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by s3krit 3y ago
You'll often see articles in the newspapers here gushing romantically about how a couple moved onto the canal in order to save money, and it's all so very nice and wonderful. The reality is once you've factored in a mooring,
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by s3krit 3y ago
For the canals in the UK there's https://opencanalmap.uk/
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by s3krit 3y ago
Ah I love a Dutch barge, does yours have functioning leeboards? Very surprised you didn't need a postcode for the address on the birth certificate - although I suppose if it's 'place of birth', it could be anywhere reall
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by s3krit 3y ago
I've been waiting for the day that HN would have something tangentially related to the English and Welsh canal system so I could gush about it. For those that don't know, we have around 2500 miles of (mostly) navigable canals arou
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by s3krit 3y ago
I went straight into these comments hoping to find another HN (potentially narrow) boater! What's interesting and somewhat amusing is that this map has determined that the section of the Soar that joins with the Trent just north of Lou
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by s3krit 3y ago
neither of those things use IRC. unless you're just referring to channel-based instant messaging.
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by s3krit 3y ago
Sadly not federated, but Spacehey[1] exists! And it's actually quite popular among certain groups of people (the people that were there in the early-mid 00s that want to relive that world, and the younger group that want to live it for
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by s3krit 3y ago
The metrics they're using (2x its height for climbing a wall, 2x its length for crossing a gap) are weird and don't really relate to the same achievements for a traceur. 2x its height is really more like slightly over 1x its usabl
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by s3krit 3y ago
In the UK recently, there has been a designation of 'smoke-free' areas, specifically as a result of research done on the harm to health caused by PM2.5 particulates. It's become quite popular for middle-class homes to fit mul
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by s3krit 3y ago
I eat a lot of chillies - from milder Serrano up to the superhots like bhut jalokia. Jalapenos, in my experience, seem to have the biggest variance in capsaicin per specimen. Sometimes you'll get one that tastes basically like a bell p
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by s3krit 3y ago
12VDC is the standard on boats, campervans, RVs, etc because it can be delivered straight from the batteries. In order to deliver 240/120VAC you'd need an inverter to generate the signal, and this obviously introduces loss during
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by s3krit 3y ago
Lister engines also sound fantastic, in my opinion. Due to where I live, I often hear them going past me and it's wonderful to hear them throttle up as they potter on by.
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by s3krit 3y ago
They've launched the 'sandbox' which is the federated/decentralised dev/staging environment. So yes, you can run your own PDS (server) and have it federate with others, but it's still very much in development a
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by s3krit 3y ago
'what's a server?'
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by s3krit 5y ago
Debian package management doesn't have to rely on an internet connection. You could have the source of the security updates be a cd or USB stick or something with no problems
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by s3krit 5y ago
Disclaimer: I don't know world global finance, I don't know much about economics, I hold several cryptocurrencies. I am fantastically unqualified to actually make this post. I was curious about this comment, because I know FOREX i
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by s3krit 5y ago
I think 'body' also includes shoulders. Basically any part of the body that you can legally play the ball with.
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by s3krit 6y ago
Don't worry mate, you can break the law to earn your boss another porsche if you want
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by s3krit 6y ago
>So if I had to choose an alternate path, what would such a path look like that could eventually approach the build quality of an Apple Macbook Pro? That product doesn't have to exist yet, it just has to be on the path. Thinkpad X1
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by s3krit 6y ago
The tourist visa is good for 10 years IIRC
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by s3krit 6y ago
Love DMT, me
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by s3krit 6y ago
I sort of get the argument for not having the rule based on intent - the game's faster than it's ever been, and even with VAR reviewing it, it's nigh impossible to determine intent. At least this gives some clarity to the ref
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by s3krit 6y ago
Jamie Vardy, also mentioned in the article, just hoofs it in most of the time. In fact, I'm pretty sure that's how he scored the 2 pens against man city in the article.
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by s3krit 6y ago
Yeah haha multi-billion dollar companies are never involved in spurious lawsuits out of the blue.
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by s3krit 6y ago
This approach is something I actually use across a wide variety of things. Particularly (so long as there's not a super-tight deadline), not finishing a task at work before the end of the day - no 'oh I'll just get this one t
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by s3krit 6y ago
You only need to pay tax back to the US on your earnings > $100k/year
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by s3krit 7y ago
Your experience very closely mirrors mine but then I was also born in 89 and lived in the Midlands.
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by s3krit 7y ago
>effectively denies my biological masculinity How does it do that? All they are doing is no longer using perceived masculinity as a metric for determining whether you might be male or female. >I'll not bother making a fuss And ye
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by s3krit 7y ago
I use JuiceSSH to connect to a tmux session running irssi. I understand this isn't necessarily for everyone, but it works great.
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by s3krit 7y ago
Here in Germany, it's common to weigh goods that are priced by weight and then have a sticker printed out to stick on them for the cashier. I don't see printing a QR code or whatever weird mechanism Amazon uses to price items bein

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