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oh my god.

And as a British speaker of English it amuses me that we say "fillit" steak when Americans (afaik) correctly say "fillay". There are others, but I guess there are more 'correct' Br…

This is exactly the metaphor I use for this app! It's great. I've used Merlin for years and it works great most of the time. Agree with others that it's a great example of somethin…

came here to say this. It's a wonderful book!

Yeah I own this watch and it is infuriatingly almost accurate for my location, but drifts over the course of the moon cycle. I now just use it as indicative but check other sources…

Possibly Jellyfin?

Just echoing other comments as the first post I saw was from someone who wanted a knife so they could "stab girls" while whispering in their ear that they are "getting their hormon…

Android's Digital Wellbeing also has an option for Bedtime Mode to enable greyscale mode (along with do not disturb etc.). I find that really useful and it also has a sort of snooz…

Genuinely curious: when people submit URLs like this to HN - rather than say a specific link to an article or blog post - without comment or actually submitting responses to the co…

On Firefox v134 with British English dictionary, I pasted your wordlist into a text box and I get only the following marked as misspelled: hominem, implementor, plough, passthrough…

Played TTD for hundreds of hours as a kid. The soundtrack and ambient sound effects are still so clear in my head - distant sounds of industry and vans and busses and trains just d…

Thanks for this. Generic links posted without context to HN with no other explanations (especially those which are likely to be quite well known to this audience) are often quite c…

That's referenced and linked to in the article.

Ah - kind of like scrumping in British English.

Yeah - I can't be the only one left wondering why this URL was submitted to HN as news???