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by detritus 6y ago
It might be a bit too hot to smell bad...
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by detritus 6y ago
Wait - so I can finally buy the Monster Beetle I dearly wanted as a 14 year old? I imagine the modern iterations are significantly better than those I drooled over as a child, with 30 odd years of improvements in electric motors and batteri
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by detritus 6y ago
Hello fellow Harringey/Haringay-ite! I was surprised the other day on a long-ish walk that skirted around the base of Ally Pally, just how green the built up areas of Harringey are. I often get the impression that Haringey (and Hackn
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by detritus 7y ago
Vega 2 Dropped a balloon probe over 40 years ago that lasted at least a few hours as it floated at its level and traversed 11,000Km. Why not hope that in another couple of hundred years we could make something that could last significantly
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by detritus 7y ago
Oh my gosh - I'd never considered living inside a Venutian blimp before. Of course! Why not? I still have fantasies about Venus being somehow a more likely [very] long-term prospect for terraforming, despite the planet's rotatio
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by detritus 7y ago
I had that stuff too, around the same time* - and re-visited it on a trip to Sweden last year.. and, I'd still not consider it particularly 'elegant' :) * we had a deal with our English teacher - my Swedish friend would suppl
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by detritus 7y ago
Gas grills make good-tasting toast and they're less problemmatic to do cheese toasties in than a toaster... .
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by detritus 7y ago
'Elegant'? Have you ... ever tried it? My experience of it decades ago was anything other than 'elegant', unless having one's face scrunch up like a bulldog pissing on a nettle before exploding into a sneezing fit c
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by detritus 7y ago
Yes, and OP's comment was in relation to higher level computer representation of combined forms, so as interesting as your comment is, at this point it's simply picking threads for the sake of self-amusement.
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by detritus 7y ago
Those four glyphs look entirely different to each other to me, no matter which way around I orient my head... :)
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by detritus 7y ago
From the date, in Arabic numerals, on the president of Mongolia's website, it looks like they solve that by simply rotating lengths of none Mongolian-content 90° to fit. If you're learning to read Latin (etc) script for the first
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by detritus 7y ago
Your link, interesting as it is, doesn't point to any particular criticism of the idea, and given its age might not be much relevant today anyway, had it done so.
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by detritus 7y ago
Not any more!
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by detritus 7y ago
Thank you for posting this - I'd had pretty much the exact thought about creating a market for multiple copies earlier today when I first saw this story, and presumed (in my typically arrogant and self-regarding human fashion) that I&#
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by detritus 7y ago
> transparent gradients Oh crikey - I forgot about the workarounds to achieve transparent gradients back in the old days! And we not that long ago got the ability to [finally] open PDFs with more than one page, which is - well, the fact
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by detritus 7y ago
It sounds like we've been in the same boat, for about the same amount of time. I've gone from being a total Adobe fanboy (who isn't a fanboy in their late teens and twenties?) but it's a company that I absolutely cannot
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by detritus 7y ago
'Triggered', check. Do you live in a dense urban populace? There is no room for excessive noise-makers here. Go bother the countryside if noise is your thing.
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by detritus 7y ago
Why should I/We have to? Surely people can just shut tf up?
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by detritus 7y ago
it's strange for me now, looking back and appreciating the Commodore 64 for what it was - the colours that I thought muddy and awful as a child now seem considered and more broadly useful, the capabilities of the SID chip blowing away
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by detritus 7y ago
If you delete them you'll see which bits disappear respectively from the image - in this case: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Groyne
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by detritus 7y ago
This was a bit of a poorly-considered comment. To take you at your intent, all humans will be exposed to this virus with more or less the same chances of suffering. I imagine there may be pockets of resistance within certain gene pools, bu
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by detritus 7y ago
I tended to imagine that was inspired by larger 'pushback' vehicles at airports. eg. https://www.terbergdts.co.uk/globalassets/special-vehicles-s... - looks bad-ass!
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by detritus 7y ago
An odd response! :) If SpaceX didn't exist, how would they put food on the table?
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by detritus 7y ago
They can always leave. I'd presume that many of them are on-board in the first place because they're engaged by the idea.
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by detritus 7y ago
Ooh, thanks! That sounds like a much smarter solution.
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by detritus 7y ago
Yup, which is a central core to the tragedy of how the EU was [mis-] sold to the UK populace and the idea of Brexit allowed to creep in over decades of gradual negative sublimation in the tabloid / right-wing press. We've always b
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by detritus 7y ago
I caved in and made a specific container-type in Firefox just for TechCrunch articles, given they pop up so frequently here on HN. My list of containers will become a bit unwieldy in time, I think. I should probably consolidate some types a
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by detritus 7y ago
Yeah, as in literally Romanian Gangsters. The irony of this troll's stance is that he's parroting the 'woke slogan spewing twitter user' he's so critical of. And yes, I did just assume troll's gender. . I reall
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by detritus 7y ago
There's nothing new under the sun, as they say - what you're suggesting was fairly common for poorer households back in ancient Greece and Rome. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thermopolium
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by detritus 7y ago
> the UK left the EU last month and cannot be considered as an ally for it gibraltar politics anymore... I'm sorry, but this is fairly laughable - if you had any idea of the relationship between Spain and the UK over the last n deca

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