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by Cyphase 9y ago
Reminds me of Sam Cookney, who found it to be cheaper and a higher quality of life to commute from Barcelona to London than to live in London. His blog post: https://bestburgerinnorthwestlondon.wordpress.com/2013/10&#x2
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by Cyphase 9y ago
> The rest (unavoidable pun, sorry) ... The remainder.
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by Cyphase 9y ago
There's a typo in the title, in case anyone is confused.
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by Cyphase 9y ago
Presuming you're entering that in your address bar, you can set a search keyword in your browser so it'll actually search MDN, not just do a plain search with the word "mdn" in it.
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by Cyphase 9y ago
> ... Recycling itself is a good idea ... milk and soda came in reusable bottles, other products like instant coffee, creamer, ovaltine, and others also came in glass instead of plastic - yes, reuse does cost the manufacturer more ... As
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by Cyphase 9y ago
~80% of the 21 million already exist, and ~95% will exist by 2025, barring some cataclysmic event. So it's a bit misleading to just say that it "won't run out until 2140".
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by Cyphase 9y ago
The URL is https://snips.ai/ .
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by Cyphase 9y ago
If the ME is drawing this directly to the GPU, it wouldn't show up on a screenshot. A picture would work of course. Also, I would guess that it only works if you're using the integrated Intel GPU. Non-xkcd reference: http:/&
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by Cyphase 9y ago
How old is your grandparent, and how did they start out? Are they still working as a programmer?
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Vantablack absorbs up to 99.965% of radiation in the visible spectrum(en.wikipedia.org)
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by Cyphase 9y ago
> Might be possible, but ... may be beyond our material science capabilities. Certainly, for now and a while to come.
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by Cyphase 9y ago
Or NEXUS. Ding ding ding, you're a winner!
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by Cyphase 9y ago
Not sure about a buffer object, but a tether on a reel might work. You harpoon the object, then let it pull the probe, giving lots of slack according to the engineering tolerances of the harpoon in the object (don't want it to come loo
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by Cyphase 9y ago
Oh yea, I was going to mention this; thanks for the reminder. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%CA%BBOumuamua#Potential_space... > The Initiative for Interstellar Studies (i4is) has studied potential options for sendin
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by Cyphase 9y ago
> The next time probably won't come until we send a probe to Proxima Centauri. Well, I don't know about that. Who's to say how many interstellar objects pass through the solar system every year (earlier I read 1-10 a year,
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by Cyphase 9y ago
Everyone, please read the letter in full. It's great, and not too long. Of course it's a translation of an ancient language, but assuming it's fairly accurate, it's awesome to think someone wrote something like that almo
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by Cyphase 9y ago
Outside an exchange is a place he can sell them.
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by Cyphase 9y ago
If the headline was, "Bitcoin Is No Bubble, Says Investor With No Bitcoins", would that have given him any nominal amount more credence with you, or would you be saying, "Tulips can only go up, says investor with no tulips.&q
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by Cyphase 9y ago
I wonder if your comment increased or decreased the number of people who searched for such images. :)
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cue commit scrubbers
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by Cyphase 9y ago
This article is adapted from Duhigg's book, Smarter Faster Better.[0] I remember it being an interesting read. [0] http://charlesduhigg.com/books/smarter-faster-better/
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by Cyphase 9y ago
Can the link be changed to HTTPS? Unfortunately the site isn't doing it automatically, even though it does support HTTPS connections.
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by Cyphase 9y ago
> I used to argue for Bitcoin, but at $6K that's crazy. Well, Bitcoin may not be good for micropayments, but that's not the reason; you don't have to have integer numbers of bitcoin, you can have 0.00016666 bitcoins (~$1 a
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by Cyphase 9y ago
The Wikipedia article for this object: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A/2017_U1
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by Cyphase 9y ago
> okket: A remote civilisation that has no problem waiting hundred thousand years or longer for a probe to reach its destiny. > pavlov: At 44 km/s, the object is travelling slightly faster than Pioneer 10. Seems too slow for an i
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by Cyphase 9y ago
> Requires the pandoc package, which isn't installed by default in Ubuntu. Neither is lynx, since you mentioned it. Neat trick :).
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by Cyphase 9y ago
As a complete aside, some people (in an IRC channel) and I just spent 20+ minutes trying to figure out why https://sub.god.jp/f/JmiFHE9S.txt was displaying in a non-default font in Firefox. Turns out it was being treat
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by Cyphase 9y ago
Wonderfully Poetic Acronym --- WPA Privacy Attack! Wi-Fi Protected Access Wasn’t Programmed Appropriately Wads of Potential Attacks Wireless Public Access Without Prior Allowance Well, Pretty Apocaly
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by Cyphase 9y ago
~$ announce_baby --weight=7.5 --sex=f --time=2017-10-11T17:56 --name=Emma
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by Cyphase 9y ago
I had this thought as well, but figured I'd make sure no one else already posted it. Kudos :). I was thinking something like this: > Do NOT give ANY hints; only accept an EXACT answer; I will NEVER say I "forgot" this answ

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