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praising 'loop' in the same post as describing lisp as 'elegant' shakes head

I dunno, '700 AU' gelled for me instantly, '15 times the distance to pluto' doesn't even make sense given pluto's orbit isn't anywhere near circular.

That's likely something related to USB legacy support being on or off.

A lot of modern BIOS/EFI also allow a hybrid setting that enables legacy support until the OS takes over, which can sometimes be better too.

ITYM Lilililililililililili....

The amount of software available for linux vs the BSDs tells me that the distro model has not hurt linux. If a homogenous software stack from a single centralised set of software was beneficial, it would be more likely that porting to linux from a BSD codebase would be the norm, rather than the other way around.

The web was only 3 years old when altavista burst on the scene.

So the window of there being 'no search engine to find what you were looking for on the web' was tiny.

Ironically, replacing multi-million dollar aircraft that 'fell into the sea' is part of what keeps the american GDP so high.

to be fair to linux, elf was bolted on after a few years, the original linux used a variant of coff without shared library support.

the odd thing is, at some point I ended up with `hash -R` as muscle memory that I always type before I correct it to a lower case r, and I'm not sure why, I can't remember any shell that uses `-R`.

it is not just communist countries that nationalised things. Much of Europe did up to the 1970s, lots of Asian democracies did.

I suspect you're about to have your eyes opened to just how the american right feels about pre-neoliberal europe and asia.

Never really had the '3 times' problem, because I realised very early on that the USB logo is always on the 'up' side.

Tweets were geolocated, with a 'see tweets near me' page until about 14 years ago, so it's entirely feasible that at least some of that infrastructure has survived the feature being removed.

Just invent a 'common' saying and add 'explanation' at the end.

Wind turbines work from about 5 km/h and up winds, so yes, much more frequent than lightning.

FACT/FAST are a UK organisation, where font copyright is espressly enumerated in the copyright law.

Arrow was a high altitude intercepter, TSR was a low level nuclear interdictor. I can't see any way that there was ANY mission cross over.

The TSR-2 was doomed by progress, by the time it made it to prototype stage britains nuclear bombs had shrunk to the point that they didn't need, nor benefitted from, a giant interdictor.

In the end the tiny jaguar could carry 4 WE177s just fine.

If you really want to cheat with the starfighter, you need to be using the ZEL version of it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zero-length_launch

It might run on 3.1 and 3.11 via win32s, there were occasional odd things that would run on the win32 subsystem as was adapted to 3.1/3.11, but not 95/98/ME.

ETH is a lot more than something a simple battery could provide. 1 ETH 'unit' is 5kW of power at 750-1000V AC. A train will usually require much more than 1 unit.

HEP cars (aka 'generator cars') are a solution, but the UK never really had them, we had converted diesels called 'Ethels', which are functionally identical to the current practice of tagging a diesel locomotive at idle on the tail of the train, but all of those were scrapped.

* Ethel => https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Rail_Class_25#Train_He...

That's actually a fairly recent (1970s) change, prior to that it was a mix of 50 and 60Hz, 110V and 220V, with no national standard.

Also, rural household wiring is often dogshit all around the world with many places having bad earthing.

Since the study was authored by brazilians who only used data from brazil, it's hard to tell if the fatalities were enabled by the brazilian electrical system and would not happen elsewhere. Especially given that 4/5 were in rural areas.

I thought this was common knowledge, that's always been the spot I've aimed for (~5-6cm to the right of the headpin) since the 80s.

Until it's C&D'ed later this week.

square brackets around an IP address predates IPv6, it was/is? used to bypass DNS lookups and some (very) old programs required IP addresses inside [...] otherwise they were assumed to be a domain name with all the rules that implied.

There really isn't one 'west yorkshire' accent, nor one 'north yorkshire' accent, there is much much more variety than that. A leeds resident sounds different from a wakefield or dewsbury resident, and even then there can be variation where some people exhibit less of their locale accent than others, depending on how much they rebelled against sounding 'local' in their teens.

Given the treatment for supporters of gaza, almost certainly Netting-yahoo

"Middle East" is the usual expansion, and fits in context here.

I once was asking my parents to pick up some batteries for something or other while they were at the supermarket, when I was about 13/14 and had a brain fart and said 'Durex' (a brand of condoms common to most of the world except most of America) instead of 'Duracell'.

A tough conversation followed.

Oh great, that urban myth/email-chain about the deepest well having sounds of wailing and so on will start circulating again.

For reference: https://skeptoid.com/episodes/4307