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Most of the games I play are resource management or base/city building games. I haven't bothered checking if a game works in the last few years, I just fork over my money at this p…

I'm guessing they're thinking of the word 'money'.

Let's have a moment of silence for the hair follicles of future archaeologists.

I've never even connected the 'X' to the Greek letter chi. I just kinda accepted it as one of many groovy web 2.0 misspellings in search of a domain and trademark.

The accounting of it all would be far from trivial.

You might be interested to read about whistled languages, which is pretty close to that idea: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whistled_language

I know Norwegian also has two different written standards, found an example that demonstrates it: >English: I will not tell anyone the secret. >Bokmål: Jeg skal ikke fortelle hemme…

I'd assume you can get USB floppy drives for 3½" disks pretty cheaply. I think I might've even seen that in my BIOS settings as an option.

Perhaps it's always been burning, since the world's been turning?

I vaguely remember something like that happened during the Egyptian revolution/Tahrir Square protests.

I noticed a similar thing for Python 3 questions, closed as a duplicate of a Python 2 response. Why they weren't collated and treated as a living document is beyond me.

You can also put the lambda function inside the let function, which is handy. Also, almost everyone should be using tables instead of ranges. The references are missing a few featu…

> He had special glasses with a special lens to read. Bifocals, I'm guessing.

Not sure about love, but I like it at least, it's useful to me. But it's like a frozen TV dinner, not something worth bringing up.

People in the past couldn't get a diagnosis, so they had to settle for cirrhosis.

Jam jars were way more common. As a kid, I might've seen one Vegemite jar for every twenty or so jam jars.

Whenever I read some of these design articles, I usually see this same glaring issue. Without any distinction, they'll present together a grab bag of objective facts, best practice…

That's what the European sequential method is. We have that in Australia, odd numbers are on the left, even on the right. ...Although sometimes it's the opposite, from before it wa…

I'd think passive recognition of a fair few states would be a pretty low bar for relatively educated, English-speaking people. It's a pretty low bar, just placing a region with its…

I was gonna mention that, but I felt I was waffling on a bit, so I deleted it! We've got the same thing with GST, basically like VAT or sales tax. So that'll appear on the invoice …

>Normally tariffs are collected by the receiving country when a package arrives. For good reason too, the sender engaged the carrier. The receiver has no business relationship with…

You can check if there's agreement between different techniques. Tooth enamel would be a pretty trustworthy source of information, for example. It just depends on what level of con…

Well... I'm not sure which bog body it was, there were a few! It might've been the 'Haraldskær Woman', I found an article [1] about her which roughly matches my recollections, and …

Regarding the second one, variations of that, to help or protect strangers/travellers, seems to have been relatively common across a variety of historical cultures. Tangentially, i…