realaether

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[–] realaether 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

there was this other, similar town pronounced -bruh or -boro that people talked about.

You were so close: Edinburgh only got its name after Edward I invaded Scotland in 1296. Before that it (which was then a larger area than the present Edinburgh) had just been called "the Burgh", which depending on regional variation would have been pronounced either "burg" or "boro". "Edinburgh" referred to a smaller area within the Burgh that the king's guards would patrol more severely due to the perceived increased risk of rebellion due to higher population density.

(/joke)

[–] realaether 1 points 1 year ago

Reading through their mail merge tutorial, their method looks insanely risky: putting all addresses in "to" and rembering to click another button.

[–] realaether 2 points 1 year ago

That's really interesting. So does that mean the interpreter just checks whether the current line is more indented, less indented, or equal vs. the preceding, without caring by how much?

[–] realaether 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

Please elaborate (eg which standard is this defined in?)

[–] realaether 4 points 2 years ago

"Gourmetally free", surely, without the oppression of the squeamish crowds?

[–] realaether 6 points 2 years ago

IIRC Cloudflare is the only registrar that doesn't mark up from wholesale prices, or something like that. Basically makes them cheaper than most other registrars. I think the point is that they can then sell you their other (related) services more easily — the services that actually make them money.

[–] realaether 2 points 2 years ago

I meant it more in the sense of one channel, when shutting down for the night, emitting the "next channel" tone such that every viewer's set would change to a channel that was still broadcasting.

[–] realaether 22 points 2 years ago (5 children)

Would it have been possible for the speakers of the time to emit those frequencies? Imagining the equivalent of a Twitch raid: "I'm done broadcasting so I'm going to send you to the next channel."

[–] realaether 6 points 2 years ago

When you go at it harder than a trash compactor and your partner literally changes shape.

[–] realaether 3 points 2 years ago

Thanks will take a look!

[–] realaether 3 points 2 years ago (6 children)

Pure speculation: could this have been motivated, to any extent, by some desire to maintain a predictable portion of the population conscriptable, given that only men are conscripted?

The war isn't going quite in the way Putin would have hoped, after all.

[–] realaether 2 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Isn't soap technically self-dirtying since it's supposed to get dirt to cling to it rather than your skin?

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