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by grkvlt 8y ago
> When authors today again consider Titantic to be "unthinkable", what does it mean? That the thip wath not going to think, same ath in the patht?
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by grkvlt 8y ago
What if you murder someone that everybody hates, and who in turn hated everybody?
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by grkvlt 8y ago
dvi files are about as user hostile as it gets for a rendered document format, though
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by grkvlt 8y ago
So, essentially, the pull request process is useless. In fact, even changing a typo could be seen as a substantive change since it may not always be 100% clear what the correct change is. For example, in the Colored Object Restrictions Act
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by grkvlt 8y ago
> Wouldn't it be better to simply motivate the cat to get in the carrier with a can of tuna fish? One does not simply motivate a cat with a can of tuna fish. I mean, have you even owned a cat? If the little bastard doesn't want
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by grkvlt 8y ago
Looking at the wiki page, it seems the population on the island is decreasing. Hopefully they will either all die, thus relieving us of the ethical dilemma, or India will come to its senses and stop the abuse of these poor people and actual
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by grkvlt 8y ago
Because they want a DVCS that has less characters in its name, to save on typing? Mercurial [0] is a fairly popular choice these days, I believe, and uses 'hg' as its command line tool. 0. https://www.mercurial-scm.org&
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by grkvlt 8y ago
From that wiki page, we have: > According to Meyers Enzyklopädisches Lexikon, Central Europe is a part of Europe composed of Austria, Belgium, [...] as well as northeastern France. and: > Nevertheless, [Benelux countries] are occasion
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by grkvlt 8y ago
That USD 4500 for two is nonsense. In the UK, they are GBP 15.30 each, according to this report: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S109830151...
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by grkvlt 8y ago
Also interested to see how this solves the 'hate and harassment' problem. Will the USD 5.00 fees cover things like background checks for extreme viewpoints, handle verifying real identities to check against blacklists, and pay for
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by grkvlt 8y ago
What do pennies (or pence) have to do with imperial units? A penny is exactly 1/100 of one pound sterling or GBP 0.01, which is a nice metric style power of ten division of the larger unit. If you want monetary units more congruent wit
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by grkvlt 8y ago
The compute platform overview pages [0] list all the HPC systems at LLNL. It's an incredible list, with a huge amount of TFLOPS, GBs, CPU and GPU cores available. The systems range from small 50 TFLOP, 20 node Xeon CPU Linux clusters
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by grkvlt 8y ago
So, Lassen looks to be a 'mini Sierra' with ~20% performance but can be used for unclassified jobs, whereas Sierra is only for classified work, right?
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by grkvlt 8y ago
Spiral binding is the solution, but it looks ugly, there is no spine area anymore and the pages rip out more easily. Good for technical manuals, less so for fiction. I do actually have a few 'publishers proof manuscript' (presumab
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by grkvlt 8y ago
Wow, your very own 'Flipback' copy of Cloud Atlas can be had for just over GBP 200 [0] according to Amazon! Are they that rare? Hopefully you kept your copy in good condition - eBay awaits... 0. https://www.amazon.co.uk
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by grkvlt 8y ago
I believe the problem is that the octopuses (or cuttlefish, same problem) slowly produce less and less fertile percentage of eggs. So, first year 100%, then 50%, 20%, 5% then all sterile after five years, that sort of thing. And so far nobo
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by grkvlt 8y ago
Isn't the plural octopodes ?
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by grkvlt 8y ago
So, not for science based reasons then.
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by grkvlt 8y ago
> voluntarily switch to a low-carbon, low-oil, low-net water use, low-net-material use economy What about this is not hugely disruptive to lifestyles and standards of living? Its hardly an 'easy' solution to tell people to gi
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by grkvlt 8y ago
Just out of interest, what solutions did you discover that fit those criteria - no large disruption to most peoples lives, but suppressed by industries that stand to lose money? I think the problem is usually more that solutions require bo
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by grkvlt 8y ago
Not sure that the artist which produced the image (An artist's concept of quantum entanglement between two atoms) has really understood what quantum entanglement is... I'm pretty sure it's not a sort of lightning bolt/
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by grkvlt 8y ago
No. As I understand it, it is exactly that - the Hawking radiation is how the information escapes. EDIT - See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_hole_information_paradox for more details, and note that I may well be
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by grkvlt 8y ago
How does this work in practice, since I can imagine a situation where using the local air pressure value, altitude is measured at 18k feet - then, switching to the standard setting of 29.92, it turns out that this converts to an altitude of
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by grkvlt 8y ago
the bodies depicted in such images are not capable of caring about how they are treated anymore, though. i agree that often relatives get upset about images of their loved ones bodies being used in newspapers or tv, but sometimes the journa
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by grkvlt 8y ago
If your worst border crossing experience ever is being sent to the back of a queue to fill in a form again, then i suspect you have no idea of what an actual bad immigration or customs interaction might involve.
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by grkvlt 8y ago
FYI, you misunderstand my point. I have no issue with cannabis or cannabis usage, and absolutely agree that the way the 'war on drugs' has been prosecuted is wrong. But this has nothing to do with the fact that cannabis is a plant
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by grkvlt 8y ago
The whole 'But marijuana is a PLANT, it's part of NATURE, man!' argument is specious. Just because it's a plant doesn't mean it's all great and should be legal. There are plenty of poisonous plants, which if yo
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by grkvlt 8y ago
I've heard various 'arguments' that the US is not a democracy, but not based on the fact that one person-one vote is untrue; what do you mean by this? Is it something to do with the electoral college system, or perhaps the la
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by grkvlt 8y ago
By leveraging the fact that one is a UK citizen, and applying to SIS or GCHQ, I assume? Most other countries perform in-depth background checks, rather than relying on pseudo-science, when it comes to matters of national security.
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by grkvlt 8y ago
Note that on many land-lines this will fail, as the calling party simply does not hang up, waits for silence on the line, then plays dial-tone down it. When you pick up again, it seems like you are connected to the exchange, but when they h

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