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 Discussion on answer by Xander Hender…

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Chris H
Jul 21 21:36
@smith I'm not familiar with "cleaning vinegar". The distilled vinegar I've got is sold for pickling. And with vinegar in a kettle, heat is helpful
Chris H
Jul 20 19:02
@XanderHenderson I reckon it depends where it's sold - on Amazon UK, "food grade" does tend to appear in searches. In a homebrew shop, where it appears with other ingredients (and not with the specialist cleaning products) there's less need. I've got some from a general retailer's home brewing section, that doesn't say it's food grade, but does say it's for brewing (in fact, mine has "NON FOOD" on it in Sharpie, because it's for cleaning and home science experiments!)
Chris H
Jul 20 19:02
@XanderHenderson I use distilled white vinegar for my kettle, but not my coffee machine - the former is easier to rinse thoroughly, at least without spending a lot of time and energy. For the coffee machine I either use a citric acid-based descaler or just citric acid, largely depending on what I've got to hand
Chris H
Jul 20 19:02
NB the easiest citric acid to get, at least in the UK, is food grade, sold for brewing. It may not say food grade on the packaging and more than baking soda does (another product straight from a chemical factory to the supermarket)
Chris H
Jul 20 19:02
Another option is (distilled) white vinegar, i.e. NOT "wine". This falls somewhere in between citric acid and wine vinegar for purity. It wouldn't surprise me if at some point there was a misreading or mistranslation leading to the insertion of "wine" in some instructions
 

 Discussion on question by Monty Wild:…

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Chris H
Jul 17 13:22
1-2 seats is realistic with small vehicles and tandem seating. Think of bubble cars like the Messerschmidt. Perhaps that could form a base. While the heyday for such vehicles in our world was the 1950s, they could conceivably work very well with 20s tech
 

 Discussion on question by Jacob E: Be…

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Chris H
May 19 21:30
@Vaelus with a location/jurisdiction. In fact that would be a worthwhile addition to this question. Laws and cultural expectations are very variable. Trickier is if the candidate is wiring something that's fairly normal where they're from, when they're applying for a job somewhere it's not
 

 Discussion on question by securityaud…

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Chris H
Apr 6 19:37
BTW the numbering on that street is off. Opposite the odd 220s are the even 340s. Also note that this would be a very upmarket address, so some caution is probably wise
Chris H
Apr 6 19:37
It's this building with the red roof, showing rooflights google.com/maps/place/Herv%C3%A9+Chapelier/…
Chris H
Apr 6 19:37
@securityauditor aren't those windows looking out onto the courtyard?
Chris H
Apr 6 19:37
The left picture on LoopNet does make the street look wider than the Street View pictures. I think this is mainly wide-angle lens (or post-processing) distortion - look at the no parking sign in the lower right and the black-clad building on the corner of Rue de Castiglione, which appears to be leaning. There's also bike parking in the LoopNet image but not in Street View (which is only a year old)
 

 Discussion on answer by Chris H: How …

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Chris H
Mar 27 01:46
@RedStoneMatt Your example specifies a date, just not numerically. My answer works the same. You could just say "We made a study relative to the two months following the acquisition" but to be totally clear that ithose two months don't align with month boundaries, "for two months starting from the date of acquisition" is normal. Also the other answer gives "preceding" (alternatively "following" as required) but crucially a date doesn't have to be specified numerically to be specified.
 

 Discussion on answer by Andy Bonner: …

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Chris H
Mar 27 01:46
@jiliagre good, that means my answer doesn't need any changes
Chris H
Mar 27 01:46
@jiliagre and the same if it started on Jan 29th or 30th presumably. But if it started on Feb 1st it would run to Mar 1st (if we're counting inclusively). That's hard to pin down exactly . But "one month from" does the job to sufficient precision
 

 Discussion on question by RedStoneMat…

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Chris H
Mar 27 01:38
@RedStoneMatt that's what we've offered you. My "we made a study for two months leading up to the acquisition" is shorter than your French "nous avons fait une étude par rapport aux deux derniers mois flottants" and unambiguous. and "from" or following" work equally well in that case. You've got what you asked for. If that's not what you really want, I suggest rewriting the requirements into the question rather than spreading them across 3 sets f comments - we can then all tidy up our comments
Chris H
Mar 27 01:38
You appear (from the comments as much as the question) to be asking for a single word, but you haven't tagged this "single-word-request" which may affect the answers you're getting. I'll modify my answer in the assumption that this is what you're asking for.
 

 Discussion on question by Pablo Virus…

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Chris H
Feb 2 14:36
@MaxWilliams with respect to NaCl, that's a molecular formula rather than an element symbol, so could easily be read differently.
 

 Discussion on answer by Hearth: Is it…

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Chris H
Dec 3, 2024 17:46
@Hearth other people who solder regularly may never have seen such a thing, but might be quite familiar with cooker hoods for fume extraction - but anyway (ducted and) filtrered fans are much more realistic
 

 Discussion on question by Omega: How …

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Chris H
Nov 29, 2024 16:30
@FumbleFingers similar in many places (e.g. France - "photo non contractuelle"). In the UK photos on menus aren't very common, and aren't a sign of quality. They appear mainly in chain places where stuff is pre-made as much as they can get away with.
 

 Discussion on question by Klaus Kiene…

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Chris H
Oct 8, 2024 19:37
@infinitezero this is just an impression so far, but it certainly seems like students who aren't native English speakers are being discriminated against by these checks. Having learnt from the same sources as the AI, of course there will be similarities in how they write.
 

 Discussion on question by Vikki: How …

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Chris H
Oct 1, 2024 12:46
"Deadname" is helpful for some of us with only a limited understanding of the issues. It's sufficiently well-known that it led to me understanding the original description ("egg cracked" that I'd never come across) , but even with no prior knowledge it indicates that the issue is serious and beyond a matter of preference
 

 Discussion on question by Eggy: Is it…

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Chris H
Sep 30, 2024 16:00
I agree with @DavidKetcheson that it's a totally valid question, but it is ironic that it has evolved in a way that illustrates similar issues. That's actually not helped by following the SE style policy of not (usually) marking edits to posts but fully incorporating them.
 

 Discussion on answer by ohwilleke: Te…

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Chris H
Sep 20, 2024 04:07
@Barmar if there's such a law, compatible tech, and he's set it up, yes. And the question doesn't (as I recall) preclude returning the call much later
Chris H
Sep 20, 2024 04:07
The question has him getting an uber; if instead he rented a car (using his own money) and drove himself home, responding to the phone call may be illegal depending on the local laws around holding/using phone while driving
 

 Discussion on question by Bob: Termin…

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Chris H
Sep 19, 2024 17:58
@phoog or the safe legal spot is sufficiently covered to block the signal, or out of range of whatever method the units uses to relay the GPS location back to base (normally the mobile phone network as GPS is receive-only; I've dealt with a unit like that)
 

 Discussion on question by George Ntou…

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Chris H
Sep 1, 2024 05:58
Rules around phones are also significant. If they can take them in to school, even if they have to hand them in at the start of the day you can set up tracking (by which I mean showing the child how to share their location). They can also call you if they get lost or scared. But if (smart) phones are banned on site, you don't have these options.
Chris H
Sep 1, 2024 05:58
@GeorgeNtoulos age bands would be helpful. For example at my daughter's primary they weren't allowed to leave without a parent until a certain year. So they couldn't come home solo before that, but walking with them was good preparation for the next year. The rule didn't apply to walking in (mainly because it wouldn't have been enforceable).
 

 Discussion on question by Eggy: Is th…

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Chris H
Aug 6, 2024 21:18
Pronunciation (@Eggy) is a less significant factor in defining a variety of English than the choice of words and phrases. People of Indian descent who have grown up in the UK may pronounce words like their neighbours who have no connection to India, but still use stereotypically Indian wording (Reddit thread with some words/phrases)
 

 Discussion on answer by Dale M: Is si…

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Chris H
Jul 11, 2024 07:57
It sound like @R..GitHubSTOPHELPINGICE had a similar thought to me. Simply, you're not signing a document unless you count a blank screen as a document. You're signing a machine that might possibly be on the same desk as a document. Even after the edits, you don't seem to have joined the gap between the blank thing being signed and the document verbally referred to. It would be interesting to see how that can be justified
Chris H
Jul 11, 2024 07:57
My knowledge of law is very limited, so this comes from a point of logic: in the specific case described, the OP isn't signing a document. They're signing a blank screen (at least in the case of most digital signature pads I've seen), or one with at most a line of text on it, which is changeable anyway. Perhaps that one-line statement could be confirmation that that they've read a different document - would that be enough?
 

 Discussion on answer by grawity_u1686…

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Chris H
Jul 5, 2024 17:11
@JeffLearman I can't remember how I did it on my home system with snap present but firefox installed from its PPA. But I did make it work. This work machine is on 20.04 LTS so isn't a good model
Chris H
Jul 5, 2024 17:11
... and Inkscape is another where I've installed the real version instead
Chris H
Jul 5, 2024 17:11
@Neinstein I agree completely. One of the worst bits is that many of their failure modes are silent - like when you try to run pdftk on a file in /tmp. An error message saying "F--- you I won't do what you tell me" would be polite in comparison . Clean installs are no longer Ubuntu for me because of it. So far I haven't stopped upgrades in place, but it's close
Chris H
Jul 5, 2024 17:11
It's worse than that (@DrMoishePippik). If you install proper FireFox from its own repository, then update your distro, Ubuntu uninstalls it, deletes the FF repository and installs the snap, without telling you. Then you wonder why things don't work. OTOH some packages are more up to date in the Snap version (VLC)
 

 Discussion on answer by Fattie: if pe…

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Chris H
Jun 26, 2024 00:06
@Fattie Protein Poisoning (Wikipedia - I don't have time to re-read the references but they're interesting) says you can't live on lean meat alone without carbs and/or fat. Adaptation can increase the proportion of calories that come from protein, but not to anything like 100%
Chris H
Jun 26, 2024 00:06
@Nosajimiki Are those ½-tonne people still bipedal, or even mobile? I wonder how much of a more realistic ¼-tonne person's weight can be put down to genes, and we have to assume that such bulk doesn't rule out being able to reproduce (fertility technology seems to be OK in the scope of the question)
Chris H
Jun 26, 2024 00:06
@Fattie the Inuit diet, IIRC relies on some pretty specific sources of meat/fish, creatures (and their diets) that have evolved to deal with these dietary needs. Fat and organ meat are major parts of a traditional Arctic diet, for both micro- and macro-nutrient reasons - the latter because we can't get enough calories to survive from eating lean protein
Chris H
Jun 26, 2024 00:06
"absolutely identical biologically" - more like "pretty similar". After all we're bipedal, don't have hooves, and can't digest grass (horses) or live on meat alone (dogs). I suspect that the large sizes would be harder to reach in a bipedal body than in a quadruped, though chickens suggest otherwise (but of course aren't mammals so can't teach us much)
 

 Discussion on question by Allure: Why…

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Chris H
Jun 7, 2024 15:43
@Bergi we seemed to have replaced simple html (and optional CSS) with content management systems that are hopelessly restrictive, and use a unique syntax (almost-but-not-quite-Markdown, for example) if they allow any customisation. Then to update and test you have to edit several separate fields only navigable by mouse, click save, wait, and often clock a few more bits if what you've added wasn't on the first tab with no way of previewing it locally. Compared to Ctrl+S, Alt+Tab, F5 on a local copy of an html page, it's tedious, but it's not even easier because cheatsheets are needed but rare
 

 Discussion on question by Sidharth Gh…

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Chris H
Apr 24, 2024 16:58
I think we can take @Mari-LouA's point despite "Oxford Street" being quite a common road name in southern England, and @ alphabet's Pepto-Bismol is of course a brand name, now genericised but a trademark.
Chris H
Apr 24, 2024 16:58
Of course diamond refers to a crystalline form of carbon, so isn't an elemental name (like gold is). Capitalising it would be more like capitalising water or coal
 

 Discussion on answer by Fallenspacero…

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Chris H
Apr 17, 2024 05:31
@Mary and the best feathers are eider down, which you can get from the nests
 

 Discussion on question by It'sMe: How…

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Chris H
Apr 5, 2024 21:21
Are you referring to specifically postgrad/research level pyre maths, or lower levels as well? Because more pure maths at A-level (last 2 years of school) would have been very helpful indeed for my physics degree. Returning to higher levels though, insights from pure maths do feed into applied fields, just not always in immediately obvious ways
 

 Discussion on answer by JBH: Minimizi…

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Chris H
Mar 29, 2024 18:46
@StarfishPrime I'm not sure about force feeding, but if they're hungry enough and bloodthirsty enough, concrete mixed with blood should do the trick
 

 Discussion on question by LyndaElaine…

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Chris H
Mar 16, 2024 12:20
@LyndaElaine do you mean you disallow citing review papers? Textbooks for derivations/axioms etc.? Why would you do that?
 

 Discussion on question by library: Us…

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Chris H
Feb 24, 2024 15:02
That "Birds, unlike animals..." quote indicates another problem: "Animals" can (I say should) include all all members of the biological kingdom Animalia (including birds, insects, etc.), but that quote uses it to mean something else - just mammals? Mammals and reptiles?
 

 Discussion on answer by littleadv: Is…

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Chris H
Feb 22, 2024 19:10
At a supermarket near me in the UK we have both £1 coin trolley deposits and wheels that lock if you try to walk out of the car park. The wheel locking system is also used on the sloping travellator that takes you and your trolley between the ground floor and the shopping floors. I carry cash but not many coins, but do try to keep a £1 coin in my wallet all the time
 

 Discussion on question by flox: Is it…

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Chris H
Feb 9, 2024 20:40
You may want to read about Fruitarianism and the Jain concept of Ahimsa as it relates to diet (both links Wikipedia)
 

 Discussion on question by Giacomo1968…

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Chris H
Jan 25, 2024 11:30
@MatijaNalis it certainly does differ. I'm talking about the common use of the terminology in English (USA, UK etc. match pretty well here; Indian English is also very similar). And yes, I know someone disgusted by where meat comes from, but that's pretty rare. There are many reasons in fact, but the result tends to be the same
Chris H
Jan 25, 2024 11:30
@MatijaNalis most people do consider milk and eggs in a similar way. Your point is interesting, but it's not common. And a lot of ovo-lacto vegetarians - definitely not vegan - avoid leather etc. while being vegetarian for ethical reasons (including environmental). Lactose tolerance is independent of vegetarianism. Some people may be both vegetarian and lactose intolerant; others can't drink milk but eat meat. But yes, for some people, a vegetarian diet is for health reasons (or in the case of some people I know, because it makes keeping kosher much easier)