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by thelibrarian 9d ago
Oh, interesting, I didn’t know that, but it makes sense given the influence of Hokkien cuisine on Malaysia.
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by thelibrarian 10d ago
My personal theory based on nothing more than the vibe of the thing is that it comes from the Malay/Indonesian word ‘kecap’ (which is pronounced almost identically to “ketchup”), the word for sweet soy sauce. This is soy sauce that is
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by thelibrarian 21d ago
Back up at 05:16 UTC
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Jira and Confluence Are Both Down(jira-software.status.atlassian.com)
5 points by thelibrarian 21d ago|3 comments
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by thelibrarian 2mo ago
But can your Linux run calculator?
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by thelibrarian 2mo ago
If you don’t give them a license to display the works you give them to display, how can they legally display it?
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by thelibrarian 6mo ago
Colin Percival (cperciva), upon being dismissed due to never having won a prestigious mathematical award such as a Putnam fellowship, revealing that he had in fact won a Putnam fellowship in 1999.
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by thelibrarian 10mo ago
Considering the James Van Der Beek of Dawson's Creek fame is having to hold a fundraising auction of his memorabilia to fund his cancer treatment, cancer is expensive in the US.
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by thelibrarian 10mo ago
Going by the second graph, since about 2.5 billion years ago.
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by thelibrarian 11mo ago
Thanks for that, it works well, and I like the font choice! Though personally I found the font-weight a bit light and changed it to 400.
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Microsoft sued for allegedly misleading millions with its AI pricing(theguardian.com)
7 points by thelibrarian 11mo ago|1 comments
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by thelibrarian 1y ago
Litestream gives you point in time recovery - you can restore to any snapshot time, not just have a current replica.
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by thelibrarian 1y ago
I see someone else here also listens to Ken and Robin Talk About Stuff...
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by thelibrarian 1y ago
While the orientation is interesting, the coloring is very poor. With no key, it would seem that the colors are used to differentiate countries, but they have too many adjacent countries colored the same default beige. This makes Canada, Gr
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by thelibrarian 1y ago
Argentina has tried to prove this both by legal means and by force, and has conclusively failed at both, so I think it's well past time to give up.
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by thelibrarian 1y ago
> The president? The incumbent has certainly found many creative ways to make it extremely profitable for himself.
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by thelibrarian 2y ago
Basically his whole "return of magic" premise seems to be rooted in his listening to "The Telepathy Tapes" and it confirming/supporting some of his latent beliefs. But the Telepathy Tapes is utter nonsense and self
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by thelibrarian 2y ago
Don't bother with this one - the latest post (The Return of Magic) is promoting a load of unscientific woo (The Telepathy Tapes). The author seems to seriously mean the title of the post literally.
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by thelibrarian 2y ago
I guess if you prefer emoji over Nerd Font icons?
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by thelibrarian 2y ago
My house rule to fix Settlers of Catan is to play other, better games.
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by thelibrarian 2y ago
Splendour Duel and 7 Wonders Duel are actually better than their originals. Patchwork is a great older game for 2.
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by thelibrarian 2y ago
Bill Maher is way too confident(ly incorrect).
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by thelibrarian 3y ago
Non-standards? They all implement the WebAuthN standard.
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by thelibrarian 3y ago
I think you may just be used to Python still relying on functions for string processing, where Ruby has methods on the String class for manipulating strings. It seems to me that Python still has these holdovers from when it was not fully ob
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by thelibrarian 3y ago
No, blocks are lambdas.
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by thelibrarian 3y ago
Not just high heels, but also many boots have sharp protrusions (e.g. lace hooks on some hiking boots and work boots, metal decorations on goth and cowboy boots)
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by thelibrarian 3y ago
Many shoes have hard, sharp parts that could damage the slide, even to the point of complete deflation. There is no time to assess whose shoes would be safe and whose not, so the blanket rule is "no shoes".
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by thelibrarian 3y ago
More like “strikes again” - Ea-nāṣir was the dodgy copper seller.
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by thelibrarian 3y ago
For a name, how about LambdaROOM? Adds an 'R' for Rust, and is also a reference to the concepts of rooms in these games.
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The ORC (Open RPG Creative License) Alliance Grows(paizo.com)
2 points by thelibrarian 4y ago|0 comments

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