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But... no-one mentioned surprise except you, did they? Something being uncommon doesn't connote being surprising, at least not always.

It's uncommon for me to have takeaway pizza, but I don't think anyone I know would be surprised when I do.


I'm pretty sure the subtext of what I commented on was that he was surprised.

Your friends probably wouldn't go out of their way to ask you why you ordered a takeaway pizza which is uncommon. But if they did ask, it usually means they were surprised.


Pretty sure the jiao (角) (1/10th of a yuan) is still in use?


Oh yeah, you're right, I forgot about that. It doesn't really get used much except occasionally for very small transactions, usually ones less than 10yuan.


nobody really use jiao (1/10th RMB/CNY), same as nobody really use yuan (CNY/RMB)

they are called mao (1/10th RMB/CNY) and kuai (CNY/RMB) in China

but mao pretty much dont exist anymore now with electronic QR payments everywhere even in food stalls, heck even beggars have QR codes and fen is for many many years more like some monopoly money papers


AIUI plenty of tags don't need to be closed. `<input>`, `<hr>`, `<img>` are the first three off the top of my head. Probably in XHTML you would've self-closed them.


Those are different from <p> as they are always self-closing immediately and thus cannot even be manually closed. <p> is only automatically closed if there is no </p> before the next block element.


Then I guess we’ve been in the dystopia for almost a century now. When I was a kid in the 70s and 80s we leased our TV and VCR. It was hugely common in the UK, the company was on many high streets and literally called Radio Rentals, founded 1930: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radio_Rentals

> Radio Rentals was the largest television rental group in the UK and claimed that at its peak it had more than two million customers, more than 500 shops, 3,600 technicians, 2,700 skilled installers and a large ancillary staff. It had sales and service locations across the UK; the Radio Rentals logo being a common sight on many High Streets.


We still have this in the US, it’s called Rent-A-Center and it’s a way to extract extra money from poor people for luxuries they can’t afford.


Y’all forget about the history of telephones?!

Until the 1980s almost all telephones in the US were rented from the phone company.

Renting isn’t some strange uncharted territory — owning a phone is the new concept.


> parallel: Warning: Finding the maximal command line length. This may take up to 1 minute.

> So I wait a few seconds [snip]

This warning is only ever printed if running in Cygwin, not Linux or macOS or elsewhere. Cygwin is notoriously slow.

    # This is slow on Cygwin, so give Cygwin users a warning
    if($^O eq "cygwin" or $^O eq "msys") {
    ::warning("Finding the maximal command line length. ".
          "This may take up to 1 minute.")
    }
Also note that it only figures this out first time, after which it’s cached on disk.


This is on MSYS2, yes, and that excuses absolutely nothing, because this shouldn't be happening in the first place for speed to be even relevant. At the risk of repeating myself thrice: the messages are confusing, the Ctrl+C handling is just utterly broken, the citation message adds to the confusion while being frankly obnoxious, and all of the delays and outputs are unnecessary in the first place as proven by literally every other program that doesn't make me wait a minute before I can use it the first time, including xargs. If Microsoft's own Windows tools did this, everybody would bash them (no pun intended) till the end of time. But since it's GNU Parallel and not Microsoft Parallel, it's Windows's fault for being slow and also my fault for having the audacity to expect better, apparently.


> the messages are confusing > while being frankly obnoxious

Try reading some time. It's pretty great.

> the Ctrl+C handling is just utterly broken

That's your terminal, not parallel.

> and all of the delays

Your terminal is adding the delay, not parallel. parallel is just warning you about your broken terminal. You're shooting the messenger here.


Or do as I did and just use the buses. Highly reliable IME.


We were four people, and a car gave us more flexibility for hiking. A couple of times we abandoned plans during the drive once we saw the weather and went elsewhere.

But yes, the buses were good too. The others all used them when they wanted to do something different. (I didn't, as I was the only one willing to drive the car.)


Fair. I was solo :) got plenty of hiking done too and can’t wait to go back


In fairness, it’s literally called the jellyfish roundabout on the local bus timetables (as I know from having visited and caught the 450)

https://www.ssl.fo/en/timetable/bus/450-torshavn-eysturoy-je...


DuckDuckGo.


Disappointed it isn’t to do with Robert Rankin. Oh well.


I'd always assumed it was. I loved that book.


I'm disappointed that it isn't to do with Zlad! <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FxxhAS16vB0>


Like the center of a cantelope...


I’d be surprised, given how outspoken Sawe is about doping. He invited the AIU to test him before Berlin and Adidas also paid.

> Determined to prove he is competing clean, Adidas provided $50,000 (£36,900) to the Athletics Integrity Unit, the sport's anti-doping body, to frequently test Sawe over a 12-month period.

> That began with a reported 25 out-of-competition tests in the lead-up to Berlin in September, continuing at a similar rate as he prepared for London.

> Sawe said on Monday: "It's very important to me because it gets out the doubt in my career of athletics and yesterday's performance.

> "It shows Sabastian Sawe is clean. It shows running clean is good, and we can run clean and we can run faster.


Armstrong never failed a blood test and he was tested without being warned before hundreds of times a year.

This proves nothing, absolutely nothing at all. It's just a PR move by adidas and actually it seems to be working on you.


I find con men are the first to protest their innocence, and even suggest well-curated "proofs" of the same.

It's not evidence either way, in the arms-race of high-tech doping.


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