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I read it as "quirky".
Re:Ask HN: Any weird tips for weight loss? on Thursday March 10, 2022 @06:42AM (#30625829)
st is very common in England to weigh people.
Re:Pilot FriXion Erasable Pens: A Comprehensive Guide on Wednesday March 09, 2022 @05:24PM (#30620788)
Beware of very fine tips. They sound like a good idea in theory but they are almost always scratchy.
Re:Lootboxes in FIFA now allowed by highest Dutch court on Wednesday March 09, 2022 @03:24PM (#30619513)
Good. The government does not have a right to restrict trade between citizens and companies. On the other hand, it's the parents' job to decide what their children can and can't do.
Re:Internet backbone provider Lumen quits Russia on Wednesday March 09, 2022 @06:48AM (#30613472)
Where in the article does it say that?
Re:Play Half-Life in the Browser on Wednesday March 09, 2022 @05:42AM (#30613066)
There is also "uplink", which is Half-Life: Uplink, the demo of the game. Those are several levels that were originally part of the retail game but were cut and then used as a demo.
Re:Elementary OS is imploding on Wednesday March 09, 2022 @05:28AM (#30612961)
Of course there is additional information in this link: it shows tweets that were deleted and Cassidy's retort.
What detonated the conflict was Zelensky threatening to leave the Budapest Memorandum. Of course you won't hear that anywhere :)
Re:The new silent majority: People who don't tweet on Tuesday March 08, 2022 @02:50PM (#30605695)
Wouldn't work in practice - no one is going to pass an opportunity to broadcast their political views to as many people as possible.
This is a very American point of view. I don't think anybody here in Europe in the last decades has looked at Germans with contempt for what Nazis did. It's absolutely ridiculous.
I've read so many people in this forum of all places that seem very content screwing over regular Russians.
Re:Opera advertises own products on competitor's websites on Tuesday March 08, 2022 @12:28PM (#30602679)
Have you seen the screenshot?
Re:Opera advertises own products on competitor's websites on Tuesday March 08, 2022 @07:57AM (#30599360)
Even if it's part of the browser chrome, it's completely inside the webpage, rendering that distinction pointless.
Re:1.0 USD = 158.3 Rub on Monday March 07, 2022 @12:28PM (#30590670)
Living in such a system is not a matter of privilege - Argentinians have consistently made voting choices that have put them in that position.
Re:Microsoft GW-Basic Interpreter Source Code on Monday March 07, 2022 @08:54AM (#30587759)
>Will not be modified - please do not submit PR's or request changes

Why doesn't github still allow users to deactivate the "pull requests" tab?

It's a quoted statement...