gerikson

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   by gerikson 5y ago

   The linked article correctly uses "British" to denote the style of punctuation, I do not understand why OP decided to use "English" which implies that people in Scotland and Northern Ireland might punctuate differently.
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   by gerikson 5y ago

   Connecting with an FTP client shows that the connection times out.
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   by gerikson 5y ago

   There doesn't seem to have been any activity around that space since ~2015 at least according to Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_Mail_Alliance
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   by gerikson 5y ago

   I agree, and I even contributed to a fundraiser to read more about his trip to Antarctica - in the full knowledge he might never deliver. His Twitter is well worth following: https://twitter.com/Pinboard
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   by gerikson 5y ago

   It works for me. It's a Medium joint, so if you have JavaScript blocked you won't see zip.
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   by gerikson 5y ago

   I am not trypophobic but I find these images unsettling nonetheless.
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   by gerikson 5y ago

   William Langewiesche is an excellent writer, thanks for this link.
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   by gerikson 5y ago

   Probably to be closer to the airport.
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   by gerikson 5y ago

   This article is written with respect to the recent film "revival"[1], and posits that this would have been a great product for Cosina to take advantage of it. [1] in quotes because I personally don't believe it's sustain
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    by gerikson 5y ago

    Using "troubling" as a verb is troubling.
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    by gerikson 5y ago

    http://webtypography.net/ Created in 2005, open-sourced in 2014
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    by gerikson 5y ago

    It doesn't really matter how they had acquired it, they could draw on resources and manpower - Indian regiments, Malayan rubber, Indonesian oil (via the Dutch government in exile)... I'm convinced by reading "Britain's W
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    by gerikson 5y ago

    It's darkly funny, because "delta" was chosen in part not to label it the "India" variant.
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    by gerikson 5y ago

    Apart from Britain and its empire itself, loans and leases on generous terms from the United States.
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    by gerikson 5y ago

    His ministry lost a no-confidence vote in parliament, but no-one else was able to form a new government so he was asked to form a new one. This latest announcement is that he will be stepping down as the leader of the Social Democrats. The
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    by gerikson 5y ago

    The Malazan Book of the Fallen is the only fantasy multi-volume series I've bothered finishing. I couldn't even get through the first volume of the Wheel of Time series...
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    by gerikson 5y ago

    Did you use COMAL too?!
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    by gerikson 5y ago

    I learned to plan programs with this.
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    by gerikson 5y ago

    You jest, but I like to use Julian days (fun fact: different Julian!) to calculate day ranges. It's built in to SQLite so it's really convenient.
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    by gerikson 5y ago

    Old-school blogging. I like it.
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    by gerikson 5y ago

    They do pop up on the front page now and again. Check out https://orangesite.sneak.cloud/ for the last 24h front page entries, and the IRC channel #hntop on Libera.chat for real-time info on when a post hits the front page.
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    by gerikson 5y ago

    You raise a lot of good points. I believe it is a combination of factors.
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    by gerikson 5y ago

    I think Perl not having OO built-in hurt it a lot when the trend towards OO started. Of course Perl is more functional than OO so maybe it's time for a comeback now the pendulum has swung back...
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    by gerikson 5y ago

    Technically correct as rock salt was formed by the evaporation of ancient seas.
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    by gerikson 5y ago

    Facebook: “We believe that personalized ads and user privacy can coexist.” No-one else does.
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    by gerikson 5y ago

    So it's fulfilling its purpose to be deleted for all time. Fitting.
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    by gerikson 5y ago

    Hardly world-changing, in the grand scheme of things (and I say that as a Swede).
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    by gerikson 5y ago

    I didn't know "Facial Recognition" has arresting powers...
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    by gerikson 5y ago

    Grammatically, yes but practically, no. There are multiple rivers with "älv" as a suffix in Sweden, among them the biggest and most economically/historically significant. This means that any possessive formed by "älv-&qu
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    by gerikson 5y ago

    Sounds like they should lay off the Concoda, it sounds dangerous.