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I'd say it's worth learning new languages even purely for the sake and love of learning! That goes to both Rust and Zig, Rust is arguably more intellectually interesting, whereas w…

The human body goes further than that too, when you're out jogging - as your foot approaches the ground for a stride, you slow the velocity of your foot downwards towards the groun…

Where do you spend $21 for a loaf of sourdough?! My local baker sells a delicious loaf of artisanal sourdough for £4 here. Of course, the difference between sourdough and anything …

Would be a nice thought, but literally nobody means the descendants of the Britons where talking about being British. If they did, depending upon what that encompasses, then either…

Erlang might be slightly more obscure, but there are plenty of big household names using the language - Klarna, Bet365, and William Hill are all household names. And that's excludi…

It's basically a guaranteed fatality at 45mph in any weight of car - lots of towns/cities are even reducing their 30mph speed limits to 20mph for that reason. If anything, I'd sugg…

The FCA (one of the financial regulators) stepped in for the insurance market, which is why that change has started being made.

The main difference here is orthography as opposed to the actual pronunciation of the word - Welsh uses y and w as vowels, as well as multiple 2-letter clusters for a single sound …

In which case those countries can get a court order and have Cloudflare remove their services from that company. They're not endorsing a forum by providing them the same services t…

That might be highly location specific as well - ie, clustered around wealthy urban areas such as London. In Wales I've never seen such a card (although, certainly more than a few …

The title made me assume it was a reference to building your own x.org - alas! Nevertheless, a fascinating repository.

In my most recent role I wasn't on-call, but would keep an eye on monitors out of hours and if around, fix issues as they arose (I guess it was unpaid, but would just take hours of…

So you're actually conflating two topics with that first sentence - since this is a topic from the UK government, we don't forbid alcohol consumption amongst children here (over th…