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by mnw21cam 3y ago
In https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dracula_(2020_TV_series) the writers decided to basically write religion out of the Dracula story, and made it that he is afraid of sunlight, and the only reason he cowers from the big
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by mnw21cam 3y ago
I'll add to the chorus of other responses that the whole computer is generally unreliable. However, the really useful thing that this software could do is make the error message much better - explaining the likely thing that is causi
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by mnw21cam 3y ago
Did he create the PDF in LaTeX?
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That is exactly the complaint I got about my word-document-with-page-images. The recruiter couldn't work out how to edit it. I saw the CV they actually ended up sending to one of the workplaces I interviewed at. They had retyped it, an
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by mnw21cam 3y ago
I had the same with OpenOffice (before LibreOffice was a thing). I created a nice document while logged in remotely to a Linux computer over Xvnc. When I opened it on the native terminal, the layout was different. Same computer, same versio
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by mnw21cam 3y ago
If you're rendering to DVI, it's explicitly defined as a bug if it doesn't compile to exactly the same pixel-perfect output as a previous version.
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by mnw21cam 3y ago
Good luck uploading your CV in PDF. I tried that a few times and got moaned at a load that my CV must be in Word format. In the end I converted the PDF into images, and created a Word document in OpenOffice (this was a while ago) with o
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by mnw21cam 3y ago
You remove the ground it is standing on, and it stops being a blocker.
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They're a competitor.
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You could certainly build an ultralight cube with a very small weight in one corner and a helium balloon in the opposite corner, and get it to stand up on its point, at least until the helium leaks out.
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by mnw21cam 3y ago
That's not mentioned in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Honeycrisp or anywhere else I can find.
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What you have just said about the Honeycrisp apple is true about all apples. That's how apple varieties have been created since the dawn of time. There's nothing special about Honeycrisp - they basically tried planting loads of
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by mnw21cam 3y ago
Yes. The atmosphere is completely wrong. Ignore that and the rest is pretty good. As for recommendations, I'd say loads of the books by Arthur C. Clarke. Try "A fall of moondust".
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by mnw21cam 3y ago
The problem with markdown is that if you want to convert it to a formatted set of pages, the output will differ based on the version of your markdown converter. Similarly for HTML and also for plaintext to an extent. A PDF should remain e
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by mnw21cam 3y ago
Not necessarily. It can also be done with buoyancy. A hot air balloon just before it takes off is effectively "balanced" on its basket and does so because the bit at the top is positively buoyant. You can also get toys that stand
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by mnw21cam 3y ago
> ...restaurants giving you a glass of water with your meal... Seriously? The average person in the westernised world probably uses something between 100 to 400 litres of water for washing and flushing per day, personal use actually in
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by mnw21cam 3y ago
This is also probably part of the reason why sleep specialists say you should set aside your bedroom for nothing but sleeping and sex. I think walking through a doorway loads the context of the new room into your brain, so you forget the st
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And you can override that default by giving the -I <size> option to mkfs.ext4, so you could make a filesystem with 128-byte inodes, and it would require about half the amount of disc space.
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by mnw21cam 3y ago
The difference is that 1000kg of lead costs ~US$2000, and lasts forever, but 1000kg of lead-acid batteries costs ~US$9000, but only lasts for 10 years.
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by mnw21cam 3y ago
I agree with most of the article, but I'll argue that there are some genes that do have a 1:1 relationship with diseases. I work investigating them. There's a spectrum of genetic variants. Most (like 99% might be an underestimate)
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by mnw21cam 3y ago
Agreed. It's absolutely appropriate for all of those tentative words to be used in this paper. It's raising a very interesting and potentially very important notion, and that is the merit of the paper. Sometimes the merit of a pap
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by mnw21cam 3y ago
> As long as the government can keep a private key secure... Which government? Software crosses borders. You can bet that if the US mandated a back door to be inserted into software that was being exported to another country, that countr
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It also forms a large part of the Perrin Technique which aims to treat chronic fatigue syndrome (AKA CFS/ME). https://me-pedia.org/wiki/The_Perrin_Technique
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by mnw21cam 3y ago
The difficult part of the UK driving test is doing exactly that modelling loop. I agree with you. It's not about responding to an emergency - yes the loop would be too slow for that. It's about foreseeing the emergency before it h
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by mnw21cam 3y ago
At least Tolkien actually had a few pages dedicated to the food and villagers being brought into Minas Tirith in preparation for the war.
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I would like to discourage the use of the word "billion". It means different things to different people. For reference, this title uses it to mean 10^9, but it can also mean 10^12. The official word for 10^9 is milliard, but hardl
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Yeah, my first thought when I saw the headline was metafont, and also that's so last century. Metafont was first released in 1979. Anyone who has written a document using LaTeX with its default font has used a variable font.
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by mnw21cam 3y ago
The record is 392 days. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angus_Barbieri%27s_fast
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I quite like Neil deGrasse Tyson's take on this. In science, we usually let the person that invented something name it. The Christian church invented the current calendar, therefore we should accept the name they gave it.
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I fell off my bike today. As I was wheeling it off the road and onto the pavement, someone in a passing car rolled down the window and asked if I was alright. My answer was "Ask me in ten minutes". And yes, ten minutes later I was

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