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Now save that file as CSV (maybe because you want to process it with some non-Excel tool) and re-open it. Mar-1.
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I don't think you can get a live feed of a location since the satellites generally aren't geostationary (geostationary orbit is too far away, and are always above the equator). But AFAIK even commercially you can get still photogr
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Driving to Slovenia with three friends
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> those in paradise can thus evangelize to those in prison, until they convert. So even the Mormons admit that having Mormons constantly trying to convert you for the rest of eternity is what hell is like... :D
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Yeah, I got side-tracked in the middle of writing my comment, and it didn't seem worth fixing since I only noticed after the edit window closed and my main point holds either way.
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Different issue. ttpush is talking about using it in Germany , just with a US Apple account.
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There's a nice little pun in "real", which is Portuguese for "real", as in "unit of real value", but also means "royal". In this latter sense, "real" had already been used as the name o
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> The Germans used Q or Z as their number shift symbol when enciphering digits for Enigma traffic, correct? In the few random decrypts I looked at (from U-Boat traffic), e.g., https://enigma.hoerenberg.com/index.php?cat=T
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> Multiple ciphertexts using the same key, a fatal flaw for a cryptosystem even today. To avoid confusing readers, one should mention that modern ciphers separate the key, which can be reused but must be kept secret, from the initializat
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Ppl are people. A hawker centre is something between a street food market and a food court (specifically in Singapore).
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A couple posters have brought up the "meetings will continue" version. US Senator Max Cleland used this is 2000, but I wonder if it can be antedated? https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/CHRG-106shrg85968&
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It wasn't Germany that had stocks in the copper company, it was the politician who made the decision that had them.
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Related to "big annular": why does the Latin word for ring have a diminutive suffix ( -ulus ), even when it refers to big rings? Well, of course because anus came to refer to one very specific ring.
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In that case someone found a listing of the checksums of the code that launched in the archives (!), that could be used to verify the reconstruction. I wonder if there's anything like that for 2.11BSD
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"the usage, though non-standard, is ubiquitous, and in fact has been around for over seven hundred years. Robert Burchfield, in his third edition of Fowler, writes that in the 17th and 18th centuries the two words’ alternation was not
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I believe Afrikan tähti/Star of Africa is ubiquitous in Finland, but AFAICT it's almost unknown outside of the Nordic coutnries.
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From their comment history one can be 95% sure that Ghjklov is not an advocate for new language but either a pure troll, or is politically opposed to it.
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The author of this piece, Zeynep Tufekci ( https://twitter.com/zeynep ), has had a pretty consistent viewpoint throughout the epidemic: she called for early response, early mask wearing (when most western authorities were adv
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That's what I get for just skimming the Wikipedia article. Thanks.
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Minor nitpick: the Fraunhofer Society is an organization with multiple Institutes across Germany (plus some Centers outside Germany), each working on different areas of applied science. MP3 was developed at the Fraunhofer Institute for Tele
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I think it would be better to compare opinions now to already-surveyed opinions before the pandemic; it's easy to say that you lost trust during the pandemic even if you had low trust before it started.
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> Notes separated by octaves are like higher and lower versions of the same note. I don't know if this is an in-born ability or a cultural one, but I can say that I (for one) don't have any perceptual sense of "sameness&qu
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I dislike pull quotes in magazines for this reason, but I understand their purpose. Online, distracting the reader and messing up the reading-order seems to be the only thing they do.
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Wikipedia has a list of Liszts (it redirects to Liszt (surname) ) but it's not on the list of list of lists.
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> It is important to note that if Correia had simply handed his notebooks and electronic devices to his counsel personally, the documents would not be privileged. “[P]re-existing documents . . . not prepared by the [client] for the purpo
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As somebody who loves both, I recommend watching the movie before reading the short story; IMO there's something the viewer only gradually understands in the movie that's explicit up front in the story.
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Writing "aqua" instead of "water" is not playing with the regulations, it is a regulation. In the US cosmetics have to be labelled using the International Nomenclature of Cosmetic Ingredients (INCI) and the INCI name f
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And that vtable depends on the type, not the value.
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The A in ADT can stand for both abstract and algebraic , so it's an unhelpful abbreviation in contexts where both algebraic and abstract datatypes are relevant. Functional programming languages tend to have good support for algebr
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While it is arbitrary, and not a city (in the sense that it hasn't received that status from the Queen), Greater London is absolutely a defined administrative area in the UK, with a governing body (the London Assembly) and a mayor (the

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