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While I can appreciate this, it was not the historical point of view of the people calling themselves Americans. “What then is the American, this new man? He is either an European,…

> You can't have separate scroll directions for your trackpad and your external mouse. The worst. There are even separate toggles in Settings for mouse and trackpad scrolling direc…

> Maybe the sync is fast now, but my usage would put my in a higher iCloud tier than I'd like You can use Messages on the Mac without storing messages in iCloud. iPhone, iPad and M…

If Q is not a written source, the Q hypothesis falls apart. The point is to explain what Matthew and Luke (but not Mark) have in common, much of which is word-for-word the same. Wh…

On the Farrer hypothesis, Luke used Matthew as a source, accounting for their shared material. Mark Goodacre may be the current leading academic proponent of the Farrer hypothesis.…

Setting aside the truth value of any religious claim — I find ‘Jesus **** Christ’ to be in gratingly poor taste. Imagine going around saying ‘Prophet **** Muhammed’ or even ‘Martin…

Two days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41328688 Probably an unrelated coincidence.

> Eu, definitely a good name I see what you did there.

You are right, of course. Clearly, I have been away from mathematics too long.

> the set of such roots is actually closed under multiplication, addition, and subtraction, and there is even an analogue of prime factorization if you squint I did a maths undergr…

VLC is up to date on F-Droid, for what it’s worth

> The V is gradually being dropped in Spain and in the last few decades the process seems to have accelerated I own a Spanish textbook printed (in English) in 1958 that says about …

> "total deathtrap" is a wild exaggeration. Sarcasm ;-)

The web is, in theory, an open venue, and somebody publishing on the web is not unlike somebody performing in the street. It is not your duty, as the consumer, to ensure the produc…

> Require anyone who sells a new physical product have to accept returns of that physical product at the end of its lifetime This is the correct solution

The day you turn 30 you begin your 31st year of life.

How great is your wish? If you host your own instance of Whoogle, which gives Google search results, you can set one of the environment variables to block particular websites from …

Modern French has had little influence on English. As I understand it, the -our forms are evolutions from the Norman French spellings that introduced these Latinate words into Engl…

I note that Google Toolbar had a big RSS ‘Subscribe’ button…

It looks like you’re writing a complaint. Would you like help?

NewsFlash: https://gitlab.com/news-flash/news_flash_gtk

I am reminded of a line from G.K. Chesterton: ‘Thieves respect property; they merely wish the property to become their property that they may more perfectly respect it.’

xkcd: Wisdom of the Ancients https://xkcd.com/979/

An English equivalent is “idle hands are the devil’s workshop” https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/idle_hands_are_the_devil%27s_...

My default browser is Librewolf with JavaScript turned off. If a page fails to load correctly, I reopen it in Firefox private browsing mode (or, if it still fails, Chrome incognito…