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You can create a global gitignore in your home directory. I have ‘. ’ ignored there, so if I ever create a directory with that name I know it’s contents won’t go into source contro…

Nice game, works great on mobile

I’m not sure that is the case, but if it is, it’s interesting to me as a fairly extreme example of the free market self regulating.

Space Alert is silly and fun and cooperative. Everyone also is forced to mention Galaxy Trucker as it’s also silly and fun, but the real time nature is quite isolated, and I prefer…

Retention and maintenance is easier than progress. If you get a skill to some level, then stop constructively practicing it, then you’ll allow your ability to slide back a bit but …

Should add that with serious running training it is hard and painful, but more on aggregate. Even when I'm just base building, and maybe doing 1 or 2 'kinda hard but not all out' s…

It's fun to watch numbers go up. No-one thinks that watching numbers go up makes them go up faster. (It probably makes them go up slower in the long run (lol), by encouraging short…

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German trains wishing to enter Switzerland need to wait at the border so the DB’s, err, _erratic_ scheduling doesn’t perturb the much more rigorous Swiss system. My experience of G…

my understanding i’d that the ceo who revived waterstones is now reviving BN.

It is on Argos.

In CoL, a few cycle lanes but mainly it's just very quite roads. It works in CoL because motor traffic is so heavily restricted the roads are fairly quiet.

> hope either they or the underwriter collapse shortly after Has this ever worked? Surely the administrator would just sell the debt at a discount (for them, not you).

Available sick leave is usually shorter, too. Normally 5 days, converted to 10-15 after probation. Usually annual leave is fully made available from the start, though.

I'd argue that having follow a doctrine of agility, communication and cooperation is in itself part of a strategy. It only solves part of the equation, though. Your overall strateg…

There is a relationship, yes, but it’s fairly indirect. More important is simply that the ailments of the US are suffered by the west in general. The UK raised its interest rate th…

That's a notably beautiful irony.

err, kinda. The North Circular is a decent enough road if you don't live by it. I happen to live just by the South Circular, and it's not really a ring road. You wouldn't use it to…

I can understand, because AoE4 campaigns are more like interactive documentaries than fun games. High production value, but quite boring IMO. AoE2 tells history as inaccurate chara…

I mean, if you've actually taken MDMA you'll know exactly why it's problematic. In terms of a user, it has a week long comedown, and diminished effects when you take it again soon …

I once went with a friend who was a structural engineer for the British Antarctic Survey, so it’s tenuous, but yes.

I can’t speak for Paris, but London is a major sporting destination. British sports are completely orthogonal to American sports, so it seems a bit disingenuous to say that ‘no one…

Honestly I don't see discovery as the issue, at least for us. The waiting list for tennis clubs in London is... another tennis club. (Seriously, we have 500 members and ~500 people…

You can, but the setting is a bit hidden and when you're dealing with GenPop you have to assume they won't read anything, and find anything beyond basic features too complex. I mai…