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By this logic every person born in North America is a Native American.

Of course, this criticism is very popular amongst Scots who live in Scotland which is still overwhelmingly Scottish even in the major cities.

Do you have the same opinion of labour-saving inventions that were created before you were born, or is it just future ones that are evil?

Zurich is third behind Dublin (definitely for tax reasons) and London.

The site doesn’t make it clear, but it’s not available worldwide. The App Store doesn’t tell you where exactly it is available, but it’s not in the UK.

This surprised me seeing as one of the example images shows Europe, including the south coast of Britain.

They fortunately fixed the repeating feature in iOS 18.3. Though it does seem a bit ridiculous that something like this is tied to the entire OS version.

Do you mean “difficult to overstate”?

“Difficult to understate” would mean he has little to no social capital.

I bet this is the same guy who draws markings on the pavement to tell dognappers where to strike!

I spent several hours earlier this year helping a colleague debug a protobuf deserialisation error, where I noticed that the first byte was a varint-encoded length of the rest of the data! He did eventually get things working, though I never followed up on the root cause.

I can’t wait to get back from vacation to ask if it was this.

In general, people often forget that if your target is a ratio, you can attack the numerator or the denominator. Often the latter is the easier to manipulate.

They weren’t scammed, they willingly chose to engage in scummy behaviour with a company that enables such scummy behaviour.

This but unironically

Firing employees who publicly abuse people is in no way similar to committing genocide.

To imply that it is is grossly offensive.

We’ve all worked with these people. Nice to see the company just get rid of one for once.