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Yeah, Māori is actually pretty easy to pronounce if you break it apart. There are only five vowel sounds and they don't change depending on context like with English. The only downside is that names are often comprised of several words smooshed together, so you have to pick it apart yourself the first time you read it.

Papa-kanga-horo-horo. Eight syllables, pretty straightforward. My Māori is pretty trash, but after one read of it and a handful of times saying it out loud it's pretty simple.

My advice to anyone complaining about it is to just say it out loud a few times. I guarantee that by the time you've said it to the moving company, the power company, the insurance company and your mum, you'll have it locked down.

It also has the added bonus of being completely unique, so there's no chance of your ambulance being dispatched to park terrace on the other side of town while you're choking on park road.

Mortgage account? Fuck it, I'm declaring bankruptcy.

Should probably make it a zip file, with all of the 'woosh' going on here, he's definitely got windows open.

Can you share the torrents in question? I'd like to take a stab at merging them from hex dumps as explained in my other comment. Maybe develop a tool to automate it for other broken torrents.

Haha, my bad

I believe in that case you may be able to merge the two files by dumping a hex of each, then running a diff on the two hexes and substituting valid hexes into any zero blocks.

I'm actually kind of curious about writing a script to handle this now that I'm presented with it. Can you link the two torrents for me so I can take a crack?

To me it suggests that Ukrainian aligned fighters are operating inside of Russia.

I don't doubt the level of air defense Russia have in place near the border, but partisans in-country would sidestep them entirely.

Oil changes dont require a lot of tools. Most cars you'd get away with just a socket, a drain pan and a filter wrench. I'd be suprised if it took two oil changes to pay back what you spent on tools through the savings of doing it yourself.

If you can afford to drop a hundred bucks on a decent socket and spanner set, then there's even more savings to be had from doing your own brakes and basic part replacements

The solution should be restricting such actions to root/admin, not preventing them entirely though.

I'm using the asus rt68u for the built-in vpn capabilities. It's a bit outdated now, but you can pick them up used for under a hundred bucks.

Pretty much, yeah. A lot of property boundaries are defined in refererence to adjacent bodies of water. It makes sense too, otherwise you'll get weird edge cases where 3m^2 of land on the mexican side belongs to USA because the river drifted since 1850. What are you gonna do with that little plot? Swim over there and put a fence around it?

It's been called coconut milk for 300 years now. No-one is getting confused about it.

My initial thought was that everything would be stored in triplicate, then read in triplicate and 'voted' to the correct value, but I guess even that only extends the time before random bit-flips make the data unreadable. You're probably right on the need for active error checking if there is an intention to store anything long-term in this manner.

sudo dpkg -P stupidprogram Done.

When you have no choice but to kill or starve, any killing is justified, but when starvation is off the table because you have access to agriculture and global supply chains, then that justification no longer exists.

I would expand the original statement to "there is no ethical way to kill someone who doesn't want to die, if you have an option not to kill them"

The average citizen probably isnt informed enough to know how critical taiwanese manufacturing is to nearly all Western electronics, but I doubt that level of strategic importance is lost to the politicians who will be making the decision.

Better yet, buy a huge amount of bitcoin and dump it at the height of the 2018 surge. Stocks implies you have a reasonable amount of money to start with, but bitcoin was worth pennies at the beginning.

This statement about cpus isn't entirely correct. In the manufacture of precision electronics, there is always a reasonable chance of defects occurring, so what happens is that all the parts are built to the same spec, then they are "binned" according to their level of defects.

You produce a hundred 24 core cpus, then you test them rigorously. You discover that 30 work perfectly and sell them as the 24 core mdoel. 30 have between one and eight defective cores, so you block access to those cores and sell them as the 16 core model. Rinse and repeat until you reach the minimum number of cores for a saleable cpu.

This is almost certainly not the case in car manufacturing, as while you could sell a car with defective seat heaters at a lower price point, what actually occurs is that cars with perfectly functional seat heaters have that feature disabled until you pay extra for it.

40 hours per week, the standard of "full time" in most places, equates to 160 hours per four weeks. 152 hours is the equivalent of a 38 hour week...