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Have you tried SwiftKey? I find it to be a waaaay better keyboard than the stock one, and it does support having a number row.
I have to know, what sort of toys are you talking about? That your dad had?
after covid started
Because of Marie Kondo right?
in the most morbid way
… oh 💀
I got my maternal grandma’s ancient le creuset enamel pots when she died. They’re in perfect condition and we use them all the time.
She loved to cook, my mum hates to cook, and as luck would have it I married a woman who loves to cook. So the pots are in good hands 🥰
Well said. I’m married to a clinical psychologist and she’s the most emotionally intelligent person I know. It’s the best. She’s the best.
Part of the point (the whole point?) of rhyming slang is that it’s opaque and convoluted. That’s what makes it fun. It also makes it a bit of a shibboleth - you only understand it if you’re part of the culture.
If you’re eating with an Australian and they ask you to “pass the dead horse”, it means they think you’re Aussie enough to know what it means. Or they know that you won’t know what it means and they’re fucking with you intentionally.
nods Lady, of Gaga.
Fun fact: in the rest of the world it’s just called “licorice”. No black. That red stuff isn’t licorice at all.
Fun fact: Lady Gaga chose that name because of that song.
Borat voice my wiiiiiiiife
It’s one word, all lower case, four words, all upper case.
Forget about what’s normal for getting over a fight. You know what’s not normal? Getting into a screaming match with your partner every month.
I really can’t stress enough, that’s not ok. Not a healthy relationship, not a safe environment for your children, and not a good example for them to follow in the future.
You need couple’s counselling ASAP because this pattern has to stop.
That’s just Australian for ketchup: https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=dead horse
Definitely, I don’t really like Ubuntu that much even though it’s my go-to. What I like is Xfce. Whether I get it via xubuntu or something else I don’t really care.
I’m not sure about that. Even wealthy countries can have water problems in times of drought. I grew up during the Millennium Drought in Australia, we had major water restrictions and major campaigns to try to get people to do things like take shorter showers. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2000s_Australian_drought
And that’s in a wealthy nation with well-developed infrastructure. Countless places around the world have neither of those, and I’m sure lots of people in those places would love the luxury of a long shower without wasting water.
I had an aunt and uncle named Hillary and William.
Usually known as Hil and Bill.
Occasionally known as Hillary and Billary 😄
There’s more to it than that. Firstly, at a theoretical level you dealing with the concepts of entropy and information density. A given file has a certain level of information in it. Compressing it is sort of like distilling the file down to its purest form. Once you reached that point, there’s nothing left to “boil away” without losing information.
Secondly, from a more practical point of view, compression algorithms are designed to work nicely with “normal” real world data. For example as a programmer you might notice that your data often contains repeated digits. So say you have this data: “11188885555555”. That’s easy to compress by describing the runs. There are three 1s, four 8s, and seven 5s. So we can compress it to this: “314875”. This is called “Run Length Encoding” and it just compressed our data by more than half!
But look what happens if we try to apply the same compression to our already compressed data. There are no repeated digits, there’s just one 3, then one 1, and so on: “131114181715”. It doubled the size of our data, almost back to the original size.
This is a contrived example but it illustrates the point. If you apply an algorithm to data that it wasn’t designed for, it will perform badly.