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   by litoE 4y ago

   I don't understand the purpose of dumping fuel on the drone. Were the expecting to kill its motor? Go out of control and crash? Catch fire?
2. 182.▲
   by litoE 4y ago

   I don't understand what was the purpose of dumping fuel over the drone. Were they expecting it to catch fire?
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   by litoE 4y ago

   The only thing I miss in my Miele dishwasher is some indicator of whether the dishes inside are clean or dirty. Many a time my spouse will run the dishwasher overnight and in the morning I will, unknowingly, add my dirty breakfast dishes an
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   by litoE 4y ago

   There's the story that when Abe Lincoln was challenged to a duel, he responded with his choice of weapons: cow dung at 10 paces. Needless to say, the duel never took place.
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   by litoE 4y ago

   I find the contortions needed to do binary too difficult. Instead, I use base 6: on one hand I count from 0 to 5 the usual way. On the other hand I also count from 0 to 6, but each unit there represents 6.That way I can count to 35 using tw
6. 186.▲
   by litoE 4y ago

   But isn't that just a bad implementation in libc, rather than a problem with C itself? It should be trivial to rewrite isxdigit() copying rust's algorithm in C.
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   by litoE 4y ago

   I couldn't figure out from the video at what stage and how is the liquid and the carbonation placed inside. I assume it must be just before putting the lid on, but I don't see how the lid is put on if the contents are generating o
8. 188.▲
   by litoE 4y ago

   You never ship on Friday because, to a programmer, a weekend is an infinite amount of time.
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   by litoE 4y ago

   A friend needed surgery on his left knee. The day of the operation, he used a felt pen to write "THE OTHER KNEE" on his right knee.
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    by litoE 4y ago

    I visited it in June 1964 as a high school senior. I don't remember much because there was this girl in our class that commanded all my attention at the time. I struck out on the girl and missed the garden.
11. 191.▲
    by litoE 4y ago

    Backups. All my Linux computers back themselves up every night to the server. The server itself mounts the Windows PCs disks and backs those up. I use dirvish to do the backups.
12. 192.▲
    by litoE 4y ago

    https://wunderground.com
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    by litoE 4y ago

    A dog's normal body temperature is not 37°C. Its 38-39°C
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    by litoE 4y ago

    I wonder why they hold separate mens and womens competitions.
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    by litoE 4y ago

    I don't get the whole stiffness argument. If the frame is not stiff then some of my energy goes into flexing the frame back and forth as I pedal, and eventually gets wasted as heat. This is bad if I'm into some sort of competitive
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    by litoE 4y ago

    My Toshiba TV has that feature built-in - they call it "TruVolume". It detects sudden increases in the program's volume, and adjusts accordingly. You can turn the feature on or off. I think it may also turn the volume up whe
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    by litoE 4y ago

    I remember as a kid reading a contemporaneous article on his jumps in National Geographic Magazine.
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    by litoE 4y ago

    All my backups go, via rsync, to a dedicated backup server running Linux with a large hard disk. But I still lose sleep: what if someone hacks into my home network and encrypts the file systems, including the backup server? Other than tak
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    by litoE 4y ago

    I don't understand why it needs the pawn at h3. Remove the black pawn at h3 and you get a mate in two with 6 black pawns rather than 7. Or place the black pawn at h2 instead of h3, and you get a mate in one move with 7 black pawns.
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    by litoE 4y ago

    Not quite. For a Markov probability matrix, 1 is always an eigenvalue, and all other eigenvalues are less than or equal to 1. For each eigenvalue that is equal to 1 you get a long term stable state probability. These distributions contain
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    UCLA's Leonard Kleinrock displays Internet's first router(youtube.com)

    5 points by litoE 4y ago|0 comments
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    by litoE 4y ago

    There's omxplayer as a command line video player for the Raspberry Pi.
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    by litoE 4y ago

    In Los Angeles the really expensive neighborhoods like Bel-Air, Holmby Hills and the hillside portions of Beverly Hills don't have sidewalks either.
24. 204.▲
    by litoE 4y ago

    Doesn't anyone proofread before publishing anymore? "... he went digging and discovered the EXPECTED load of cash."
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    by litoE 4y ago

    I live in a 42 story building. One of my neighbors has over 25,000 photographs of "defects" she has found in the building over the past 8 years.
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    by litoE 4y ago

    For comparison, the watch is the same thickness as a US quarter dollar coin.
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    by litoE 4y ago

    I remember reading about a company that installed condom vending machines in the women's bathroom at truck stops around the country. They found out that they never received a complaint when the machine took someone's money and did
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    by litoE 4y ago

    This raises a question: if the Russians were as incompetent in the military operations of this war as they seem to have been, then wouldn't it be safe to assume that they were just as incompetent in their cyber-operations so that any l
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    by litoE 4y ago

    I remember having lunch at the JPL cafeteria and watching a TV monitor showing pictures of Jupiter being beamed down by Voyager. Exciting times.
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    by litoE 4y ago

    I've used htp ( https://sourceforge.net/projects/htp/ ) to manage what are essentially HTML-only web sites. It provides the ability to use "include" files and macros, which allow me to give all the pa