pilchard123

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by pilchard123 7d ago
Originally it was defined like that, but it was fairly quickly redefined as the distance between marks on a prototype platinum bar. It's had a couple of other definitions since then, but it's currently defined "by taking the
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by pilchard123 8mo ago
Because, as xkcd 169 says, communicating badly and then actung smug when you're misunderstood is not cleverness. "Orders of magnitude" refers to a decimal system in the vast majority of uses (I must admit I have no concrete d
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by pilchard123 1y ago
Some German publishers used to to that for books too, apparently. I've heard at least of cases of it happening to Terry Pratchet and Iain Banks (possibly because they wrote SF/F, which as we all know is not real literature). ht
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by pilchard123 1y ago
Or even "it has a trivial bug/doesn't run as well as i think it should/insulted my home decor, you die now"
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by pilchard123 2y ago
Alec? Is that you?
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by pilchard123 2y ago
Sure, but if the exec in question has moved on to another company by then, what do they care?
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by pilchard123 2y ago
Shouldn't "bed as a service" be a hotel?
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by pilchard123 2y ago
What's unfortunate about the name?
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by pilchard123 3y ago
At what point does something become part of a tradition or culture? Why does "it started as an ad campaign" preclude something from becoming part of culture?
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by pilchard123 3y ago
IIRC some jurisdictions consider any force at all - such as pushing an already-open door further open - to be sufficient to make it B&E rather than simply trespassing.
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by pilchard123 3y ago
There is a Douglas Adams quote from 1999 similar to that: > I don't think anybody would argue now that the Internet isn’t becoming a major factor in our lives. However, it's very new to us. Newsreaders still feel it is worth a
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by pilchard123 3y ago
In some a case going to the Ombudsman costs the bank regardless of the outcome. In the UK the first three cases in a year are free, but from the fourth onward the bank has to pay £750 [1]. It doesn't matter the outcome is - the custome
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by pilchard123 3y ago
Not even all of Weta - only the digital VFX bit.
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by pilchard123 3y ago
It also made me think of 'By the Waters of Babylon' by Stephen Vincent Benét. Wikipedia tells me it was also (indeed, originally) published as 'The Place of the Gods'.
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by pilchard123 5y ago
Never become the guy who can fix the printer.