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Comment · 2 months ago
Same. It's a monster
Comment · 2 months ago
I am 38 and British and use 24hr clocks exclusively. This is also very common on the continent - the French nearly always use 24hr time for everything
Comment · 7 months ago
If I'm deep in coding flow the last thing I'm going to do is immediately jump on to someone else's PR. Half a day to a day sounds about right from when the PR is submitted to actually getting the green light
Comment · 9 months ago
Web Mercator is the standard projection used on the web, if you think the we should use a different projection on the web then that's a completely separate argument
Comment · 9 months ago
Stephen Fry made the same remarks in a Q&A session some years ago: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8k2AbqTBxao

As a Brit I can't agree more with both, I find American humour so hard to relate to but I guess it's just a culture thing

Comment · 1 year ago
Comment · 1 year ago
Dharma Initiative Peanut Butter
Comment · 3 years ago
What a joy to parse!
Comment · 7 years ago
There are apps but you should not use them as they are dangerously inaccurate. Mushroom identification requires numerous different factors that a simple photograph would not be sufficient for a positive id.
Comment · 7 years ago
Edible does not mean "can physically be eaten" it means "is safe to eat". So no, poisonous mushrooms are not edible.
Comment · 7 years ago
Great write-up. If you haven't seen it yet I'd highly recommend watching the entire YouTube series (part 6 is linked at the end). Some fantastic engineering!
Comment · 7 years ago
I'm British and apparently that makes me Northeastern
Comment · 7 years ago
As they rightly should! I voted remain and would do so again in a heartbeat but if you have an exclusive members only club what use is it if leaving has no consequences? The UK most certainly should be punished if it leaves the EU. Otherwise you undermine the entire organisation.
Comment · 8 years ago
Comment · 8 years ago
The mixing of sleeping pills and alcohol causing poor decision making reminds me somewhat of Elon Musk's recent outbreaks. I believe I read somewhere he is currently taking lots of Ambien.

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