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The Farsi word div may be related to the English word devil.

I've read this story before but it's worth a repeat.

A decision undo button.

Yep, that happened to me too. The biggest joke was that LinkedIn forced me to create a password before I could delete the profile they'd created without my permission. This happene…

"Great people are sometimes oddly-shaped" Great people are racehorses, not donkeys. And racehorses tend be skittish. But they win races for you.

We used to do this in the software documentation team I worked with for 9 years: we would discuss something verbally, then the person who'd called the discussion would summarise th…

Rosa Brooks, the author of the piece, is American. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosa_Brooks

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Source headline: Big Tech, big cons: Scammers are hiding in the apps that make your life easy

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A wonderful rabbit hole for anyone fascinated by number properties. Focusses almost entirely on positive real numbers.

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Very good. Worth it just for the custom CSS ability, to be honest, although the option to mute users comes a close second. "The friendly release notes" presumably refers to this pa…

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A phrase involving horses and stable doors comes to mind.

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Very useful. Easy to install and use and nicely designed.