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by smcl 3y ago
I don't know if it's that simple, and in the case of "comprised of" I think there's good reason to attempt to make a correction. It's not that to comprise is some super common, popular verb that pops up natur
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by smcl 3y ago
The post isn't making anything, it's just sitting there being read by us. The author, however, made some good points in the post. Additionally the verb to comprise isn't suitable here either, so it's going to sound awk
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by smcl 3y ago
And use of the suggested (and more correct) alternative "composed of" is more common than both of them combined: https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=%22comprised+o...
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by smcl 3y ago
I also encountered this with German folk speaking English and pronouncing "v" as "w" - "Let's meet up in the willage" If they'd pronounced it "Let's meet up in the fillage" that would m
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by smcl 3y ago
If you want your message to be heard, you're going to think about how someone will respond to what you have to say. This isn't unique to the fediverse, to social networking or even to the internet - this is just how humans interac
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by smcl 3y ago
Someone on one server trying to get a user on another server is maybe a bit much, but I don't know the content of the posts in question. For me it'd have to be something pretty extreme to take those actions, otherwise if I saw s
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by smcl 3y ago
To clarify - it felt like this was an attempt to replicate the mid-00s play of building interest by restricting who can join and making it exclusive (Facebook did this by rolling it out uni-by-uni, Gmail was for a while invite-only and invi
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by smcl 3y ago
So the thing is that in one respect they actually do get caching, almost to a fault. One of the complaints I've seen among some Mastodon instance operators is that they end up storing some pretty hefty amounts of data locally as thei
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by smcl 3y ago
Thanks, will do! I'm always on the lookout for interesting people on Mastodon!
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by smcl 3y ago
Last night I opened this, saw the HTTP 429 and figured "ah too many requests, I'll check the comments and try in the morning". The comments were all people swooning in shock about why some non-specific they (S3? Amazon? Som
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by smcl 3y ago
> we know how the English crown got to rule over Wales, Scotland and N. Ireland That's true for Wales and Northern Ireland, but the original union of the crowns had the Scottish king becoming the king of both England and Scotland. B
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by smcl 3y ago
Very cute :)
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by smcl 3y ago
There was something about some extensions (for debugging?) not working in Codium
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by smcl 3y ago
I dunno, you're asking crypto to be compared with sectors that actually provide services people need who between them have had a few high-profile flameouts over the course of history. Whereas crypto has had a fairly quick boom-and-bust
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by smcl 3y ago
I'm not sure we can treat crypto like any other sector - there are no others which are afflicted by a rapid succession of high profile scams, scandals and collapses. Confidence is shaken because there's no other rational respons
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by smcl 3y ago
Don't salute Charles or do that silly allegiance pledge he asked for. You're better than that.
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by smcl 3y ago
They're a very well-supported club where anti-monarchist songs, chants or signs are completely commonplace and don't ruffle too many feathers generally. Celtic may not like being called "British" and their feelings on th
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by smcl 4y ago
This is such a bizarre take. The post is about removing some unnecessary wording from technical documentation that doesn't add anything, and as an aside can sometimes imply complex tasks are simpler than they are to the detriment of
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by smcl 4y ago
Nobody's here to argue that the system is fair or good. But I don’t think this particular carve out is classist . If it was like Monaco, Switzerland and Norway maybe you could argue that it’s favouring the wealthier upper class. Singa
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by smcl 4y ago
I don't think you have to word it quite that way. You could be honest and lay it out plainly - "I know how the TN visa works but I know recruiters filter heaps of candidates out needlessly. Anyway here's the process, it'
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by smcl 4y ago
Cool option if you have found some candidates in Singapore or Chile but they’re two small-ish countries (relatively speaking - ~25 million combined, compared to the >7 billion in the rest of the world), that probably won’t move the needl
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by smcl 4y ago
To me it just reads a bit like it was written by an ESL speaker - "starting the firmware version 0.82 ..." is a bit of a giveaway (should probably be "starting from version" or just "from version...", unnecessa
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by smcl 4y ago
Nice, round number. I wonder if that was a carefully thought out coincidence, or they fiddled with the numbers a bit until they got the right payroll savings then rounded it to the nearest 100. I suspect the latter - when I see a nice, roun
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by smcl 4y ago
If this piqued anyone's interest in oil/gas rigs, an engineering disasters podcast I like ("Well, there's your problem") covered a couple of North Sea rig catastrophes in detail that may interest you: - Piper Alpha:
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by smcl 4y ago
What I think is that you know just enough history to be able to loosely connect the word "socialism" with Bad Things (common ones being that both NSDAP and USSR had "socialist" in their name, or that Venezuela is &quot
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by smcl 4y ago
>> To call PT a communist organization is just another laughably stupid conspiracy theory. > There are videos of Lula saying his plan is to literally implement socialism in Brazil You know those are not the same thing right?
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by smcl 4y ago
I wonder if those responsible will take this as a lesson learned, or will brush it off as “well they wouldn’t have paid anyway”
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by smcl 4y ago
Hang on the main complaint in this article is that Tesla is providing some road safety statistics that to a normie look surprisingly good, but which on closer inspection rely on comparisons that are statistically misleading and involve some
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by smcl 4y ago
Can I ask how you end up caring about Scottish league? It's quite rare for there to be any interest in it outside Scotland or Ireland, and rarer still for someone like that to support a team other than Celtic. As an aside, I am both de
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by smcl 4y ago
So that result aside, they're not awful but for the money they've put into their team and their stadium (and the raised expectations that has brought) the return on that has been pretty poor domestically and in Europe

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