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I don't know if it differs from various vendor releases of android but certainly on my Samsung S20, QR codes can be read without an additional app just by pointing the camera app at one. I seem to recall my Pixel XL did the same.


Love the concept of that but you'd have to have children's hands to play it. I can only see frustration and the thing being thrown across the room if I had one.


Is it? Why is that?


First because you don't really have completion or templating over its content: you mostly do copy/pasting or guessing what you have to put in there.

Second because they are using all kind of tricks to add variables into it (ENV, ...): the configuration is often dynamic by nature or by re-use.

Third because it's only strings, which is prone to mistakes: they are having a huge lot of code to check those configurations.


I think you missed the opportunity to re-enforce a few more times how much you dislike the genre of music in question. Just so the reader knows.


I’m sorry if that wasn’t clear.


I'm not sure I'd refer to crows, a murder of or a flock of, in a beginner's textbook on the English language. I don't think crows are commonplace enough in every day conversation to justify their inclusion.

If I was needing to refer to a group of crows in this textbook then I'd refer to them by their proper collective noun, a murder of, because that would be correct.


Flock, pack and herd are found in "beginner" English books all the time. Ask the nearest three year old to fetch the animal/farm/zoo book.

Those three words also stand on their own. "That herd looks unsettled" "Can you hear the pack howling?" etc.

I've yet to hear "murder" without "of crows" following it, so I reject it as the normal word.

(Native English speaker.)


"Gaming the system" is really NOT a cultural thing here in the UK. Not in the same way as described by the OP. Your two examples are not in any way, shape or form examples of gaming the system.


For me I like the feeling of cleanliness and freshness after having a shower in the morning before I start work. Clearly I'm not dirty or smelly after a hard day's work behind a hot Das Keyboard but l suppose it has become routine for me and unfortunately I can't abide the way I feel if I haven't showered for longer than a day.

A shame really because my inner hippy wants me to not be so reliant on showering and go for days if not weeks without bathing.


I like this project a lot and am inspired to do something similar. I'm a liveaboard boater in the UK, I have a 55 foot narrowboat with 350w of solar on the roof and a 550ah battery bank. I could probably run my own little server similar to yours pretty much 24/7 as when I'm not using solar to charge the battery bank, I'm using the boat's engine to recharge.

So not quite as green but during the months from April to September, the solar panels are enough to charge the batteries every day.

My modem/router uses 4g, it's a Teltonika rut950 that is using OpenWRT and has GPS built in which I've been keen to make use of.

I'm definitely inspired to do something like you've built!


Thank you, I would recommend to go for it. Would be nice to tie the GPS into some blog that would track where you are (aproximation for privacy reasons maybe).

A floating solar-powered server, should be nice!


Floating solar powered server buoys, anyone?


Going slightly off topic but I wonder if anyone can point me to a tailwind "starter kit" - ie. a project with everything in place to get going with tailwind, postcss etc.

Thanks!



And thank you too!


That's the official starter kit: https://github.com/tailwindcss/playground


Thank you!


With few exceptions, I can't think of a good reason to serve up regional dialects of English and I can't imagine anyone approving the translation of a site into UK, US, Australian, Canadian, Indian English or any other regional dialect.

English speakers are quite capable of understanding regional dialects and I would guess there are few instances when a user could be confused by a dialect not local to them.

Do we then have to go down the route of translating to northern English dialect over Scottish English? etc.?

No, you serve up whatever variation of English that is local to you. The rest of us native English speakers will get by just fine, unlike if I was on holiday in Mexico and was served up Spanish. I wouldn't have a clue.


I don't think dialect is the key thing.

As someone from the UK, I don't need a news article to use "pavement" or "footway" instead of "sidewalk".

But I do appreciate sites using a UK date format, and saying "Colour" instead of "Color", in their UI.


No one should be using the travesty that the Americans call a "date format" anyway =)


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