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Comment · 1 month ago
Gibraltar is not strictly speaking part of the UK
Comment · 1 month ago
No regrets. Facebook was fun for a while. Then it stopped being fun, so I deleted my account. The others I either tried but never saw the point so deleted almost immediately, or couldn’t see any appeal and so never tried at all. Perhaps if I’d stayed on Facebook longer I would have regretted not having deleted it sooner.
Comment · 1 month ago
The older phones didn’t have the screen extending all the way to the edges, but the size was ideal. And yes, Zoolander promised a future that never came!
Comment · 1 month ago
I did buy one and I am still using it. It can do all the things I need a phone to do. Honestly if anything it’s still a bit too big.

I don’t know what I’ll do when this phone becomes obsolete. Get surgery for bigger hands?

It seems mad to me that it wasn’t more popular. Though a lot of things that are popular seem mad to me too.

Comment · 2 months ago
In UK FTTC is called “fibre” and FTTP is called “full fibre”. I only have FTTC. To be honest it’s enough for my use cases but I will upgrade if FTTP ever becomes available.
Comment · 2 months ago
Un pirate commits la piraterie
Comment · 2 months ago
Somebody did do the work! The System V AMD64 ABI definitely defines the registers for __int128, e.g. as first argument to a function it will always be rdi (lo) rsi (hi) and for return value it will always be rax (lo) rdx (hi).
Comment · 3 months ago
Comment · 4 months ago
Oh and Malta was a proper holiday too, recommend the Lascaris war rooms, Mdina, and the boat trip to Gozo
Comment · 4 months ago
I’ve already visited all of them except Monaco, but not all in one go, just gradually across the years. Andorra I went skiing in, Vatican was a side quest in Rome, Luxembourg I just went for one night on a whim, Liechtenstein was a side quest from Zurich, and San Marino was a side quest from Bologna.
Comment · 4 months ago
brew install notunes

Another fix for this bollocks

Comment · 6 months ago
I have, numerous times, written significant portions of a various features within much larger products.
Comment · 6 months ago
I don’t find old reddit usable on a phone. That said I don’t find new reddit usable on anything.
Comment · 6 months ago
Is there any word on how the Artemis II heat shield fared, after the tweak to the reentry profile?
Comment · 6 months ago
I haven’t tried juggling for decades but I did manage to teach myself basic three-ball juggling when I was at university (any excuse to avoid revising!)

I think it took me a couple of weeks though. I’m a bit malcoordinated for that sort of thing in general. I think you’re right that there’s some sort of natural aptitude that not everybody has. Fortunately basic juggling is just about easy enough that almost any idiot can do it.

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