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No. That South American people somehow made it.

The expedition just happened to be conceived and lead by a Norwegian.

A couple of crows at our local railway station have apparently learned, possibly the hard way: The very carefully pick through the litter bins, making an obvious effort not to spill anything on the pavement.

A less conscientious mate of theirs has impressed me in a different way. Surveyed a bin, chose a papercup and threw it on the ground. Extracted crumpled plastic bag from cup. Straightened bag, went around to the bottom end, picked it up, and determinedly shook out remains of sandwich. All extremly controlled and clearly planned, no hint of trial and error.

Like fine. Easy understand. Criticism in thread unwarranted.

>> The word Viking comes from the Scandinavian term ‘vikingr’ meaning ‘pirate’

There are a number of theories concerning the origin of the name. This one is by no means top of the list.

Project leader professor Eske Willerslev is - as far as I can ascertain - a highly competent and accomplished scientist, but with pattern of political leanings informing his scientific output and media appearances, of which there have been not a few over the years, at least in his native Denmark.

From reports of this paper I have so far read, it doesn't really - despite claims - challenge what we know of the vikings, their comings and goings, and their genetic makeup. Their iron age ancestors were a mixed bunch a thousand years earlier, and those we call vikings had been out and about for centuries all over Europe. Educated common knowledge is well aware that they probably har a variety of looks much like modern Scandinavians.

In my admittedly puerile mind and in my native language it's funny because, seriously, lem means dick.

If that can be done, it means the light and the info is there. Meaning here. The lensing and the 550 AU are just ways to catch it. I should be highly surprised if we do not - long before 2064 - have optical and computational trickery to catch such resolution with snapshots from somewhere very close to home.

> There is no physical reason why the moon fits precisely within the diameter of the sun

This ought to fit nicely into some version of the anthropic principle. That either pensive critters like us specifically or life in more general terms for a variety of subtle reasons depend on just such a match of ratios.

Shame on me. I never knew, and I never bothered to look it up.

As I recall, the original novel is vintage Clarke of the better kind, and then the rest are [co-]authored by some entity named Gentry Lee and basically unreadable.

Thank you. Much appreciated, the feed and everything leading up to it, right back from the initial discussion.

Clicked through fully expecting a treatment of the Plileas Fogg model, i.e. place your bet, then without further ado set off on your journey around the globe that very same evening, i.e. Just Do It.

Which is propably, all told, more useful advise than any number of overthought musings and bullet lists and schematics to bury myself in before actually, you know, doing it.

Granted. Lack of variables was always among the more serious defects of the confusion that is CSS.

So obviously caters to what the web once was and should have stayed, not to the metastasizing idiocy it has become.

I'm ancient enough to remember when mainstream browsers came in packages of a few megabytes and got us through the day just fine with a featureset less than (or at the very most equal to) the current state of NetSurf. In a somewhat more rational world there would be massive popular pressure for this to remain the case.

Yes, sites break in NetSurf. This is squarely their own fault for not providing civilized degradation. Although it certainly wouldn't go amiss if the NetSurf engine encorporated the worthwhile elements of CSS 3, basically meaning Grid and possibly Flexbox.

> Ceres is the largest object in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter and has its own gravity, enabling the Nasa Dawn spacecraft to capture high-resolution images of its surface

Scratching my head. Trying as I may. But not making sense.

[insert subthread about Gell-Mann amnesia here]

> Don't wear the same pants for 20-30 years, while you gain your middle-age gut and ass. Just don't.

I'm 60 and absolutely fine with the same sizes and basically the same cuts that I've worn for more than 40 years. If something starts squeezing, it's a timely reminder that I need to adjust some behaviour, not a signal to give in and upscale my wardrobe.

> leading to increases in gang membership and knife crime

Much obliged if you would provide a citation for this claimed causation.

"Sophie Wilson - Designed the ARM instruction set"

This is disingenuous. Sophie Wilson was Roger Wilson and unquestionably a man in the early eighties when that work was done.

Not to mention the German Handy, i.e. mobile phone.

So ... "Close tabs to the right" and "Close other tabs" moved from top level context menu to submenu "Close Multiple Tabs".

This is the kind of ungraceful UI degradation which would send me packing if there was anywhere else decent to go.

My editor and IDE of choice for the last 15 years or so.

I keep rushing out and trying newfangled wonderware for the alleged features it will offer me and without which I cannot be supposed to live. And I keep, regular as clockwork, coming back to sane and solid Geany with its speed, straightforwardness, sanity, discoverability, and allround just-so convenience.

>> Consider how your command will be pronounced around the world. Kodak is a word that was designed to sound the same in many languages. lego and ikea might be great command names too, if they weren't already trademarked

Actually, English botches IKEA, which in its native Swedish and presumably most other continental European languages is something like ee-kéa. It took me a while to decipher, first time I heard about eye-keer.

Forget the misery. Caddy has been sheer wonder to work with since more or less the beginning. 2.0 in beta and RC has been looking swell for a long time. Well done and congratulations to you.

It's a one-way street, though. Once I'd set up my first Caddy site, there really wasn't any way I was ever going back to the legacy stacks.

1920x1080, high as the T440p will go. At around USD 70 on eBay, I am blown backwards by the quality.

Joplin.

Well, well, I guess we are a movement then. I got a secondhand T440p three years ago, with a 240GB SSD. This machine is indestructible - it had already seen heavy use in an engineering company, and I really haven't spared it either. Running various permutations of Arch and Xfce all the way through. Last month, I finally did upgrade the SSD to a brand new Samsung EVO 1TB. The old unit (also a Samsung EVO, as it turned out) is doing just fine, though, but now running in a non-critical convenience setup.

I can't really sing enough praises for this ancient ThinkPad, now also with a new very cheap, ridiculously superb display and stuffed full of RAM. I have a newer, sleeker, faster Lenovo Something sitting around, but somehow the 440 is what I always end up using.

Indeed it did, and it was magic. Just an asm: declaration and off you went, kitchen sink and access to variables included. I wrote some fairly nifty graphics stuff that way in the early Delphies, mid to late nineties. Great fun, still miss it.

Could you perhaps cool down a bit? I do not drive trains. I drive buses, and must continue to do so through all this. I run a well understood risk every day, that's how it is, but constantly operating on heightened alert is noticably beginning to extract a mental toll. We really, really do not need an army of random outsiders screaming their heads off about what must be done.

In my country of roughly 5.6 million people we now have > 800 cases. Diagnosed, so multiply at least by 10 or 20.

Day before yesterday, colleague handing over company car to me. He gets out, and needing hands for both his bag and the doorhandle he holds the key between his teeth. And is vocally offended when I refuse to accept it dumped into my gloved hand.

30 people use that car. I will not enter it without first rolling down the windows, and I will not touch anything in it without wearing gloves.

Those are the ends of the spectrum.

Same.There are people quite furious at me for having warned them in January when this was just a Chinese blip on their screens. I have fallen out with colleagues over nothing more than taking banal, sensible precautions which don't harm anyone. Eyes are rolled, I am a hysteric. That's going on even now, after my country has gone on unprecedented lockdown. (I am in Denmark, public sector shut down, borders closing today at noon).