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by smcl 3y ago
That's terrible, I'm sorry to hear
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by smcl 3y ago
It happens - committing to doing the act, then having a change of heart and phoning 999/911/112 for help which doesn't come in time.
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by smcl 3y ago
Ah fair, I thought you were suggesting that typing the official name was no big deal, rather than just suggesting something helpful for macOS/iOS users.
334.
by smcl 3y ago
It's just annoying to see, like when people write "less then" or "should of"
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by smcl 3y ago
It's a third of $40k, "three times less" than $40k would be -$80k
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by smcl 3y ago
Incompetence during the Brexit negotiations?! Surely not!
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by smcl 3y ago
You and I know this. Your average person on the street doesn’t though.
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by smcl 3y ago
I don't know if there's been that much success in pushing Côte d’Ivoire. I imagine if it is used at all in English-language countries, it's copy-pasted due to the "ô" not being easily accessible on English keyboard
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by smcl 3y ago
Applying stereotypes to a person is not the same as saying a phenomenon exists (in this case they said nearly-exclusively) in country. By way of examples: "Americans are fat" is a (negative) sterotype. "Americans get poor val
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by smcl 3y ago
Yeah I had a dram or so of cask strength (60% iirc?) whisky per day when I had no taste just because I wanted to have some kind of taste-adjacent feeling even if that was just a bit of burning. I was so happy when I realised it was coming b
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by smcl 3y ago
I had the same thing - I was making something spicy and couldn't understand why it had absolutely no taste. This was just as Covid was taking off in Europe and I was quarantined at home after a trip in Austria. I had about 3 days witho
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by smcl 3y ago
Came here to say the same thing. Unless you're one of today's "lucky 10,000"[0] who haven't ever encountered goatse before, there's no need to verify this :D [0] - https://xkcd.com/1053/ e
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by smcl 3y ago
This isn't about any disinformation or propaganda campaigns.
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by smcl 3y ago
Well many people know it for ages. I was thought it in school (as in … when I was like 15 doing Standard Grade Biology). But somehow it is still surprisingly commonly used as a general way to categorise people into groups for various purp
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by smcl 3y ago
I don't think it's quite that simple. After the offer was submitted he famously tried hard to NOT buy Twitter. In the end his attempts to back out of the purchase because of the supposed undisclosed bot problem were thrown out i
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by smcl 3y ago
I don't think you appreciate quite what an outlier that bridge is, and plugging the cost into an inflation calculator then comparing it the Bay Bridge or the new Queensferry Crossing isn't a good comparison either. It's maybe
347.
by smcl 3y ago
Well yeah modern day engineering projects are of course planned and built differently. Back in Brunel's day it wasn't unheard of for bridges to collapse outright or to be deliberately overengineered to the extent that they'd
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by smcl 3y ago
I think some amount of that is necessary, though no? We have people claiming that this generation of AI will replace jobs - and plenty of companies have taken the bait and tried to get started with LLM-based bots. We even had a pretty high-
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by smcl 3y ago
Fair play then. I genuinely thought it was just a little dev/experiment/prototype platform for people, as it was for me. If this is what you need then god speed!
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by smcl 3y ago
Are people really looking to RPi for performance though? Surely the appeal is that it’s good enough, open enough and has a bunch of peripherals and stuff you can tinker with. Or maybe I’m out of touch (obligatory: no it’s the kids… etc)
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by smcl 3y ago
That’s … not how UK income tax bands work. I’m not sure thats how taxes work anywhere actually.
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by smcl 3y ago
Why would you want to kill off the thing that lets people have healthcare?
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by smcl 3y ago
I suggest you look up what "communism" actually is - it's much more than "the government slightly helps you sometimes"
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by smcl 3y ago
The UAW striking, and politicians showing support for unions is nothing new and doesn't suggest the USA is suddenly careening towards communism. You're either incredibly naive or have consumed some hysterical far-right news if you
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by smcl 3y ago
This is an issue that irritates the hell out of me when I see it and I'm so glad this person wrote it out so plainly.
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by smcl 3y ago
Right but the point isn’t to stop something being plugged in, it’s to stop something unplugged
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by smcl 3y ago
I don't know about elsewhere but in the UK and Czech Republic, Medicine is a particularly challenging field of study that aggressively weeds out underperformers. You're not making it through unless you actually know what you'
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by smcl 3y ago
You surely also have to pass the required classes and attend medical school, though right?
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by smcl 3y ago
No worries, just wanted to check because I wanted to advise you to broaden your horizons a bit because that’s a fairly narrow collection of countries. But all good.
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by smcl 3y ago
I didn't say it doesn't make sense. I said he's either dishonest (he's just saying this sort of thing as pro-Car/Tesla PR) or he is naive (he genuinely thinks he can "fix" urban transportation).

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