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by darrenf 3y ago
Oh, yes. I have no idea how I was reading "alcohol free" as "low alcohol" in the comments to which I responded. My bad!
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by darrenf 3y ago
> > Indeed a 0.5% ABV drink can be branded alcohol free (at least in the UK). > Er, no! Perhaps in Ireland? In the UK the term "alcohol-free" can only be used if the drink has no more than 0.05% alcohol. The governmen
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by darrenf 3y ago
The similarly named Plagues & Pleasures on the Salton Sea is one of my favourite documentaries of all time, I find it so fascinating: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8TjGAWxL23c The video made to sell the place as a par
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by darrenf 3y ago
I can't see it happening, since Martin Kearns died they've done nothing and I expect it to stay that way. Perhaps they'll do the odd gig here or there, but tbh I'm happy not hearing a Bolt Thrower album with a differen
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by darrenf 3y ago
Oh, that's interesting. I recall seeing Robbie at school (at least once, possibly all three version) but hadn't heard of The Finishing Line. You can stream it online for free from the BFI now, I'll be giving this a watch: ht
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by darrenf 3y ago
AIUI the Protect and Survive films were only ever meant to be broadcast if a nuclear attack was imminent. They were classified but leaked to the BBC. It's not like anyone was showing them alongside the Green Cross Code man, "old f
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by darrenf 3y ago
When did that happen? On the dedicated CMA page[0] about the inquiry I see nothing since the draft final order[1] in May, which absolutely does not approve it. Quote: On 5 May 2023, the CMA made an Interim Order pursuant to section 81 of
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by darrenf 3y ago
> Until relatively recently you could only buy whole albums not single songs. What is "relatively recently" here? The iTunes store had a per-song price since, like, 2003 or so. And I'm pretty sure I recall Amazon selling
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by darrenf 3y ago
I'm reasonably sure you don't "embed a shell command in backquotes" all the time in Python (and I don't think this is pedantry; the specific ease of this syntax was the claimed benefit, not just the ability to shell
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by darrenf 3y ago
I'm guessing they mean the two folk listed in the AUTHORS section of the `perlclass` page: https://perldoc.perl.org/5.38.0/perlclass#AUTHORS
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by darrenf 3y ago
See "What happened to Perl 7?" from the Perl Steering Council in May last year: https://blogs.perl.org/users/psc/2022/05/what-happened-to-pe...
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by darrenf 3y ago
Belmo is a beast. Ten Pin Life did a great interview with him last year: https://youtu.be/p3RWN86W8Cw
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by darrenf 3y ago
This is a changeable setting (though obviously it sucks that you have to make a choice to use your default browser). Hamburger > Settings > Default Apps (in "General" at the bottom)
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by darrenf 3y ago
Perl has experimental support for defer: https://perldoc.perl.org/perlsyn#defer-blocks
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by darrenf 3y ago
I link to this site in a comment at the tail end of last year, when noctilucent clouds - the rarest cloud type in the world - were seen above San Francisco: https://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/Rare-noctilucent-c
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by darrenf 3y ago
There are numerous old threads about this page (and in fact many other writings/rants by the same author) - for example: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21668685
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by darrenf 3y ago
It's been used that way for a long time - it has an entry in the Jargon File: http://catb.org/jargon/html/M/modulo.html
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by darrenf 3y ago
Supposedly you can use VS Code inside Blink already: https://docs.blink.sh/advanced/code
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by darrenf 3y ago
Quoting the README: It implements the same concepts introduced by https://github.com/containers/toolbox but in a simplified way using POSIX sh and aiming at broader compatibility. All the props go to them as the
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by darrenf 3y ago
It means "proto", "primitive" or "original". See the Wikitionary entry here: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/ur-
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by darrenf 3y ago
I really don't think I trust this approach, despite it being vouched for by so many responders to this thread. When I run this: sudo lsof -t -i :22 I expected to get sshd and nothing else, but it actually includes outgoing s
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by darrenf 3y ago
`handle` from sysinternals gets you some of the way there. Maybe all of the way there? (I haven't used Windows in over a decade) https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/downloads/han...
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by darrenf 3y ago
`fuser` (from `psmisc`[0] Linux package; commonly installed IME, also supplies things like `pstree`) lets you identify processes which have files or sockets open, and has a `-k` switch for killing them. So you can run e.g. fuser -k 80
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by darrenf 3y ago
> frankly is coming off like some kind of attempt to gaslight the thread down a path of "this was never a concern and no one was suggesting this". I mean, I literally quoted an MP saying " The debate on key escrow raged
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by darrenf 3y ago
And the people of Esher & Walton are now served by ... Dominic Raab.
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by darrenf 3y ago
> the bill was eventually dropped If you're referring to the Electronic Communications Bill, it did indeed become an act. And in fact it contained an explicit section prohibiting the imposition of escrow (which has not been remo
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by darrenf 3y ago
> For me, one of the things that has stopped me from even trying ChromeOS is that is/meant to be 100% cloud which means no local storage I've had a Pixelbook for 4.5 years -- a Google product, so arguably as it's "mea
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by darrenf 4y ago
I mean, it's not just wikipedia - the genesis block itself contained a news headline from 2009. So whatever it is you remember, it is not using bitcoin in 1999. > The Times 03/Jan/2009 Chancellor on brink of second bail
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by darrenf 4y ago
The passport required for foreign travel seems the likely answer, given: > Dmitry Peskov, Putin’s spokesperson, confirmed Russia had tightened the restrictions on foreign travel for some who work in “sensitive” areas
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by darrenf 4y ago
Because being fired means the employee(s) did something wrong. I've been laid off but never fired.

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