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Here in Scotland, 'ginormous' is normal, possibly more regularly used than 'enormous' or 'giant'.

I turnips were watches, I'd wear one by my side.

Thritto.

This is the main issue. People simply cannot afford to use this extra power. If power was cheap then all kinds of devices would switch to electric, especially heating and cars. The…

I like it, but it's too late. It could also do with a datetime datatype, the one thing (apart from comments) that I constantly feel the need for in JSON.

The Oakham brewery has a rather fine beer named after him: https://www.oakhamales.com/product/jhb/

Wikipedia is a global resource, edited by educated—often academic—people all over the world. Why would anyone expect it to conform to the US idea of what is left and right? For mos…

This is face detection, not recognition. Face recognition would have a correct name underneath each face.

The focus for these kind of alternatives should be on aviation—with the most difficult fuel to replace. Maybe we'd need this for classic cars, emergency generators and a few other …

These giant datacentres bring nothing to a community; they only take, take, take. Why would anyone want one in their neighbourhood?

What is the advantage here over compressed air?

I can't think of a single example where dropped means added.

"The player was dropped and released from his contract." Dropped == released

Dropped doesn’t mean added: it means released.

This is so depressing. Also, why does the female ninja suddenly grow a penis?

Typescript is not just javascript; Javascript is just Typescript. /pedantry

Can we so CrowdStrike next?

Is that a British vs American thing? I had always thought it was a newspaper vs Novel thing.

Amongst other things, I'm writing children's books. Each one is a labour of love that takes years to produce. It requires detailed thought from word choices, character design, worl…

This is ghastly. Children’s books are some of the most wonderful little pieces of art; art that nurtures, entertains, educates and instills both moral compasses and working funny b…

I recently wrote a game in Javascript (2D; Canvas). I was amazed at how simple it was and how performant plain-old-Javascript and Javascript objects were. Despite thousands of anim…

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The really amazing architecture of Coruscant is from the City of Arts and Sciences in Valencia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/City_of_Arts_and_Sciences In particular, the Museo de …