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by sonofgod 6y ago
They're around 250 metres from each other. The Thousand Islands seems a completely ludicrous place that feels like a fantasy novel. Or Legend of Zelda: Wind Waker https://www.google.com/maps/dir/Boldt+Castle+%
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by sonofgod 6y ago
These new records are likely to be unbeatable once traffic returns to normal. I wonder whether that'll cause the demise of the Cannonball Run? That said, in computer speed runs, it's generally said that once someone says a run is
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by sonofgod 6y ago
"hypergolic: igniting spontaneously on mixing with another substance."
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by sonofgod 6y ago
On chlorine trifluoride: ”It is, of course, extremely toxic, but that’s the least of the problem. It is hypergolic with every known fuel, and so rapidly hypergolic that no ignition delay has ever been measured. It is also hypergolic with su
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by sonofgod 6y ago
An absolute classic: people may not be aware it got reprinted, and is therefore available in dead-tree (and ebook) format again.
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by sonofgod 6y ago
Firstly, fuck. That sucks. Here's my penny's worth, as someone with no actual experience of the disease: From a programming and work perspective, make sure that other people have the knowledge and skills to take over. Little thing
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by sonofgod 6y ago
One might as well complain that when that one kilogram pile of protons, neutrons and electrons flaps and squawks like a chicken, it no longer "follows science". It's just that biology is a better, higher level tool for gettin
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by sonofgod 6y ago
If you're super short on time: "Ode to a Goldfish", Ogden Nash. Oh, wet pet [my interpretation: to be declaimed grandly as a great epic, before tailing off as if you've forgotten]
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by sonofgod 6y ago
Did someone realise that one of the cases wasn't actually a case?
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by sonofgod 6y ago
The UK currently has nothing to fear from open borders: why worry about the risk of a planeload of cases when there's ten new planeloads* of homegrown coronavirus every day? Everyone else, however, may well have something to fear from
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by sonofgod 6y ago
It's a mouseover popout pointing to three links: * fundamentals https://homebrewserver.club/category/fundamentals.html * instant messaging https://homebrewserver.club/category/instant-messagin
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by sonofgod 6y ago
> if you have twice as long infectious and half the R 0 you'll get exactly the same growth rate (7m15) uh... no. (I am not an epidemiologist, but neither is he, so...) R is an estimate of the total infections one person will cause.
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by sonofgod 6y ago
Transcript of video via autogenerated subtitles: https://pastebin.com/P4z71D8W
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by sonofgod 6y ago
Give us a sample of what you're showcasing. At the moment you're just saying "GIVE ME AN EMAIL" to recieve... what?
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by sonofgod 6y ago
Literally from googling, so not legal advice: https://www.upcounsel.com/abandoned-trademark A dead trademark is not always available for use or registration by someone else because the original registrant might still be u
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by sonofgod 6y ago
My first assumption is [shirts -stripes] Of the first ten hits: Amazon: 7/10 aren't shirts (but all are stripeless) Google: All shirts, one is checked Bing: All shirts, all contain stripes in description. Not exactly glowing for A
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by sonofgod 6y ago
/A/A/A/A/A/A/A/A/A/A/A/A/A/H/H/H/H/MATCH
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by sonofgod 6y ago
I parsed it as AC, for Animal Crossing, the left part of the C being also the right leg of the A.
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by sonofgod 6y ago
So it looks like they use ethernet and SD cards in the Animal Crossing universe too (right hand side) (the middle is probably USB but rectangles aren't very diagnostic) And I think there's HDMI and a 3.5 mm headphone jack on the l
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by sonofgod 7y ago
For anyone interested: https://archive.org/details/msdos_Paganitzu_1991
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by sonofgod 7y ago
Nice little browser-based Sokoban clone.
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by sonofgod 7y ago
Hope someone's remembered to renew it. :P
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by sonofgod 7y ago
Trying to work out what I'd want in a first pass. At an absolute minimum: * A commitment and ability to update any critical security issues for a specified amount of time * Standardised mechanisms for reporting critical updates to user
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by sonofgod 7y ago
I feel like there's a short-term solution to this: You can keep your slot and not fly the plane, as long as you pay some large percentage* of the cost of each ghost trip to the organisation that'd resell your slot. Your 'flig
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by sonofgod 7y ago
Top tip: it'll fairly regularly stop working, because Youtube have changed the website. If you encounter this, there'll almost certainly be a new version which fixes the problem.
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by sonofgod 7y ago
Bear in mind that your URL is your password, and you might occasionally get randos joining you if it's too simple a URL. Happened to me once at work, got some giggling people whilst we were pairing, they then hung up immediately :)
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by sonofgod 7y ago
A model that can't predict inputs can provide a mapping from any given inputs to a predicted value. We can then, after the fact, demonstrate whether the actual value is equal to the predicted value (i.e. within expected error bars). Re
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by sonofgod 7y ago
Just a heads up - the Daily Mail are not a reliable source of news. (for example: Wikipedia have had to ban them from citations due to "the Daily Mail’s reputation for poor fact checking, sensationalism and flat-out fabrication".
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by sonofgod 7y ago
The big thing to add to the cost of having a human-sourced knee is being on immunosuppressant drugs for the rest of your life, which is a significant health risk (but significantly less than, say, not having a functional critical organ). Th
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by sonofgod 7y ago
I've had "here is an install of Jira, go play" with no configuration done or any admin existing too. My greatest achievement in that job was making production a git repo so that we could regards against production before push

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