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by dghf 2y ago
Worst case? I guess that would be so many bogus notifications that your doorbell is rendered effectively useless. But in that case, I suppose you're moving out of the realm of pranks into what is essentially a DoS attack.
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by dghf 2y ago
This does seem like it might be prone to pranksters copying a particular doorbell code and putting it outside someone else's house (or several houses), distributing fake flyers that include it ("Scan here for a chance to win a cru
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by dghf 2y ago
Haiti, Chile, Uruguay, Bolivia and Greece all abolished slavery before the UK did.
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by dghf 2y ago
In the UK, any ballpoint pen is commonly a biro for similar reasons.
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by dghf 2y ago
Henry VIII (in his younger, athletic days) could leap into the saddle in full armour without using the stirrups, and was very proud of it.
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by dghf 2y ago
> Leonard Cohen is one of those artists where I tend to much prefer someone else's version of his songs than I do his songs. I disagree. I’m with whoever it was who said “No one can sing a Leonard Cohen song like Leonard Cohen can’t
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by dghf 2y ago
Hate to be that "that guy" but it's not even that, it's pluralising an existing but hitherto uncountable noun (e.g. "a man of great learning").
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by dghf 2y ago
vimdiff file1 file2
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by dghf 2y ago
So at the end, I'm shown a full-screen gradient from green to blue, with a line showing where my personal boundary between green and blue lies. Except that when I look at that gradient, it seems to me that the actual transition lies mu
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by dghf 2y ago
That's not a corporation in the sense of a company, though. It's a corporation in the sense of a local government body: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Municipal_corporation
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by dghf 2y ago
He explicitly mentions the second of those, in exactly those words: > Why is jargon effective? Because it shows the reader that you speak his language.
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by dghf 2y ago
Yeah, but Irish posties mean you don't actually need them. You can just put stuff like this on the envelopes: Your man Henderson That boy with the glasses who is doing a PhD up here at Queen's in Belfast. B
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by dghf 2y ago
I remember the KJV/SICP mash-up. My favourite, both for funniness and emotional truth: > And Satan stood against them in the global environment.
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by dghf 2y ago
> https://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc4180.txt is very clear about what CSV files are supposed to look like Mm, not really. By its own admission, it is descriptive, not prescriptive : > This section documents the form
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by dghf 2y ago
(Replying to this comment rather than your latest, as that's been downvoted out of existence.) > In that case sorry for the accusation. No worries. > With this you haven't given me epistemic justification, you're just t
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by dghf 2y ago
> Before I can continue this conversation I'm going to have to ask you to please stop downvoting my responses. It’s not me who’s downvoting you. > So again, how do you know that change happens all the time? If you’re seriously go
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by dghf 2y ago
> How do you know that change happens all the time? Because ... it does? Things move. The kettle boils and then cools. There's a grey hair that wasn't there yesterday. > By limiting the question of consciousness purely to th
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by dghf 2y ago
> If consciousness does not exist in a non-physical space, the very possibility of knowledge at all becomes impossible to reckon with. We could not have any interaction with metaphysical ideas like logic, reason, mathematics and so on. W
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by dghf 2y ago
Sorry, why is stasis a simpler position than change? Change happens all the time. Phenomena end. If a match burns out, the simpler assumption is that the flame has gone, not that it persists in some imperceptible fashion. Likewise, if a hum
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by dghf 2y ago
> There is absolutely zero scientific, empirical basis for the materialist presupposition that nothing happens after we die. Isn't it more the point that there is a lack of evidence for supposing that something does happen after w
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by dghf 2y ago
And an imperial ton, which is different again.
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by dghf 2y ago
> Historically all the Peers could sit Not quite. Scottish peers (to be precise, members of the Peerage of Scotland, which isn't quite the same thing) and Irish peers (again, more precisely, members of the Peerage of Ireland) electe
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by dghf 2y ago
They are not the same thing. Not all weird nerds have autism, and not all people with autism are weird nerds.
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by dghf 2y ago
> all of the land in question is part of Israel Gaza isn't actually part of Israel, though, is it? Even Israel says it's not, if I understand correctly.
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by dghf 3y ago
So the template is 'You <adjective> <object> of <adjective> <animal> <noun>'. If there's about 42 bits of randomness, presumably there's an average of a bit more of 2^8 entries in each of th
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by dghf 3y ago
> Discernible through the confounding Old English Middle English, not Old English. > Half a millennium after Juliana Barnes died an unknown nun in an English convent on a planet without clocks, calculus, or democracy I'm pretty c
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by dghf 3y ago
According to John Gardner (or possibly Dostoyevsky, or Tolstoy, or someone else entirely -- attributions differ), there are only two basic plots: 1. Someone comes to town 2. Someone leaves town
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by dghf 3y ago
Yes. The Supreme Court might declare such a law incompatible with the European Convention on Human Rights (incorporated into UK law under the Human Rights Act), but that does not in itself invalidate the law: it would remain the law until P
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by dghf 3y ago
There is no such thing as an illegal Act of Parliament in the UK. Parliament has unfettered power to pass whatever laws it sees fit, regardless of existing laws, treaties, or whatever. (At least, that's the standard interpretation, tho
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by dghf 3y ago
> it can't be considered fluent English when seen as an isolated sentence Can't it? Why not? What's wrong with it? > The line in question, She said goodbye too many times before, stands out like a sore thumb for being p

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