It is, check the OED.
Phil K
Older but not necessarily wiser. Been online since 1970s BBS
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Phil K@lemmy.worldto No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world•How do CAPTCHAs work without giving you a challenge task?22·1 year agoIn non technical terms, some operating systems (eg iOS) will vouch that you are human. Which bypasses the need to click on things.
See https://support.apple.com/en-gb/guide/iphone/iph4f43a30c9/ios for details of how to turn it off
Phil K@lemmy.worldto Showerthoughts@lemmy.world•There's never any cool stories about being reincarnated from another planet. I don't want to have been a peasant in Europe during the Black Plague.4·1 year agoLook up Egg Theory. It will blow your mind.
Phil K@lemmy.worldto Showerthoughts@lemmy.world•If there was more than one Illinois, would they be called Illinoises or Illinoi?10·1 year agoBasis becomes Bases Crisis becomes Crises Oasis Oases Echolalia Echolalies Etc Generally the vowel becomes an e
Illinois Illinoes
Phil K@lemmy.worldto No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world•Why do some websites have a "Continue Reading" button?2·1 year agoThere we go, a strong opinion.
Phil K@lemmy.worldto No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world•Why do some websites have a "Continue Reading" button?111·1 year ago- Some people prefer pages to scrolling (it’s amazing the strength of opinion about this for either point of view)
- Advertisements are charged per impression. So each page counts as a new impression
- Be grateful websites no longer auto scroll web pages
- Some things lend themselves to page by page. For example very long articles (this is why books replaced scrolls)
- Be grateful that websites stopped animating page turns etc
- Sometimes web developers don’t care and just use a bought in package
Phil K@lemmy.worldto No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world•Is there a difference between customers/consumers?2·1 year agoIt depends also on what type of business. For example in Finance a consumer is a real person who buys/borrows uses something but a customer is a general term for a person, business, organisation or partnership that buys goods or services.
For example, I might have an account at XYZ Bank and so might a company. We are both customers of XYZ Bank but I am a consumer and the company isn’t.
[to complicate things small businesses might class as consumers in some jurisdictions]
Phil K@lemmy.worldto No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world•Why is there often a huge gap between a person being found guilty of a crime and their sentencing hearing?10·2 years agoI think it depends on several factors:
In most jurisdictions time has to be allowed for the lawyers to examine the judge’s decision (if a judge has made the determination m) in order to decide if they want to appeal. Remember in some places the prosecution can appeal if the defendant was find guilty but not in all counts.
If a jury made the decision then the judge also has to consider sentencing guidelines and weigh the evidence to determine the sentence. This might involve medical reports etc
In some jurisdictions both parties need to make a case for a particular sentence.
So in many cases it’s not as if nothing is happening.
Phil K@lemmy.worldto No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world•If a vehicle were traveling through space at/near the speed of light, then what would happen if it turned its headlights on?131·2 years agoSurely that depends whether you’re in the vehicle (and can see the lights) or an observer outside of the vehicle
Hi,
What sort of thing do you like?
There’s a good Star Trek community and a Lemmy.World general chat community.
#star_trek:matrix.org
Phil K@lemmy.worldto Lemmy@lemmy.ml•Anyone has informations about compuverse.uk instance?English1·2 years agoIt looks like Cloudflare can contact the server but the request doesn’t complete.
This might mean it’s still there but misconfigured.
Phil K@lemmy.worldto Lemmy@lemmy.ml•Anyone has informations about compuverse.uk instance?English1·2 years agoI am also in the same position. It seems to have disappeared. Edit: it looks like the admin enabled Cloudflare which reports that the host server is not replying.
That means it’s either down or not configured properly.
It’s because the im isn’t a prefix but part of the word. (It was originally spelt empeche)