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filterfish
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Comment #49222205
Is any class action lawsuit "easy"?
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Comment #48505514
Life expectancy and quality of life are very different things.
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Comment #47031252
> Misophonia, interesting, I hadn’t heard (snort!) of that before. There are certain sounds I will inappropriately respond to, I’ll I read up on misophonia, thanks. The misophonia …
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Comment #47031138
My ex-partner has tinnitus and saw a psychologist who specialised in tinnitus. The psychologist suggested she buy a machine that generates a sound slightly quieter than her tinnitu…
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Comment #46716494
Likewise and if people say, "why don't you google that?" I usually reply (obviously to everyone's annoyance:-) "I don't use Google". The general response is a blank, uncomprehendin…
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Comment #46399153
Looking up the binary in the package management system would also provide another source of useful information. Of course this would dramatically increase the complexity but would,…
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Comment #46335293
Contempt is very different to hate.
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Comment #46288065
Thank you. This is what I was looking for.
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Comment #46240973
> I am (alas) an entirely carbon-based user of the em dash. What a lovely sentence.
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Comment #45480260
Agreed,Bandcamp is good, very good.
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Comment #44645119
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edinburgh_Handedness_Inventory Some online tests: * Long form: https://www.brainmapping.org/shared/Edinburgh.php * Short form: https://www.psytoolkit.…
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Comment #44498185
The wound was about 6mm deep on my heel and took months to heal properly. And yes I did check those homophones :-) And thanks for the other homophone correction!
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Comment #44498134
Millions of years!
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Comment #44496877
https://www.cochranelibrary.com/cdsr/doi/10.1002/14651858.CD...
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Comment #44496773
I had a planter wart surgically removed which they packed with Manuka honey and because it's a deep open wound it needs to heal from the inside. I changed the dressing and repacked…
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Comment #44334033
"they" say "I haven't got a car". Contractions are common in Australian English to, though becoming less so due to the influence of US English.
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Comment #44072782
Whether something is near field or far field is frequency dependent
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Comment #43910377
We used to pay AU$30 for the entire house which included everything except cooking but it did include a 10 year 1RU rack Mount server. Electricity isn't particularly cheap here.
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Comment #42397335
I've been using sqitch for years and haven't had any problems with it. Though they haven't been big projects with lots of devs so I may be using in it's sweet spot.
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Comment #42232635
Their blog is an incredibly useful resource for so many different scenarios.
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Comment #41747884
I love Stig of the Dump. I read it at school and whilst I have very memories of my childhood I do remember reading it. I can quite imagine living in a dump/tip with old jam jars as…
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Comment #41747870
twaddle is word I haven't heard for a long time (I moved from the UK to Australia 27 years ago). It's a great word!
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Comment #41575418
Or: apt-get install ugrep
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Comment #41386784
> ... closed-loop feedback systems ... It's good to actually see even a mention of control theory. My degree was electronics and control theory and whilst I've only had one job tha…
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Comment #41158647
> This is essentially just CalDAV[1], no? I reckon, yeah. From this article[1] writing a FUSE filesystem doesn't look that hard. I might give it a go this weekend. Assuming I remem…