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gravitystorm
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About gravitystorm
https://www.gravitystorm.co.uk
https://www.thunderforest.com
https://www.opencyclemap.org
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Comment #41924491
Thanks for posting this! I'm happy to answer any questions.
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Comment #40975346
> I began my research by looking for some kind of hard plastic case. I used to ship micro-sd cards in plastic cases through the mail, here in the UK. At first I used standard DL (l…
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Comment #31119487
Hostmonster (a Bluehost brand) have been the worst, since they were so blatant about it. I'd only had legitimate correspondence to that address, until the week I cancelled my accou…
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Comment #30554470
Good luck with everything Vladimir! I have fond memories of working together and visiting you and the rest of our team in Kyiv back in 2008 and 2009.
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Comment #24919989
Carbon capture is necessary in the long term, for particular emissions that are hard to avoid (like specific industrial processes and parts of agriculture). But while we're still p…
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Comment #22534255
I use HSLuv for designing our maps at Thunderforest. The map stylesheet language we use is CartoCSS, and it has built-in support for HSLuv since 2016. https://cartocss.readthedocs.…
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Comment #22254820
"Atlantic City of Rock" is one of my favourites, but there are more!
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Comment #6526087
It's worth specifying that if they've lumped them in with the UK, since the Channel Islands and the Isle of Man aren't actually part of the UK. Heck, they aren't even part of the E…
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Comment #5108588
I just resized my browser to be about an inch wide, and then they all fall in a straight line past the cursor. I guess you could call that a workaround :-)
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Comment #4727535
I've been doing this for a few years, along with a reasonable minimum font size. I find it really tough to go back to a smorgasbord of fonts and sizes, with some of them often unre…
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Comment #3898424
The problem with your first command is the "cut" - works great for a while. Then you deal with other_vhosts_combined.log, and there's a leading hostname and port, so you want -f2 i…
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Comment #3861958
No - but it seems like that figure is wrong on two counts - greater than the actual number of ships of that size lost in that timeframe (142), and those ships weren't sunk by rogue…
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Comment #3857709
As soon as anyone says "Ceefax" or "Teletext" I think of Bamboozle. I'm glad to see I'm not alone and there's even a wikipedia page about it: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bamboozle…
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Comment #3730942
Alternative gist, but with line wraps: https://gist.github.com/b69c536f31bc584e557d
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Comment #3298973
I can heartily recommend a starter kit like the ones that oomlout sell - http://www.oomlout.co.uk/arduino-experimentation-kit-ardx-p-... for example. I bought one in summer 2010. T…