HighChaparral

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by HighChaparral 9mo ago
Not a single mention of the word fashion. Here in the UK, Adidas Sambas (and similar models like Gazelles and Spezials) have been everywhere for the last couple of years, particularly amongst women and girls, who often have two or more pair
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by HighChaparral 9mo ago
I’m a huge Malick fan and agree that The New World is his masterpiece. I still remember seeing it in the cinema 20 years ago and almost levitating out of there. Just a beautiful piece of work. I’m glad there’s just about room for Malick som
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by HighChaparral 2y ago
This is the castle in question: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kilcoe_Castle https://jeremyirons.net/kilcoe-castle/ It’s quite something. He bought it for IEP 150,000 (around €190,000) but likely
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by HighChaparral 2y ago
It’s Zaslav-era WB so there’s probably some kind of weird tqx write-off happening, or some contractual agreement that they’re living up to in the cheapest way possible. Some good stuff on there - shout out to The Mission, which includes one
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by HighChaparral 2y ago
I think Sony only have one plant left (in Austria) pressing physical discs. Vantiva (formerly Technicolor) are the biggest players but have just announced they’re unloading their Supply Chain Services division, which includes their disc-pre
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by HighChaparral 2y ago
The chain makes more sense as being one tenth of a furlong (as still used in horse racing in the US, Great Britain and Ireland!), which is of course one eighth of a mile. Also, an acre is one furlong long by one chain wide. Not coincidental
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by HighChaparral 3y ago
I just love this. Scorsese’s camera moves - the way he swoops in behind Mavis and then slowly comes back around her as she starts to soar. The way he lights up Danko for the start of his solo bit. It’s just a beautifully put together docume
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by HighChaparral 4y ago
The real reason for the shortages is revealed!
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by HighChaparral 4y ago
I gave up after reloading it for the third time to see if the next chunk of invisible text would suddenly appear. (iPhone/iOS, Safari, Content Blockers off)
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by HighChaparral 4y ago
I was referring to the pronunciation, not the meaning - EXE-CUTE isn't quite right compared to EXEC-U-TIVE.
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by HighChaparral 4y ago
I use it daily and say each letter - everyone else I work with says Sequel. This all stems from when I originally learnt it 20 odd years ago and read something on the web that proclaimed S-Q-L was correct, and "Sequel" referred sp
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by HighChaparral 4y ago
I got really worried when he pronounced AUTOEXEC as AUTO-E-X-E-C. I realised it's one of those things I rarely, if ever, heard said out loud and so this weird panic came over me that maybe I was saying it wrong all this time. Luckily,
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by HighChaparral 4y ago
Cameron has had plenty of opportunities and never has. There was something of a controversy when the DVD was re-released with a new Dolby Digital surround track and the original mono was left off. A lot of people felt very strongly about ho
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by HighChaparral 4y ago
This was my reaction to the article also - the base assumption that the relatively tiny group of audience members who rate films on imdb are statistically representative of the audience at large needs to be proven first.
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by HighChaparral 5y ago
It never ceases to amaze me that in this day and age the owner of The Son of Man is not publicly known. I wonder if the owner displays it in their home for their own pleasure, or has it locked up in a super secure vault somewhere.
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by HighChaparral 5y ago
Nicely laid out. I goofed on the last bit by assuming the final answer was: 1 - P(C) - P(D) which gives 0.178 ~ 0.18 or answer (A)
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by HighChaparral 5y ago
Possibly nothing more than a side issue, but why are the indexes being created before the bulk insert, rather than after?
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by HighChaparral 5y ago
Yes. After literally years of never having to worry about gmail spam, really obvious stuff has been coming in for the last few months.
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by HighChaparral 5y ago
Precisely. I would have been shocked if they weren’t doing this. Despite their attempts to diversify their offerings ober the years, their Premier League coverage is the lynchpin of their entire business.
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by HighChaparral 5y ago
For the UK, the National Library of Scotland’s historical maps are a fantastic resource: https://maps.nls.uk/ Ireland’s Ordnance Survey also has some good historical resources: https://www.osi.ie/products&#x
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by HighChaparral 6y ago
That's really interesting, can't wait to take a look. There's a good webos plugin for homebridge ( https://github.com/merdok/homebridge-webos-tv ) which is based on LGTV2 ( https://github.com&#x2
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by HighChaparral 6y ago
Same here. It can also be controlled over http which opens up all sorts of home automation possibilities.
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by HighChaparral 6y ago
I’ve been waiting almost thirty years for this post, I just never knew it.
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by HighChaparral 6y ago
Sky's deal with HBO makes that unlikely.
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by HighChaparral 6y ago
Because they want to encourage developers to update their apps for the new architecture as a top priority.
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by HighChaparral 6y ago
Right. India is the obvious destination for Apple if/when they decide to get out of their reliance on China.
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by HighChaparral 6y ago
SMS was huge in the UK and Ireland from the early part of the century, and the operators absolutely gouged kids with their topup pricing.