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Then I guess we’ve been in the dystopia for almost a century now. When I was a kid in the 70s and 80s we leased our TV and VCR. It was hugely common in the UK, the company was on m…

> parallel: Warning: Finding the maximal command line length. This may take up to 1 minute. > So I wait a few seconds [snip] This warning is only ever printed if running in Cygwin,…

Fair. I was solo :) got plenty of hiking done too and can’t wait to go back

Or do as I did and just use the buses. Highly reliable IME.

In fairness, it’s literally called the jellyfish roundabout on the local bus timetables (as I know from having visited and caught the 450) https://www.ssl.fo/en/timetable/bus/450-t…

DuckDuckGo.

Disappointed it isn’t to do with Robert Rankin. Oh well.

I’d be surprised, given how outspoken Sawe is about doping. He invited the AIU to test him before Berlin and Adidas also paid. > Determined to prove he is competing clean, Adidas p…

Knowledge Fight podcast already took the “synonym name” route. https://knowledgefight.com/

> > The performance/intelligence is said to be about the same as the geometric mean of the total and active parameter counts. So, this model should be equivalent to a dense model w…

In Firebase world API keys are for identification, not authorisation. https://firebase.google.com/docs/projects/api-keys Public by design: API keys for Firebase services only ident…

Godalming, UK (where I live) stakes a claim for having the world's first public electricity supply in 1881. I walk past the commemorative plaque on almost a daily basis. https://ww…

Ah. I’ve always used the subclass 651 eVisitor, without realising it was only for some European countries (or that it was different to the ETA).

That link clearly says you don't have to use an app. If you are unable to use the app, you can apply online through ImmiAccount for another visa that suits your needs. This trigger…

There is legislation in the EU, and BirdyChat announced compatibility. https://www.birdy.chat/blog/first-to-interoperate-with-whats...

The BBC have been covering it in the UK. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/topics/cjnwl8q4ggwt

People have been protesting in the UK. Fourteen arrested after protest at Iranian embassy: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c5y3g8glgxvo Protester climbs on to balcony of Irania…

> What data centers? Does Apple even have data centers? Apple absolutely has data centres. Where do you think Apple TV, Apple Music, iCloud, Maps, etc compute happens? Here's a pre…

Manx is the demonym for people from the Isle of Man. It's odd to see it written "Isle of Manx" in a list of other demonyms, but the word Manx itself is far from modern. https://en.…

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/5K_run

I’m advocating not advertising. I capitalise it out of muscle memory. That’s all. FWIW Wikipedia capitalises it as well. I called it out with a link because I expect many folk to b…

I found this to be true, and that it perfectly dovetailed with TFA. When I was at my absolute depth (so far…) back in 2013, I would see my counsellor at 1130 on a Saturday. I’d be …

Long time fileformat.info user. here, just wanted to say thanks -- always found it incredibly useful for this exact purpose.

I’m trying to understand the “In order of usage popularity” thing — this implies telemetry in CLIs, doesn’t it? Wouldn’t the order of options change/fluctuate over time? Or if no t…

Is that not `whatis`? https://www.man7.org/linux/man-pages/man1/whatis.1.html