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by sonofgod 7y ago
I'm assuming it's GregOps, because GreggsOps is HugOps with bonus vegan* sausage rolls. :P * vegan optional
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by sonofgod 7y ago
You might also find this apt: you must omit all fifth glyphs on this mastodon social forum https://oulipo.social
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by sonofgod 7y ago
From the paper: https://sci-hub.se/10.3847/1538-3881/ab570f "We show that these objects are redder and have larger proper motions than typical USNO objects." -- Interesting, not sure what that'd imp
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by sonofgod 7y ago
Should be a relatively simple matter to cross-reference against other photographs (potentially from other observatories) to identify whether the same star appears multiple times.
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by sonofgod 7y ago
There's a whole pile of different gotchas. * identifying characters that won't actually print [white text; zero-size font; beneath another layer; not in printable space]. Once this lead to every letter aappppeeaarriinngg ttwwiicce
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by sonofgod 7y ago
Related: The Duke Nukem Forever list. Written in the aftermath of Duke Nukem Forever finally being canned, twelve years after being announced. (It did finally ship, to a poor reception) http://duke.a-13.net/
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by sonofgod 7y ago
We are pretty sure KT was caused by a giant asteroid. Maybe the space Silurians redirected it into Earth? (Not serious)
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by sonofgod 7y ago
I wonder if it's a room with no connectivity otherwise, because I imagine if you're in the room live, sending [UP] or [DOWN] with human latency would give you 6 seconds of relative exclusivity of the information.
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by sonofgod 7y ago
I'm really not seeing fluid motion in any direction. I'm seeing a fish explode to disassembly and reassemble pointing the other way. I see the rotation when there's the great big opaque cylinder in the middle of it, but it do
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by sonofgod 7y ago
My thoughts on the website: I don't expect to have to click through to Github to get a summary of what your project's about. Consider putting some of the text from your readme onto the main project page, it's good copy and I
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by sonofgod 7y ago
yay, blockchain. :( https://twitter.com/jack/status/1204766085037248512 "Finally, new technologies have emerged to make a decentralized approach more viable. Blockchain points to a series of decentralized sol
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by sonofgod 7y ago
Tangentally related: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political_Achievements_of_the_... "The Political Achievements of the Earl of Dalkeith was a political pamphlet that was published and circulated in Edinburgh duri
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by sonofgod 7y ago
Yes, it's a weight of silver, around this era. One Troy pound (373g) [of silver] divided into 240 pennies (making a penny about 1.55g). Exactly what a shilling is varies, between 4 and 6 pennies. [ https://regia.org/res
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by sonofgod 7y ago
There's an example based on that work -- the game of Chicken, where you drive a car at another car, person who swerves loses. Payoff table: Both swerve: both lose face Neither swerve: both die They swerve, you don't: you gain face
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by sonofgod 7y ago
This sounds like the "I bring a bomb onto the plane, which I don't explode. The odds of there being two bombs on a plane is so tiny it's insignificant, so I'm safe from terrorism" plan. Seems sound to me! Other po
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by sonofgod 7y ago
Deliberately so: the company owner didn't want to ACTUALLY drop somone's tables, because that'd be rude (and possibly illegal).
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by sonofgod 7y ago
SQL injection is a problem with well-known solutions, but it still relies on everyone knowing not to do it and not doing it quickly "just to get it working" and accidently leaving it in.
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by sonofgod 7y ago
Or get a quick fix now (probably not complete) ttps://archive.org/search.php?query=subject%3A%22Call-A.P.P.L.E.%22el
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by sonofgod 7y ago
1) is answered in the article Clarifications: The four points must be distinct. That is, no point is allowed to be superimposed on another point.
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by sonofgod 7y ago
This is hideous. Congratulations! :D
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by sonofgod 7y ago
Just need another two-hundred and fifty three wrongs...
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by sonofgod 7y ago
I love this concept. Sure, it'll never be a significant source of energy [if we plastered literally the entire earth's surface with them at maximum theoretical efficiency, we'd provide 1% of our electricity consumption]. But
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by sonofgod 7y ago
circa 1995: Teacher had password written on the BACK of the clipboard they carried around everywhere. Said teacher's password was 'qwerty'. (Yes, it worked)
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by sonofgod 7y ago
It's Cellular Autometa Rule 15, with some of the options changed to be random. (ie: "be the opposite of the cell to your top left"). This generates unbroken continuous wiggly lines varying between horizontal, diagonal and ver
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by sonofgod 7y ago
> Your rollover is the worst possible value you get. > With the Amazon Basics keyboard I’ve seen as high as a 6 key rollover when pressing spui<space>c "As high as" implies that you've also seen lower. Which isn&#
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by sonofgod 7y ago
Some minor issues: Hangman: "REH" is not an english word, "LAMA" should be spelled LLAMA "FAULT" is the only non-animal. Maze: Typo: "comming" should be "coming"
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by sonofgod 7y ago
And I feel that might well be an improvement for all involved.
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by sonofgod 7y ago
I think this is an important lesson for an awful lot of online communities -- in a public forum* some mild, warranted criticism is then published to your friends and they are then encouraged by the algorithm to put in their tuppence-worth.
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by sonofgod 7y ago
If you're looking for quick and easy, rather than an OSS solution, https://pdftables.com/ might be of interest. (Disclaimer: I was working at the company when they were developing this)
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by sonofgod 7y ago
Thanks, was wondering what was up.

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