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by tman 17y ago
"mustaches on Monday" What about those of us who have a mustache every day?
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Are cosmic rays causing Toyota's problems? (Ctrl-F for SEU in comment thread)(spectrum.ieee.org)
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by tman 17y ago
Ridicule is often one's best defense against the ridiculous.
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by tman 17y ago
The poster needed to say that because there is no greater fear for the modern devotee of the religion Feminism than that of appearing 'sexist.' It's a bizarre word of recent origin, and one that their cult seems to use for any sort of recog
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by tman 17y ago
Badly standardized? Not since the mid-90's. And the days of cross-compiler pain went away almost completely when the last big holdout of the pre-standard days, Microsoft, finally released their 2003 C++ compiler. Your next point, that C++ i
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by tman 17y ago
Yeah. Maybe. Or maybe the Air Force just wants to convince Congress to replace the F-16, which got its clock cleaned (so they claim) by the Sukhoi in those exercises.
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by tman 17y ago
A recent book on this and various other topics related to recent human evolution is "The 10,000 Year Explosion" by Cochran and Harpending.
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by tman 17y ago
Uh, no, this subject is a tangent and we shouldn't really get into it here. However, a couple of general statements: There are reams of genetic and psychometric data available. More than enough to develop pretty good idea when and where the
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by tman 17y ago
The picture with the subtitle "Professor Abbi and Boa Sr became firm friends" is rather striking evidence of the diversity of human types present in that area of the world. Some Google searching brings up an article with a descriptions of m
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by tman 17y ago
Does the same thing as Googlepedia does for Firefox. What impresses me more is the "Try search on" box on the right. It would be nice if that were customizable.
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by tman 17y ago
It's worth grabbing the latest version of screen from git and installing it. That way you get vertical splits with ctrl-a ctrl-| . If you're running a new version of Ubuntu, you already have this. Building screen isn't too hard. Run the au
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by tman 17y ago
Europe was heading to WWIII in 1947? I don't see it.
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by tman 17y ago
Our diversity will save us. (No, not really.)