elmussol

Fri, 21 Aug 2020 18:00:04 -0400

elmussol

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experiment

Mon, 17 Aug 2020 19:14:54 -0400

elmussol

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How many Americans have won the Tour de France?

If you need help, here is the relevant Wikipedia article: #^List of Tour de France general classification winners

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Mon, 17 Aug 2020 19:21:48 -0400

and not had it subsequently stripped?

Tue, 18 Aug 2020 02:26:50 -0400

elmussol

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Sorry no hints. Answer how you feel.

Tue, 18 Aug 2020 02:54:56 -0400

Luke

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@elmussol Is Lance still counted these days?

Tue, 18 Aug 2020 05:59:52 -0400

elmussol

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One hint (sorry for the sub-optimal graphic, stolen from elsewhere):

Image/photo

Tue, 18 Aug 2020 07:05:23 -0400

ghostdancer

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@elmussol Nah I have had that conversation with some people from the USA and some them can't understand it. America is the one and only. If you dare to say that Canadians, Mexicans, etc ... are americans they look at you like you are retarded.

Tue, 18 Aug 2020 08:16:13 -0400

elmussol

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So for me the answer is two: Greg Lemond and Egan Bernal. I accept The Contraversial Lance Armstrong™ and Floyd Landis erasures, though four is a defendable answer. I don't consider one or three to be defendable.

Tue, 18 Aug 2020 08:25:35 -0400

elmussol

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Be grateful a Mexican or Mexican with a doping ban hasn't won. It would get really murky if you asked the same question about winners from the United States... México's proper name is Estados Unidos Mexicanos.

Tue, 18 Aug 2020 09:00:10 -0400

I'm sure I don't always remember, but given the international audience, I try to say US or USA (I guess I need to try to remember to use USA). A single-word replacement for "American" is tougher. What do the rest of you call us (when not being derogatory)? There is the weird construct of USian (USAian?), but I refuse to use that because it reminds me of the obnoxious person who used to use it around here.

Every other non-USA American seems to have another name that works. We need to send a message back to the founding and say "Hey, guys, can you be more creative about naming your new country?"

From Wikipeadia

Alternative terms
The only officially and commonly used alternative for referring to the people of the United States in English is to refer to them as citizens of that country. Another alternative is US-American, also spelled US American. Several single-word English alternatives for American have been suggested over time, including Usonian (popularized by Frank Lloyd Wright) and the nonce term United-Statesian. Writer H. L. Mencken collected a number of proposals from between 1789 and 1939, finding terms including Columbian, Columbard, Fredonian, Frede, Unisian, United Statesian, Colonican, Appalacian, Usian, Washingtonian, Usonian, Uessian, U-S-ian, Uesican, and United Stater. Nevertheless, no alternative to American is common in English. Names for broader categories include terms such as Western Hemispherian, New Worlder, and North Atlantican.

Yankee
Yankee (or Yank) is a colloquial term for Americans in English; cognates can be found in other languages. Within the United States, Yankee usually refers to people specifically from New England or the Northern United States, though it has been applied to Americans in general since the 18th century, especially by the British. The earliest recorded use in this context is in a 1784 letter by Horatio Nelson.

Tue, 18 Aug 2020 09:05:43 -0400

elmussol

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I generally use US American when speaking and USofAmerican when writing.

Tue, 18 Aug 2020 09:09:00 -0400

elmussol

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I wouldn't worry too much @Marshall Sutherland about the US/USA distinction. If I wanted to be that pedantic about México, I would use EUM.

Tue, 18 Aug 2020 13:07:09 -0400

There is always "Merican" :-)

As a bit of a tangent, but is it an English-speaking thing to translate place names or does everyone do it? I mean, why do we say Germany instead of Deutschland? Do the French or Spanish use one of those or a French or Spanish translation? Even saying "French" and "Spanish" is likely another example of this. I know that language evolution is funky, but how does something like this even start?
"What do you call your country?"
"Deutchland."
"Oh, OK, we'll call you Germany."

Would you do that to a person's name?
"Hi, my name is Pedro."
"Nice to meet you, Peter."

(It wasn't what I had in mind when I started this tangent, but you could apply this logic to "We call ourselves Americans." "Nope, sorry, I'm going to call you Ameridiots instead.")

Tue, 18 Aug 2020 19:19:55 -0400

Your explanation of seppo makes more sense. I dropped the line from the wikipedia quote because it said:

The Australian slang term seppo derives from rhyming "yank" with "septic tank."

I just looked at that and went "wut?" "Yank" rhymes with "river bank", too, but so what? The additional information that there is a rhyme that goes "Yank, yank, septic tank" gave it enough context to make sense.

TIL

Fri, 14 Aug 2020 17:42:29 -0400

elmussol

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Colour me gobsmacked. Evidently RSS is not a connection type in ActivityPub world. I just assumed. @Mike Macgirvin was this an original Mistpark thing or Friendik/ca?

Fri, 14 Aug 2020 18:04:25 -0400

elmussol

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Thanks for the info.

Wed, 18 Nov 2020 14:03:19 -0500

poor rss - google reader didn't help #^https://gigaom.com/2013/03/16/why-google-killed-off-google-reader-it-was-self-defense/

Vicious Cats

Wed, 12 Aug 2020 08:52:35 -0400

elmussol

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Maikaru wrote the following post Mon, 10 Aug 2020 14:06:38 -0400

Here is a mockup of my upcoming social card game called Vicious Cats.

My name is Maikaru and I am a close friend of our beloved Charles. the detective cat is dedicated to his favorite cat who was called Ichiro

shrinking HZ database

Sat, 08 Aug 2020 18:14:39 -0400

elmussol

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!Hubzilla Support Forum+ I want to shrink my database. I know one of the methods of doing this is to set an expiry on posts. I know my original content, starred posts etc will be kept, but my question is how should I see this happen.

If I set an amount in days, is this triggered at my next cron job? If I go from 0 (unlimited) to n days and the difference is a large number, is it best to do this in smaller chunks so I don't cripple my server?

I also know that the DB won't necessarily free up all the reclaimed space, so how do I intelligently reclaim using the VACUUM command in mysql.

Thanks in advance.

Hubzilla

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Sat, 08 Aug 2020 19:54:09 -0400

Also wish to read what wise gentlemen are to say on this issue =)

Mon, 10 Aug 2020 12:44:49 -0400

@elmussol check what table is the biggest. In my case its photos

Mon, 10 Aug 2020 12:56:30 -0400

if you are on mariadb you can use OPTIMIZE on the table or VACCUMM FULL on postgres. Or you can of course just do dump and restore.

Tue, 04 Aug 2020 13:25:59 -0400

elmussol

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Tue, 04 Aug 2020 13:42:42 -0400

elmussol

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A friend of Charles is a friend of ours. Welcome.

Tue, 04 Aug 2020 14:02:16 -0400

Welcome,Maikaru! :-)

Juan Carlos the Rat

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elmussol

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So we have an ex-King who is leaving the country "to protect the image of the monarchy". Excuse me while I puke. Sánchez should be thoroughly ashamed. Everything you need to know about modern Spain.

#^Political controversy as former king Juan Carlos I quits Spain

genius caption

Mon, 03 Aug 2020 11:07:10 -0400

elmussol

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I think I did myself damage laughing.

elmussol posted a new photo to memes

Sat, 08 Aug 2020 09:57:52 -0400

That is beautiful!

Sat, 01 Aug 2020 13:24:09 -0400

elmussol

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elmussol is now connected to Wylel

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Sat, 01 Aug 2020 12:35:41 -0400

elmussol

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!Hubzilla Support Forum+ Lots of load errors. Unsupported now?

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Tue, 04 Aug 2020 18:45:26 -0400

Though those errors occure when the demo hub resets. Andrew wrote a reset script that I kept alive. It seems that resetbis taking longer now. Should be faster again after the move.