rantallion

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by rantallion 2mo ago
Seeds are not gametes. While your dog may help spread the seeds, they are not assisting in the sexual reproduction itself.
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by rantallion 8mo ago
Don't forget about fire. Even the most boring of moves amaze crowds when half your equipment is burning.
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by rantallion 8mo ago
They're not wrong. Assuming alternating hands are doing the throwing (rather than both hands throwing a ball simultaneously), 4-ball patterns mean each ball is in the air for 4 beats, while 3-ball patterns only take 3 beats each. And o
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by rantallion 8mo ago
Isn't interoperability of messaging one of the goals of the Digital Markets Act?
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by rantallion 8mo ago
Given the environmental impact of disposable vapes (the littering was awful ), some places have already implemented bans. The UK's ban came into force June 2025.
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by rantallion 9mo ago
> They don't because too many people pirate games to make that a viable business. This is what we've been told since time eternal but it seems more likely that those pirating are those that wouldn't be inclined to pay at a
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by rantallion 9mo ago
> direct costs of the exchange up front Isn't that fairly easy to estimate? If they're showing you a buy rate and a sell rate, you know the interbank rate is going to be pretty much halfway between the two. I don't think a
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by rantallion 9mo ago
> you will miss quite a lot of valuable things Arguably, the lack of medical evidence tells us that this is in fact not a valuable thing.
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by rantallion 10mo ago
> Let's say I have a religion that, as part of practicing it, restricts my diet. > If I try to make you - a non-practitioner - eat that diet, then your reply makes sense. It's a personal matter; I don't get to force it
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by rantallion 10mo ago
> green card holders and H1B workers, who can still visit the national parks at the lower price But only until ICE detain them, right?
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by rantallion 10mo ago
Sheep on the Town Moor would be a new one. The Freeman of the city have herbage rights for cattle, which are a frequent sight. > "herbage right" means the full right and benefit of herbage vested in the resident freemen and wid
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by rantallion 1y ago
> Paying with your phone is a massive improvement to convenience. And it only gets easier when you pay with a watch - you don't even have to pull your phone out of your pocket! My cards only come out when I'm making a large pur
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by rantallion 1y ago
If you're doing nothing in that 30-45 minutes other than stare at a loading screen, you're doing it wrong. I'm not sold on the efficacy of AI and I share your reservations about having to scrutinise their output, but I see gr
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by rantallion 1y ago
Do you have a source to support that claim?
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by rantallion 1y ago
Might be worth considering a different name before you get too big. There's already pact.io, which will be the first result any time anyone searches for pact testing.
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by rantallion 1y ago
The best part is that you can do both. Give the agent a prompt, go for a walk, come back to see how well it did.
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by rantallion 1y ago
You could probably calculate it based on how much ad revenue one can gain by having your own default search engine be the default in Firefox. At least, that's probably how Google determined value added when deciding if it's worth
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by rantallion 1y ago
If by "all these bands", you mean BTS and Blackpink, they do not exist only in fiction. They are flesh and blood entertainers.
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by rantallion 1y ago
Indeed. GP needs to read "First They Came".
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by rantallion 1y ago
On one side of the pond, we have the EU's Digital Markets Act to protect consumers. It has teeth and it's already being used to ensure consumers have choice.
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by rantallion 1y ago
France is the odd one out, right? California and Britain having in common that they're each only a part of a country.
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by rantallion 1y ago
> Things dont fall to the ground because the earth pulls on them. Earth is pulling in the space around it, and those things come with it. Gravity wells aren't pulling surrounding space toward their centre. They're only pulling
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by rantallion 1y ago
> What’s a “moon” versus a “planet”? Earth is a moon of Sol, is it not? Planets orbit stars. Moons orbit planets. That's a clear and easy distinction. Planet vs dwarf planet isn't so clear to most.
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by rantallion 1y ago
But surely it'll help in this case, where an article is being published in English and being shared on an English language forum.
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by rantallion 2y ago
I'm with you. Looking at the way people respond online to things now since LLMs and GenAI went mainstream is baffling. So many comments along the lines of "this is AI" when there are more ordinary explanations.
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by rantallion 2y ago
If you mean Jesmond Dene, there's a petting zoo with a few small beasts and birds. I know they have a couple of breeds of goat but I don't recall seeing any sheep on my last visit (within the last month).
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by rantallion 2y ago
They didn't even manage to get the UK right. Apparently whoever made this map doesn't know that the UK is the "United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland" and that Éire is only the bottom bit. I wonder how that
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by rantallion 2y ago
Where's the article? Has a link been edited out of what otherwise appears to just be an inane rant on Reddit?
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by rantallion 2y ago
> "It's half past two" is interpreted to mean: "it's at least half past two" I think most people would have no issue calling 14:28 "half past two". There's no "at least" to it, just
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by rantallion 2y ago
I just wanted to find a way to toggle my ceiling lights.

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