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by bshimmin 1mo ago
It always reminds me of how how Apple write the copy for their landing pages. (A couple of examples from the current MacBook Neo page include "Silver, Blush, Citrus, and Indigo. Four stunning colors. One durable design" and &quot
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by bshimmin 6mo ago
Honestly, you just need cron (and Ruby/Python/bash/whatever) on an EC2. It's not very fashionable, but it works, will continue to work forever, and costs hardly anything.
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by bshimmin 1y ago
Not to worry, though: his grandson, Louis, is in charge of Palantir in the UK. Definitely nothing concerning about that!
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by bshimmin 3y ago
So many of the negative comments about Villeneuve's Dune in this thread are astonishing to me, but I will just pick this one: surely scale is something that Villeneuve does so brilliantly! From Arrival , though Blade Runner 2049
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by bshimmin 3y ago
Here's the charity responsible for this bridge and several others in London: https://www.citybridgefoundation.org.uk/about/history Founded in 1122, which is quite something!
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by bshimmin 3y ago
Great comment! For anyone looking to learn a bit more about this, the "crossing" technique described above is called "chiasmus": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chiasmus Another famous example is &quo
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by bshimmin 3y ago
Yahoo ("once the most popular web site in the U.S.", according to Wikipedia)?
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by bshimmin 3y ago
They are considered to be self-employed. If they're earning more than £1000 a year, then they need to file a self-assessment tax return with HMRC, and if they're earning more than a certain amount, perhaps £12500 a year, they will
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by bshimmin 3y ago
This is such a helpful comment - what looks, to the uninitiated, like line noise actually starts to make some sense now!
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by bshimmin 4y ago
I'm slightly surprised no one has commented on the custom infix operators. I think if I encountered the example in the wild, I'd understand it was a clamp function based purely on the names, but if it were used for anything else I
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by bshimmin 4y ago
You are right, I did - sorry. I wrote something similar in Ruby to check!
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by bshimmin 4y ago
A word of warning: a few years ago, the related page at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Out-of-place_artifact took me down one of the worst Wikipedia procrastination rabbit holes I've ever lost myself in.
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by bshimmin 4y ago
There's a "b" in "about", but there's no "k" or "m".
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by bshimmin 4y ago
Thank you for posting this! I gave myself a pat on the back for being able to get through the first chapter unaided thanks to my A-Level in Greek mumble years ago...
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by bshimmin 4y ago
I like how they've misspelt "misspelling" there - I wonder if that was deliberate! (I also like how there's even an open pull request to fix the same...)
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by bshimmin 4y ago
I only bothered to check `details`, but that one dates back to at least the 2008 working draft of the HTML5 spec, which makes it ~14 years old - not absolutely ancient, but far from recent!
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by bshimmin 4y ago
I wouldn't say there's a big name star in there, but I've seen Peter Mullan in quite a few things, Nazanin Boniardi is moderately famous, Lenny Henry is definitely famous in the UK, and Morfydd Clark was tremendous recently i
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by bshimmin 4y ago
Not the OP, but if you search for "random country generator" you will indeed find a few similar sites which do definitely have a lot of ads.
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by bshimmin 4y ago
Indeed. "Crypto" has very much gone the way of "hashtag" (which is, amongst non-technical people I know, overwhelmingly used to refer to the hash symbol).
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by bshimmin 4y ago
I actually have quite happy memories of working with Backbone and jQuery - there were obviously all manner of problems, but everything was quite easy to understand and a lot less magical. Apparently this was in 2012 - how time flies! - so I
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by bshimmin 5y ago
You're definitely not alone. I was trying to watch Netflix's newest Harlan Coben adaptation, "Stay Close", and it all looked very nice (especially the title sequence) but the script was abominable, the acting was bad, a
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by bshimmin 5y ago
As others have said, you're not going to get a lot of purchases without being able to preview what it does first (maybe build some slightly contrived examples?). I wish there were just a standardised way for recipes to be presented. If
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by bshimmin 5y ago
> Yes, I believe that's the approach Windows NT is taking. I really like this one - would anyone care to make a suggestion for a modern replacement for Windows NT here? Perl 6, perhaps?
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by bshimmin 5y ago
While I broadly agree with this, I would say that my own attempts at making mint sauce were fairly disappointing in comparison with shop-bought - Colman's mint sauce is an awful lot nicer than anything I was able to make, and (though I
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by bshimmin 5y ago
If you read the English line first with a ridiculous French accent (like you might hear in Monty Python) and then read the French in an equally silly way, with a bit of imagination they sound broadly quite similar. Basically if you can make
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by bshimmin 5y ago
Same here - I did this for a couple of months on Usenet and it was more a fun challenge than genuinely difficult. Doing it over that amount of text is quite impressive, admittedly.
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by bshimmin 5y ago
Jay Rayner is a delight (he comes across better in his writing, I think, than he does on TV). He had a comically bad time at "The Polo Lounge" at the Dorchester recently too: https://www.theguardian.com/food/2
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by bshimmin 5y ago
I read this article with some interest because I'm thinking of getting a new kitchen, and while I understand the technologies involved (both generative art and Ethereum), the part I'm struggling with is... why on earth anyone woul
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by bshimmin 5y ago
If you have nothing better to do, many of the "Experience" series in The Guardian are a fun read: https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/series/experience

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