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Fun little nugget, Australian Sulphur Crested Cockatoos almost universally favour their left feet as a holdfast. They're also left eye dominant.

Relevant video from Ann Reardon's How To Cook That about exploding Pyrex (and the difference between all capitals and all lowercase): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YVbkDAw4aJs Tu…

Odd. That is not there for me and I cannot add it :( I have the same problem as OP. I wish it were simple.

FWIW, in the future, the recommended way to build KDE applications (including Dolphin) on macOS is by using Craft[1] Much easier and quicker than going the kde-builder route, and i…

> I think it was Microsoft FrontPage that had the most undigestible output at the time. Nah, I would argue that was Microsoft Word's (Office?) Save as Web Page feature. Which is wh…

I had a go, but there were a few I wasn't really sure by. To the creator, can you add a "Not sure" option?

> The reason this causes so much suspicion is because we westerners are terrified of what that would mean for the rest of the world. It would mean having to eschew the neoliberal i…

It's been a decade at this point since the last big distro (and surrounding drama), Debian and Ubuntu following shortly after, moved to systemd.

And where will the money come from for this second study? What about a third? Fourth? We live in a money-dependent world. We cannot go without it.

Haircare as well :)

> I don't know if this exists or not, but I'd like to try something like a fuse filesystem which can transparently copy a file to a fast scratch SSD when it is first accessed. You …

Relevant /r/todayilearned thread from a few hours ago about this: https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/1eanz3p/til_...

There have been and are attempts at addressing the usability gap of tech by the more tech illiterate over the years. Particularly, Linux projects such as Ordissimo[1], Eldy[2], and…

> The main problem with canaries is that it's dead easy for a government to remove them from existence, simply issue subpoenas to every website that has one. Why can't social media…

Oh my gosh, TortoiseSVN and TortoiseCVS. Now that's a blast from the past. Wow.

Are we at a fifth-generation programming language yet? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fifth-generation_programming_l...

This is also a cultural thing. Compare the US to Australia for example, Australia is often remarked as very clean in comparison and the culture in Australia is to hold onto trash u…

What you’re likely referring to is Common Crawl: https://commoncrawl.org

You can’t survive or support a family with a single income these days.. It’s required for both partners to work.

It's in the first paragraph of the article: https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2309.07928

Really only needs to be done once daily. Twice daily is recommended because people tend to not brush their teeth properly and miss things. Doing it twice tends to hit the areas mis…

I backed this game on Kickstarter back in 2012. I don’t care for all this focus on multiplayer, I was just in it for the singleplayer aspect. I wish they would just deliver that.

Yes, you’re exactly right. Humanity tinkered with it by deliberately not wearing masks and vaccinating, which caused it to mutate and spread. If only everybody just wore masks and …