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by grkvlt 10y ago
It's pretty much always been the case that a married woman would wear both her engagement and wedding ring? There's even long-standing etiquette about the order in which they should be placed on the finger - engagement first, I be
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by grkvlt 10y ago
Being white and male is pretty awesome, though, so maybe it's better not to get the rest of the human race jealous? /s Seriously, people seem to make the mistake of assuming that because we need to change the fact that the corpo
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by grkvlt 10y ago
Well, I'm over forty, and I think this sort of thing is awesome, and very useful. I love being able to see where I was on a business trip, work out where that interesting shop I stopped at but forgot to write down the name of was or se
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by grkvlt 10y ago
Wouldn't they strike zero, for 00h00 since there's no 24h00 after 23h59.59? Which, admittedly, would be rediculous ;)
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by grkvlt 10y ago
And remember he's also still called 'President Clinton' as an honorary title; as are all former presidents. So, they would be addressed as 'President and President Clinton' if Hillary won!
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by grkvlt 10y ago
Yes, and in fact, for that (radio telescope data) case, there is a pretty obvious null 'key' you can hand over - or rather, load the data file into JodrellBank.exe and show them what it is. If, on the other hand, you have been try
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by grkvlt 10y ago
This is exactly what TrueCrypt does, with its 'hidden' [1] volumes! 1. http://forensicswiki.org/wiki/TrueCrypt#Hidden_volumes
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by grkvlt 10y ago
Not necessarily, you're overthinking this. It's just what anyone with basic vernacular knowledge of English but no actual Russian language skills would do to generate 'pseudo-Russian'. It's a pretty common idiom to
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by grkvlt 10y ago
Agree. I've done several of these, for example I worked as a contractor at an investment bank where the team I was on developed the Apache Qpid message broker. This was full-time work on an ASF project, and how I got my first commit bi
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by grkvlt 10y ago
> etalon: a device consisting of two reflecting glass plates, employed for measuring small differences in the wavelength of light using the interference it produces. Is this used in a DSLR? I know they use phase sensors for autofocus, bu
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by grkvlt 10y ago
Isn't it Scott Alexander (note the almost anagram) that blogs there?
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by grkvlt 10y ago
I believe Airbus is partnering with a startup that is working on a supersonic biz-jet called the Aerion. This probably makes more commercial sense than a large transport - people already willing to spend USD 100 million on a jet will spend
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by grkvlt 10y ago
The noise on takeoff was insane. In another aircraft on the taxiway (sadly the closest I every got) at Heathrow you could barely hear your own engines, or even those of nearby 747s taking off, but when Concorde fired up the reheat and went
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by grkvlt 10y ago
I was always fond of the Jupiter Ace [1] which was a Sinclair ZX-81 clone made in the UK in the early 80s. It had FORTH in ROM as the system language and operating system/interface, rather than BASIC. > ACE's Forth was based mo
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by grkvlt 10y ago
Yes, but with my super-rover-transporter system, we can cover 5,400 miles in the same time, with the 600 rovers. I'm envisaging a sort of airbag deployment system (like pathfinder) coupled with a dispenser system that fires a rover ou
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by grkvlt 10y ago
Even then, we can still send rovers more cost effectively than people! You can throw away the life support mechanisms, and so on, and get 550 tons of pure mars rover in your interplanetary transport. At ~800kg for a curiosity-level rover th
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by grkvlt 10y ago
Any mechanism that can propel a starship to 0.13c is going to make your day unpleasant if it is pointed at things you have a particular fondness for. Favourite pets, cities, aircraft carriers, that sort of thing.
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by grkvlt 10y ago
It's a standard research technique for me - find a useful query and go through N pages (2 < N < 20) opening links that look interesting in background tabs, then review the tabs for useful content. I had actually forgotten about G
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by grkvlt 10y ago
Yeah, I found that, too. Sad... It seems to be what happens with any Google search that returns millions of pages; I think the total is an estimate, and they don't actually compute all the results, to save CPU or something? Maybe u
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by grkvlt 10y ago
That query searches for files of type PDF that contain the text "allinurl:.pdf" because 'allinurl' appears not to work any more. The following query, however, generates 1,410 million results, all of which appear to be PD
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by grkvlt 10y ago
Commercial satellite imagery is available at 0.25m resolution these days, so assuming an order of magnitude better that gives around 2.5cm resolving power, or one inch. I think I've heard about 5cm quoted somewhere, as well. So, maybe
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by grkvlt 10y ago
An interesting peak in the '7XX' subset is '768' which is an important number for muslims. [1] I also noticed mild peaks at '258' and '852' which are vertical sequences on a numeric keypad - in the 4-
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by grkvlt 10y ago
I'm sure I've also read about this, but can't find any links at the moment. The art of Maskirovka [1] (deception and camouflage) is still part of Russian military doctrine. Interestingly, the US also does something similar wi
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by grkvlt 10y ago
It's known as industrial or scientific archaeology [1] and is a fascinating area of study. I found a good book on it, called 'Industrial Archaeology: Future Directions' [2] which most university libraries should have. [1] ht
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by grkvlt 10y ago
Also interesting are the resolution targets, using sets of black and white bars at varying widths in both X any X orientation, to determine the spatial resolution i.e. how high frequency a component could still be imaged separately as lines
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by grkvlt 10y ago
Oops. Never mind, then.
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by grkvlt 10y ago
No, they were unaware that there was an exploding phone, let alone a Samsung exploding phone. It surprised me, as some of them were pretty technically literate.
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by grkvlt 10y ago
> This has done untold damage to their brand in the eyes of the average consumer You'd be surprised about how much of the general public even knows that there is a type of Samsung phone that can spontaneously combust, and the prop
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by grkvlt 10y ago
Masterful, indeed, and with some absolutely inspired turns of phrase in there. However, seeing the list of literary acknowledgments at the end, I have to wonder if there is more plagiarism that poetry happening here. Well, no matter; I part
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by grkvlt 10y ago
> Iran has invaded which countries in the last 2000 years Iraq?

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