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511.
by rawling 5y ago
Yeah, the advantage of these is when you don't have the depth _behind_ the drywall you need to poke through one of the toggles, or even the tip of one of the self-drilling anchors. I'm just dreading ever taking my shelf down.
512.
by rawling 5y ago
> Both the stellar day and the sidereal day are shorter than the mean solar day by about 3 minutes 56 seconds. This is a result of the Earth turning 1 additional rotation, relative to the celestial reference frame, as it orbits the Sun (
513.
by rawling 5y ago
Reminds me of this: https://www.patrickcraig.co.uk/other/compression.php
514.
by rawling 5y ago
I assume it's just that the AP limit of £1000 is an order of magnitude higher than the limit for a physical card. (Maybe the Transit limit should be lower?) I would also assume that this is why the article references Samsung Pay but no
515.
by rawling 5y ago
Or indeed draw, presumably.
516.
by rawling 5y ago
Minis have had this branding for a long time.
517.
by rawling 5y ago
Hahah, yes, I guess so.
518.
by rawling 5y ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28651245
519.
by rawling 5y ago
No, really. ConfigureAwait configures the await. If you don't await - if you block by calling .Result - it does nothing
520.
by rawling 5y ago
It does at least give you a chance to see whether you can spot it for yourself.
521.
by rawling 5y ago
Chapter 1: 32 justified lines, "futher" for "further". Chapter 2: 18 justified lines. "missles" for "missiles" but is consistent throughout. Chapter 3: 61 justified lines. "missles" consiste
522.
by rawling 5y ago
Just read the first paragraph of story and... I can't see any misspellings. (Pasting here, the spellcheck points out Samus, Aran, Metroid and "molted", which I thought was OK.) (E: ok, "futher" for "further&quo
523.
by rawling 5y ago
IDK if it's the right one but I found this: https://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/atoms/files/nasa_gr...
524.
by rawling 5y ago
This surprised me. When they wrote LINQ and iterables, MS went to great lengths to ensure exceptions that could be thrown immediately (before iterating) were. I wonder why async/await are the opposite.
525.
by rawling 5y ago
That's what you're meant to do!
526.
by rawling 5y ago
To avoid deadlocks, you don't need the ConfigureAwait(false) here, but you do need it to have been applied correctly in all the async code you're calling.
527.
by rawling 5y ago
Looks like 100 pixels?
528.
by rawling 5y ago
My favourite W10 bug is that if I maximise an Office window and then try to close it by mashing the mouse right into the top right corner, it actually clicks past and closes whatever window is underneath.
529.
by rawling 5y ago
I'm pretty sure I saw that video about a decade ago...
530.
by rawling 5y ago
Could be referring to the champagne still in bottles. How long does it take for a "shaken" bottle to return to "won't explode everywhere when you open it" state, anyway? Does the low pressure in the cabin make it mo
531.
by rawling 5y ago
Surely that's just any halfway-competent pay/sign-up wall, rather than specifically anti-reader mode?
532.
by rawling 5y ago
And then the 360 hardflip goes back to not doing the vertical bit.
533.
by rawling 5y ago
Hah, ok. I'll go find some videos and brush up!
534.
by rawling 5y ago
> As a last example we will describe the hardflip. This is a simultaneous half kickflip (a 180 degree rotation about the axis joining the tail to the nose of the skateboard) and a 180 degree rotation about the x-axis in the right-hand or
535.
by rawling 5y ago
Ok, what I'm learning is a lot of different sci-fi writers REALLY like this poem
536.
by rawling 5y ago
You're right - there's more references to Porlock than on the page for the poem itself...
537.
by rawling 5y ago
I've never actually got around to reading that, so I must be thinking of another one, but thanks!
538.
by rawling 5y ago
I'm pretty sure Kubla Khan was quoted in a sci-fi book I read once, but I've not been able to find it again. Don't suppose anyone knows?
539.
by rawling 5y ago
Maybe because you physically move >that way> on a piano keyboard?
540.
by rawling 5y ago
> An interesting thing to note here is the >. This is Alda syntax for “go up to the next octave.” Whyyy? You are going up an octave. The notes/pitch/frequency are going up. The subsequent c is higher than the preceding b. Wh

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