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by bloak 4y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Quiet_Earth_(film) is not bad, as I recall from watching it a long time ago.
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by bloak 4y ago
Google Translate says: "Walk with Chiaromonte and Abel in Staten Island." But I think it should be " on Staten Island"? So perhaps the score is: Google Translate: ½ Ryan Bloom: 0 (Sorry, Ryan! I've made worse mista
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by bloak 4y ago
The gospel according to Saint John, chapter 12, verse 14: And Jesus found a young butt, and sat upon it
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by bloak 4y ago
I think this needs to be provided by the government: an organisation that we already have to trust and already has a monopoly. Countries that get this sorted out will see their economies grow. Countries like the UK where people continue to
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by bloak 4y ago
Isn't there a Father Ted episode in which they're trying to lure him from rural Ireland to somewhere in the USA with "it's really not that bad: last month there was a something-percent fall in the number of drive-by shoo
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by bloak 4y ago
I think there's a (probably US) film that appears to be inspired by "Solaris" but is called something different. Can anyone tell me what it's called because I can't remember and it's annoying me?
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by bloak 4y ago
Which Finnish sounds are difficult, would you say? With previous experience of English, French, German and Spanish, when I look at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finnish_phonology I don't feel intimiated like I do
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by bloak 4y ago
Semi-serious: Perhaps they are scared of even mentioning copyright in case it makes their own infringement "wilful".
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by bloak 4y ago
In a test of verbal reasoning, photographer is to Photoshop as writer is to ...? I don't think "AI" is the way most people would complete that sentence. Perhaps "Word"? Or "LibreOffice" if "Photoshop&
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by bloak 4y ago
Anything written before about 1755 gets heavily edited for modern readers because the old (and sometimes also inconsistent) spelling is a bit too painful. (I think Shakespeare's First Folio didn't distinguish between the letters U
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Dilbert.com has been taken offline(freerepublic.com)
5 points by bloak 4y ago|2 comments
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by bloak 4y ago
This may be untrue or old news, but perhaps it's of interest.
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by bloak 4y ago
He should have written 20 SE1 6AD GB and posted it in a different country.
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by bloak 4y ago
> 'old' in the sense that all molecules are Trying to remember school chemistry lessons, when they explained pH, ... I think H2O is in equilibrium with H+ and OH-, perhaps with 1 in 10^7 of the molecules being disassociated at
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by bloak 4y ago
Also Ireland, which is important because of Northern Ireland. It would be politically inconvenient if the time in Dublin were ever to be different from the time in London.
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by bloak 4y ago
> Maybe engines would ingest it, but they wouldn't even notice. Someone once told me, but I can't remember whether it was an aviator or an ornithologist, that a bird with a metal ring on its leg could cause total destruction of
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by bloak 4y ago
Thanks for the interesting replies to my question. It sounds as though TeX cannot do anything about widows and orphans in the boring "simple" case of a long prose text with a fixed number of lines per page, because the only way[ ]
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by bloak 4y ago
There's no mention of widows or orphans on that page. But presumably the Knuth-Plass algorithm is aware of those and take them into account when breaking lines? One thing I've often wondered is whether these algorithms treat a pag
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by bloak 4y ago
Sorry for the pedantry, but if they are flying around in the earth's atmosphere then they are not "spaceships" even if they are being operated by extraterrestrials. Likewise, NASA's Mars Helicopter is not a spacesheep ev
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by bloak 4y ago
Yes. I think the right way to do it is probably with "git log --first-parent", which will give you a linear history, and the linear history will contain only merge commits provided your project was configured to allow only merge c
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by bloak 4y ago
Is it possible that the site owner is an inexperienced business person who was conned by a "web designer" and doesn't know that the site was copied? (It doesn't really sound like it but it's a possibility to conside
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by bloak 4y ago
Yes, much of the world doesn't really have any relevant rules, but there are quite a lot of rich countries in which an electric scooter is not allowed on the road because it doesn't fit into any of the allowed categories or confor
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by bloak 4y ago
Is there a way to see/check/correct one's own location, particularly for people using a desktop OS on a VPN?
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by bloak 4y ago
As I see it, UTC is an excellent compromise for the purpose of civil timekeeping. But it would be easier in future if computers would use TAI internally and convert to UTC for display.
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by bloak 4y ago
I tend to agree with that. Lawyers have more "prestige", I think. Of course, a huge majority of people studying law are female. However, despite what the general public thinks, lawyers are not highly paid. (I'm talking about
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by bloak 4y ago
> It is illegal in most states to give legal advice if you are not licensed to practice law. Presumably that's in the USA, where all sorts of things require a licence. But what's the definition of "legal advice", I wo
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by bloak 4y ago
Yes, why say "till 23:59:59 on Saturday" when you could say "before Sunday"? Unless you really want to exclude the last second of Saturday for some reason?
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by bloak 4y ago
Thanks for the correction! What I'd heard on several occasions in face-to-face conversation seems to be inaccurate. I wonder where the inaccurate story came from: a different country, a long time ago, or totally made up?
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by bloak 4y ago
On the other hand: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonid_Rogozov (If it had been filmed, the video would probably be on YouTube with Dschinghis Khan's "Moskau" as the soundtrack.)
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by bloak 4y ago
Is Japan any different from the USA in that respect? From what I've heard it goes like this: British person applies for US citizenship. He has to "renounce" his British citizenship and hand over his British passport to the US

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