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it depends what type of waterways you’re after. for the sea, https://map.openseamap.org/ is very good (but no route planning sadly - for that you’d need opencpn and some charts obt…

and the fears that Saddam Hussein was going to buy a bunch of PS2s because the cpu was SO POWERFUL they would be used for missile guidance systems or something

Reading and reciting this poem and the works of Benjamin Zephaniah (particularly ‘dis poetry’) in gcse English convinced me that it wasn’t ‘lame’ and poetry can be inspiring

I’ve been involved in this once. There were two of us in the QA department that did subtly different jobs. They wanted rid of the other guy, but as we had very similar roles I had …

I remember the formation of /r/playdate! Good times, I remember getting very drunk on voice chat, I barely remember what we were playing, maybe CSS

Basically, yeah. It actually has its origin in MUDs, from 'spec_proc', short for special procedure.

1888 is very much not 'pre-industrial revolution', which had started over 100 years prior.

Not quite the specific chemicals anymore. As I understood it, when they outlawed 1v, the legislation was changed to also consider the weight of the molecule. Ok fine, still whack-a…

Oh interesting, thanks! Which makes that comment in the code even more confusing

I’ve used it probably daily since about 2006. Which is kind of sad actually.

/ck/ from around 2015 to hmm… maybe 2018-19 was pretty good, and probably my home board. Decent cook along threads (I hope Patti is doing ok), /ck/ challenge threads where there wa…

Based on one of the comments in the leaked source, at least php 6, though no idea what specific version: > // In PHP 6 this... doesn't seem to do anything? Let's try again in 7.

You can 'fix' the texture filtering to nearest neighbour in hl by adding the following to userconfig.cfg (should be in a directory called 'valve' in the game's root directory): gl_…

The electric fence is for keeping foxes out, not chickens in

You set them free and they’ll find the bugs. You can also give them a huge variety of food waste. This mostly only supplements their feed though

My surname is an example of this! Pugh comes from ap Hugh (though more commonly spelt in Welsh these days as Huw)

This has been the case of years. My first FOSDEM was about a decade ago and it felt like that then. You go to a room a talk or two before the talk you actually want to see because …

Actually, given enough practice, you can literally just get your eyes to do it. I started doing magic eye puzzles as a kid and loved it, so just eventually learned how to control m…

> Once you have learned it, it is hard to unlearn, to the point that once in a while my eyes and brain will snap onto repetitive patterns like grid paper or just text without any i…

> Actually, I did phone the super mario 64 help hotline as I was missing level 10 Aha, snowman’s land! Jump through the wall that has the snowman portrait reflected in the mirror. …

For the last level, you can get onto the moving platform on the first cycle if you're quick

Engraved onto something like titanium would be better than a fireproof safe - they're only safe for X amount of time (I want to take a stab in the dark and say about 90 minutes?). …

>yet it generally doesn't seem to make them a worse, better, or even different person I think there's a vague consensus that one must 'integrate' the experiences you have on psyche…

I got FOSDEM flu from FOSDEM 2020 and sometimes wondered if it was COVID-19. Absolutely horrendous flu, and a few of my friends also got it. This was obviously pre all the testing …