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by skoob 15y ago
Quoting http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vitamin_C : It is made internally by almost all organisms although notable mammalian group exceptions are most or all of the order chiroptera (bats), guinea pigs, capybaras, and one of the two major p
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by skoob 15y ago
Well, for 304 the explaination is "this and all future requests should redirect to given URI", which is just wrong. Simply "Not modified" would be better.
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by skoob 15y ago
ubuntu.com is kind of interesting... http://colrgrabr.swissamigos.com/#http://ubuntu.com
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by skoob 15y ago
As I'm writing this the numbers are 2186 for the US vs 496 for the UK. The US population is almost five times the size of the UK, so the UK is actually overrepresented compared to the US.
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by skoob 15y ago
I think the point here was more about how Arabic treats groups of non-human objects as feminin singular . I assume that in Polish you would use a plural form of "green" when talking about multiple books and you would only use the feminine
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by skoob 15y ago
Cool, but I would like to have a way to know more about the artist/tune. With the current interface, it's not even possible to select the text of an artist's name or the song title to copy and paste it.
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by skoob 15y ago
> Except it's not tracking your location, it's tracking cell towers. That's true in the sense that mercury thermometers do not measure temperature -- they measure the height of a column of mercury.
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by skoob 16y ago
It's interesting that this is quite different from how dogs drink: http://bethesignal.org/blog/2009/06/13/how-do-dogs-drink-wat... They scoop up the water with their tongues by curling it backwards .
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by skoob 16y ago
"If you want to sound like a creep, just add the word 'ladies' to the end of things that you say" -- Demetri Martin http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TBcxwrNTpGg#t=1m38s
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by skoob 16y ago
I'll just quote Science-Based Medicine ( http://www.sciencebasedmedicine.org/?p=516 ): "The decrease in the number of disease carriers is vital to the prevention of bacterial infections. Vaccines are never 100% effective. Some people are g
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by skoob 16y ago
Why do Americans use the word race when they mean ethnicity?
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by skoob 16y ago
"Now you have two problems." Seriously, I can't think of a single good reason why you would want to check whether an email address is "valid". What you should be concerned about is whether or not the address works (and usually, can/does t
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by skoob 17y ago
I strongly prefer the former type of people. Sticks and stones motherfucker, sticks and stones...
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by skoob 17y ago
That's weird. Why would they even need date logic in the flight software?
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by skoob 17y ago
Link to Google cache: http://74.125.77.132/search?q=cache:http://bemasc.net/wordpr...
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by skoob 17y ago
Hmm. > Whois: > IP Address: 204.236.225.207 > Maximum Daily connection limit reached. Lookup refused.
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by skoob 17y ago
Using a proportional font will break if you try to align code other than using indentation, e.g. aligning assignments. More examples: http://mysite.verizon.net/astronaut/vim/align.html#Examples Of course, I really hope nobody's coding lik
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by skoob 17y ago
Then don't double click it.
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by skoob 17y ago
Things get weird if you use weeks as a unit and then also display the year. For example, if you have an event that took place on 2010-01-01, then iso_week_of(2010-01-01) will return 53 and year_of(2010-01-01) will return 2010. So your wonde
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by skoob 17y ago
That also true for the long s (ſ) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_s -- it's only used at the start or in the middle of words. The same is true for sigma, σ is used in the start and middle of words, while ς is used in the end of words.
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by skoob 17y ago
Wow, 24 years of ugly. The only one that's even half decent is the 3.1 box -- despite the ugly "New!" badge and the ridiculously condensed font... It's hard to tell from those small images, but what are those strange boils on the Windows 7
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by skoob 17y ago
I hate showing my ignorance, but what is "CD"?
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by skoob 17y ago
In that case you could connect to the same screen session in all of the xterms (see screen -x), but have them display different buffers.
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by skoob 17y ago
Actually, the rebranding was done by the Bush administration ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Luntz#Global_warming ), because they though "climate change" sounded less severe than "global warming".
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by skoob 17y ago
"IT IS QUARTER TO EIGHT" is perfectly cromulent: http://www.google.com/search?q=%22it%20is%20quarter%20to%22
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by skoob 17y ago
OTOH, ID cards are not required in (at least) Sweden, Denmark and Norway (not EU). http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Identity_document#European_Unio...
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Bohrbugs: OpenOffice.org won’t print on Tuesdays(mdzlog.alcor.net)
2 points by skoob 17y ago|0 comments
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by skoob 17y ago
Ah yes. The old "x is hard. Writing x sometimes gets messy. I don't want to deal with all the intricacies and details of x. I know, I'll create an abstraction layer!" Of course, in the best of all possible worlds, you'll end up with a perfe
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by skoob 17y ago
But, then it's no longer 100% fruit juice!
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by skoob 17y ago
For some reason, it only works for certain combinations of countries and languages. E.g., it works for Argentina: http://www.bing.com/search?q=x-3%2fx-1%3dx-4%2fx-5&setmk... but not Chile: http://www.bing.com/search?q=x-3%2fx-1%3dx-4

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