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  UK, London, #leSigh The lizabet line is, what, 4 or 5 YO now? The first time i rode it, there was no wobble. Today it wobbles/ sways in some patches (like DLR). This is quite fast ageing, compared to build time or build cost. It might not wobble in winter.

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  #boring UK, My local _sports direct_ has stopped doing Lonsdale for clothing. What is the point in sports direct without cheap brands? My jogggers are not to look at at, just make me look dressed whilst exercising

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  "#cyber", "#cybersecurity" to web people, is there a valid use-case for any of: GET /@fs/ . . . GET /var/www/ . . . GET /aws/ . . . . GET /.aws-credentials/ . . . . URLs? I think some JS test tools use /@fs/ (storybook?), but looking at the URLS some bot attempted, that is not for production.

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  Does anyone know why consumer medical gadgets count paces rather than km? Healthy and active people should be moving quite a few km/d with no drama or stress. Quite a few people average at 5k PACES, that is just a few km, nothing much.

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  Regression-test: I find it weird that "webdev people" suddenly started talking about #featureFlags in 2015. (or so). Or maybe talking about them were I could hear. I know there are annual "add this topic as new" lectures/ training events, for people with less experience. But on this detail, how did I not notice them in 2012-2014 if the feature-flag topic was annual? Older Linux/ unix tools have been using feature-flags since 1960 or some thing. Vim i...

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  #random could someone explain to me why marketing people think that a video of some guy holding a piece of clothing is better than a static image? I don't find random middle aged people with beards that exciting. For a 10s clip, 40% of the time wasn't focused on the clothing for sale. It was a static cam, maybe a phone. This "solution" feels like #WAP.

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  Smol voice: what is "Authenticity" in english prose? I've been following what some authority said my entire life. My grammar and readability is less bad than at 18, but I think I am authenticity not great at english. #engrish. #linguists

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  #TIL, that #Amazon have their own production line for Feta. they really want to eat Walmat etc don;'t they?

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  Please can marketing stop publishing product tabular data as an image. it not mobile friendly. Yes there is a historic no-tables-edict, but that was for layout not tabular data.

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  #boring #again the EUFI updates again, this is ridiculous. Rebooting your PC/ laptop should NEVER need to be a major chore in your life. Are MSFT using certs with a week lifespan?

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  #random, #TIL that the agilemanifesto.org website is unreadable on a mac/ safari. oops!

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  #UX Avanti trains have booster seats for disabled people (on the end of benches). Posting as no idea what that booster is for

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  Its a shame the European Alternatives account seems unfunded / closed / they fired that intern.

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  #language #engrish Do you use "automation" as a regular english noun (pluralising with an 's'), or as an uncountable noun (like "water" is)? Or only use it as a verb, and skip this.

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  Yesterday i managed to simulate a fork() bomb on my self in bash, so I rebooted. I know have UEFI updates from "unknown vendor". Previously these have been originating in MSFT, but this doesn't look dodgy does it? #ubuntu #computersStillConcernMeGreatly #weShouldNotTrustThisDirtySandWithImportantData Do i really need to make a VM to find out what the update is?

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  Ohne Kontext betrachtet: „Stille Nacht“ ist als Lied und Melodie besser als „Silent Night“. Moving everything into en-SIMPLE doesn't actually help.

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  Poll, "use of english". For front-end dev, Is supporting a wide range of devices * "scaling" the UI, * or being "customer centric and building a large audience" Similarly, is "applying RWD" described as * "scaling" the UI * or "being a reasonable human being" Thirdly, for asset management is it * "scaling the assets" * doing due care on quality (minify, tree shakin...

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  security best practice #3453457234: if you use Node as a repl, purge the ~/.node_repl_history every so often. And definitely after end-of-project

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  captura: select pictures of cars me: click 1 image C: WRONG! me (grits teeth): selects cement mixer lorry, and goods lorry, and ambulance pixs as well C: you are a flawed human. PASS

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  An idle sketch I wrote earlier #BadIdea: Does anyone know who the legal person for "lord #binface" is? Wouldn't it be fun if no one knew, like superman. A quick custom change, having gotten into the building as a normal person with normal ID cards. "lord binface" just appears in the right time and right place. As all the bins are filled with liners, what if the bin is just the nearest bin of the right size. What if lord binface always used a voice...

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  #Healthcare when people who were teens or tweens in the 1980s will be different from earlier.people. "Do some exercise you desk-jockey" became a thing in early European gyms, So this batch of elderly people will know "how do I tense my back muscle up?" as they *did exercise* when younger. My dad being a 1970's tween, doesn't know this consciously.

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  To people that routinely use #CMS, isn't there a feature (by about 1999), where if you delete a page, or make it not visible , it checks the rest of the site for links to that page, and removes them? URLS ending ASPX aren't static. isn't the point of a CMS to automate dull and time consuming work?

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  I'm always confused how the US confuses "stats" and "insight". Classic WWII example (when stats was still a hand-work activity): stats: returning planes with damage tend to have holes in these areas, X, Y, Z insight: ....the planes that came back...you overlooked he 20% missing planes

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  #TIL about the" cite" field on some github repos. This is useful for making attribution lists.

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  #TIL the rain in my eyes is less acidic than when I was child. Progress! Despite now living in a big city, and as a child the dismal rainy stixx.

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  .... I, ... am very curious to know the process by which VScode translates "<del>Std<down>" into "stupid". Note lower case 'S'. This codebase only uses the token "stupid" in one comment, not related to current typing. if [MSFT owned] VScode is reading my *chat* service logs, they are breaking a lot of expectations. MSword has much better guess algorithms, and I think is owned by MSFT.

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  [In the UK] Why are supermarket vendors printing "not in EU" labels on goods in EN? Surely it should be printed in FR or DE (etc). Maybe an 'EU' in a slashed circle, and avoid the prose... So the EU Burgers know they can buy or not (I have no umlaut).

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  Modern linux: I installed a text editor (via snap) It complains it can't do stuff in the firmware and doesn't finish loading. ... sorry what? This isn't ms-DOS. Why would a user-land text editor need to do anything to the firmware?

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  #TIL npm includes man page integration, ands packages can ship with real manpages (and I assume real TROFF/ GROFF). This is a grown-ups feature/ planning (supporting existing systems, rather than making an extra specific app).

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  dear Satan, pls condemn the exec that issued the PDF viewer on Kindle Fire without page numbers or jump to page function to at least 10,000 years of scrolling to find the correct page . Make that (assume) man need to confirm legal texts with many clause numbers and no mean to skip to the clause.