daily and was told to shield by my GP/cons
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I didn’t start running until my mid-30s. I’m in my mid-late 40s now.
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> It’s hard to get up & exercise when you’re hungover I’ve heard this from almost every runner I know, yet I have never ever found it harder to exercise because of a hangover - in fact, I’ve done many of my fastest 5km times after
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by darrenf 5y ago
Raku has kebab-case as well as infix subtraction. Sigils disambiguate when the operands are variables ($foo-$bar), and callables must be made explicit: sub foo-bar { 10 } sub bar-foo { 7 } say foo-bar-bar-foo; # Undeclared rou
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I would honestly most likely say "triple-one three"! IME road number† pronunciation in England goes out of its way to avoid "thousand" and "hundred" – with exceptions, of course. Off the top of my head, I recko
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That the numbers were toll free is entirely unrelated to the surveillance aspect. There are companies who provide regular local area numbers, with all kinds of analytics (number of answered calls, average length of time to answer, etc) plus
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I’ve owned localho.st for 20-odd years.
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> Wasn't Top of The Pops all film of the bands in a studio live/miming-over-a-recording, though? Not at all. There were videos being shown at least as far back as 1979 (around when I can vaguely remember first seeing the show
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IIRC you used to be able to do this, kind of, with the Google Search Appliance virtual edition: https://googlecode.blogspot.com/2008/11/announcing-google-se...
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Fantastic stuff. I walk past the redwoods local to me very regularly and often admire them. Last weekend my partner and I visited Ramster Gardens and saw these mighty specimens: http://www.redwoodworld.co.uk/picturepages&#x2
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Those are the three branches of the state. We consider government to be the executive only. The judiciary does not govern.
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" As well as people " being in the headline certainly implies that the article's author would answer yes to the former.
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> For reasons I don't fully understand, barewords preceded by '-' are still allowed, even with "use strict". This - the fact, rather than any justification - is documented in `perldoc perlop`: Unary "-&qu
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Nitpick: use constant name => value; Albeit `Const::Fast` might be considered preferable for several reasons (deeply readonly structures, variables which you can interpolate rather than barewords, etc).
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Currently (2021-07-12, 14:46 BST) the description is nothing but 3 other YouTube links.
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"Health" in the article's headline seems to be narrowly scoped as a synonym for "avoiding premature death". There's no mention of the mental health benefits of being outside. The article is timely, for me. Afte

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