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tldr is really handy for that: https://github.com/tldr-pages/tldr

A friend of mine used the "return home" feature of his drone and instead of returning home, it drifted off over the fence of the nearby BAE Systems establishment. He couldn't do anything except go home.

Later in the pub he told someone who worked at BAE, and was fairly high up, and the guy said, "yes, I heard about that, you need to contact them."

He did, and he got the full "men in black" treatment with several interviews/interrogations to determine exactly who he was and what his intentions were, and threatened with jail time. Eventually they believed his story and he even got his drone back, although the camera was obviously missing.

Apparently it had landed next to something "extremely sensitive", which may or may not have been the cause of it drifting off in the first place.

For Go, what are those means? (I'm just starting with Go so it would be useful to see how we get all that stuff)

For a start, you have a market because people are willing to wait in line for free furniture. Stop giving it away and clearly people will pay for it.

googling for "india death beef" gives you quite a few similar stories to choose from.

Those who can, do

Those who can't, teach

Those who can't teach, write

Those who can't write, write man pages

Say what you want about Trump, he loves himself.

> EasyJet is like Ryanair but not crap

Exactly - I've only been on two Ryanair flights and they were dreadful. It's like they were going out of their way to make it feel shit.

I would be surprised if Ryanair could keep going. Anecdotally, I know a number of people that will never use them again - either because they themselves have had problems or they know people that have. There's some real animosity growing towards them.

All things being equal, people would usually pick the cheapest flight. But Ryanair are now making it abundantly clear that their flights are not equal to others. When you pick a flight you need confidence that your flight will take off, and that you can get home. It amazes me that Ryanair are willing to lose people's confidence like this, it will take a long time to get it back, if at all.

Are there sets of cards for known problems, such as learning language X, or is making the cards part of the learning process?

What? In what way did you manage to infer that I treat her like some kind of untamed beast? What a completely ridiculous and unnecessary personal attack.

The pull is pretty strong, and you can feel it pulling you out. When it's not pulling at you any more you can feel it. You can be quite a long way offshore before you're out of it.

a) I don't apply this philosophy to my entire life.

b) It was mostly a joke - but I do happen to be exceptionally bad at this. I get frustrated about half an hour in and panic. I do other chores instead.

This is fairly good [0]. Note that knowing the "swim parallel to the shore" advice is solid, but that doesn't stop it being seriously scary if you get caught. You still need to be a good swimmer and you can still panic.

I usually have a quick chat with a lifeguard if there is one, and/or check out what flag system they are using (usually pretty obvious like red/green but it can be different depending where you are). Research a beach on the internet for a few minutes before you go.

http://thevane.gawker.com/learn-how-to-identify-rip-currents...

I would think if you said, "I don't know how to swim, so I'm going to learn," good friends and acquaintances would be massively supportive?

I highly recommend learning to swim. It's an experience you don't get anywhere else. Just like learning programming though, it's frustrating to start.

I know one guy who couldn't swim, took lessons, and now does scuba diving - which, by the way, is something people should try at least once, it's like floating into another world.

The trick to this is, just be exceptionally bad at it. My wife doesn't ask me for things anymore after I did the shopping and came back with almost nothing on the list, but with things I thought were probably reasonable replacements.

"What do you mean, creme fraiche isn't double cream? It's close isn't it? It's dairy, right?"

"Carbon offsetting on the blockchain"...

Could you point us to any good resources you've come across?

Except you can still change something if it's on the blockchain, it's just that now you have an immutable record that it was changed.

So now if things go wrong, the other party suddenly decides they liked the old contract (which you'd signed) and you have yourself a court battle. If it's on the blockchain you can point to it and say, "yes we signed this old contract but you can tell here we both agreed to change it."

That's interesting - what's the process there? Do you have to provide proof that they are used? Let's say they are accepted, do you then have to convince someone to create the glyphs? Do you have to add them to a current font or do you create an entirely new one?

Is this an area you work in or is it a hobby project?

ah ok I see - you actually have to type "0". doh

ok, maybe dark pattern is a bit strong, but I clearly clicked the button thinking I could just download it, and instead was presented with a form to buy it. It's a least a little disingenuous.

not when I try it it doesn't

Highest professional enterprise standards my arse. Where's the message queues? Why isn't there a Fizz microservice and a Buzz microservice that live behind an API Gateway and receive messages from an event driven architecture?

Whilst this is pretty handy, I balked at the "let us submit for you for $89". Like - eek! Really?!

Also - the "get the pdf version" is really a dark pattern since you're not allowed to download it without first paying some non-zero amount that you laughably get to choose. Might be a bit nicer to say, "buy the pdf version".

> Anyway everyone knows you don't find acid, acid finds you.

What does that mean?

How about ranking posts by latest submitted comment? Excluding people that have already commented on the post and the submitter themselves.

Link for the curious:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-44737793

I have a car with voice control and it's terrible for navigation with my 4 year old in the back seat. Seems it can't understand the phrase, "Drive to home why are you saying that daddy what did you say are you talking to the car daddy why?"