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Post by sdoering »

nicbou wrote: post #95
spenjovewkwhalo wrote: post #49

The origins of Port and Starboard on ships. Chosen to be independent of a mariners orientation. Starboard - most sailors were right handed and the steering oar was placed on the right. Star = steer. Board = side of boat. Port - as steering oars got bigger, boats tended to dock on the left hand side. This became to be known as “lardboard” which sounded too much like starboard, so it was changed to “Port” (as in the si…

In French, there is babord and tribord. The mnemonic is ba-tri, or “battery”.

In German it is Steuerbord und Backbord. And my mnemonic is the "r" in Steuerbord = the "r" in right hand side (when looking to the bow that is).

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Post by sdoering »

mitjam wrote: post #110

I'm exploring adding a firewall to my home network to detect if apps are using my network as residential proxy. My daughter likes to install random games on iOS that have been advertised to her on other apps, and I wonder if some of those work as residential proxy behind the scenes.

I once installed a private DNS with advertising block lists on a home network level. My SO was not amused, as her Android based games with "watch an advertisement for ingame credits" now did not work anymore.

Nowadays only the TV sets and my own devices are set to use this (pihole) DNS server. So that I can at least watch Disney+ without ads.

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Post by raw_anon_1111 »

I live in a condo complex in Florida where the onsite staff at the front desk know me well and they are mostly bilingual and know I’m learning Spanish.

I went up to ask then something and jokingly said “no hablo inglés, ¿Hablas español?” and I was able to carry on a more or less complete conversation with them in Spanish and ask for what I needed without pre rehearsing lines for the first time.

So I found out within the past 24 hours that I can carry on a simple conversation in “survival Spanish”

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Post by frxx »

aaronbrethorst wrote: post #80

My home office gets up to about 1500ppm of CO2 by the end of the workday, which explains a lot about why I often feel exhausted after the end of a long, uninterrupted session in there (especially when I’m on back to back zoom calls). I now have several plants in there that are supposed to be especially good at sucking up CO2, and my sensor reports that the current level is slightly below atmospheric ambient CO2 level…

Depending on the measurement method and your method of calibration, I'd assume "slightly below atmospheric" is probably just atmospheric. Funnily enough, more CO2 in the blood can actually increase athletic performance and resilience against it is also helping with that. I just open my windows though from time to time.

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Post by e40 »

lanyard-textile wrote: post #9

I found out my crimson-bellied conure is laying an egg today! She's nesting in some towels now, chirping away while she works on laying it. Having an egg is relatively hard on parrots. I've given her lots of food and warmth to prepare. She is comically hungry -- she's usually not such a big eater, but she's happy today to be scarfing down her apple slices, fruit pellets, and safflower seeds. She usually sleeps at the…

Do you have two of them?

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Post by is_true »

tikotus wrote: post #165

I'm doing PHP for the first time in years. I needed a function that returns the date of last week's Monday. Turns out PHP has a funky date querying language. I can just do: $today->modify('monday last week'). Makes me happy.

PHP is always there for you.

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Post by elric »

nottorp wrote: post #133

My day just started but I found out that when I type a message in a MS Teams chat open in Chrome in Mac OS there are three separate independent spell checkers fighting to twist my meaning. Sorry, no positive news yet. But it's only noon.

I too am actively fighting the Teams spellcheck and autocorrect garbage. I can't seem to turn it off permanently, every time I log in again it switches itself on again. It refuses to understand that I speak multiple languages, and that no, I do not ever want this shitty tool to change words as I'm typing.

Another classical case of MS not understanding consent, I guess?

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