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Not a single mention of the word fashion. Here in the UK, Adidas Sambas (and similar models like Gazelles and Spezials) have been everywhere for the last couple of years, particula…

I’m a huge Malick fan and agree that The New World is his masterpiece. I still remember seeing it in the cinema 20 years ago and almost levitating out of there. Just a beautiful pi…

This is the castle in question: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kilcoe_Castle https://jeremyirons.net/kilcoe-castle/ It’s quite something. He bought it for IEP 150,000 (around €190…

It’s Zaslav-era WB so there’s probably some kind of weird tqx write-off happening, or some contractual agreement that they’re living up to in the cheapest way possible. Some good s…

I think Sony only have one plant left (in Austria) pressing physical discs. Vantiva (formerly Technicolor) are the biggest players but have just announced they’re unloading their S…

The chain makes more sense as being one tenth of a furlong (as still used in horse racing in the US, Great Britain and Ireland!), which is of course one eighth of a mile. Also, an …

I just love this. Scorsese’s camera moves - the way he swoops in behind Mavis and then slowly comes back around her as she starts to soar. The way he lights up Danko for the start …

The real reason for the shortages is revealed!

I gave up after reloading it for the third time to see if the next chunk of invisible text would suddenly appear. (iPhone/iOS, Safari, Content Blockers off)

I was referring to the pronunciation, not the meaning - EXE-CUTE isn't quite right compared to EXEC-U-TIVE.

I use it daily and say each letter - everyone else I work with says Sequel. This all stems from when I originally learnt it 20 odd years ago and read something on the web that proc…

I got really worried when he pronounced AUTOEXEC as AUTO-E-X-E-C. I realised it's one of those things I rarely, if ever, heard said out loud and so this weird panic came over me th…

Cameron has had plenty of opportunities and never has. There was something of a controversy when the DVD was re-released with a new Dolby Digital surround track and the original mo…

This was my reaction to the article also - the base assumption that the relatively tiny group of audience members who rate films on imdb are statistically representative of the aud…

It never ceases to amaze me that in this day and age the owner of The Son of Man is not publicly known. I wonder if the owner displays it in their home for their own pleasure, or h…

Nicely laid out. I goofed on the last bit by assuming the final answer was: 1 - P(C) - P(D) which gives 0.178 ~ 0.18 or answer (A)

Possibly nothing more than a side issue, but why are the indexes being created before the bulk insert, rather than after?

Yes. After literally years of never having to worry about gmail spam, really obvious stuff has been coming in for the last few months.

Precisely. I would have been shocked if they weren’t doing this. Despite their attempts to diversify their offerings ober the years, their Premier League coverage is the lynchpin o…

For the UK, the National Library of Scotland’s historical maps are a fantastic resource: https://maps.nls.uk/ Ireland’s Ordnance Survey also has some good historical resources: htt…

That's really interesting, can't wait to take a look. There's a good webos plugin for homebridge ( https://github.com/merdok/homebridge-webos-tv ) which is based on LGTV2 ( https:/…

Same here. It can also be controlled over http which opens up all sorts of home automation possibilities.

I’ve been waiting almost thirty years for this post, I just never knew it.

Sky's deal with HBO makes that unlikely.

Because they want to encourage developers to update their apps for the new architecture as a top priority.