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871.
by gpvos 4y ago
It is in fact guaranteed that house numbers are unique within a Dutch postcode. I'm not sure if that is the case in the UK.
872.
by gpvos 4y ago
When Chuck Norris opens Windows, he only receives telemetry from Microsoft.
873.
by gpvos 4y ago
What does the abbreviation UDM stand for?
874.
Why singer Jully Black changed one word in Canada's national anthem(bbc.com)
1 points by gpvos 4y ago|0 comments
875.
by gpvos 4y ago
And, since they often use the same masts, threaten the repair people of the main networks.
876.
by gpvos 4y ago
These things don't exclude each other. Also, people can be more expensive and less reliable than machinery.
877.
by gpvos 4y ago
Well, they are embedded in the PDF as a Type 1 font. That support can in principle be removed (e.g., if your font rendering depends on a library shared with other software that drops Type 1 support), although indeed that would not be in t
878.
by gpvos 4y ago
What's UDM?
879.
by gpvos 4y ago
The concept of many students going to uni, or worse even to school, by car baffles me; usually they have good public transport connections and enough bicycle stalls, but I guess this is the US?
880.
by gpvos 4y ago
That would be great. But: were the early and late classes given by the same people? That sounds not good for them, so I guess not, which would mean only larger schools and universities have enough people to do that.
881.
by gpvos 4y ago
Upvoting on principle.
882.
by gpvos 4y ago
> Technical excellence begins in wonder but is honed by disgust Now that is a quote for the ages.
883.
by gpvos 4y ago
Good to see PDF viewers will at least keep supporting it.
884.
by gpvos 4y ago
Also, Type 1 fonts have been on the decline for a long time, so announcing their end is a likely thing to do.
885.
by gpvos 4y ago
That's not in the featured article, so why isn't a more informative article linked instead?
886.
by gpvos 4y ago
Even though it's simple, it's a minor detail. I am unaware of many minor details in lots of things I use. It's not that I can't be bothered or I'm not curious, it just that it has never come up and there's lots
887.
by gpvos 4y ago
Use the tools you're familiar with?
888.
by gpvos 4y ago
For leisure / keeping up with the world (you know, democracy and such), and wow are you judgmental.
889.
by gpvos 4y ago
$0.01 is too low, but $0.50 is way too high except for longer articles. I read so much on a day that paying 50c for every article would ruin me.
890.
by gpvos 4y ago
It's amazing it's forecast at all. As ESA writes: > This is just the seventh time an #asteroidimpact has ever been predicted before it happens - a sign of the rapid advancements in global asteroid detection capabilities!
891.
by gpvos 4y ago
The news is already a month old.
892.
by gpvos 4y ago
Birthdays are especially dangerous, I hear.
893.
by gpvos 4y ago
Saving you a click: https://www.who.int/europe/news/item/04-01-2023-no-level-of-...
894.
by gpvos 4y ago
Computer tech has been cyclical since at least the 1960s, mostly moving the cleverness back and forth between the server and the client.
895.
by gpvos 4y ago
I'm pretty sure that Opera invented tabs, not Firefox.
896.
First Globalization(en.wikipedia.org)
1 points by gpvos 4y ago|0 comments
897.
by gpvos 4y ago
On the other hand, I am happy with EU environmental regulation because it's often stronger than that in my own country (Netherlands). It's a balance. More transparency is indeed needed though.
898.
by gpvos 4y ago
The wording suggests to me that there can be ee/ subdirectories scattered all through the directory tree, and within those the different licenses apply.
899.
by gpvos 4y ago
I knew about WITH clauses, just didn't know the name.
900.
by gpvos 4y ago
CTE = common table expression, i.e. a WITH clause (possibly recursive) before your SELECT (or other) statement. https://learnsql.com/blog/what-is-common-table-expression/

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