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by bloak 5y ago
My guess is that Putin moved all the troops in the hope that he could extract some kind of concessions from NATO and Ukraine without going to war. What concessions would have satisfied him is unclear. According to one German general somethi
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by bloak 5y ago
So this is the definitive proof that Jeanne Calment is a fake!
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by bloak 5y ago
Were there withdrawal symptoms in your case? If so, what were they? Years ago I read that withdrawal symptoms are an essential part of the definition of addiction, but probably "addiction" has become a somewhat broader concept sin
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by bloak 5y ago
What I've heard is that photography of a painting is considered to be a form of reproduction and not the creation of a new work. It might be different if you were to photograph the painting from a funny angle with a shadow falling acro
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by bloak 5y ago
Ah, yes, I can see it now, but that option is almost invisible for me. I have to operate some scroll buttons at the edge to see the words "ASCII Extended".
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by bloak 5y ago
EDIT: Deleted before I get even more downvotes.
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by bloak 5y ago
You can set your own default for new repositories: (circular picture in top right corner) -> Settings -> (about half way down on the left) Repositories -> (top of page) Repository default branch I don't know whether changing t
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by bloak 5y ago
And a fun thing about the UK flag is that you are allowed to make it in different aspect ratios, but you can't just naively scale it: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Union_Jack#Specification I don't know whethe
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by bloak 5y ago
As I understand it, there is no two-letter ISO code for the USSR because when they update the standard they remove countries that no longer exist. In at least one case they have reused a code point: CS has been both "Czechoslovakia&quo
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by bloak 5y ago
I initially thought it's just like Mastermind, but with Mastermind you are not told which colours (corresponding to letters) are right: you are just told there is one right in the right place and two right in the wrong places, for exam
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by bloak 5y ago
BBC television programmes used to give the year in Roman numerals, in the copyright notice, I think. It has been suggested that this was to make it harder for people to notice how old the programme was. The same technique wouldn't work
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by bloak 5y ago
None of what you mentioned sounds particularly onerous. Just don't ask for personal data and advise users not to post it. Let people delete their own posts and have a way for an administrator to delete a post if it might in some way be
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by bloak 5y ago
Yes, it would be "tied to extremely expensive infrastructure" ... that already exists. So no additional cost.
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‘Virtual reality is genuine reality’ so embrace it, says US philosopher(theguardian.com)
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by bloak 5y ago
The article says they have been "charged".
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by bloak 5y ago
Are you really talking about lice, or do you mean bedbugs? If you mean lice, do you mean head lice, body lice, or pubic lice?
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by bloak 5y ago
Here's something that might apply in some cases: a group of writers might well be capable of producing a better fiction book than a single writer but probably the process would be less efficient: with all the discussions, three writers
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by bloak 5y ago
Yes, but it was St Paul, not Jesus, who created Christianity as we know it.
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by bloak 5y ago
I think there are two separate things here: * database rights, which are similar to but distinct from copyright; in particular they last for only 15 years; * copyright in a particular collection of public-domain things. Case C-304/07 D
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by bloak 5y ago
If she survives another 96 days, and I wish her luck, on April 10 she will become the second-oldest documented person in history, or the oldest, if you reject Jeanne Calment's claim. I hope I calculated that correctly (ignoring time zo
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by bloak 5y ago
Compound nouns in English are usually formed with the first element being a noun or an adjective, not a verb, so the natural way to understand "blocklist" is as a list of blocks, like something you'd find in a file system, or
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by bloak 5y ago
Were you aware that the "t" in "often" is traditionally not pronounced? (On the one hand it's a very common word, so someone learning English as a foreign language might have been taught the "correct" pron
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by bloak 5y ago
> What is a "racialized" teacher? The meaning seems to be "belonging to a racial minority", and that sense of the word seems to be specific to Canadian English because when I search for "racialized X", for v
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by bloak 5y ago
That is not a correct paraphrase of what chenzhekl wrote. Perhaps there is a rule that prevents someone in China from implementing any algorithm they want to implement with any number of bits they want to use, but that rule would hardly be
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by bloak 5y ago
I've always found it somehow ironic that a human can correctly recognise printed characters even if parts of them are missing and the word is misspelt or in a language the human does not know at all, but computers have to resort to lan
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by bloak 5y ago
I think in astronomy they generate tens of terabytes per night and an experiment may involve automatically searching through the data for instances of something rare, like one star almost exactly behind another star, or an imminent supernov
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by bloak 5y ago
Also, a large proportion of the world's population may be your sibling-in-law ( https://xkcd.com/2040/ ).
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by bloak 5y ago
I think lots of countries have changed their pension rules in a way that treats people born after a certain date differently from people born before a certain date, whether or not they express it in those terms. Is that fundamentally any di
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by bloak 5y ago
That's Craig Yeah Wright, as he was referred to in TheRegister.
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by bloak 5y ago
Analogue CRT television sets emitted some distinctive signals, I think, like the horizontal scan rate of about 15 kHz: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horizontal_scan_rate That's hardly relevant today, of course.

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