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by jfk13 6y ago
It happens: I was on an London - USA flight that detoured to Iceland some years ago. (Fortunately nothing was seriously broken, burning, etc., but there was a warning indication of some kind that the pilot wanted to have checked.) The view
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by jfk13 6y ago
At least it's unlikely to be that 777-200.
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by jfk13 6y ago
Although without display support the name "Windows" feels rather odd.
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by jfk13 6y ago
This isn't about the HiRISE picture. It is indeed a still from a video (that was apparently still in the process of being downloaded at the time this was posted).
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Mars landing: Photo shows Perseverance rover during landing(bbc.co.uk)
259 points by jfk13 6y ago|44 comments
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by jfk13 6y ago
My understanding is that the default behavior for location-targeted ads on FB is that they get shown both to users in the relevant location and to users who have said they are "interested" in it, even if their own location is
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by jfk13 6y ago
It's not a formal distinction, but in C++ code where all the ordinary comments use //, it can be handy to use /* ... */ to comment out a block. (Of course, if there's a stray /* ... */ comment already
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by jfk13 6y ago
What do you anticipate will happen if we make cyanobacteria "immune to their natural predator", leading to their unchecked proliferation...?
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by jfk13 6y ago
Sounds like you might enjoy Astronomy Picture of the Day. https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/astropix.html
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by jfk13 6y ago
> [TCC is] the base project that this one is derived from The relationship is actually the other way around, at least according to this page: "NOTE: My other project TinyCC which is a fully featured ISOC99 C compiler was written by
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by jfk13 6y ago
> Since the results of the regulatory tests and safety and efficacy validations can mostly be transferred for slight vaccine modifications Is that kinda like saying the 737-MAX wasn't really a new type of plane?
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by jfk13 6y ago
> high volatility makes active trading MUCH more profitable Or much more loss-making, depending how lucky you are.
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by jfk13 6y ago
Yes, I'm aware of Which? -- my parents used to get it when I was growing up. It was only ever able to cover a tiny part of the market for a few selected things, though. (And of course only a small minority of people would ever see it
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by jfk13 6y ago
Is this the same school board as recently indulged in an absurd school-renaming binge? https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2021/02/san-franci... [edit: Yes, apparently. Nice to see the insanity is
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by jfk13 6y ago
I wonder who'd fund that, and how we'd ensure independence?
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by jfk13 6y ago
Perhaps you could make your own out of scrap wood: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a19OpQfwB2w
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by jfk13 6y ago
Sounds like the embodiment of what's wrong with the US system of treating jobs like DA as elected posts.
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by jfk13 6y ago
> But it doesn't happen enough for it to be worth setting up an entire bureaucracy to prevent it But perhaps it would happen vastly more if that bureaucracy wasn't trying to prevent? I don't know, but I suspect there are
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by jfk13 6y ago
"A filter is a computer program or subroutine to process a stream, producing another stream." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Filter_(software)
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by jfk13 6y ago
> Google will be sent all of my browsing history No, the browser locally determines what cohort to assign you to (based on your browsing behavior, etc). Only the resulting cohort gets exposed to Google (or other advertisers). So they d
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by jfk13 6y ago
> and share so many common aspects between them For each original/exciting/intriguing story, whether it arose from a dream, hallucination, psychological trauma, deliberate invention, misinterpretation of natural (or artificial)
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by jfk13 6y ago
Bramley. Nothing more to be said.
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by jfk13 6y ago
Potatoes freshly dug from our garden are very different from what the discount grocery store sells.
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by jfk13 6y ago
Maybe there should be a way to see what the current value would be if you'd invested $1000, divided equally among all IPOs in a given year (or other time period). Anyone care to build it?
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by jfk13 6y ago
And to insist that "begging the question" refers to a specific logical fallacy is to ignore well-established present-day vernacular usage. In everyday discussion, pedantry rarely helps. In this case, it was pretty obvious what was
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by jfk13 6y ago
If certain media is "not worth your money", why do you feel you're entitled to enjoy it anyway?
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by jfk13 6y ago
> Ethical/lawful or not, I don't care. As they'd say on reddit, "username checks out". While I can sympathise with plenty of your points, this statement is a huge red flag regarding your general attitude to the w
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by jfk13 6y ago
Is it ethical to sell a paperback book and an ebook in 2021 and not provide a braille version, knowing that you're making it inaccessible to the blind?
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by jfk13 6y ago
Alternative point of view: they are a mitigation for the fact that many people cannot be trusted to behave sensibly (in terms of protecting society at large from this pandemic) if large numbers of people are out and about at night, and it i
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by jfk13 6y ago
I would have assumed "putter" (in this sense) is onomatopoeic, from the sound of a small engine running slowly. "Potter", OTOH, comes from a word for poking or prodding at the ground (hence appropriate for gardening). (I

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