chrisau

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by chrisau 7y ago
Ignoring the century in the year, I love the coincidence that this question was first asked in the year '54 and in "Hitchhiker's", it's said that 6x9 and 42 are the same. In fact they are if 6x9 is base 10 (6x9=54),
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by chrisau 7y ago
> I am interested to learn more about how they solved it if not brute force. "Professors Booker and Sutherland's solution for 42 would be found by using Charity Engine; a 'worldwide computer' that harnesses idle, unus
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by chrisau 10y ago
What a wretched year! Bowie, Rickman, Prince and now Shakespeare too?! Say it ain't so. Taken too soon. RIP.
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by chrisau 11y ago
Assholes. Getting sick of big companies buying great small products, and shutting them down after "trying" to make them work out. Still hadn't had time to get over MS killing Sunrise, and now this.
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by chrisau 11y ago
Why since 2005, are things the wrong way around? Increases in temperature match with increases in ice levels??!! e.g. 2005 to 2007 saw a 0.09 decrease in temperature above norm, and a 1.16million km2 decrease in ice? Then as the temperature
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by chrisau 12y ago
Love this line: "Somehow, the microcomputer industry has assumed that everyone would love to have a keyboard grafted on as an extension of their fingers. It just is not so." Obviously it wasn't then, but we've certainly
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by chrisau 12y ago
Incredible that this research from 60 years ago explains much of our current weather events. The Article ice shrinks, northern North America gets more snow. It also explains why both global warming and impending ice age are linked. This doe
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by chrisau 12y ago
Death finally catches Rincewind. R.I.P. Greatly missed
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by chrisau 12y ago
One thing confuses me. Why are parents of vaccinated kids so terrified of unvaccinated kids?? Does vaccination work or not? If my kids are vaccinated, doesn't that mean they won't catch the disease if they encounter it? Or, at the