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I’ve definitely heard Araucaria araucana called “monkey puzzle” quite often in English, and many people in Australia mistakenly call the bunya pine ( Araucaria bidwillii ) “monkey …

I’m not sure if you’re joking (sorry), but a ‘crowned republic’ [0] is definitely a common way to characterise the effective political system of many constitutional monarchies toda…

This will happen in most browsers (I’m on Safari 14, macOS 11.2). The popup-blockers in most browsers will allow a popup if it is opened directly because of user input, such as a b…

You’re right, I was mistaken (and too late to edit my comment). Out of interest, is there a page anywhere explaining the difference between RustEnhanced and Sublime-LSP + Rust Anal…

You can use rust-analyzer from within Sublime Text: https://rust-analyzer.github.io/manual.html#sublime-text-3 If you’re using Sublime Text 3, it’s essentially an alternative to Ru…

I would assume that’s entirely possible, but something like this could be done using the HTML5 or elements for video or audio codecs (there’s even a DOM API to do it! [0]), and som…

> I'd like to support it in my own websites, but I literally can't since a huge chunk of visitors use Safari. Wouldn’t using the element[0] allow this this? It’s pretty widely supp…

I’d say compared to other languages there’s been two big issues: 1. A not insignificant number of packages are either polyfilling things in browsers, or providing a consistent (or …

Sadly it seems to be out of print, but Bob Woolmer’s posthumously published Art and Science of Cricket [0] is an incredibly expansive and throughly researched study of cricket as a…

This map seems to use a very variable and at times generous definition of both “company” and “still in business”. Sure, Australia Post is one of Australia’s oldest institutions if …

> [...] MyFireWatch shows exactly where those active fires are. I didn’t link to MyFireWatch precisely because it is showing ‘hotspots’ from the past 72 hours, which is not necessa…

As the BBC article suggests, generally the most accurate maps of where recent fires are and how much they’ve burnt are the state government fire or emergency services websites. Unf…