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Both bridges play the interesting role of spanning international waters wholly inside NATO countries. Russian naval vessels routinely pass under the Great Belt Bridge, and (I certainly assume) under the Istanbul one as well.

No. Nothing changed locally, and I live fairly isolated. And anyway, we get around, me and my Casio.

My Casio watch normally syncs six times a day from the DCF77 transmitter in Frankfurt. In freak weather it may occasionally skip a sync or two, but otherwise it has been rock steady through more than two years of operation. Until about five days ago. Every attempt has failed since then.

Meanwhile, two wallclocks have been sitting with flashing sync-icon for a couple of days, but now seem to be online again. Presumably, they have much larger antennae than my Casio.

Someone knowledgeable, please explain to me: Is the signal potentially being tinkered with, or is this just a strange coincidence?

That name! Associations ad libitum with meathooks and carcasses and bloodstained butchers. Yes, I actually believe this is the reason I never went there. And same goes, to a lesser extent, for Slashdot.

If that particular Russian is in fact an all-out psychopath, this concept may not apply.

Exact same here. But to get the ball rolling, I had to set up an account and connect exactly once. Throwaway mail-account and immidiately afterwards I disabled all wifi access. Not ideal, but has served me well enough for a couple of years, and it's a very nice reader.

I wouldn't use a Kindle if you threw it at me. Nobody's damned business what I read and when.

My T440p started life in 2013 as a work PC in an engineering firm. Was then retired and sold for scraps to an employee, a friend of mine who later passed it on to me. I splashed out and bought a brand new, higher res display on eBay, less than USD 100 and the quality keeps blowing me backwards. Plus 8GB more RAM for a total of 12, and a new 1TB Samsung SSD, and soon perhaps a battery replacement. And they can damned well pry the thing from my cold, dead hands. It's just a superbly well designed and satisfying piece of machinery to handle.

Meanwhile, a much newer Lenovo is sitting largely unused except for the occasional batch job and some audio processing.

Ndos was a command.com alternative, not a DOS replacement like DRDos. It was based on 4DOS, and yes, it was a giant leap upwards, not unlike the experience that the Fish shell provides today.

There is one linked in the article. Stardict format; any reasonable dictionary software will read it.

1984 was just an anagram of 1948, the year Orwell was writing in.

Tangential, I know, but my mother-in-law, who has suffered heavily from Crohn's since her younger days, last week turned 100 with fabulously flying colours; mobile, mentally fit and could easily pass as a wellpreserved 80. The Crohn's is still there, of course, but kept in reasonable medical check.

End of anecdote.

Now I start my day saddened by the expression "A.A. Milne's Winnie the Pooh". As if there could be any other.

Yes, I know. There could. Damn Disney.

For which definition of "we" and "people"?

Completely unsurprising of course, but still the second-scariest thing I've read this morning and actually for quite a while.

The scariest is sophisticated, well-informed and higly intelligent HN commenters in this thread who seem to be bubbling over with unbridled enthusiasm.

Presumably, the submission can trace some lineage back to the link below, where John Walker of Fourmilab had this to say of Elon Musk:

"Darned if he doesn’t sound a bit like Peter Kropotkin, who wrote in The Conquest of Bread 1 in 1906"

https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/t/elon-musk-on-patents-and-in...

> the one thing that you should do

You are not being brutally honest, you are just trying to crash this party with your own particular mindset.

Yes, I have noticed this too. Despite my best intentions and full knowledge that we have none here which can hurt me, I am still shit phobic about spiders. The daddy longlegs are a protected species in my household since I first realized their stunning efficiency as resident security corps.

Or maybe it isn't all that hilarious. Maybe it's just you not understanding a convention, a thread in the social fabric, a way (one way) to keep society ordered and sane. You were observed crossing that street. Conclusions about your person - and perhaps even about the society you represented - were drawn. Positive or negative, but they were drawn.

> "Can you think, plan, or relate to other people if you lack words to help structure your experiences?"

I put this question to various cats, dogs, rats and rooks of my acquaintance. The answer was a unanimous though wordless yes.

Tannus too soft? I've had mine for a year and a summer, and really couldn't be happier. If anything, I find them a tad on the hard side. This is an ordinary, oldfashioned pushbike with medium-width tyres.

Legibility might improve if other guys and sentences than Saddam Hussein were allowed the use of capitalization.

They tried to teach me various instruments when I was a boy. I didn't mind the playing, but Lord Almighty how I hated the notation stuff. It simply made no sense whatever, and was - as you describe it - clearly invented by morons. Only when I ventured into tech-land in my teenage years did any of it finally click: So that's what they mean by 'octave' - a doubling of frequency. Why couldn't they just have said so? Harmonies, chords, what have you - it was all just frequencies and sine waves. Didn't musicians know anything?

These many years later, I still don't quite get it, but do of course realise there must be some sort of point to it all. High level language? Yes, I get it. Bach wrote in Python, not C. Time to revisit.

Markland is frequently referenced by the fourteenth century Norse characters in Jane Smiley's novel The Greenlanders [1988]. I cannot vouch for the historical accuracy, but the whole thing appears otherwise exceedingly well researched (and is hereby highly recommended). These people maintained contact with Europe almost to the end. Titbits of myth and knowledge will have filtered through, not least via the papacy in Rome.

> Bravecto

My exact experience, both for dog (the pill) and cats (the messy stuff smeared onto the skin at the back of the neck). Problem solved, period. No ticks, no fleas, and no noticeable side-effects save for about a day of apparent nausea for my dog now that he is very old.

Of course it's only a question of time before some blood-gorged tick somewhere will show up alive and healthy and thriving on Bravecto.

Just played a sample of the samples for a congregation of cats residing here.

I got four ignores and one stare of bored contempt.

"Overhead, without any fuss, the stars were going out".

Come on, everybody, this deserves a huge round of applause, for encouragement and for the effort. We need a lot more projects of this kind; we need some options for rebooting the browser scene from down below, however limited in scale and scope and functionality. I stick to my Firefox, crippled and bloated as it is these days, but I know full well that sooner or later it's going to fold, and I shall be stranded inside the Google nightmare. NetSurf shouldn't have to shoulder the complete oppositional burden all by itself.

Going meta^ here: You mean 'You mean "You mean nitpick"'.

> You need Docker and Docker Compose

> mailcow requires the latest version of docker-compose. [...] Package managers (e.g. apt, yum) likely won't give you the latest version

I read no further.

Couldn't agree more. As a very occasional bash script user (who'll go with Python instead whenever possible) I sort of lost interest already at the first, banale example:

>>if [ -r ~/.profile ]; then

>> source ~/.profile

>>fi

>>We can simplify this using control operators:

>>[ -r ~/.profile ] && . ~/.profile

I wonder which version I would prefer for readability three months down the road.