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> 35% of the world's population drive to the left, which is much larger than I thought. India would be a huge proportion of that.
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This afternoon, driving home from work, linking my car and phone. Earlier I had headphones linked to my phone via Bluetooth.
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I'm not sure the author is advocating for no developer presence during the planning period. > The first week of each month is spent with project leads and stakeholders defining the upcoming sprint At the very least, I'd suggest
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> US expat trying to receive money overseas. US banks won't serve you unless you have a US address. I admit to knowing almost nothing about the US banking system, but is it really true that one can't make an electronic transfer
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Does Overleaf support what you're looking for?[1] [1] https://www.overleaf.com/learn/latex/Mathematical_expression...
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That's a pretty interesting machine, but as you point out far too clean! I also noticed that the cow's teats weren't sprayed or dipped with iodine solution post-milking to prevent mastitis. Each cow should also be inspected p
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Yes, I mentioned that in my comment. I just hadn't come across this one before. My reading around Hereward was prior to its publication (maybe I should have said a few, rather than a couple of years ago. Time flies).
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I've not heard of this particular novel before, but presume it is about Hereward the Wake[1], which is indeed listed on the Wikipedia page. His story is fascinating and a couple of years ago I read a number of different books about him
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And not just the consumers, but it would seem the producers too. By choice, I do not have a Play Store account and wherever possible install apps only from F-Droid. However, there are (rare) times where I want to install a free (as in beer)
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I've only very briefly used it and am by no means an expert, but perhaps Incanter?[1] Specifically the Plotting section on the Data Sorcery page[2] has more information. [1] http://incanter.org/ [2] https://
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If we're making an F-Droid list and checking it twice: - FreeOTP+ for 2FA - Wireguard for use with Mullvad VPN - AnkiDroid flashcards - AntennaPod for podcasts - Telegram for messaging - Twidere twitter client Plus a few already noted
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Thank you. My first thought when reading this was that sheep dogs, the really good ones, don't typically bark. They are very patient and quiet. Barking is likely to send the sheep in the wrong direction. I owned a working cattle dog on
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Betfair mostly, but also Matchbook, Smarkets and Betdaq.
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Do you have any plans to support or integrate sports trading?
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No, but.... The above error was from my office. When connecting to ProtonVPN's website via a VPN, there is no error. Seems like it could be a certificate configuration error with the network I'm using, which is odd because it'
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As much as I would like to support Mozilla, connecting to protonvpn.com with Firefox 65.0.1 throws me an insecure site error: Your connection is not secure The owner of protonvpn.com has configured their website improperly. To protect your
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> Way off! Your answers don't fit here at all. Which is probably about right, as I know my English is a right mess. Grew up in Australia, lived in South East England for 13 years, shared a house for five years with a bloke from York
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Brilliant! Much of my early teens was "wasted" playing Castle Wolfenstein on a green screen Apple II. Great memories.
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Probably not, just the fit out. Nonetheless, it all contributes to a positive user perception of the aeroplane, compared to similar alternatives.
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I just flew back from Australia to Europe, a journey I've made many times in the last 20 years. The A380 from Sydney to Abu Dhabi was a far superior passenger experience than the 787 from Abu Dhabi to Munich. The Etihad A380 had more s
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English probably, but I've had horse meat in France. And Italy, so it's not just Eastern Europe.
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Wikipedia itself is of course just an iteration on Everything2. https://everything2.com/
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I found the same thing with farming. During my first few University years, I financed myself working on a dairy. A couple of four day weekends each month I would drive around 150km to the job and also the same work for three months solid ov
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> Or their firm would tank, because companies that don't put profit first can't survive on the market. I would argue that this is not strictly speaking true. There are successful companies which don't (seemingly) put profi
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I lived in Twickenham for many years. Eel Pie Island to Richmond Bridge is also one I've done more times than I can remember, usually involving stops at multiple pubs along the way.
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From Putney all the way to Richmond is my favourite part of the Thames Path, within London.[1][2] Try to avoid a Spring tide! [1] https://www.thames-path.org.uk/thames_putney_richmond.html [2] http://www.gps-rout
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> Big and complex organizations are required in order to build big and complex things. And it turns out that it works best by having bosses. Is that true? Having bosses has been proven as the best way to organise big and complex organisa
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How does this change by Github make you regret migrating to Gitlab? Do you think Gitlab's offering is in some ways inferior? I mirrored everything to Gitlab sometime ago, for public repositories and also use them for private repositori
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There is so much to geek out on with skiing, probably much like anything new. A few years ago I moved to Austria. Last year my young son wanted to start skiing, so in my mid-40s I'm also learning. The amount of time I researched which
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This is just up the road from where I grew up in Australia and has been burning for 6,000 years: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burning_Mountain
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