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rascul··on Microsoft Edge is about to lock out older ad blockers, just like Chrome did
Lately without an ad blocker YouTube will give me an ad every minute. Basically unusable.
rascul··on Most countries provide between 20 and 40 paid days off
> Cellular phones were invented in the UK and Finland. The US didn't even have them until the first couple of generations were obsolete here.

That was before Martin Cooper's cell phone in 1973?

rascul··on Most countries provide between 20 and 40 paid days off
I'm in the USA and I've never had to do more than inform my employer that I'm not coming in because I'm sick. I guess it varies by employer.
rascul··on UEFA and its national associations will not participate in FIFA competitions
I didn't know there were two halves or how long they are. I'm over 40 and the first actual soccer match I've seen was in the latest world cup.
rascul··on The only road in London where you have to drive on the right
I feel like neither system is inherently better outside of familiarity and I don't care which is used I'm just tired of having to own two sets of tools.
rascul··on US citizen charged after GrapheneOS phone wipes during airport search
> You can lie to local cops all you want.

The legality of that varies.

rascul··on The case for MUDs in modern times (2018)
MUDs are text based. Some of the clients can have graphical features but the basic way to interface with the MUD itself is with text.
rascul··on The case for MUDs in modern times (2018)
Wotmud taught me to type fast.
rascul··on For most US drivers, EVs offer emissions benefits and cost savings
There are some decent battery electric mowers and chainsaws that can be great as long as you have the batteries to keep them going long enough.
rascul··on REO Trucks I4 4WD Pickup Truck Starts at $21,500
Depends on what you're hauling also. I'm not interested in doing my regular trash or recycling runs with a minivan, for example, but most of what I do haul would be fine with a minivan.
rascul··on REO Trucks I4 4WD Pickup Truck Starts at $21,500
Depending on laws in the area, one could have a tank and pump at home, refilled regularly with potentially lower bulk pricing. It's a thing but pretty rare outside of farms in my experience.
rascul··on LineageOS Statistics
From what I understand, my phone's 4G won't work with lineage os and either of the two cell providers that have reception in my area so it's basically unusable for me. I would like to use it but I effectively can't.
rascul··on Cannabis users face substantially higher risk of heart attack (2025)
There are of course other delivery methods with different trade offs and generally less harmful but it seems to me as if smoking is still most common.
rascul··on Cannabis users face substantially higher risk of heart attack (2025)
> A stoner would smoke half-a-joint and then easily eat a pound of processed meat, then send a whole bag of chips down the hatch, washing it down with two or three pints of beer, and twenty minutes later will be eating ice cream directly from the bucket.

I'd like to say that's a little bit of an exaggeration but I also feel like a joint and $25 for taco bell at 1am wouldn't help my case...

rascul··on Gemini Code Assist will be shut down on July 17
That 10% might be worth $1 or $2 per month.
rascul··on Gun Mistakes in Fiction Writing: Handgun Edition
I just wish they would wear military uniforms properly in movies. I can handle the rest.
rascul··on POSIX Is Not a Shell
Not exactly what you asked for, but there's ambiguity in the spec leading to different implementations.

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/11376975/is-there-a-mini...

rascul··on A record 242 US cities now have starter homes that cost $1M
Compared to a low cost of living region, that's a pretty high cost of living.
rascul··on TIL: You can make HTTP requests without curl using Bash /dev/TCP
I just want to note that HTTP only existed 5 years without curl or wget.
rascul··on TIL: You can make HTTP requests without curl using Bash /dev/TCP
> If someone said 'pure Linux' and it meant the core without loaded modules I wouldn't be shocked. Not sure how useful it would be, though.

That probably wouldn't be a useful distinction because almost every module can be built in

rascul··on Law Enforcement's "Warrior" Problem (2015)
That's not true, on a federal level. Colt was selling a civilian model of the ar15 to the public in the 60s
rascul··on Law Enforcement's "Warrior" Problem (2015)
Assault rifles were banned for 10 years.
rascul··on Law Enforcement's "Warrior" Problem (2015)
> Loose dogs can injure or kill random people they come across.

Loose people injure and kill a lot more.

rascul··on Why isn't the U.S. better at soccer?
American Football is Canadian.
rascul··on The Pirate Bay Remains Resilient, 20 Years After the Raid
> The solution is: make purchasing legitimate copies an easier and better experience than piracy.

They didn't.

rascul··on The real cost of owning a home
There are good landlords. Unfortunately many of them aren't and there's not really a good way to know before.
rascul··on The real cost of owning a home
Licenses aren't always required in all areas. But there seem to be fewer of those areas than there used to be.
rascul··on Alberta to hold referendum on whether to remain in Canada
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clarity_Act
rascul··on 'No way to prevent this,' says only package manager where this regularly happens
It may be fewer but it still doesn't feel good when cargo pulls in hundreds of deps for a seemingly simple application. But maybe it seems simple because of all the deps...
rascul··on Bun's experimental Rust rewrite hits 99.8% test compatibility on Linux x64 glibc
It doesn't seem clear what code you're asking for.
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