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by grkvlt 10y ago
You spoiled your point with the hyperbole in the last sentence. The reason you know about the one or two instances of cops being called because a ten year old is walking on their own is because it is rare and hence newsworthy. It certainl
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by grkvlt 10y ago
Sadly I don't think that's true. A first year CS undergraduate would not be writing code that triggered a compiler bug, the real problem was most likely your code. I suspect you had an error in your program, an off-by-one or other
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by grkvlt 10y ago
Wow. I don't think the EOMA68 author is really the sort of person you want in charge of an open standard. They also seem somewhat conflicted, beyond WP:COI, for example, regarding patents he says: > i'm a SOFTWARE LIBRE DEVELOP
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by grkvlt 10y ago
Just FYI, I had to do the following: $ gem install istats ERROR: Could not find a valid gem 'istats' (>= 0) in any repository ERROR: Possible alternatives: iStats $ gem install iStats Fetching: sparkr-0.
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by grkvlt 10y ago
> Indeed cats have flashing lights to use when they're causing a hazard Just spent a minute imagining my cat with his eyes brightly blinking on and off just before he jumps onto my cluttered desk and knocks things over, or starts ru
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by grkvlt 10y ago
no, the static fire is a day or so before the launch. in this case, the payload was integrated, and for a manned mission the dragon 2 capsule would be mated, but no crew/astronauts present yet.
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by grkvlt 10y ago
FYI, they are called 'garden path sentences' - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garden_path_sentence
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by grkvlt 10y ago
Of course they are. If you are in that situation, then the patient would die (asphyxiate, probably, since they cannot breathe) without help. The doctor _tried_ to help, in non-optimal circumstances, so as long as the mistake was not intenti
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by grkvlt 10y ago
The thing is, there's a lot of gas, which like any other matter, has mass. So, even though a hydrogen atom is the lightest element possible, and we think of hydrogen gas a being light, that's just relative to other things. At a
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by grkvlt 10y ago
Banning foreign non-residential ownership is insane! You apparently want to live in a world where people are not allowed to buy a holiday cottage in France? Or prevent people from buying a city pied-a-terre and a country house? If I have th
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by grkvlt 10y ago
The payload is mated early to save time by speeding up the launch schedule [1] so a mock payload would have the opposite effect - it would need mated and then removed after the test fire. [1] https://twitter.com/pbdes/s
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by grkvlt 10y ago
I used to lament the loss of access to journals when our company moved out of its offices in the University, where we were on the UK academic network JANET. However, I then discovered that as a graduate of the University of Edinburgh I had
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by grkvlt 10y ago
> speed past the center What caused these particles to accelerate up to the speeds they are at in the first place, then? Something must be interacting with them quite significantly if they have non-zero velocity?
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by grkvlt 10y ago
oops; i skimmed the start only - my bad...
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by grkvlt 10y ago
> Susan Finley. After 46 successful years at NASA, they demoted her - because she didn't have a bachelor's degree This is rather disingenuous. According to an article in the NYT [1] she just had her job title changed in 2004, f
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by grkvlt 10y ago
The URL should have 'www' in it, as follows: http://www.muddywatersresearch.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/0...
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by grkvlt 10y ago
The title should be changed: it is actually a reference to the Red Queen theory, the idea based on the conversation in Alice Through the Looking Glass, where the Red Queen explains 'Here you must run as fast as you can just to stay i
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by grkvlt 10y ago
Well, technically you are just changing the amount of your existing bid. This is not really a useful distinction for eBay on its own, but is when looking at other auctions where number of bids has an effect on the result.
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by grkvlt 10y ago
Leaving in algebraic form means you aren't finding a solution, but can see that, e.g. with '3x = 2y/12z' increasing z will decrease x, but increasing y will increase x. So you know the trends for the variables, and which
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by grkvlt 10y ago
And paste for tasks requiring the opposite of cut, then there's tr, the lightweight sed. And jq for structured queries on JSON. But, all these are built in to poweshell, essentially.
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by grkvlt 10y ago
> a MimbleWimble based sidechain OK, now you're just making up words...
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by grkvlt 10y ago
The precision is in cm, so HORIZ PRE will be 5e8 or 500000000cm = 5000km and VERT PRE is more likely to be around 1e5 or 100000cm = 1km although I'm not sure about this value - maybe 5km or 5e5 would better account for the height varia
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by grkvlt 10y ago
> "expressed as a pair of four-bit unsigned integers, each ranging from zero to nine, with the most significant four bits representing the base and the second number representing the power of ten by which to multiply the base. [...]
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by grkvlt 10y ago
He did say "or the GPS position for the North Pole" though, as well as (0,0)
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by grkvlt 10y ago
> Would they all have their access revoked? Yes, I imagine they would. They would also probably be taken to court for breach of contract, and the courts would fine them a substantial amount. I would certainly hope that this would be the
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by grkvlt 10y ago
Yes, note that even the amateur astronomer didn't know he had captured the footage until ten days later when he looked at it!
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by grkvlt 10y ago
How do you compensate them? Based on the compensation of the attorneys, maybe, but which side - the low-paid public prosecutor or the high-powered defence attorney? If you raise compensation to a high level, then jury duty becomes attractiv
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by grkvlt 10y ago
It's my understanding that occasional sleep paralysis is actually pretty common. Chronic occurrences are more rare, and would be characterised as a disorder, like the parent comment suggests.
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by grkvlt 10y ago
No, it's not that everyone on the sites have stories about ball lightning, or sleep paralysis, rather that everyone who comments with a story is reporting an experience with the subject of the article, ball lightning here, sleep pa
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by grkvlt 10y ago
Not sure. The lesson for others that was being promoted by his behaviour was certainly bad: "That you do not need to work hard, you only need to be gifted and smart and you can go by." Now, it's not really his fault that he

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