br3d
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- Comment on Why is "Dear X" considered more formal than "To X" in e-mail/writing? 4 weeks ago:
I wonder if my colleagues have picked up on the fact that when I start an email “Dear-” rather than “Hi-”, it means I’m annoyed with them
- Comment on Broadband boss hits out at rivals over mid-contract price rises 5 weeks ago:
One of the most annoying bits is that these increases are always inflation plus a bit (eg current rate of inflation plus 3%). But… inflation is calculated using, among other things, broadband prices. So this practice guarantees that inflation will be pushed up
- Comment on Windows 10 and its shortage of "Never shove this screen in my face again" buttons 1 month ago:
The other annoying thing they (esp. MS) do is pop up messages like “The whole process of saving files has changed while you were asleep [learn more][got it]” and here, when you need it, there’s never an option for “remind me later”. So you either have to stop what you’re doing and go and read a massive blog entry that’s not actually relevant to the task in hand or you need to dismiss the message and never be able to find it when it’s actually relevant
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- Comment on Can videogames trigger a heart attack? 4 months ago:
Don’t ask online strangers for medical advice. Go to a doctor if you’re worried
- Comment on King’s Speech: What policies made it in and what’s been removed? 5 months ago:
He’s also a figurehead who announces whatever the government of the day tell him to accounce
- Comment on Are there any active news communities similar to Lemmy/Reddit, but users can only vote and comment, not post articles? 6 months ago:
Flipboard sounds a lot like what you’re looking for
- Comment on Do the people in Reniassance festivals pccurring in Brotain also speak with faked British accents, or do they ise faked French/Iralian accents? 6 months ago:
Because we have a lot of history. If we’re doing an historic festival it would be more specific about the period, not just some homogeneous “past”. But that said, such festivals are quite rare anyway
- Comment on Nigel Farage called ‘sketchy crackpot’ in secret NatWest emails 6 months ago:
Yes! For a moment I seriously was trying to decide if scunting was a word
- Comment on What is the best website to search for scholarly articles? 6 months ago:
I’m a professional researcher and we all use Google Scholar. I’ve never seen Captchas on there. Are you on Scholar itself, or standard Google?
- Comment on Updated Edge and it now seems to put a frame with rounded corners around every website 8 months ago:
As it’s Microsoft, you can be pretty sure the option to turn off the new look and feel will be removed in 6 months
- Comment on This default wallpaper. 8 months ago:
Rotate it 90 degrees to the right
- Comment on When Humans Use Water for Something, Is it Gone For Good or Does It Return To the Water Cycle? 9 months ago:
Another factor to add to these answers: if the waster has been treated (if it’s mains water), then a not inconsiderable amount of electricity (and so carbon) will have been used to treat it, and probably quite a lot more electricity will have been used to pump it around. So using water is also burning energy