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by ableal 11y ago
If you replace the word with something currently more unpopular, and rerun the sentence, you may see a hole in your argument.
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by ableal 11y ago
Correct answer, AFAIK. The 7-11 demographic, so to speak ... And, yes, an iPad mini is the next step. Also, the elephant totally absent from the room because it starved to death due to having its breakfast, lunch and dinner eaten - pocket
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by ableal 11y ago
Off-topic: you know you've transcended paper when your table of contents has no page numbers ("no more, no more").
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by ableal 11y ago
(Tom Lehrer tinkling out a little ditty mocking von Braun, in case it's blocked or whatever.) [Sometime in the mid 60s, given the prefacing dig about "spending twenty thousand million dollars of taxpayer money putting some idiot o
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by ableal 11y ago
The byline in that obituary is the same, Robert F. Worth, but it does have some other details on Villier's life.
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by ableal 11y ago
Fencepost error, you're off by one century (and one first name) ... P.S. A cursory search hooked me up with this most scrumptious page of Spectator archives, featuring OCR text and zoomable images of the original pages for a June 1853
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The Spy Novelist Who Knows Too Much (2013)(nytimes.com)
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Windows 10: a review from personal experience(pcmag.com)
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Remember when technology was exciting?(cringely.com)
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by ableal 11y ago
> What's your answer? I take the two. Any guesses about where (in society) one can find those who answer "I take the six"?
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by ableal 11y ago
I was asking myself why not the traditional three cheers, then I noticed the review was about three books, the third not being cheerful. Well, two out of three isn't bad, if I may coin a phrase.
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Bill Hillmann Interviews Mario Vargas Llosa about the Bullfight(lareviewofbooks.org)
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by ableal 11y ago
'The Welsh government statement continued: "'ach ghotvam'e' QI'yaH devolve qaS."' That's not Welsh? I always wondered what was up with the Welsh sneaking their language into famous phrases, lik
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by ableal 11y ago
Or perhaps we should instead feast on Floating Point Routines for the 6502 , by R. Rankin and S. Wozniak [1976] http://www.6502.org/source/floats/wozfp1.txt (Both ship and chip lifted from Raymond Chen's &qu
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Floating Feasts – Gourmandism on the high seas(newyorker.com)
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by ableal 11y ago
I heard of 3x, and that seems to be about the price/BOM ratio for Apple phones, according to the teardowns published when new models come out.
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by ableal 11y ago
"Growing up in Illinois filled me with such a longing to escape that it's hard to imagine someone wanting to live here. [...] The passengers have the haunted, vacant look of people who have just taken an Illinois road trip. [...]
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by ableal 11y ago
> Tap and hold Unfortunately, the "and hold" bit is rather hard to figure out. (And I started out knowing it could be done, but not how.) There are some serious discoverability problems with the latest wave of pretty interfaces
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Kobo Glo HD vs. Amazon Kindle Paperwhite: Which One's Best?(theregister.co.uk)
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by ableal 11y ago
> I like the first half That's actually why I tossed this in the submissions queue. I hadn't seen before the shareholder value / CEO compensation tuple connected to an academic paper: "[...] dating back to 1976 [...]
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The U.S. computer industry is dying(cringely.com)
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by ableal 11y ago
If your friend is the Patrick Kelly who contributed the comment quoted below at http://www.cringely.com/2015/04/15/where-the-money-is-or-was... , his words should get more circulation """ “Ide
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by ableal 11y ago
The writer missed one of the most interesting points of the Dune future history: it is one that rejected machine intelligence, and relies only on human abilities (however augmented by training, drugs and mystical handwaving). The original D
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by ableal 11y ago
Damn interesting, that second link on the Multics shell. Thanks for both.
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by ableal 11y ago
I occasionally filch URLs from from http://www.aldaily.com , which was the case with this one. Their tag was: "The Japanese literary scene is plagued by rehashed American literature. Contemporary novelists are “brainless wr
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How to translate Japanese(the-tls.co.uk)
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by ableal 11y ago
The punchline is also rather stark: 116 [...] The place was now closely invested, and there was treachery among the citizens themselves. So the Melians were induced to surrender at discretion. The Athenians thereupon put to death all who w
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by ableal 11y ago
> Is my view of Ancient Greece wrong I'd suggest a short read - Thucydides' Melian dialogue, there's a copy at http://www.shsu.edu/~his_ncp/Melian.html
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by ableal 11y ago
Neat. Clicked around, found a video of testing to 133 km/h at the bottom of this page: https://www.senz.com/en/senz6/
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by ableal 11y ago
And wood smells better. (I don't dislike oiled metal, but for me there's something about waxed wood that's really on the nose ;-)

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