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I'm not sure if this was the intention of the analogy, but fishing poles don't have reels.

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> I know how to pronounce 'Kansas', and I was always under the impression that 'Arkansas' is the same with an 'Ar-' prefixed, which is apparently not the case. The reason why they'…

Yep. He is the youngest living member, though.

> currency sign after the number instead of before it While they use Euros, the Republic of Ireland is an exception to this.

At least with a higher level language it is easier to learn the practical side of concepts taught in Computer Science. As part of my architecture course at university, we were task…

It's so known for its stickiness that a mixture of sugar and boiling water is used by inmates against others. It's known as "prison napalm".

A small technicality, but I don't think he ever released under the name "the artist formerly known as Prince" but as the Love Symbol [0]. An example album being the Gold Experience…

Funny, at my UK university for Computer Science we did not have independently invigilated exams. I would assume other courses were similar. We did have them for secondary education…

> but very easy to fake with useless “tests” While it doesn't alleviate the problems entirely, you can also run things like mutation tests that check that your unit tests actually …

In the UK, the A level I took was called "Computing". My university called it that as well and treated it as an MEng rather than an MSc, but most UK universities still call it Comp…

But why? It was his actual birth name. He also wasn't knighted so you could use the title "Sir" to distinguish the other Francis Bacon from him, though I've noticed Americans don't…

Not quite the same but the word "run" in English can express a lot of different concepts.[0] [0] https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/run

My all time favourite example of this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8DySPDmCHgw

"Plans are worthless, but planning is everything" is the version I've heard.

I don't mean leaving the city by public transport or whatever. I mean leaving the monotony of a particular area which I thought you meant in your OP. Streets in London typically ar…

I think the difference being is that you don't have to get in the car just to leave it. I myself live about 5 minutes walk from a major train station in London whose trains go past…

I wonder how many of those are from papers discussing failure of peer review or interdisciplinary communication rather than the value of the formula itself.

Not explicit but Ser Meryn comes to mind.

> where you are not allowed to communicate with your fellow players Technically there is no textual communication. You could still communicate with players via signalling e.g. Choo…

As someone who lives there, I would use "Britain" to include the other islands in England, Scotland and Wales but most people here don't refer to the main island specifically.

> The article is way too long and reads more like a novel than an informative piece That is what is expected from the New Yorker

I wonder if there is an equivalent political thing for the blind or for the partially vision impaired. I've only read or heard about these kind of divides (e.g. rejecting fixes for…

They're not fiddly if you do assertion-free testing

To add to the sibling comments, you should avoid this scenario in the first place by hiding things behind feature flags that only apply in dev. Request 1 can go in fine on its own …