And even if you jump from higher up, it’s the ground that does it, still not the Burj Khalifa.

No joy today. Had to look a couple of those up after the fact, and when the definition starts “In American English …”, it makes sense. :(

From what I can find, the ratio of ‘theoretical speed’ to current commercial ICs in silicon is about 1:20, so that would equate to about a 25GHz chip, all other things being equal (i.e. if that ratio isn’t some inherent feature of silicon…)

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First time I’ve known all the categories in advance. Mixed up blue and green for order though :)

Anon misses his dad, but only sometimes. Hmm.

I’m almost more irritated by the use of two hyphens instead of a colon after the first definition. They just didn’t give a shit really.

• me, an ice cube
• can’t wait to get out of this place
• door opens every day, but never get to leave
• anon finally picks me out–this is my chance
• wriggle out of his inept grip
• make a break for freedom under the fridge
• mfw the fuckwit helps by actually kicking me further under

Is that Otto at the controls?

I’m using Arctic on iOS. I can’t remember offhand which md library it uses but will check if it’s been tweaked. I guess the real fix should be with the connections site in what they copy when you click ‘share’.

Edit: of course that makes no sense, or it would be broken for everyone. Guess it’s the iOS clipboard or app mangling what’s copied. It’s still early here :/

Subscript and spoilers:

Not for me

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Funny you say that–I was convinced I got it right after 1 error too, and I had shuffled the last 8… Thought I must have imagined it…

If you take a finished product and gradually take away pieces, you can make a progression out of pretty much anything.

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Planes fly because aerodynamics.

Helicopters fly because money.

Any type of glue is fine. Just stay away from the cardboard derivatives.

You can find many discussions about that online, and it’s basically a BE / AE thing. In BE, it’s not correct, hence I’m annoyed a lot of the time.

I’d just like to thank you for writing “how big a deal” instead of the now ubiquitous “how big of a deal”. That would have really annoyed me.

It’s still ‘legal’ in England to shoot a Scotsman with a bow and arrow if you’re standing on the York city wall. That doesn’t mean it happens that often.

This is what I see in search. Does search hide subscribed communities?

Edit: And, if I switch to Subscribed, I also don’t see it:

But if I go to my profile, it’s there:

Edit 2: Oh dear. I scrolled all the way to the bottom of the blocked communities list, and found a single entry in the blocked instances settings. Guess which it was :/. Apologies for the noise—I do not remember doing that, probably a mis-click at some point.

Interesting that I was still able to post there…