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“sixpence ha’penny” would also be acceptable, if not preferable.

Source: My parents also remember pre-decimal money and I’ve heard plenty of tales.

One good story is how, on decimal day, a lot of prices went up to 240% of the original because shopkeepers simply changed the d to a p on their price labels. One old penny was 1/240 of a pound and a new penny was 1/100.

They don’t need a third Trump term. There are other ways to keep him in the White House that don’t mean changing the Constitution, so you’re probably right about that.

If they decide to at least pretend to be legitimate and go through the motions, they’re almost certain to nominate Vance as their candidate. Trump nominated as VP would be a declaration of intent, but not proof of the same.

What happens after that comes down to the result of the next election and where loyalties lie within the Republican party.

If the Democrats somehow win next time, there’s a good chance the Republicans will declare a state of emergency to remain in power. Trump would almost certainly remain president during that emergency, and they could spin that out indefinitely.

If the Republicans win, it will come down to how many people in the Republican party are behind Vance and want rid of Trump.

I used to have one right in the middle of my bald spot. I couldn’t see it even with a clever arrangement of mirrors, but I could feel it. I think it must have been fair because it didn’t stand out even amongst the apparent lack of hair*, but the root would sometimes feel like it was digging through my scalp.

Some days I’d spend longer than I’d like to mention trying to grab it blind with tweezers. On and off for years. Often got other fine hairs, but not that one.

One day I finally got it. It didn’t look remarkable at all, at least not that I remember, but the feeling when it came out was something special.

Never been bothered by it since, so either I killed the root or set it right.

* If you get real close, it’s actually kind of fuzzy, but for most intents and purposes there’s nothing there.

Ennui is often suffered by people with a speech impediment when talking to French people called Henri.

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I’ll see myself out.

I don’t happen across Medium very often so I wondered what this sentiment was about.

Apparently Medium is basically YouTube for bloggers and essayists (with apologies to those who surely think that’s an insulting comparison) and the new CEO messed with the algorithm so much that now writers’ content isn’t being promoted as well as it used to be, and the people who subscribed (or followed, or whatever) aren’t even seeing that content as much any more.

~… and it seems there’s no option to get a notification about new content from favourite writer, but maybe I’ve missed it. No “ring that bell” here.~ Edit: When I turned on JavaScript I got a pop-up implying that exists, at least for people who aren’t logged in.

But as far as I can tell, that doesn’t necessarily mean we should hate the content that’s on there.

On my computer, this pushes one core to ~60%, eats ~40MB of memory over the course of about a minute and then segfaults.

I did make one small change to the condition which would mean that it would bail out if available memory got too low, but 40MB barely even registered so it was basically true the whole time. In retrospect, I probably should have been monitoring process count instead (or done both), but I guess I got away with it.

As OP says, you need to create subprocesses with & to cause real problems.

*Bash 5.2.15 / LMDE6 / who knows what other factors. Try these things at your own risk. Or better, just don’t.

On the one hand, the PDF editing feature could be useful, but on the other, it’s a sign of yet more feature creep and I don’t know whether I’m justified in feeling concerned about it.

Obligatory grammar call-out, basically repeating something I said a while ago, the last time this showed up:

“cometh” is not grammatically correct in this context. The simple check is to replace “-eth” with “-es” which is what happened in English.

“Now comes onward!” is clearly missing a pronoun. And if you put a “he” or an “it” in there, it develops a very “it puts the lotion on its skin” kind of vibe, which almost works here, but not really. We could drop the -s and have “Now come onward!” which would be just fine, but it loses a bit of that medieval flair the artist is going for.

So, in panel two, she calls him “thee” which means they’re probably on familiar terms (I think I missed this last time, and its use and familiarity varies by era), but either way, it means she could use it again in panel three.

“Now come thee onward!”

Perfectly medieval-sounding. It even keeps that th, just in a different place.

Possible does not mean probable, so yes, it’s possible, but don’t hold your breath.

Wait until you learn how months are numbered in some programming languages.

The clever documentation calls it “months since January”.