I have been burnt by Dropbox in the past so now use Syncthing between my desktop, laptop, and a private remote server with file versioning turned on. Trivial to global ignore node_modules, and not giving data to a third party.
It’s saved me on several occasions.
No joy today. Had to look a couple of those up after the fact, and when the definition starts “In American English …”, it makes sense. :(
From what I can find, the ratio of ‘theoretical speed’ to current commercial ICs in silicon is about 1:20, so that would equate to about a 25GHz chip, all other things being equal (i.e. if that ratio isn’t some inherent feature of silicon…)
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First time I’ve known all the categories in advance. Mixed up blue and green for order though :)
Anon misses his dad, but only sometimes. Hmm.
Too americentric for me this time. Got the category terriers, but we don’t have ‘Rat’ here and do have Blue Terriers (Kerry and Yorkshire), and so I failed with ‘one away’. Also not really heard of what constitutes a ‘mom’ tattoo :/.
I’m almost more irritated by the use of two hyphens instead of a colon after the first definition. They just didn’t give a shit really.
I’m using Arctic on iOS. I can’t remember offhand which md library it uses but will check if it’s been tweaked. I guess the real fix should be with the connections site in what they copy when you click ‘share’.
Edit: of course that makes no sense, or it would be broken for everyone. Guess it’s the iOS clipboard or app mangling what’s copied. It’s still early here :/
Subscript and spoilers:
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Funny you say that–I was convinced I got it right after 1 error too, and I had shuffled the last 8… Thought I must have imagined it…
If you take a finished product and gradually take away pieces, you can make a progression out of pretty much anything.
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You can find many discussions about that online, and it’s basically a BE / AE thing. In BE, it’s not correct, hence I’m annoyed a lot of the time.
I’d just like to thank you for writing “how big a deal” instead of the now ubiquitous “how big of a deal”. That would have really annoyed me.
Not yet…
Just rereading that one now. It’s been decades since I first read them all, and it’s fab to get back into that universe :)
If you read the article, both points are addressed.
I’m not from the US, and have heard of thatch in relation to hair. But not “Swedish fish”—also a US thing…
And even if you jump from higher up, it’s the ground that does it, still not the Burj Khalifa.