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by interfixus 5y ago
Caller would have gotten about five seconds worth of my time: "That's very nice. Please send an email. Goodbye". But then, I'm not an expert.
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by interfixus 5y ago
Both bridges play the interesting role of spanning international waters wholly inside NATO countries. Russian naval vessels routinely pass under the Great Belt Bridge, and (I certainly assume) under the Istanbul one as well.
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by interfixus 5y ago
No. Nothing changed locally, and I live fairly isolated. And anyway, we get around, me and my Casio.
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by interfixus 5y ago
My Casio watch normally syncs six times a day from the DCF77 transmitter in Frankfurt. In freak weather it may occasionally skip a sync or two, but otherwise it has been rock steady through more than two years of operation. Until about five
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by interfixus 5y ago
That name! Associations ad libitum with meathooks and carcasses and bloodstained butchers. Yes, I actually believe this is the reason I never went there. And same goes, to a lesser extent, for Slashdot.
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by interfixus 5y ago
If that particular Russian is in fact an all-out psychopath, this concept may not apply.
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by interfixus 5y ago
Exact same here. But to get the ball rolling, I had to set up an account and connect exactly once. Throwaway mail-account and immidiately afterwards I disabled all wifi access. Not ideal, but has served me well enough for a couple of years,
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by interfixus 5y ago
My T440p started life in 2013 as a work PC in an engineering firm. Was then retired and sold for scraps to an employee, a friend of mine who later passed it on to me. I splashed out and bought a brand new, higher res display on eBay, less
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by interfixus 5y ago
Ndos was a command.com alternative, not a DOS replacement like DRDos. It was based on 4DOS, and yes, it was a giant leap upwards, not unlike the experience that the Fish shell provides today.
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by interfixus 5y ago
There is one linked in the article. Stardict format; any reasonable dictionary software will read it.
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by interfixus 5y ago
1984 was just an anagram of 1948, the year Orwell was writing in.
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by interfixus 5y ago
Tangential, I know, but my mother-in-law, who has suffered heavily from Crohn's since her younger days, last week turned 100 with fabulously flying colours; mobile, mentally fit and could easily pass as a wellpreserved 80. The Crohn&#x
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by interfixus 5y ago
Now I start my day saddened by the expression "A.A. Milne's Winnie the Pooh". As if there could be any other. Yes, I know. There could. Damn Disney.
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by interfixus 5y ago
For which definition of "we" and "people"?
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by interfixus 5y ago
Completely unsurprising of course, but still the second-scariest thing I've read this morning and actually for quite a while. The scariest is sophisticated, well-informed and higly intelligent HN commenters in this thread who seem to b
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by interfixus 5y ago
Presumably, the submission can trace some lineage back to the link below, where John Walker of Fourmilab had this to say of Elon Musk: " Darned if he doesn’t sound a bit like Peter Kropotkin, who wrote in The Conquest of Bread 1 in 190
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by interfixus 5y ago
> the one thing that you should do You are not being brutally honest, you are just trying to crash this party with your own particular mindset.
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by interfixus 5y ago
Yes, I have noticed this too. Despite my best intentions and full knowledge that we have none here which can hurt me, I am still shit phobic about spiders. The daddy longlegs are a protected species in my household since I first realized th
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by interfixus 5y ago
Or maybe it isn't all that hilarious. Maybe it's just you not understanding a convention, a thread in the social fabric, a way (one way) to keep society ordered and sane. You were observed crossing that street. Conclusions about y
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by interfixus 5y ago
> " Can you think, plan, or relate to other people if you lack words to help structure your experiences? " I put this question to various cats, dogs, rats and rooks of my acquaintance. The answer was a unanimous though wordless
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Fourmilab Blockchain Tools(fourmilab.ch)
3 points by interfixus 5y ago|0 comments
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by interfixus 5y ago
Tannus too soft? I've had mine for a year and a summer, and really couldn't be happier. If anything, I find them a tad on the hard side. This is an ordinary, oldfashioned pushbike with medium-width tyres.
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by interfixus 5y ago
Legibility might improve if other guys and sentences than Saddam Hussein were allowed the use of capitalization.
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by interfixus 5y ago
They tried to teach me various instruments when I was a boy. I didn't mind the playing, but Lord Almighty how I hated the notation stuff. It simply made no sense whatever, and was - as you describe it - clearly invented by morons. Only
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by interfixus 5y ago
Markland is frequently referenced by the fourteenth century Norse characters in Jane Smiley's novel The Greenlanders [1988]. I cannot vouch for the historical accuracy, but the whole thing appears otherwise exceedingly well researche
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by interfixus 5y ago
> Bravecto My exact experience, both for dog (the pill) and cats (the messy stuff smeared onto the skin at the back of the neck). Problem solved, period. No ticks, no fleas, and no noticeable side-effects save for about a day of appare
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Bitter Brew: High Coffee Consumption Is Associated with Smaller Brain Volume(scitechdaily.com)
3 points by interfixus 5y ago|3 comments
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by interfixus 5y ago
Just played a sample of the samples for a congregation of cats residing here. I got four ignores and one stare of bored contempt.
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by interfixus 5y ago
"Overhead, without any fuss, the stars were going out" .
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Papers please: a guide to the post-Covid-19 world(stefdawson.com)
1 points by interfixus 5y ago|0 comments

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