threedaymonk

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by threedaymonk 11y ago
At Orsha, the nickname “Ramp Tramp” puzzled many Soviet pilots and engineers, even those familiar with English. One rough translation offered was “Unshaven Vagabond,” which still baffled Soviet airmen. It puzzles me, and English is my fir
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by threedaymonk 11y ago
This lets you run the images under KVM: https://github.com/lentinj/ie-vm
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by threedaymonk 11y ago
In a British context, "the provinces" is a rather pejorative expression for the rest of the country outside London. It doesn't refer to Canada.
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by threedaymonk 11y ago
> For countries that are based on a unique language, ethnicity and culture, it is damaging. Where are these places? Very few countries are based on a unique language, ethnicity, or culture, and those that are have generally only become
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by threedaymonk 11y ago
Its absence has been a persistent irritation to me. I'm glad that I can now retire this: https://github.com/threedaymonk/furigana-shim
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by threedaymonk 11y ago
You can achieve the same thing with the RefControl add-on, which allows you to set a custom referrer for a particular site: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/refcontrol
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by threedaymonk 11y ago
I follow a similar philosophy. At the moment, I have two near-identical factory-refurbished x220's, each of which I've upgraded with an IPS screen, 16 GB RAM, and an SSD. One stays at home, and I use the other at the client site.
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by threedaymonk 11y ago
> You have the choice not to consume any content or to consume free content. Over the years that I've watched this discussion, I've come to notice that people who advocate for paying for stuff seem (though it might just be my p
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by threedaymonk 11y ago
It seems to be more than that. For example, I typed in my mobile phone number, and it correctly identified the operator as "Hutchison 3G UK" (i.e. 3), which it now is - but it's a number that was originally Virgin and which h
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by threedaymonk 11y ago
I have heard that the Muirhead Tower (at the University of Birmingham) was originally designed for paternoster lifts, but due to legislative changes was built with two regular lift shafts - which were totally inadequate for the volume of st
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by threedaymonk 12y ago
That sounds similar to Self-Destructing Cookies[1], which I'm using. Has anyone tried both and can compare them? 1. https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/self-destruct...
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by threedaymonk 12y ago
> as long as I can virtualize efficiently with virtualbox or something You can use VirtualBox on Linux, but QEMU with KVM is, in my experience, far more efficient, and a lot less buggy.
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by threedaymonk 12y ago
Here's the user script I use (I've not allowed Flash on my computers since about 2010): https://github.com/threedaymonk/userscripts/blob/master/yout...
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by threedaymonk 12y ago
Bluhell is touted as a lighter weight solution. I haven't taken measurements, but Firefox Mobile certainly feels snappier with Bluhell than with Adblock Plus/Edge.
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by threedaymonk 12y ago
Bluhell Firewall does work on Firefox for Android, if you're looking for an ad blocker while you wait for µBlock.
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by threedaymonk 12y ago
If you buy a TV and plug it in but do not connect it to an aerial or satellite, you do not need a licence. You need a TV licence to install or use a television receiver per the Communications Act 2003, Part 4, Section 363[1]. The definition
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by threedaymonk 12y ago
As a customer, there aren't many circumstances. The only one that springs to mind is when buying airline tickets with a credit card (but not a debit card). Where it makes more of a difference, though, is that the fee charged to the mer
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by threedaymonk 12y ago
> Hangul is perfectly readable linearly letter by letter Here's an example of printed linear Hangul: http://imgur.com/yasWNfW
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by threedaymonk 12y ago
If you're flying into the international terminal (which sounds like the case here), it's right next to the BART station anyway.
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by threedaymonk 12y ago
I can confirm that 'womb' is a perfectly normal word here in the UK. It's no stranger than 'fortnight' or 'autumn'.
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by threedaymonk 12y ago
NuGet doesn't quite work just fine on Linux, but it's getting better. Slowly. http://nuget.codeplex.com/SourceControl/network/forks/threed...
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by threedaymonk 12y ago
Whether "tox" sounds like "talks" will depend on whether or not your dialect exhibits the cot/caught merger. To those of us without, it sounds very different!
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by threedaymonk 12y ago
There is no issue. Both learned and learnt are acceptable and attested for the verb, pace the OED: learn, v. Forms: Pa. tense and pple. learned /lɜːnd/ , learnt /lɜːnt/ .
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by threedaymonk 12y ago
Last time Amazon gave me a free trial of Prime, I tried out the free rental. As best as I could make out, it was only possible to use it by browsing on my Kindle, which was a rather suboptimal experience, allowing only specific search or a
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by threedaymonk 12y ago
Pedestrian crossings in the UK are rather unusual compared to most other countries in the world, in my experience. In most places, crossings work on a parallel/perpendicular system: parallel roads and pedestrian crossings are red or gr
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by threedaymonk 12y ago
> the idea of losing an arm (or even a finger!) is scares the crap out of me. I damaged my right little finger in a bicycle accident several years ago, and for a long time I couldn't bend it properly. One might think that a little f
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by threedaymonk 12y ago
This reminds me of Happoshu[1]: beer was expensive in Japan because malt content was taxed[2]. Brewers introduced fizzy beer-like beverages with lower malt content ("happoshu"). Beer tax revenues consequently dropped, so the tax o
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by threedaymonk 12y ago
Or the ones that have two boxes, one positive and one negative: [x] Send me marketing emails [ ] Don't pass my email on to third party spammers
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by threedaymonk 12y ago
The other side of the fence isn't much better. Nancy's own wiki gives instructions for hosting Nancy on Ubuntu that start with downloading and compiling the latest version of Mono. They continue, "Open VS2012 and start a ne
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by threedaymonk 12y ago
That's just the convention in how words are presented to learners in different languages, I think, and it's surely obvious to anyone with even a few minutes of exposure to Romanian that -ul is one of the enclitics for the definite

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