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zero_gravitas@aussie.zoneto Asklemmy@lemmy.ml•What is the smallest city in your country that everyone can still instantly recognise the name of? What is it famous for?English2·10 months agoI’m an Australian, and I also don’t know why I know Oodnadatta! Probably it’s just one of those words that sticks in the brain, and it comes up every so often because it is a key point between Adelaide and Darwin.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oodnadatta (population 102)
zero_gravitas@aussie.zoneto Asklemmy@lemmy.ml•What is the smallest city in your country that everyone can still instantly recognise the name of? What is it famous for?English2·10 months agoWittenoom, WA - population 0
I didn’t instantly recognise the name, but I’ve heard the story.
Coober Pedy, SA - population 1437
This is a very solid one.
@gnu@lemmy.zip beat me to the punch with Port Arthur, and I think they’ve hit the nail on the head there. Although, as they note, maybe the name recognition isn’t there for younger generations.
Here’s some suggestions that haven’t been made yet:
- Gundegai - population 2,057 (2021 census) - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gundagai
- Featured in songs and poetry, most famously Along the Road to Gundegai
- ‘The Dog on the Tucker Box’ sits on the road outside the town (and is itself a reference to a poem mentioning Gundegai)
- Betoota - population 3 (2023) - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betoota,_Queensland
- Known because its name was adopted by the satirical news website The Betoota Advocate
- Gundegai - population 2,057 (2021 census) - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gundagai
Tucker and Dale vs Evil (2010) and The Cabin in the Woods (2012) (go in spoiler-free with this one) are both good comedy horror.
zero_gravitas@aussie.zoneto Asklemmy@lemmy.ml•Can anyone name some mysteries in stories where the answer ended up delivering and was better than the mystery itself?English13·1 year agoHe has a neurological condition, spasmodic dysphonia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spasmodic_dysphonia)
‘Multi-Account Containers’: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/containers
With it, you can open tabs in different ‘containers’, which have their own set of cookies, etc… So, for example, you can be logged into two accounts for the same website, just in different containers, or keep all your shopping accounts in one container (and set those sites to always open in that container) to reduce tracking and targeting.
- Tab-organisation features (e.g. stacking, trees)
- Synchronised history - so you can find something you were looking at on your phone on your desktop or vice-versa
- Containers (Firefox) are great
- Full-page screenshot (Firefox) is very handy
zero_gravitas@aussie.zoneto Linux@lemmy.ml•[Solved] Possible to lock a folder? To prevent it from being deleted.English5·1 year agoPeople have already given direct answers, and the indirect answer of ‘set up regular automated backups’ (which everyone should set up right now if they haven’t already), but for the sake of throwing another option out there, people could take a look at ‘trash-cli’: https://github.com/andreafrancia/trash-cli
(P.S. I know OP might not have actually deleted the files with ‘rm’, but this addresses a broadly similar issue.)
zero_gravitas@aussie.zoneto Linux@lemmy.ml•[Solved] Possible to lock a folder? To prevent it from being deleted.English4·1 year agoI think it’s worth emphasising here: Don’t put it off!
There are millions who can tell you from experience that good intentions count for nothing when it comes to backups.
I’d recommend going and setting up Timeshift right now: https://github.com/linuxmint/timeshift
It’s easy to set up, it takes literally 10 minutes, and if you decide later you want to use something else, you can just uninstall Timeshift and delete its backups. But in the meantime you’ll be protected with backups.
It’s literally the first thing I install on a new system and it’s saved me multiple times from having to do a complete reinstall.
zero_gravitas@aussie.zoneto World News@lemmy.world•U.S. officially bars UNRWA funding through March 2025English10·1 year agoUnpaywalled: https://archive.is/BlYeM
zero_gravitas@aussie.zoneto Asklemmy@lemmy.ml•What are the highest quality search engines?English7·2 years agoIf you ask for cooking or cleaning advice and it hallucinates you’re still at square zero regardless.
Unless it tells you to mix bleach and ammonia 😆
zero_gravitas@aussie.zoneto Showerthoughts@lemmy.world•The "i" in Linux and Linus have different pronunciations even when they shouldn't.English1·2 years ago“Hello, this is Linus Torvalds and I pronounce ‘Linux’ as ‘Linux’.”
So yeah, he pronounces ‘Linus’ like ‘LEE-noose’, and ‘Linux’ like ‘LEE-nooks’. (Roughly, anyway. It should get the point across for most English speakers, I’m not at a computer to do a more-correct IPA transcription right now.)
zero_gravitas@aussie.zoneto Programmer Humor@lemmy.ml•know the features of your languageEnglish2·2 years agoThere’s a nice list of this feature by language on the Wikipedia page for anyone interested: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Null_coalescing_operator#Examples_by_languages
zero_gravitas@aussie.zoneto Programmer Humor@lemmy.ml•know the features of your languageEnglish0·2 years agoRuby:
a || b
(no
return
as last line is returned implicitly, no semicolon)EDIT: As pointed out in the comments, this is not strictly equivalent, as it will return
b
ifa
isfalse
as well as if it’snil
(these are the only two falsy values in Ruby).
100%. This is just eleventh-hour arse-covering.