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by jfk13 3y ago
Well, you can read it ("MINUS ONE") on the front of the house if you zoom in on the StreetView photo. And the Royal Mail recognises it (try pasting "minus one, clacton" into https://www.royalmail.com/find
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by jfk13 3y ago
Yes, π⁵ ≈ 306, while 2⋅π⁴ ≈ 195. So pi^five clearly beats two pi^four. Three pi^4 would be close, though. If only we could just define pi as a nice simple integer...
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US issues first ever fine for space junk to Dish Network(bbc.co.uk)
2 points by jfk13 3y ago|0 comments
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by jfk13 3y ago
Very much so. Midnight's Children was the first thing that sprang to mind, as soon as I saw the title! (See also https://books.openedition.org/pufr/3813?lang=en "Midnight's Children or the Pickles of H
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by jfk13 3y ago
According to a quick Google search, > On average, about 35 g of salt is present in each 1 kg of seawater so if those 700 billion kg of water for LA all came from desalination, that would yield 24.5 billion kg of salt. That suggests we co
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by jfk13 3y ago
I guess it's no more insensitive than writing a book titled "The ___ Bible" (for your choice of language or topic... there are plenty of examples).
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by jfk13 3y ago
I suspect that if you distributed emergency supplies ahead of time, some people would treat it as a convenient handout and simply consume them. And even aside from the temptation to use the supplies, not everyone would be able to find a pla
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by jfk13 3y ago
This sounds uncomfortably like a call for more of the consolidation and industrialisation of farming, in the name of efficiency, that has been devastating to our environment.
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by jfk13 3y ago
Yes, indeed. If I read a history book about Charles Darwin, I'm generally aware that I am reading a particular author's portrayal of the man, his life and his times -- and that there are other books about him that may give a diffe
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by jfk13 3y ago
> with any historical figure Don't you mean "with a fictional representation of a historical figure"?
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by jfk13 3y ago
> Website Publishing: Create a Web Project to add any font from our service to your website It doesn't say "...add any font from our service to websites for your clients ", though.
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by jfk13 3y ago
> everybody else used CRLF pair to indicate a linebreak Almost everybody... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newline#Representation mentions a couple that apparently used LFCR.
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by jfk13 3y ago
I believe Firefox blocks them by default. See https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/third-party-cookies-fir...
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by jfk13 3y ago
Sad that they didn't make the soft landing. Let's hope India's attempt succeeds! Still, I love the phrasing of the Roscosmos quote: > "The apparatus moved into an unpredictable orbit and ceased to exist as a result of
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Russia's Luna-25 spacecraft crashes into moon(bbc.co.uk)
22 points by jfk13 3y ago|9 comments
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by jfk13 3y ago
On the other hand, assuming it's OK to ignore the special edge cases (or not even thinking of them) can come back to bite you (or your users) when eventually one of them does show up in a situation you didn't anticipate.
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by jfk13 3y ago
Found a job locally? Where are you going to live? From wikipedia: > Almost all housing is owned by the various employers and institutions and rented to their employees; there are only a few privately owned houses, most of which are recre
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by jfk13 3y ago
Indeed, some pushers were used early in WW1; e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_Aircraft_Factory_F.E.2 But as you say, the puller turned out to be superior.
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by jfk13 3y ago
HTML+CSS, converted to PDF via the Save As PDF feature in Firefox. (Or the same could be done with other browsers, but this one apparently comes from FF.)
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by jfk13 3y ago
Irrelevant. Collecting telemetry such as Mozilla does isn't remotely like having remote root access to people's phones.
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by jfk13 3y ago
It's not remotely feasible to test more than a tiny fraction of the variety of devices, configurations, and sites that a product like Firefox is going to encounter in the real world.
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by jfk13 3y ago
You know perfectly well that's not what they meant.
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by jfk13 3y ago
> Firefox is unusable on Linux. Way too slow. That may be true for you, but not in general. Perhaps there's something about your system configuration that it doesn't handle well.
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X sign removed at Elon Musk's HQ after neighbours complain [video](bbc.co.uk)
5 points by jfk13 3y ago|2 comments
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by jfk13 3y ago
Only seems to work in Chrome (not Safari or Firefox).
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by jfk13 3y ago
Maybe it's just a personal thing; maybe it's partly about the translation you pick. But I remember reading Crime & Punishment back in my 20s (without any expectations or background knowledge), and I found it absolutely grippin
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by jfk13 3y ago
A minor correction: > Let's say we want to display the emoji for a brown man, “<brown man>”. There isn't a code point for that. Instead we use “<man> ZWJ <brown>”. (with the emoji replaced, as I expect HN woul
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Threads users down by more than a half(bbc.co.uk)
77 points by jfk13 3y ago|1 comments
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Twitter: Sign change paused as police arrive at San Francisco HQ [video](bbc.co.uk)
3 points by jfk13 3y ago|2 comments
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by jfk13 3y ago
The company is now known as "...er" :)

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