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It's usually set up to sync to NTP.
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It tries to decrypt the random data using the corpus built on the original data. so the end of the file looks like: "Hesn’ed a tembers, ea ' mo byarrledMaelcallrlynwigr oysTold yo joinnt bnan twas The spwt?" aaoWe sastleenk
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Nature put a barbed stinger on bees, but didn't intend for the stinger to leave the bee. On the other hand, the risk of ripping your entrails out while using a sewing needle is quite low.
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Nobody's backed up the clams because they don't have the parts to test. There's nothing magic here though. It's just a short connecting rod with an adapter to use your old pistons with the lower pin height. They could ha
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There are various other hard and soft constraints (aero, weight, safety, general component placement) that are all fed into a constraint solver to generate the basic design of the car. Each class of vehicle tends to have the same set of con
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An LS engine is technically a small block Chevy, an SBC is nicknamed the mouse motor , and I doubt this has done more than general testing. So it's not really wrong.
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They're selling games on hardware Sony lost money producing, instead of using the game's exclusivity to increase selling their own hardware at a loss. How will they get by with a horrible business strategy like that?
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People who can't buy booze will drink it to get drunk, mostly kids who both can't legally drink and have access to plenty of hand sanitizer. They're being tactful by saying accidentally ingested instead of "Your kid we
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The marshmallows have gelatin in them.
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New-ish. https://www.npr.org/2020/08/23/905181717/study-finds-paintin...
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It doesn't differentiate the flies mistaking the cow for a zebra, compared to the stripes themselves doing something else to keep the flies away.
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Actual cellophane is made from cellulose (hence the name) and is both plant based and biodegradable. The 'plastic wrap' you buy now, however, is likely made from PET.
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Yeah. It's also about committing ZFS as an April Fools joke the day before.
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"We'll just edit that section out of human existence. So if you like... taped this, and you're gonna bootleg it, will you just cut that area out. Thank you very much"
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Get your eyes checked if you haven't lately. Your lack of focus could be more literal than you expected.
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Fifth such instance.
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Virtual Steve Jobs will reveal the world he created for you to join him in. For a small monthly fee, plus signing away the rights to your corporeal form, you can spend your eternity basking in the glory of all that is Steve Jobs.
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The trick with hair is to not get your hair wet, and to brush it out to distribute the oils your scalp puts into your hair. People used to avoid washing it very often back when soaps were harsher and conditioner wasn't really a thing.
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Commuter cars get run to death then disposed of. Even if you just trade them in after a few years, the next owner is going to continue running them into the ground. It's why the ownership curve is inverse to the lifespan. Cars with big
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They don't appeal to the people who don't believe, and just confirm the beliefs of people who do. They're not even using that to good effect. There's no, "Illustrated guide to not being part of the problem." Th
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It's implying that the nuts are mostly at the top and the further up you go, the more likely you have to deal with them directly.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One_Fish,_Two_Fish,_Red_Fish,_... plus https://cvsweb.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/src/lib/libc/crypt...
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It's going to damage the cause they're working towards when people start flooding in to take a selfie with the painting because it was in the news.
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After unintentionally arguing that Starlink should be a public utility, and that he couldn't afford to keep it running, he realized what that meant and backpedaled.
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You missed 5 other things on that line alone.
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Ford had to petition the government to switch from sealed beam headlights to composite lights by claiming they couldn't meet fuel economy standards without them. The truth was they just wanted to use them on the then new Taurus. It was
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It was free and competed with Office, so Microsoft made sure it couldn't open Office documents. Otherwise, it was all you really needed.
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https://www.boxofficemojo.com/weekly/1993W22/ Most people went to see Cliffhanger. Jurassic Park didn't come out for a few more weeks. https://www.boxofficemojo.com/weekly/1982W26/
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I call it the Blade Runner problem. While waiting for the cool neon and chrome cyberpunk dystopia from the movies to show up, the boring, black and white with blue LED cyberpunk dystopia slipped in instead. We won't get the Hollywood v
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It's when you invent something, then try to integrate it into every aspect of life to sell more of them.
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