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by bloat 3mo ago
They do say the cards were purchased when they were cheaper. They debuted at less than nine grand apparently.
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Copy of US Declaration of Independence found by volunteer in UK archives(theguardian.com)
8 points by bloat 3mo ago|1 comments
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by bloat 11mo ago
Why is the man's wife worried about being sent to collections? She owes nothing to the hospital, the dead man's estate owes money. Let the hospital line up with the other creditors. She shouldn't be paying her late husband&#x
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by bloat 1y ago
This isn't the same thing. Yes Gmail provides IMAP so you can read it from other clients. The issue here is that Gmail cannot use IMAP to ingest email from other accounts, as it can (or could) using POP3.
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The 1960s schools experiment that created a whole new alphabet(theguardian.com)
14 points by bloat 1y ago|0 comments
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by bloat 1y ago
Seconded. I am very much still in the mode of copying from the chat window and then editing. I would like to have whatever she is having.
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by bloat 1y ago
So we replace the task of writing tedious boilerplate with the task of reading the AI's tedious boilerplate. Which takes just as long. And leaves you with less understanding. And is more boring.
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by bloat 1y ago
The Inform Designer's Manual is mostly about Inform 6 programming, but has a lot of material on game design. https://www.inform-fiction.org/manual/DM4.pdf Crimes Against Mimesis was a famous tract in its day. I do
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Tuning Out the Algorithm at WFMU(jacobin.com)
2 points by bloat 1y ago|0 comments
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by bloat 1y ago
"You are a total wimp for wanting gloves in this weather! Here they are though, you weakling."
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Russia UK agreement to tend war graves transcends bitter international relations(theguardian.com)
1 points by bloat 1y ago|0 comments
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by bloat 2y ago
New Complete Vegetarian by Rose Elliot is a well used book in our kitchen.
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by bloat 2y ago
I invested in a Chargemap pass for my trip to France this summer. One card which works in nearly every French charger. Plug in, tap the card and it starts charging. Tap the card again to stop. That's it. Cost 20 euros for the card, and
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by bloat 2y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dick_Bush
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by bloat 2y ago
Lombok has come up a bit in this discussion. Are there any other popular Java libraries or frameworks that are affected?
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by bloat 2y ago
Many of these places weren't homes. The vast majority of prehistoric people did not live in caves. And many places with art are nearly inaccessible, and completely dark.
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by bloat 2y ago
Many caves with art in are extremely inaccessible. You need to explain why someone would risk their life and crawl through tiny openings in the pitch black to reach a specific location in order to make their art. I can not believe that educ
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by bloat 3y ago
This site helped me take the family from London to Rome via the beautiful Bernina Pass between Switzerland and Italy. Invaluable! https://tickets.rhb.ch/en/pages/bernina-express
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by bloat 3y ago
And then Our Man In Havana inspire le Carré to write the Tailor Of Panama. It's a story that keeps on giving!
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by bloat 3y ago
They certainly didn't vanish for me in Cornwall in 1999. I hope you have better luck in the US in April!
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by bloat 3y ago
https://www.routledge.com/Why-Its-OK-to-Eat-Meat/Shahar/p/bo... Why It's Ok To Eat Meat By a philosophy professor at the University of New Orleans.
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by bloat 3y ago
Interesting that the list of fowls and beasts also includes (if I'm reading it right): A bevy of ladies, A herd of harlots.
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by bloat 3y ago
Podcast discussion with the creator: https://monsterfeet.com/grue/notes/55
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Fifi's Big Adventure(github.com)
1 points by bloat 3y ago|1 comments
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by bloat 3y ago
I always remember my friend who works in VFX telling me he spent all week working on James Bond riding a pig. Which gave me some high hopes for the movie!
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by bloat 3y ago
Wasn't the control every other year before COVID?
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by bloat 3y ago
We know what happens when a pop group doesn't perform on their own records. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milli_Vanilli
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by bloat 3y ago
Another reference book I've always loved is Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase and Fable. It's been around since 1870, and you can always flick through it and find something interesting. https://en.wikipedia.org/wi
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by bloat 3y ago
Thanks, yes - might well be the CryptoHack suggestion. If so it's certainly been redesigned since I last looked.
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by bloat 3y ago
There was another crypto challenge like this somewhere, it had a similar start IIRC, building up from simple encodings to basic cyphers, but you had to put your answer for one question into the website to reveal the next question. I lost th

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