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by gerikson 5y ago
Perl is like life - it contains both good and bad. And good things in Perl don't get noticed because they Just Work.
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by gerikson 5y ago
Indeed. I get invites from people from the UK who simply refer to the current local time (GMT or BST) as "GMT". It just means current London time to them.
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by gerikson 5y ago
Privateering was legal, and generally only applied towards enemies of the country issuing letters of marque. Piracy was always illegal. Of course the difference wasn't always clear, especially as privateers generally favored attacking
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by gerikson 5y ago
From what I can see following YouTube videos is that there is a ton of innovation and small business activity around guns in the USA. Maybe approach one of the bigger companies in that space?
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by gerikson 5y ago
The Expanse authors got it from Heinlein, which was what I was referencing ;)
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by gerikson 5y ago
Better be careful or they'll target the Tesla factories with moon rocks fired from mass drivers...
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by gerikson 5y ago
20% cost on remittance is an absolute outlier, the average global cost is around 7% https://www.saveonsend.com/money-transfer-services/
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by gerikson 5y ago
What's the incentive for a platform to choose to be a provider? ISPs block spam emails all the time. Should they be prevented from doing so?
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by gerikson 5y ago
Make the Bronze Age Great Again.
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by gerikson 5y ago
I love Plex, it's my favorite sans-serif monospace typeface. For serif, the one true style, I'm partial to Go Mono, but my current fascination is DSE Typewriter.
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by gerikson 5y ago
Top selling vehicles 2021 USA ( https://www.caranddriver.com/news/g36005989/best-selling-car... ) 1. Ford F-series 2. Ram pickup 3. Chevrolet Silverado Top selling in Sweden 2021 ( https://w
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by gerikson 5y ago
They are not as common as in the US. And crucially, they are not (yet) a status symbol. Someone who can afford a vehicle like that as a daily driver (not a contractor) will get a huge-ass Merc or Audi instead. Work vehicles in Stockholm are
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by gerikson 5y ago
There's probably been an issue with spam originating from that IP.
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by gerikson 5y ago
I have all 3, an iPad fills a niche for me (mostly reading books and comics). I don't have the most expensive one, though.
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by gerikson 5y ago
But is it closer than Linux on the desktop?
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by gerikson 5y ago
I'm pretty sure that it's opening the car door using your opposing hand, so that you naturally look backwards to ensure there's no cyclist approaching that can be harmed by a suddenly opened car door. I personally use my side
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by gerikson 5y ago
D'oh, thanks. Fixed.
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by gerikson 5y ago
That's the source of the "This is not a place of honor" meme - it's a study about designing a site that is foreboding across vast time scales, so our remote ancestors^Wdescendants won't be tempted to dig it up. Swed
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by gerikson 5y ago
Start on Antenna: https://portal.mozz.us/gemini/warmedal.se/~antenna/
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by gerikson 5y ago
I'd start by checking out Antenna: https://portal.mozz.us/gemini/warmedal.se/~antenna/ It's an aggregator of sorts, but with a bit of a twist. Clients, for the terminal I recommend Amfora https:&#x
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by gerikson 5y ago
It's fine, it's just tethers.
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by gerikson 5y ago
Nothing as dramatic as your story, but the reason I learned Perl back in 1999 or so was because I was a contractor for a contractor for a company that imported a CDs worth of XML into a database every week. The importer was written in Java,
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by gerikson 5y ago
He's got a direct line to Calvin Ayre's money.
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by gerikson 5y ago
This is our model https://universal.bertazzoni.com/products/professional-serie... SMEG also has induction stoves with knobs but we don’t trust that brand.
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by gerikson 5y ago
We searched high and low for a stove with an induction top that used knobs and finally settled on a stove from Bertazzoni. Expensive but worth it for us. IMHO touch controls are popular because they are cheap to make and offer a simple way
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by gerikson 5y ago
Fascinating to learn about the "Blue/Green" divide in Taiwanese attitudes to China. Does anyone know where the colors comes from?
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by gerikson 5y ago
That's me (Swedish, but fluent English reader and interested in UK/European history) when it comes to the American Civil War...
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by gerikson 5y ago
This is one of the many things that annoy me about "web3" - they have, in my mind, appropriated a term that denotes something quite different.
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by gerikson 5y ago
It only works well if you’re familiar with the US form of dates…
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by gerikson 5y ago
It concerns me greatly that I can't find if the week year is based on American or ISO weeks...

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