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I've found that the only way I can reliably create focus of late is to put music on. It's as though the music prevents my mind from wandering and/or wondering because it is already…

The specifics were about whether it required any additional preparation like a traditional poppadom vs being a ready to eat snack like a crisp. Walkers lost the case. https://www.t…

The etymology of dialogue is from the Greek `dia` meaning `through` and `logos` meaning `words`. https://www.etymonline.com/word/dialogue explains the common confusion with di-

You can just search for the answer to save having to do that

We used this site to help choose our baby name, thank you for building it! If only gratitude could pay server costs...

I believe the British Airways site still does something similar to this, or it did until very recently if it's been fixed. Add a password that is too long, it gets truncated and th…

There is an FAQ on each page with a question "What's the time frame for this analysis?", and the answer is posts and comments from within the last two years

I've just had a similar experience with ebay. About 75% of the times I log on to ebay, (no exaggeration, I only purchase something a few times a year and this happens almost every …

It's not just you. I don't have any sources to link to, but 15 years ago a website was frowned upon for having light text on an (almost) black background because it was bad for rea…

This has become increasingly frustrating for me, and I now have to overuse quoting to get the things I want. Why would I include a word if I wanted results that didn't include it. …

>When I changed my password there, not too long ago, it was worse. The "change password" page (I later discovered) silently cropped the long random password I pasted, while the "lo…

That wasn't a slip

Wouldn't that in itself involve tracking your behaviour on the web, though, which is what commenters on this thread started off saying they disliked?

I believe technically it requires lower bitrates to maintain the same quality (as mp4 etc), as opposed to just having de facto better quality. The lower bitrate is what results in …

Worth recognising that each subreddit is its own community, and like individual forums, will likely vary wildly by subject. My experience of subreddits for my interests and hobbies…

In my experience that tends to only be true in the larger subreddits. The (potentially) more niche subreddits I use don't have that same problem outside of maybe a 'read the FAQs b…

Yep, Sandbanks brings the average up http://www.rightmove.co.uk/house-prices/Sandbanks.html

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