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In that example the umpire's palm is facing the batsman, so that joke still doesn't work
Re:PHP – The Right Way on Monday February 07, 2022 @04:52AM (#30242525)
That example would become `use Stuff\Mail as Mail1` and `use Tools\Mail as Mail2` in PHP. What's the difference?
'Nu' also has the problem of sounding like 'new', so phrases like 'the Nu variant' are confusing if spoken aloud.
Re:The mild anarchy of piles of second-hand books on Wednesday July 21, 2021 @04:44AM (#27903883)
I think Hay is the most famous in the UK, but there are others such as Sedbergh.
Re:Finding Critical Open Source Projects on Friday December 11, 2020 @06:25AM (#25384537)
It looks like it's in the Java section because it's written _in_ Java, not because it's critical _to_ Java. Similarly, php-src isn't critical to C.
Re:This is how I git on Tuesday November 10, 2020 @07:55AM (#25045407)
Me neither, not since I got bitten by the 'Resolve Conflicts' button on the PR page also merging the PR into the target branch.

Maybe it's PEBCAC, and to be fair it is documented[0], but the big red warning in the docs is missing from the page where you actually do the action. To make it more confusing there's also a disabled 'Merge pull request' button that implies that resolving the conflicts and merging the PR are separate actions

0: https://docs.github.com/en/free-pro-team@latest/github/colla...

One thing that is missing from an iPhone 6 or older is the Exposure Notifications API. I just upgraded my 5s, but apart not being able to use the NHS contact tracing app, it worked fine, albeit a little slowly in places.
The browser dev tools warn you about it (with links to how to fix it) and I think if you’ve got the change they also tell you which cookies have been blocked. I don’t mean that to sound holier-than-thou, even with the messages I spent a couple of hours last week debugging the exact problem you mention on an internal tool.
Re:To Get More Replies, Say Less (2017) on Friday July 24, 2020 @11:51AM (#23940938)
Maybe I misunderstood the article, but my impression is that the ‘ 4% (1 in 25 users)‘ is just to make the percentages more understandable and the author didn’t only send the email to 100/25/12 users.
How would this happen? I’m imagining someone wanting to roll back a change, going to Internet Archive for the last known good day, viewing the source and copy/pasting into their editor/CMS? Points for creativity at least.
Re:Ask HN: Thoughts on new GitHub layout? on Tuesday June 23, 2020 @05:58PM (#23620883)
I got it on 19th June (I remember because it was the day GitHub went down). I left feedback, but it feels like it would've been a foregone conclusion at that point.
Re:How Gov.uk Notify reliably sends text messages to users on Saturday April 04, 2020 @06:18PM (#22781998)
Is the BBC article talking about the same thing?

The OP blog post says

> we have 2 different [text message] providers

but the BBC article says

> Vodafone is the only one of the UK's big four networks that has not finished the task.

If the two articles are talking about the same thing then it’s worth noting that the other major providers seemingly had no problems, and Vodafone chose to not send the messages at night time to avoid waking people up.

Re:GitHub for mobile is now available on Tuesday March 17, 2020 @03:20PM (#22609075)
There should be a link in the footer that changes it to the desktop version.