stan_rogers

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by stan_rogers 5y ago
Clabber (bainne clábair) is still going strong, at least where the Ulster Scots washed ashore in the States.
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by stan_rogers 5y ago
The letter combination "fi" seems to have been deleted throughout your quote, there. Perhaps it was a ligature in the original.
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by stan_rogers 5y ago
Not without an ellipsis it's not.
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by stan_rogers 5y ago
> Its also anything produced by a artistic production process e.g. in software- aka build-artifacts or documentation. You can drop "artistic" from that, as it comes with a connotation that doesn't necessarily apply. The fi
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by stan_rogers 5y ago
You also need to take "word" with a grain of salt, since we're dealing with a highly polysynthetic language. Many of those "words" would be substantial chunks of sentences to speakers of most other languages, with e
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by stan_rogers 5y ago
In English, generic "red" used to mean something very close to orange (thus red hair, red-breasted robins, etc.). Blood red or rose red were usually called out. These days, outside of colour spaces, we distinguish between crimson
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by stan_rogers 5y ago
Think like an ordinary person. You know, an ordinary person who would say that they weigh about 80 kilograms. Only science nerds would say that they mass about 80 kilograms, or that they weigh about 785 Newtons. Similarly, anyone who&
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by stan_rogers 5y ago
The aluminized dope was an extremely flammable substance.
39.
by stan_rogers 5y ago
...or you could simply download what's necessary/interesting and ensure that you've got the data as it was. Because people seem to think that everything needs to be an app, having something open in a tab is no guarantee that
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by stan_rogers 5y ago
...and basically lose your user base - especially corporate - altogether. The ability to use existing software, often developed in-house or bespoke at "we don't want to go through that again" prices, is what keeps Windows goi
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by stan_rogers 5y ago
I don't have a phone that will run apps. I'm pretty sure I'm not alone.
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by stan_rogers 5y ago
We're talking about a flu, not the flu. There are still plenty of influenza viruses out there, alive, well, and waiting. The difference with this particular lineage is that it seems to be human-only, with no known animal reservoir.
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by stan_rogers 5y ago
It's not the mass per se , but the need for the thing to be contained at the target end. If the ring is already at the target end, you have a relatively large mass of enriched uranium surrounded by a neutron reflector. That's not
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by stan_rogers 5y ago
The outer part was the projectile; the slug was the target. Making it the other way around - the way most of us always assumed it would have worked - would have forced the ring into criticality. So it is an easy concept, but the first gue
45.
by stan_rogers 5y ago
A lie by omission.
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by stan_rogers 5y ago
"Combustible" doesn't matter. Nor, really, does "impact" in the sense of one objectively solid body striking another objectively solid body. Think Chelyabinsk - the actual "thing hitting the ground" impact
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by stan_rogers 5y ago
Well, the shell and the metal drive ring at the centre of the disc (something 8" and 5¼" floppies didn't have).
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by stan_rogers 5y ago
You do realise that a UI overhaul is, for a surprisingly large number of users, essentially bricking the computer, right? And it's not just a UI overhaul; the Home version cannot be used without a Microsoft account.
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by stan_rogers 5y ago
Directionality and momentum? How about out-of-the-box functionality? What is the fascination with releasing unfinished products these days?
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by stan_rogers 5y ago
Perhaps, but Man of La Mancha misses the whole point of the novel. Alonzo Quixano was not a noble man - translated into today's world, he'd be a full-on QAnon type.
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by stan_rogers 5y ago
Not nearly as important as some indication of whether or not the window is currently active. I have absolutely no idea why the FF devs decided that that little tidbit of information doesn't matter to anybody.
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by stan_rogers 5y ago
How many colds have you had?
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by stan_rogers 5y ago
The average interested person would have, yes. That would include anybody who's watched any of the relevant PBS Nova programming, or any of David Attenborough's work, etc. - you don't need to have kept your head in the jour
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by stan_rogers 5y ago
Maybe, if it exists. Remember that it's only hypothetical, even if that hypothesis is a well-founded one.
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by stan_rogers 5y ago
I'd consider all of those "bugs" to be features, myself. As they say in French, everyone has gout. The autohiding controls and loss of the always-visible time bar really ticked me off when they happened, and backgrounds other
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by stan_rogers 5y ago
None, really. People will still pay extraordinary amounts of money for old documents with shaky provenance on the basis that they'll have it and you can't, only to find out they've been duped. T'was ever and t'will
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by stan_rogers 5y ago
No, the author is actually writing code using pen and paper. It's not just a high-level or organisational sketch. It's not just planning. What happens at the computer afterwards can best be described as transcription and debuggi
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by stan_rogers 5y ago
For the things we can observe to be the way they are, the furthest things that can be observed by the furthest things we can observe must be more or less the same as well, and so on.
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by stan_rogers 5y ago
You mean like in bailment? That's a thing.
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by stan_rogers 5y ago
Points, though, as traditonally defined, are not infinitessimal. They are literally zero in extent, having only a defined location.

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