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by zimpenfish 5mo ago
I'm a (currently, at least) big fan of Recursive Mono Casual[0] which I believe I downloaded from Google Fonts[1]. [0] https://www.recursive.design [1] https://fonts.google.com/specimen/Recursive?previe
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by zimpenfish 5mo ago
RFC1738 is obsolete. RFC1866, referenced in that SO answer, is also obsolete. But none of that matters, particularly, because lastfm are consuming the URLs, they know full well what "+" means in a URL submitted to their servers,
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by zimpenfish 5mo ago
I believe "+" is the URL encoding for space and they're just putting the band names into the URL before encoding (thus "The Beatles" -> "The+Beatles")
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by zimpenfish 5mo ago
> As of 2016, the fastest journey times are around half an hour, which is little better than over a century earlier. Which is fine if the reliability and comfort have improved [checks notes] Oh, never mind then. (For me, it'd be fin
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by zimpenfish 5mo ago
I went to a school run by monks[0]. Technically at least two were also priests (although I wasn't sure of the distinction then and I'm still not sure decades later.) [0] Alas, a dodgy branch of monks who have since encountered ma
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by zimpenfish 5mo ago
I had a look and yeah, Popes quoting Tolkien does seem to be a thing, at least in the last couple of decades.
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by zimpenfish 5mo ago
> When he quoted Tolkien, my heart stopped. I wonder if meeting Colbert played any part in that.
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by zimpenfish 5mo ago
To be fair, it's not -quite- as useful - `req.PathValue` only returns `string` and you have to do the conversion to other types yourself which could lead to a faffy mess of code.
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by zimpenfish 5mo ago
It's not technically wrong but the super-short abrupt sentence format of "A. B. C."[0] is weird if you repeat it. You can get away with it once or twice as a kind of rhetorical flourish but if you keep doing it, it starts to
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by zimpenfish 5mo ago
https://archive.ph/VlbdQ
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by zimpenfish 5mo ago
https://github.com/2b2tplace/1m_release has it at 24TB for overworldx2+end+nether
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by zimpenfish 5mo ago
A +1 for Bluemap. Plus because it's actually tied into the server[0], all your wacky mods have their blocks rendered correctly instead of confusing whatever map generator you're trying to use. [0] Plus you can get live player pos
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by zimpenfish 5mo ago
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HDyze1YlOrI is a good explanation of what they did
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by zimpenfish 5mo ago
> What I remember is the big box book stores coming to town and putting the independent and smaller stores out of business. Weirdly, in (central) London, that didn't happen - the smaller stores survived people like Borders et al. T
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by zimpenfish 5mo ago
> It's the parents' child, not the state's. And who should look out for the child's interests if the parents can't or won't?
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by zimpenfish 5mo ago
> Are you sure it is dubious? You'd have to ask 'ideonode who actually said that, not me.
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by zimpenfish 5mo ago
> there is some very dubious sexual exploitation as an entirely unnecessary plot point. Taking the thinnest of fair slivers, I think that's reasonably common in pre-(80s?90s?00s?) sci-fi/fantasy.
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by zimpenfish 5mo ago
We do - https://learning.nspcc.org.uk/child-protection-system - but, at least in England, as with most governmental functions, it's been slashed to near death by years of austerity and "small government" luna
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by zimpenfish 5mo ago
Also the altitude of a given lat/long can change due to geological processes, climate processes, war, etc.
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by zimpenfish 5mo ago
These are too obvious - 5-15 minutes gives your victim way too many opportunities to narrow down the location. What you really need is one that chirps once every (multiple of) 20-28 hours (with weighting towards 23-25 to keep it roughly aro
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by zimpenfish 5mo ago
True but when you see what megachurches have been getting away with for years, it's less surprising.
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by zimpenfish 5mo ago
Noted for whenever I have enough tuits to get around to Prologicising or SATifing the question.
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by zimpenfish 5mo ago
Now I'm wondering what the longest Underground trip is without visiting a given line more than once. Probably needs a rule about the District and Circle lines where they overlap since you could get a lot of mileage out of that. (I cal
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by zimpenfish 6mo ago
You used to be able to via ` https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=WL ` but it appears the last time I successfully did that was March 2025. Now I just use the like button which triggers an IFTTT applet to send a webhook to m
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by zimpenfish 6mo ago
> An option to override automatic (un)archival of passes is also desperately needed. PREACH. If you buy an open return (any time within 30 days of outward), Avanti set the expiry on both wallet passes to be the outward day. Which means
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by zimpenfish 6mo ago
I have enjoyed my Treedix - now almost every cable I have has coloured labels for what it supports and what ends it has (handy when you're in a rush.) On the downside, it has highlighted what a cowboy industry manufacturing USB-C cable
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by zimpenfish 6mo ago
> modern USB-C cables [...] have "e-Marker chips" inside the plugs If only they all did. I have a significant percentage in my pile with no e-Marker chip. They'll be the first to be culled once I get around to that, mind
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by zimpenfish 6mo ago
> Like lots of laptops, as well as my ebile batteries? Soldering irons can benefit from being able to peak above 60W when heating.
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by zimpenfish 6mo ago
> How do people find Lightning cables robust? Had every Apple device that used Lightning and consequently have had a veritable smorgasbord of cables from official to Poundland to weird keyring ones; never had a single one fail. Then agai

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