dave @ dave @feddit.uk

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And even if you jump from higher up, it's the ground that does it, still not the Burj Khalifa.

I have been burnt by Dropbox in the past so now use Syncthing between my desktop, laptop, and a private remote server with file versioning turned on. Trivial to global ignore node_modules, and not giving data to a third party.

It's saved me on several occasions.

From what I can find, the ratio of 'theoretical speed' to current commercial ICs in silicon is about 1:20, so that would equate to about a 25GHz chip, all other things being equal (i.e. if that ratio isn't some inherent feature of silicon...)

I'm almost more irritated by the use of two hyphens instead of a colon after the first definition. They just didn't give a shit really.

Is that Otto at the controls?

You can find many discussions about that online, and it's basically a BE / AE thing. In BE, it's not correct, hence I'm annoyed a lot of the time.

I'd just like to thank you for writing "how big a deal" instead of the now ubiquitous "how big of a deal". That would have really annoyed me.

Not yet...

If you read the article, both points are addressed.

Is that why bees can't wear contact lenses?

Yup--a sarnie shop in a Spa town. See what they've done there...

I'm sure I remember a similar story about someone very excited to get a response each night, and eventually they followed the return call, it got louder and louder, and eventually they saw some other idiot hooting like an owl through the trees.

vbCrLf

It's pretty nasty—loads from a 3rd party domain (termly.io) that is blocked by uBO, and I had to disable it to load at all. After that, it loads into an iframe with a src of https://app.termly.io/policy-viewer/iframe-content.html?policyUUID=97db19c6-7afc-444b-bd38-9a2ac329fcac which you can load directly and print. It still has all the user-select: none css settings applied so you can't highlight / copy / paste, but that's easy enough to remove in the inspector.

I remember hearing a story of a UN or EU real-time translator working German to English suddenly stopping, the English listeners looking a bit confused, and after another 15 or 20 seconds of hearing the German speaker continue with still no translation, just heard a whispered "the verb, dammit, the verb!" through their headsets.

'Get her!'--that was your whole plan?

You should read his wiki page--quite the rollercoaster from tax evasion, Wimbledon commentator, professional poker player, to prison.

Sometimes you can Ctrl+drag (which is copy) text to those annoying 'repeat your email' fields that won't let you paste.

!!true

Sardines, olives, capers.