Of course, this takes all words as equiprobable; results would be different if including the odds of a word appearing in the text into the maths.

I feel like it works more like 90% of the time when it comes up, so maybe this. And could it be that the words where “ie” appears are more ambiguous somehow, like don’t fit neatly into some existing pattern?

I don’t remember the “after c” bit ever being of use, though, so that part totally makes sense.

Edit: For an example, I’d never forget the spelling of “either”, because it’s so common and initial letters are more memorable. But, “piece” is tricky - “peice” is my first instinct, and I literally say “i before e” in my head when I write it now.

It’s always amazing when someone discovers a new way to be shitty that I hadn’t even thought of.

Meanwhile, Canada has no minimum wage exemption, and you still are asked to tip on everything.

Oh yes, can’t forget about libraries just because they’ve been successful forever.

The networking level is solved by Tor and similar, open protocols are still standard at the transport level, and the application layer is served by Linux, the Fediverse and so much more. I think the hardware level is where future efforts are the most needed. That and just resisting the change as much as possible.

(It’s not a level of abstraction, but if it was less of a mess crypto would deserve a mention as an authoritarianism-resistant way to keep funding going. Both for whatever future dystopian blackmarket, and for the providers of the infrastructure supporting it)

Somewhere like North America I could see how it makes sense. There’s a lot more road infrastructure than rail, and this can be built over it fairly cheaply and easily.

I wouldn’t go that far. Sometimes I’m not sure which way around they go, and that will usually lead you the right way.

That’s just what their conservative party is called - they literally used to be the PCs. Same story with the Saskatchewan party.

They’re definitely going to run out of money eventually, and this isn’t a highly disciplined and ideological place where they can push through desperate measures to keep going. There’s been efforts towards becoming that that during the war, but Russia has been doing the controlled chaos mafia state thing for quite a while, and I doubt it will be enough.

But yes, OP seems pretty anecdotal and I’m not going to put too much weight on it.

Yeah, an actual hypermobility disorder would not help, lol.

It’s so effective in wargames it’s basically cheating. In the one actual deployment it’s seen it has an uptime as good as or better than older models. It now has a unit cost comparable to the Gripen, which is built in a much less high-tech way (for the sake of ruggedness and maintainability, on which it does still have the advantage).

I’m reading complaints here, but you can complain about anything. I’m not even clear on how many are current, since it had a very rocky development and the article is mostly about the Block 4 upgrades.

Hmm. Cows too. You have a whole operation going there. Good luck, and take it easy - you only get one body, and there are tools.

Overkill. My ladies just had a hopper feeding into a tray with a small enough gap to prevent overflow, and a piano hinge to close it up when the tray needed cleaning.

Chickens, if they have a run with enough stuff inside, can be mad entertaining too. Their brains do not work like ours.

RIP you. How are the chick-os doing?

I recognize I’m over the hill and my joints sound like pop rocks

I had that start when I was a teenager, maybe even earlier. It sounds gross, but so far it hasn’t done anything else.

I’m going to guess mostly the former, with a sprinkling of the latter, since the battery cage people are definitely online a lot.

It’s not moving at all or moving way too much (and in the wrong ways) that causes the problems, per physio people I’ve heard from.

I had a thread on here where multiple people were telling me I should expect to be in a little pain all the time in my 30’s. I asked older people IRL about that, and the answer was lol no.

High probability it was dudes who barely get up from their chair, and seized up like corpses as a result. TBF it might have been a programming community.

During the last election he didn’t come down on immigration so much, that’s true. It’s been one of his lines of attack since, though.