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by mpclark 11mo ago
I heard that farmers ‘spray off’ the crop to kill it to make harvesting easier.
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by mpclark 1y ago
Those who are currently publishing will tell you otherwise; traffic from Google has dropped off a cliff. There’s a little bit of long tail, but nothing like the volumes the tech media built its businesses around.
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by mpclark 1y ago
I’ve recently changed career in the UK — I’ve gone from web dev to a passenger train conductor/manager. The conditions are excellent, the money is terrific for the work involved, and overall the experience is very rewarding. I couldn’t
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by mpclark 2y ago
They absolutely are! She just looks a little different.
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by mpclark 2y ago
"a European federation" != "The European Federation"
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by mpclark 3y ago
I’ve used my Dualit almost daily since 1992. Still in tip-top condition, though it has had two sets of new heating elements at a cost of about £30 each time.
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by mpclark 3y ago
I suspect OP is referring to the presence of newts or bats or greater-crested hedge warblers etc, which can put a stop on building work for literally years in the UK
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by mpclark 3y ago
It hinges on different definitions of quality, I think...
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by mpclark 3y ago
Ow! That's nearly half an Activision...
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by mpclark 3y ago
That would be good too. Let's do both!
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by mpclark 3y ago
Well, from where I sit it looks like one formerly popular political party has seen what's coming up in its horoscope and has pinned its last hopes on turning these quality-of-life measures -- which it previously vociferously supported
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by mpclark 3y ago
We've had a 20mph limit in towns here in Wales for a couple of weeks now. It seems to be going well where I am; the traffic is noticeably slower during the day (though the people who hoon about at night are still doing it) and the only
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by mpclark 3y ago
IME a lot of these people are middle men -- though it looks like it, they aren't actually offering to buy a link; they'll just add you to the list of sites willing to sell links that they hawk around to other site operators (via s
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by mpclark 3y ago
I get to see them flying at low level pretty much daily, as I live on the Mach Loop in Wales where they practice. The howl as they go over never gets old, though I guess I’d feel very differently if they weren’t just training.
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by mpclark 4y ago
What are savvy folks using instead of Mailchimp nowadays? I run a B2B news site and use Mailchimp for its daily and weekly newsletters. I like that MC handles the subscriber management and deliverability side of things, but they seem to be
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by mpclark 4y ago
...and practically speaking, it is really hard to get in and out of Monaco (there are only a few roads in and out and traffic moves slowly) and everywhere is covered by cameras. Anyone who tried a street robbery likely wouldn't make
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by mpclark 4y ago
Become a Freemason. It’s an excellent way to ‘go horizontal’ by meeting a lot of decent people (well, men) from all walks of life and with many different experiences to share. You will find inspiration, fellowship and real life there. Here
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by mpclark 4y ago
If I was a propagandist, this is the second order effect I'd want to see. If people don't lap up my story, inducing apathy is the next best thing.
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by mpclark 4y ago
In a previous life I banked with Coutts. They were very pro online banking and security very early on. From the mid nineties to early noughties I was handling my account online and was given a physical securid token (Remember them? Like a t
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by mpclark 4y ago
This is a headline, not British English ;)
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by mpclark 4y ago
Thing is, though, you really do need that second helicopter pad. That way, when yours is parked up there, you can still receive visitors. It’s not easy being rich.
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by mpclark 4y ago
nazis != Nazis
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by mpclark 4y ago
Feedburner is a zombie product now, and has been for a few years.
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by mpclark 4y ago
The explanation is really, really easy though. Nearly all the advertising has gone away. There's no money in the business past chum boxes now. And the same is happening to the trade press and specialist magazines and all the other good
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by mpclark 5y ago
That’ll be (part of) why doors often also have a similarly designed ‘kick plate’ on the bottom edge
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by mpclark 5y ago
Absolutely. "In the UK you can pay a bill with a cheque, and in the US you can settle a check with a bill"
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by mpclark 5y ago
Jigsaw identification is a real thing, and real journalists are taught about it as part of defamation awareness. Related story: when I was the deputy editor of a paper in a large UK city I was read in on the approximate locations of people
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by mpclark 5y ago
This is an artefact of a club, not freemasonry. One could level this accusation at golf, private members or country clubs, for instance.
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by mpclark 5y ago
I’m a mason. It’s a force for good in my life. Some like to emphasise the mystique around Freemasonry but, seriously, it’s like amateur dramatics meets a supper club. I enjoy the fellowship and the local connections that I have built as my
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by mpclark 5y ago
So do I literally just put... Header set Permissions-Policy: interest-cohort=() ...into my site's .htaccess and that's it, job done?

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