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Re:Emoji Kitchen on Tuesday July 26, 2022 @04:07AM (#32235620)
Neither did trying to put my pen the the trash can. And combining the party emoji with itself didn't create a more excited party emoji. I imagine it's still a work in progress.
Re:How normal am I? on Tuesday July 05, 2022 @12:14PM (#31990117)
Apparently I'm a sad 5 year old girl living in the US :-/

Who knew? Because I certainly didn't.

You occasionally see signs around for them (though not so much in town, more often a little further out); where the path takes pedestrians under the road ;-)
This is what I noticed most too; then I wondered how it compares with Crossrail. (Obviously I imagine tunneling under London is vastly different than under a mountain.)
> a special ticket isn't required.

Excellent, I've been trying to figure this out; whether I will be able to just jump on/off using my debit (or Oyster) card as I currently do on the over/underground.

Any idea how far out of town this ticketing system will be usable? Will someone in Reading be able to use a contactless card without having to buy a paper ticket?

Re:The Increasing Scarcity of Helium on Thursday June 18, 2015 @04:48AM (#9737440)
Sounds like it's time to found the Jupiter Mining Corporation...
Can FAT support that many files in a single directory?
Re:Ccat – syntax highlighting cat on Wednesday May 06, 2015 @04:01AM (#9497160)
I've been using source-highlight[1] to achieve the same result.

[edit]: alias ccat="source-highlight --out-format=esc --style-file=/usr/share/source-highlight/esc.style --failsafe -i "

I'll have to see how this compares.

[1]: http://www.gnu.org/software/src-highlite/

> They're not going to quit on you, and they're not going to kill the golden goose.

Especially if by going somewhere else they have to take a significant cut.

Re:Passport Index – World's passports in one place on Thursday April 16, 2015 @08:42AM (#9387508)
It doesn't say exactly where the data comes from but:

"Passports are ranked based on their Visa Free Score. The higher the Visa Free Score, the better the Passport Power Rank."

Edit: I presume this is the number of countries which a holder of a certain passport can visit without needing a visa.

Re:Sir Terry Pratchett has died on Thursday March 12, 2015 @12:54PM (#9192066)
I only just finished reading The Long Mars a couple of weeks ago - I wonder whether Stephen Baxter will continue solo with the final book (as number 4 is due out later this year[1]).

[1]: http://www.randomhouse.co.uk/editions/the-long-utopia-the-lo...

Re:Sir Terry Pratchett has died on Thursday March 12, 2015 @12:45PM (#9191969)
+++ Divide By Cucumber Error. Please Reinstall Universe And Reboot +++ (Hogfather)
Re:Sir Terry Pratchett has died on Thursday March 12, 2015 @12:34PM (#9191881)
I started with Pyramids half my life ago, back in my early teens. It's the only novel not to have started its own mini series, which I have always felt is a bit of a shame. But it did hook me and made me want to read all of the others. I think by the time of Pyramids TP was really getting in to his stride, so when I went back to The Colour of Magic and The Light Fantastic and found them less polished I wasn't put off as I knew there was better to come.
Re:The Cost of Getting My Stolen Computer Back on Wednesday January 07, 2015 @10:12AM (#8850866)
He could have done just that, but the police would have held on to it until they'd finished their investigation and the court case was over. I suppose it's a question of waiting or paying for speedy delivery.
Re:The Loma Prieta Earthquake 1989 + 2014 Mashup on Tuesday October 14, 2014 @06:26AM (#8452730)
16-17 years ago when I lived in Menlo Park we were taught (in middle school at the time) to get under our desks - and obviously (if London suffered from earthquakes) I'd do pretty much the same at work now.

But what's the general advice if you're out and about? Say at a museum, restaurant or stadium (or even walking down the street)?

Re:New Tube for London on Thursday October 09, 2014 @07:26AM (#8431710)
I believe that was the Circle, District, Hammersmith/City and Met lines.
Re:How Memorizing “$19.05” Can Help You Outsmart the MTA on Friday September 05, 2014 @11:12AM (#8274267)
It's basically the same here in London; although if you're a local you're more likely to have an annual (or monthly) pass or possibly automatic top-up if you pay as you go.
Re:Gentoo Linux Releases LiveDVD Iron Penguin Edition on Friday September 05, 2014 @09:30AM (#8273730)
My experience was largely similar, although I suffered along with using lynx to read the documentation in e second virtual console as I was learning about partitions and compiler flags.

And after spending hours watching/waiting for gcc, bash and some of the other core utilities (and of course Linux) to compile my then limited experience also witnessed a panic on first boot :( so I switched to Lunar and had that on my laptop until I replaced it.

I too became lazy, but went for Arch instead of Ubuntu (which I did use before attempting Gentoo).

Might fire-up a VM and give this a whirl...

Re:Show HN: I'm building a game for the Nintendo GameBoy on Friday August 15, 2014 @05:47AM (#8181536)
I ended up falling endlessly through a blank void :-\
Re:A framework for making 2D DOS games in Lua on Friday June 20, 2014 @04:36AM (#7919972)
"If you're not using DOS as your operating system then DOSbox can be used to emulate a DOS computer."

That made me laugh.

Re:4K for $649: Asus' PB287Q monitor reviewed on Friday May 30, 2014 @04:36AM (#7820814)
But still, at £600 it's much less expensive than most other available 4K displays (that I've seen)
Re:EncFS Security Audit on Wednesday March 12, 2014 @06:44AM (#7384879)
Nice to see this kind of report, even if the conclusion is rather damning.

And it seems to suggest that using it with (something like) Dropbox is a bad idea too:

> EncFS is not safe if the adversary has the opportunity to see two or more snapshots of the ciphertext at different times.

Re:Why I Dropped Dropbox and got OwnCloud on Friday January 31, 2014 @12:03PM (#7157631)
True, but signing up with someone like OwnCube are cheaper than Dropbox - and if you really want it you can get SSH access (for sshfs) too ;)
Re:Lies on the London Underground [video] on Wednesday May 15, 2013 @12:22PM (#5713027)
Not if he arrived via train.
Yes, I did - but by pure luck :p