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by pacaro 6y ago
There used to be (~20years ago) a catscan website where people posted images of their cats as taken with flatbed scanners (when those were a thing). It wasn't uncontroversial. One of my favorites was a color scan taken in multiple pass
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by pacaro 6y ago
Just reading a little more, the aforementioned guide was published in 1993, so that explains the black and white photographs somewhat.
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by pacaro 6y ago
Yeah the field identification guide cited [1] is better, although disappointingly monochrome [1] https://www.jstor.org/stable/25616219
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by pacaro 6y ago
On android I get popups that expect me to install something and/or enable notifications etc. On my desktop PC (windows) there were no issues
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by pacaro 6y ago
The download links for the models are trying to serve malware. Is anyone else having this problem?
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by pacaro 6y ago
This feels like a surprisingly obvious idea Printmakers sometimes float a layer of water on top of partially used ink to stop it polymerizing. I suspect that floating a layer of oil on top of wine might have some undesirable side effects
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by pacaro 6y ago
Apart from echoing other comments that this appears to be vaporware, it's also a little odd to use the sharp suffix on a language that doesn't target the CLR. I mean obviously Microsoft doesn't own the character, but after 20
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by pacaro 6y ago
European Rabbits are native to the iberian peninsula and southern France, they were introduced to the British Isles either by the Romans or the Normans. There's more information about this on the Wikipedia article https://en
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by pacaro 6y ago
I absolutely don't mean rural areas, I mean medium density urban communities with very low levels of street lighting, which is great from a light pollution perspective, but less good from a bootstrapping a charging infrastructure persp
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by pacaro 6y ago
Lynx are native to Scotland, I don't believe that rabbits are, they are usually considered to have been introduced by the Normans in the 12th century. According to the wikipedia article the lynx appears to have a pretty varied diet
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by pacaro 6y ago
While I agree that this is obvious low hanging fruit, there are plenty of housing in areas with relatively sparse street lamps
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by pacaro 6y ago
Older versions also used "cannot open" as the error message, leading to $ cat 'the can of toona' cat: cannot open: the can of toona
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by pacaro 6y ago
As in chard, but maybe we should all say it as in chardonnay
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by pacaro 6y ago
Ha! This is great. I would have loved to have had this insight when I worked on Midori, at one point there was an M# keyword shmutable (for shared mutable objects) and one objection was the concern (beyond the obvious objections to silly ke
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by pacaro 6y ago
I mostly hear the "cuttle" variant, but with the t/d ambiguity of a lot of american pronunciation it sounds more like "cuddle" to me, and I like that
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by pacaro 6y ago
This is one of those surprisingly useful and obvious things that I'm surprised not to have seen before. Knowledge of (including pronunciation) jargon is a classic gatekeeper In my experience, I'm in the minority in pronouncing sud
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by pacaro 6y ago
My understanding is that the right of way for the rail is significantly wider than needed for the tracks alone. I live near a rail line that was converted to a multi use trail and as part of the conversion process there had to be a decisio
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by pacaro 6y ago
Even better some of the early printers (e.g. IBM 1132) had a wheel for every character position, all on a common axle, so you told the printer which character you wanted, then set bit fields in memory for which positions to strike, then wai
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by pacaro 6y ago
My taste is that function level comments describe the "what" and inline comments describe the "why". So at a function level the comments is giving a highlevel description to the reader as to the functionality contained,
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by pacaro 6y ago
This matches my recollection too. I had a calculator, I used it almost exclusively for "wasting" time programming in class, I don't believe I ever used it in an exam. While the graphing calculators were available we weren&#x2
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by pacaro 6y ago
I'm also mildly amused that the author failed to mention the hyperbolic functions, of which there is one for each of the regular circular trig functions
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by pacaro 6y ago
I'm not that old, but I learned the haversine formula in a marine navigation class I took through (boy) scouts. Our instructor was a retired merchant navy officer who was somewhat upset that the curriculum didn't include it, and
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Microsoft Solitaire was written by a summer intern, on their own time(reddit.com)
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by pacaro 6y ago
To be fair, I do understand that universally fatal, untreatable, undiagnosable, undetectable diseases with unknown incubation periods are scary, and I understand that blood donation is an amplification factor for blood borne diseases, hence
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by pacaro 6y ago
I lived in the UK during the vCJD panic (colloquially mad cow disease), this bars me from giving blood or being an organ donor. For a sense of scale a total of 177 people have died of vCJD, out of a UK population of approx 60,000,000
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by pacaro 6y ago
I can't donate blood, for fairly bogus reasons, this is true for a surprisingly large subset of the population
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by pacaro 6y ago
Indeed, and no mention of password dictionaries etc. Strict brute force is an upper bound, but the low hanging fruit are often very low indeed
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by pacaro 6y ago
That's definitely a matter of perspective, once you consider it as an art piece you should consider the pricing in terms of how art is priced. It's approx $800 per sq ft, which certainly wouldn't be considered expensive in th
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by pacaro 6y ago
A squircle[1] isn't a bad analogy for this, particularly if it's a super ellipse, parametrically you can adjust between circle and square at either limit. The same can be convenient with types too [1] https://en.wikiped
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by pacaro 6y ago
Or as we learned from Sully, when you're the captain, and you take charge and responsibility quickly, a simple "My plane" suffices

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