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by glxxyz 3y ago
I still have quite a few mix tapes that I recorded from FM radio in the 90s. Including Future Sound of London's 'Lifeforms' that I captured in the middle of the night and that took a while to work out what it was! CDs were so
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by glxxyz 3y ago
New tape decks are poor quality, even wearerewind which puts it in a cool package uses the only new mechanism still manufactured, same as everyone else: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WleZGWAebsY&t=33s . It may be fine
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by glxxyz 3y ago
Unfortunately bats don't eat many mosquitos as they prefer other insects. They should eat a few though.
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by glxxyz 3y ago
Adopted my cat at ~9 months, 8 years in an apartment, moved to a rural property and he knew exactly what to do with mice and how to stalk them. Even losing 3 of his 4 fangs didn't slow him down.
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by glxxyz 3y ago
The MSN brand is still limping along: https://www.msn.com - it seems that just the news aggregator is Microsoft Start: https://www.msn.com/en-us/feed
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by glxxyz 3y ago
They may have considered difficulty cancelling as a feature. It would probably look good in the retention metrics. Companies often hire consultants to tell them things that they already know but don't like to admit to themselves.
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by glxxyz 4y ago
The first time I drove a manual car back in the UK after a few years driving a manual in Canada I went to change gear and grabbed the door handle.
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by glxxyz 4y ago
In case it's not obvious 'kleine' means 'little' or 'small'.
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by glxxyz 4y ago
Nearer the end they add that they were "not prepared to drop 5,000 Euros on it"
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by glxxyz 4y ago
Prior art: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/48/Hereford...
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by glxxyz 4y ago
A handful means either the amount you can hold in your hand "add a handful of salt", or a small number so "Country X only has a handful of aircraft carriers" is fine. I think with apples it would be the second meaning bu
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by glxxyz 4y ago
> Tweet said unsigned ints Which tweet?
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by glxxyz 4y ago
It can be rewritten without the test: return a - (a - b) / 2;
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by glxxyz 4y ago
> You seem to be imagining a sound that might be interpreted as a K or, alternatively, might be interpreted as a J No, not at all
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by glxxyz 4y ago
I didn't say the k was a romanization, I said it was older.
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by glxxyz 4y ago
Wade-Giles is more prevalent in places that kept Traditional characters, because the mainland switched to Simplified and pinyin in the 1950s.
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by glxxyz 4y ago
Well, at least close-er, yes the 'k' is older than Wade Giles, the changes in spelling are still just changes in romanizations systems.
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by glxxyz 4y ago
Not really, under the old Wade-Giles romanization system the city was transliterated as 'Peking'. Under the newer (~65 year old) pinyin system it's transliterated as 'Beijing'. The pronunciation in Mandarin never ch
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by glxxyz 4y ago
Where is Match 55 (F winner vs E runner up)?
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by glxxyz 4y ago
Yes I've had a Zojirushi induction pressure rice cooker for 6 years and the sticky rice & porridge it makes is incredible. The instant pot is great but we use it for other things.
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by glxxyz 4y ago
It is shown: "Match 49 12/3", 3rd of December.
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by glxxyz 4y ago
You're describing Bait and switch: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bait-and-switch
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by glxxyz 4y ago
Giving up the world championship improves his (very slim) chances of reaching 2900, because he doesn't have to save his preparation for those 12 important games. Magnus often plays offbeat (bad, basically) openings, to take his real pr
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by glxxyz 4y ago
"battery estimate, whether it is trying to pair, or which device it is currently connected to"
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by glxxyz 4y ago
I've had a dual boiler espresso machine (La Spaziale S1) for 10 years that's a typography horror show. There are less than 10 words on the device and they managed to use 4 completely different fonts: their logo font (which I actua
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by glxxyz 4y ago
I switched to keyboards without number pads about 20 years ago, when I realised that I had never used them and they were in the way of where the mouse should be. I've been able to touch-type numbers since I was in school, and I've
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by glxxyz 4y ago
Yeah there's an Excel/tab-delimited inventory upload: https://sellercentral.amazon.com/gp/help/external/G201576670... , I was surprised to see so many invalid item names including many that have been
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Amazon.com product names showing Error:#REF!(google.com)
3 points by glxxyz 4y ago|3 comments
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by glxxyz 4y ago
I've got no idea if this is new. Google gives 738k results for Error:#REF! on Amazon.com I don't recognize the error, although #REF! looks like something from Excel. Could this be caused by FBA sellers uploading product names crea
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by glxxyz 4y ago
KKH = Kaufmännische Krankenkasse Hauptverwaltung

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