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16 hours ago20 November 1999 was the day I finally got my ISDN connection up and running, a huge improvement over dial-up at the time.
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2·16 hours agoTIL that the first country to officially declare a national bird was India, with the Indian peacock in 1963: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_symbols_of_India
1·13 days agoI also refuse this bizarre English / German / Polish idea that W is a separate letter and not just a fun way to write V.
Eventually he expands to say it was easier to say in Spanish, but basically if there was a race to be fat and ugly, this guy would win that hypothetical race.
There’s a very similar expression in English: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/take_the_cake
The majority of the group are british and we were talking about different drinks like whisky, gin etc and the question came up “so what famous dutch spirits are there?”.
In case you want an actual answer to that question, look up the history of gin.
Most of the ISPs operating in my city’s fiber network are reasonably good and the one I’ve chosen is honestly good, so from my personal point-of-view, that headline seems perfectly relatable.
For most normal people in most normal places: yes, you can.
3·1 month agoIt doesn’t answer your questions about calendar and contacts, but you might still find it interesting to take a look at this project:
I just can’t take an article complaining about ads seriously when it’s that peppered with ads …
I like my stuff self-managed.
Bitwarden / Vaultwarden is a popular available working solution for self-hosting and self-managing passkeys (as well as passwords).
Why would someone own 8 vehicles?
He might be too poor to be able to afford more than that.
I don’t believe this claim to be true. If you insist that it really is true, could you please point to the exact place in the US constitution that prohibits a permanent standing army?
Okay. So how do we turn it off!?
This is probably not the reply you want, but as someone who (in the past 40+ years) has never owned a TV, I simply can’t refrain from asking: Have you considered simply not owning a TV?
Please ban all the stupid password rules.
Yes.
I would rather just get hacked […]
Eh, no.
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Just curious: If you’re willing to use Discord, why not Google?
After I had learned programming well enough to do it comfortably in a few different languages, the return on investment for reading most common programming books declined sharply and since then the only programming books I still read are of a very specific kind and the very best of those still remains The Practice of Programming by Kernighan & Pike which still remains a greatly educational and relevant book today, 25 years later: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Practice_of_Programming