Deebster @ Deebster @programming.dev

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You haven't told us much about your skills and requirements. For example, are you thinking static files (either manually or from a generator like Jeykll), or something more dynamic? Are there other things would you want, e.g. database, email, SSH access?

Without knowing that stuff, I'll just note that you can probably use the free tier from various places, e.g. you can do a lot on Cloudflare without spending a penny (and they're a good place to buy domains).

I think everyone is pretty sure that it was a try, but the on-field decision was a no, and I'm happy to see that decision being the one that's official, even if it is probably wrong. I wouldn't be saying that if I were a Scotland fan though.

We saw it move to the ground, but it could have been dropped. We don't know for sure.

I hadn't heard of this source, but MBCF rates it as highly credible:

Bias Rating: RIGHT-CENTER
Factual Reporting: HIGH
Country: USA
MBFC’s Country Freedom Rank: MOSTLY FREE
Media Type: Organization/Foundation
Traffic/Popularity: Minimal Traffic
MBFC Credibility Rating: HIGH CREDIBILITY

Edit: fixed formatting (curse you, phone keyboard)

Federation like that sounds perfect, and would definitely help out for the current situation I see where projects are officially on, say, Gitlab but still accept pull requests on GitHub. I'm sure that involves some annoying manual process (although should be less hassle than the code review!)

I guess this counts as long Covid, although I associate it more with brain fog and similar symptoms.

Either way, "lung capacity of an 18-year-old" and "15% loss of lung capacity" can't both be true, unless he's suggesting he started with super-lungs.

I like that the handle stays mostly the same after release, suggesting that the interface was not altered much and all the hacking and patching happened deeper where users couldn't see.

It's certainly true that many British English dictionaries are quite out of date with their pronunciations, with many still using the RP accent which you almost never hear in Britain nowadays.

There are some who are updating things, like Geoff Lindsey and his SSB CUBE (CUrrent British English) dictionary (although they haven't updated to have https, for some reason).

I'm only a hobbyist in this area, so I'll reply with what I know and hopefully someone will correct me.

First of all, we don't actually know and never will, shy of inventing time travel or discovering ancient alien recordings. Everything is reconstructed by noticing trends in language and history and backtracking to find common features/words. So something like *k means "a sound that descendant languages generally pronounce k".

There's a Wikipedia page on Proto-Indo-European phonology, but like most technical pages on there it's fairly incomprehensible to the layman.

My attempt is something like QUEH-quhloss (or maybe QUEK-loss) with a fairly bright, forward sound like in cat.

You can see that the Q/kw sound gets broken up and the /k/ travels east while the /w/ travels west.

I think Google's the worst for this. Examples such as the browser Chrome, when browser chrome has been a thing for a long time. Go, a very common verb and keyword and also now a programming language. Not to be confused with their Go Links, which was a URL shortener. And then there's all the ones they either rebrand or retire and/or replace.

Perhaps they want confusing names because they think other search engines can't handle the ambiguity.

I just noticed the same errors myself:

error="last.fm error(29): Rate Limit Exceeded - This application has made too many requests in a short period. If this is your API key, see https://www.last.fm/api/tos#4.4 for information about raising the limit."

Edit: Oh, and now I see you need to have your own in the latest version anyway:

BREAKING CHANGE: This release removes the Last.fm shared API-key, as previously announced here. If you use any Last.fm functionality (scrobbling, biographies, album descriptions), please check the documentation on how to create your own API Key, it is free and should only take you a couple of minutes. NOTE: Remember to re-enable scrobbling after changing the API Key and restarting the server.

If you look at the URL, it's meant to be announcing 0.90.0 - I guess they noticed a problem just after it was posted and added a patch.

Edit: yup, they added #11786

You mean "nuclear Gandhi" in the early Civilisation games? That apparently was just an urban legend, albeit one so popular it got actually added (as a joke) in Civ 5.

Thanks, that's what I assumed. So the ratification terms must have to include what seems to be called a "quorum" clause:

lawmakers from the ruling Fidesz party boycotted the session, meaning it lacked quorum and the ratification will be further delayed.

-- Reuters

So Hungary hasn't ratified Sweden's membership, but what does this actually mean? I know that signing a treaty means you agree to the terms and intend to sign, but that it's not yet legally binding. And then ratifying means you've dealt with your own country's process to get a new law (or whatever) in place.

But Hungary reneging on this means that the other countries cannot complete the process? Or that they all consider Sweden in but Hungary still doesn't?

btw, if you put double spaces at the end of a line, it makes a new line without a new paragraph:

It's not DNS
There's no way it's DNS
It was DNS

Assuming an alternative goal is indeed the logical response here. It is plausible that the opposing team recognised that they could not triumph against a Vulcan team and set themselves a more achievable goal, for example scoring within 80%.

I think Alex really enjoyed getting some of those in, partially because it was a nice change of role for him after 17 (counting USA) series.

Then the next article:

Local anime fan Tyler Jenkins has recently found himself in a cultural conundrum: wondering how accurately he can sing his favorite anime theme songs without crossing the line into unintentional racism, sources close to the karaoke machine reported.

"sources close to the karaoke machine" - just brilliant.

He sounds like he was a good dad.

I've used some of their components in a little helper program that was scraping some stats from a service without an API, so Servo code will end up in plenty of projects besides Firefox (and Tauri). Good news for all of us.