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by ssl232 2y ago
I recall a pattern they used to use, probably illegal, when paying for a flight quoted in a foreign currency. Ryanair would "helpfully" offer for you to pay in your own currency with their awful exchange rate, with the option to i
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by ssl232 2y ago
Related: https://orbis.stanford.edu/
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by ssl232 2y ago
I wonder why Good Friday doesn't get bunting.
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by ssl232 2y ago
What does the "bunting" key under each event denote?
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by ssl232 2y ago
> The language's standard library will expose names using the language's convention In Python the logging library is written in camel case (as it was heavily based on log4j) unlike most of the rest of the standard library, but
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by ssl232 2y ago
Presumably the road has to be closed for the bridge to travel? I assume this takes place at night.
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by ssl232 2y ago
I see it uses numerical designations for both the columns and rows allowing indexing like a 2D matrix. Nice. One of the many annoyances of Excel is the alphabetic columns that make even less sense beyond 26.
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by ssl232 2y ago
Can you tap your contactless card at the barriers to pay for several passengers, e.g. by handing the card to the next one coming in? Or this this method only for single travellers?
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by ssl232 3y ago
And the water supply. And the central building on farms (in Scotland, at least). It's a silly country.
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by ssl232 3y ago
American English, but not British. Dinner here is a starter, main course and dessert. "Entrée" messes with my head as well, since it very much sounds like a starter.
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by ssl232 3y ago
TIL macarons [1] are also known as macaroons [2]. Where I'm from, macaroons are dense, sweet coconut treats and the French sweets are known as macarons. But from the Wikipedia article I see macaroons mean many different things to many
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by ssl232 3y ago
One of the most important pieces of legislation in the UK that helped improve safety in workplaces was the Health and Safety at Work Act 1974, which placed a duty of care on organisations to look after the wellbeing of their staff. One of t
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by ssl232 3y ago
Indeed, a 4-satellite orbit is probably not a stable one unlike the 3-satellite orbit proposed for LISA. But the 4th satellite already isn't needed due to the conical orbit of the 3-satellite constellation. Fig 5(c) in "On the ant
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Capturing the ripples of spacetime: LISA gets go-ahead(esa.int)
157 points by ssl232 3y ago|26 comments
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by ssl232 3y ago
The National Health Service in the UK maintain a value of life years, used to calculate whether to pay for the use of life extending drugs: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-28983924 . It's quite low in the grand s
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by ssl232 3y ago
The time to have done it was the first release of Python 3 when everything else was breaking anyway. The ship has sailed.
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by ssl232 3y ago
> What happens if the password itself - or act of unlocking - is something self-incriminating (in form, in contents, or otherwise)? Reminds me of Ian Watkins: https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2013/11/26/los
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by ssl232 3y ago
How does that work? Reading between the lines it sounds like it is device dependent, so at least obscure Android phone users might be safe...?
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by ssl232 3y ago
Obligatory: https://what-if.xkcd.com/38/
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by ssl232 3y ago
Top tip: IKEA rechargeable batteries are probably rebadged Eneloop Pros.
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by ssl232 3y ago
> If I need some bleeding edge software I would install it through docker Or if you use Arch, just install it using pacman or the AUR.
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by ssl232 3y ago
Did you try Memories [1] for Nextcloud? [1] https://github.com/pulsejet/memories
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by ssl232 3y ago
You need F-Droid. It's not a silver bullet but the high ranked apps on there are great.
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by ssl232 3y ago
Right at the very bottom the article suggests the correct way to deal with fallen leaves: leave them alone. They decompose and provide nutrients to the grass.
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by ssl232 3y ago
I wondered about that as well. My best guess is that it's something to do with which pin makes contact first in the barrel, and having the battery parallel to the barrel's contacts, it might matter which one contacts first (though
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by ssl232 3y ago
I'm not even convinced they'll make more money clamping down on ad blocking this way. I'd happily pay £1 or £2 a month for no ads, which is still infinitely more than they make out of me now (given I never willingly click on,
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by ssl232 3y ago
Hmm. Do I have it right that you mean you can't send from e.g. "test@example.com" (using "Customize From Address..." then entering that address in the From field) unless another address for the domain "example.
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by ssl232 3y ago
> Inability to easily edit the from address This has been possible for years. Click the From address then "Customize From Address..." and enter whatever you like. But > And TB still doesn't "remember" which -f
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by ssl232 3y ago
I wouldn't mind paying for YouTube if its subscription cost was anywhere close to reasonable.
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by ssl232 3y ago
Unfortunately this doesn't seem to work to make Thunderbird open links in a particular Firefox profile due to this 21 year old bug: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=216252 .

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