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by ralferoo 5y ago
This video discussing the v in Latin is interesting, and mentions b/v in Spanish. But watching this gives some insight on how these sounds merged over time, and has interesting clips of dialects of other Romance languages where this ef
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by ralferoo 5y ago
Not heard of this particular script before (although I see the answer was already posted), but it seems a bit redundant to have created an incompatible system when shorthand was in widespread use in the UK at the time, albeit mostly only us
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by ralferoo 5y ago
I experienced the opposite effect described here, and I ascribe the positive effects to lockdown. Before COVID, I ran about 5km once a month, and I was pretty slow. I got COVID early on in February 2020, and while it initially seemed mild,
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by ralferoo 5y ago
Quite a lot of restaurants in the UK also spell it as kebop, so I'd have thought many people would also be able to guess kebob.
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by ralferoo 5y ago
I'm not sure this actually solves the real problem that people have. Sure, reboots are annoying and pretty much all current OSes could be improved in this regard. Back in the 90s, it's interesting that SunOS supported live kernel
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by ralferoo 5y ago
This article is weird. It centres on the central premise that pie charts are useless because you can't tell exactly the relative sizes of slices that are very similarly sized. That's not the point of a pie chart, which is to show
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by ralferoo 5y ago
Different people prefer to absorb data in different ways. Some people will prefer pie charts, other graphs, others tables of raw data. It's completely possible to present a pie chart, and include the percentages (or raw data) in the le
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by ralferoo 5y ago
I don't even understand why a company would decide to build a boat in a location where it's impossible to transport it from there to the sea. The whole point of building a boat next to a port is so that it can be dropped into the
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by ralferoo 5y ago
The up arrow to store was the biggest problem for me. I ended up doing this about 10 times in about 40 pieces, just because it's muscle memory from Tetris.
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by ralferoo 5y ago
Wonder if tomorrow, the analytics site will show up as the top most visited government website!
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by ralferoo 5y ago
Some domain registrars provide this service for free. I've always used a this setup, have my personal domain forward all mail to google, and I have my address with domain set up in gmail. Also, I think that's no longer an option -
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by ralferoo 5y ago
Watching the actual video puts a lot of it into context: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RrOzY86YcEM It's hard to know how serious all this is, because he keeps switching between outrageous comments and then a serious
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by ralferoo 5y ago
The idea of the "property ladder" is that your first house is (relatively) cheap, and then as your get older your earnings increase and the old mortgage seems cheap, and maybe you now have children and want a bigger place, so you
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by ralferoo 5y ago
Then again, the title of the post says "practically free" and goes on to say it's actually $5 a month, so I took the rest of the figures with a grain of salt...
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by ralferoo 5y ago
> Lucky streak? My starting word is BACON. I see what you did there
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by ralferoo 5y ago
Also, the screenshot makes it pretty clear he's aware of the risk of this device. https://blog.benjojo.co.uk/asset/xaTe0Gf3Az
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by ralferoo 5y ago
I lived next to Hyde Park at the time. On numerous occasions whilst doing my daily run, I witnessed excessive policing. For instance, a group of 4 police officers moving on a student who was on her own sat on the grass studying, 15m away fr
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by ralferoo 5y ago
I find it very puzzling that this guy is choosing to work 230 hours for free, especially considering that he has zero guarantees that he will ever get that money back or this exact same scenario wouldn't happen again. As others have no
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by ralferoo 5y ago
I've done keto a couple of times, with massive weight loss each time. The last time was 30kg in 6 months. The first time, I tried close to 0g carb as a goal. The second time, I was a bit more relaxed about it, had some yogurt (still ve
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by ralferoo 5y ago
The real problem for a spiteful move like this is that it's unlikely to make people want to support his open source work at the risk he'll later destroy it, and companies are unlikely to want to employ him because of fears of him
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by ralferoo 5y ago
Actually, MM/DD/YYYY is in the minority worldwide. AFAIK, only the US and Canada use it. All of Europe uses DD/MM/YYYY (Germany uses dots instead of /) and I believe most (if not all) of South America too. Chinese a
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by ralferoo 5y ago
> I tell you about seeing a rare and elusive jabberwocky, and I told you it was deceptively [small | large]. Without further elaboration or context, you may struggle to deduce whether I mean that the jabberwocky is smaller or larger than
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by ralferoo 5y ago
I did this years ago and lost some weight doing it at the time, but the basic premise of "a calorie is a calorie is a calorie" is provably not true. The body's metabolism plays a massive part in determining how many calories
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by ralferoo 5y ago
More information: https://labs.ripe.net/author/cteusche/bgp-meets-cat/
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by ralferoo 5y ago
I know the UK isn't EU any more, but I've never seen that before we left and I've worked in lots of companies in the UK, big and small. In theory you should get a sick note after 3 days, because the government pays SSP (statu
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by ralferoo 5y ago
I noticed in the year I lived in London how nice it was to never actually use my car, even though it did move to London with me. Obviously, London is very much not a car-free zone, but the public transportation is sufficient that a car isn&
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by ralferoo 5y ago
The new epoch will probably have time 0 as being the instant when we accidentally blow up the earth, adjusted for wherever we are in space by however long it takes the light from earth to get there. Assuming we have some lucky ones who do m
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by ralferoo 5y ago
> DateTime.MaxValue is 0x2BCA2875F4373FFF. > The 62 bits technically allow for an extra ~81 days into the year 10,000. Just eyeballing it from starting 0x2B... which is about 2/3 of 0x3F... which would be the maximum value of 62
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by ralferoo 5y ago
If you're watching 5+ rental films per week, when do you have the time to watch anything on the cable package? Sounds like a ridiculous waste of money to me, but then I'm firmly at the other end of the spectrum. I finally cancelle
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by ralferoo 5y ago
For me with Chrome on Windows, I can just scroll to the bottom and it's sat there doing nothing but with a "Waiting for ..." in the status tab. Possibly it's just because the server is busy, or because they're DDOSi

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