perviouslyiner

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[–] perviouslyiner 7 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

Pretty optimistic to be including the moors and highlands here

[–] perviouslyiner 11 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Perun's video this week is also relevant - looks like the 2.5%GDP would be plenty.

[–] perviouslyiner 0 points 4 days ago

Malmo harbour they were leaving them on the ship while unloading every other type of car!

[–] perviouslyiner 7 points 4 days ago (1 children)

The shops between Edinburgh station and the castle are like some overwrought parody of Scottish stereotypes - it's like walking through a discworld city.

[–] perviouslyiner 3 points 4 days ago

"Overly verbose text and introductions" - starting to suspect that a lot of these articles weren't written by a human, which makes you wonder if any of the information is accurate.

[–] perviouslyiner 3 points 1 week ago

So around 1000 infected, or is there a delay to account for?

[–] perviouslyiner 13 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Private Eye just called out Gordon Ramsay for advertising margarine after publishing a load of recipes saying to make stuff better by using more butter!

[–] perviouslyiner 90 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (15 children)

There's a linux file called fstab which is often pronounced f-s-tab because it's a table of file systems. It was somewhat surprising to hear Dave Plummer pronounce it as "f-stab", as in stabbing someone...

[–] perviouslyiner 3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Bus Simulator 21 actually has this (well, just shout at disruptive passengers, not tape them)

[–] perviouslyiner 7 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

You don't have to keep the measurement that way up - e.g. fuel economy in europe is litres/100km, which is flipped compared to miles/gallon.

So 400dpi = 63μm for example.

[–] perviouslyiner 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Survivors trying to scratch out a subsidence crop in a war zone between extreme weather events, and this pawn comes out with a USDA-approved book of planting strategies 🤣

[–] perviouslyiner 8 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

The geodata and related open source technology to edit, review, and host it is already available from openstreetmap community

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submitted 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) by perviouslyiner to c/mildlyinfuriating
 

Any guesses for what chaos awaits us on this train?

Edit to add: This is not the ticket, it was printed alongside the actual ticket, after asking for seating preferences.

 

Apologies if not the normal format for this sub, but quite interesting to see what happens when someone with homemade license plates tries to visit a secure area.

 

Ficsit does not waste.

 

One of Wired's interview series, this one with Alexandros Washburn.

 

The only alternatives mentioned were Threads and Bluesky.

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The Battle of Cable Street (en.wikipedia.org)
submitted 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) by perviouslyiner to c/wikipedia
 

May be relevant to today's UK news, where local communities are having to teach this lesson again so many years later.

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submitted 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) by perviouslyiner to c/[email protected]
 

Seen on jwz's site. Be super careful before posting anything low-effort over there!

 

Nice to see some progress on making paths without all the normal planning overhead!

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