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by rob74 1y ago
One typical expression that stuck with me is "[please] do the needful" (often used when assigning Jira tickets to someone else).
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by rob74 1y ago
Well, the "lead issue" could be fixed by writing the verb "leed" (after all, it's exactly the same sound as in the word "queen" mentioned in the article), but for some reason this hasn't happened...
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by rob74 1y ago
Well, I mean, the touristic potential of a gravel road with 666 km of taiga scenery is a bit limited (if you have seen the first 20 km, you can probably imagine the remaining 646 pretty well). And I say this as someone who has been to Icel
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by rob74 1y ago
> Along this road is also the farthest north point you can travel on a road in eastern Canada. Not to belittle the remoteness of this road, but I just find it interesting that the farthest north point you can travel on a road in easter
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by rob74 1y ago
Well, for most other >10 year old cars, if all else fails you would be able to get parts scavenged from the junkyard, but I guess that doesn't work as well for Porsche (first because there's not a lot of them and second because
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by rob74 1y ago
So for London-Tokyo the return route is completely different from the outbound route? Fascinating! I guess that has something to do with the jetstream (which only helps you when travelling eastbound)?
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by rob74 1y ago
I would certainly consider ibuprofen a "painkiller", it works wonders when I get a headache. So the phrase "the first non-opioid pain reliever suitable for treating post-surgery pain" used later in the article should act
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by rob74 1y ago
Cute! But they should add a feature so you can use the images via an API, similar to PlaceKitten (which seems to be defunct now).
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by rob74 1y ago
Now I wonder if these were ever really used as actual postage stamps? Besides the size and weight, stamps need to be "cancelled" by, well, stamping them with another kind of stamp ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki&#x2
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by rob74 1y ago
In the end, it's all supply and demand - even gold is no exception.
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by rob74 1y ago
I assume that their first product is for facades because it was easier to get an approval for it? But eventually they want to expand into structural elements too.
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by rob74 1y ago
Yeah, maybe for stuff like this which (now) has direct applications, yes. But for basic research (and it took decades of basic research on genetics, gene editing etc. etc. to get to this point)? No way...
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by rob74 1y ago
That's all very cool, but there are also articles like this one: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/feb/20/trump-nih-cu... - I'm not able to read the Times article because it's paywa
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by rob74 1y ago
Maybe the FCOM was actually the design specification, i.e. how they wanted it to work, which however had significant differences from the final product? The article later points out that the many Direct Mode reversions probably have somet
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by rob74 1y ago
That may be true, but the airline should have noticed his issues and made sure to either get him to an acceptable level or let him go. Instead, they failed to notice his problems and promoted him to captain and even instructor.
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by rob74 1y ago
Such long reads might not be for everyone, but I think the article actually does a very good job at listing all the contributing factors of the accident, while not trying to assign percentages of the blame to the participants. Sure, the pil
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by rob74 1y ago
> the sanctions make it very difficult to get spare parts The crash described in the article is from 2019, so before meaningful sanctions against Russia were implemented. Also, the article makes a pretty good job at mentioning other fa
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by rob74 1y ago
> I'm super happy JetBrains has been opening up all their editors to offer free access for non-commercial use. All? That would be news to me! From the 10 IDEs (not counting ReSharper, which iss a plugin vor Visual Studio) listed o
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by rob74 1y ago
Interestingly enough, sometimes "you" is used to give instructions (177 times), sometimes "Claude" (224 times). Is this just random based on who added the rule, or is there some purpose behind this differentiation?
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by rob74 1y ago
> In previous posts, I have looked at total rainfall, number of wet days, and cloud cover independently of one another. Unfortunately those posts aren't linked, so that left me a bit puzzled. A day with rain is also wet (and proba
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by rob74 1y ago
Yes - the problem is that "i" and "I" are standard ASCII characters, while the dotted I and the dotless i are not. Creating special "Turkish I" and "Turkish i" characters would have been an alternativ
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by rob74 1y ago
Yeah, I guess if you have a very specific problem that you need help with, it's better to ask about it on Discord. But for the general questions that many noobs are likely to face that the blog post mentions ("How do you make for
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by rob74 1y ago
The Zig Discord is a great resource for anyone learning Zig. At any given time, the zig-help forum is awash with questions from beginners like “How do you make for loop in reverse? or “What allocator to use in WASM?” Most get answered with
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by rob74 1y ago
That's actually the crux of the matter - not only shouldn't they have done training (at night, with night vision goggles) in conditions where aircraft could be only 30 m apart, this construct of a helicopter flight corridor bein
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by rob74 1y ago
That's... not really an advertisement for your blog, is it?
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by rob74 1y ago
However, I hope it gives better advice than the someone you're thinking of. But Grok's training data is probably more balanced than that used by you-know-who (which seems to be "all of rightwing X")...
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by rob74 1y ago
Then maybe the default value for "permission to access photos" should be no , so they can only start accessing them after you give them permission. But yeah, with stuff like this it's always "opt-out", never "
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by rob74 1y ago
Better than the current one - first, stalking is not really a verb that comes to mind when I think about bugs, and second, it has pretty negative connotations...
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by rob74 1y ago
Plus they obviously want to set an example: if you get in our way, bad things will happen to you.
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by rob74 2y ago
I agree with you that that's probably the real problem, but not that the situation is unique to Britain (although maybe it's worse in Britain then elsewhere)...

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