darrenf

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by darrenf 1mo ago
But... no-one mentioned surprise except you, did they? Something being uncommon doesn't connote being surprising, at least not always. It's uncommon for me to have takeaway pizza, but I don't think anyone I know would be surp
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by darrenf 1mo ago
Pretty sure the jiao (角) (1/10th of a yuan) is still in use?
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by darrenf 1mo ago
AIUI plenty of tags don't need to be closed. `<input>`, `<hr>`, `<img>` are the first three off the top of my head. Probably in XHTML you would've self-closed them.
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by darrenf 2mo ago
Then I guess we’ve been in the dystopia for almost a century now. When I was a kid in the 70s and 80s we leased our TV and VCR. It was hugely common in the UK, the company was on many high streets and literally called Radio Rentals, founded
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by darrenf 2mo ago
> parallel: Warning: Finding the maximal command line length. This may take up to 1 minute. > So I wait a few seconds [snip] This warning is only ever printed if running in Cygwin, not Linux or macOS or elsewhere. Cygwin is notoriou
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by darrenf 2mo ago
Fair. I was solo :) got plenty of hiking done too and can’t wait to go back
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by darrenf 2mo ago
Or do as I did and just use the buses. Highly reliable IME.
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by darrenf 2mo ago
In fairness, it’s literally called the jellyfish roundabout on the local bus timetables (as I know from having visited and caught the 450) https://www.ssl.fo/en/timetable/bus/450-torshavn-eysturoy-je...
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by darrenf 4mo ago
DuckDuckGo.
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by darrenf 4mo ago
Disappointed it isn’t to do with Robert Rankin. Oh well.
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by darrenf 5mo ago
I’d be surprised, given how outspoken Sawe is about doping. He invited the AIU to test him before Berlin and Adidas also paid. > Determined to prove he is competing clean, Adidas provided $50,000 (£36,900) to the Athletics Integrity Uni
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by darrenf 5mo ago
Knowledge Fight podcast already took the “synonym name” route. https://knowledgefight.com/
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by darrenf 5mo ago
> > The performance/intelligence is said to be about the same as the geometric mean of the total and active parameter counts. So, this model should be equivalent to a dense model with about 10.25 billion parameters. > Sorry
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by darrenf 5mo ago
In Firebase world API keys are for identification, not authorisation. https://firebase.google.com/docs/projects/api-keys Public by design: API keys for Firebase services only identify your Firebase project and ap
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by darrenf 6mo ago
Godalming, UK (where I live) stakes a claim for having the world's first public electricity supply in 1881. I walk past the commemorative plaque on almost a daily basis. https://www.godalmingmuseum.co.uk/articles/e
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by darrenf 7mo ago
Ah. I’ve always used the subclass 651 eVisitor, without realising it was only for some European countries (or that it was different to the ETA).
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by darrenf 7mo ago
That link clearly says you don't have to use an app. If you are unable to use the app, you can apply online through ImmiAccount for another visa that suits your needs. This triggered me because I've been to Australia tens of tim
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by darrenf 8mo ago
There is legislation in the EU, and BirdyChat announced compatibility. https://www.birdy.chat/blog/first-to-interoperate-with-whats...
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by darrenf 8mo ago
The BBC have been covering it in the UK. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/topics/cjnwl8q4ggwt
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by darrenf 8mo ago
People have been protesting in the UK. Fourteen arrested after protest at Iranian embassy: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c5y3g8glgxvo Protester climbs on to balcony of Iranian embassy in London: https:&#x2F
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by darrenf 8mo ago
> What data centers? Does Apple even have data centers? Apple absolutely has data centres. Where do you think Apple TV, Apple Music, iCloud, Maps, etc compute happens? Here's a press release straight from the horse's mouth ab
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by darrenf 8mo ago
Manx is the demonym for people from the Isle of Man. It's odd to see it written "Isle of Manx" in a list of other demonyms, but the word Manx itself is far from modern. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manx_
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by darrenf 8mo ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/5K_run
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by darrenf 8mo ago
I’m advocating not advertising. I capitalise it out of muscle memory. That’s all. FWIW Wikipedia capitalises it as well. I called it out with a link because I expect many folk to be unfamiliar with it, but the nature of parkrun itself — rat
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by darrenf 8mo ago
I found this to be true, and that it perfectly dovetailed with TFA. When I was at my absolute depth (so far…) back in 2013, I would see my counsellor at 1130 on a Saturday. I’d be able to recount the darkness of the previous 7 days in stark
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by darrenf 9mo ago
Long time fileformat.info user. here, just wanted to say thanks -- always found it incredibly useful for this exact purpose.
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by darrenf 9mo ago
I’m trying to understand the “In order of usage popularity” thing — this implies telemetry in CLIs, doesn’t it? Wouldn’t the order of options change/fluctuate over time? Or if no telemetry but based on local usage, it would promote&#x2
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by darrenf 9mo ago
Is that not `whatis`? https://www.man7.org/linux/man-pages/man1/whatis.1.html
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by darrenf 9mo ago
For kitty users, see also https://sw.kovidgoyal.net/kitty/kittens/ssh/
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by darrenf 9mo ago
I shoved £500 down in Sept 2017 knowing full well it was a gamble, and still have a roughtly £500 balance now -- having skimmed enough off the top over the years to buy a couple of iPhones and whatever else. I 100% consider this profit to b

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