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by xarope 3y ago
As a former tertiary educator (for a brief moment, before I decided academia wasn't my thing), that's how open book exams are set; the assumption is you have knowledge of the subject, and the books are there for you to verify and
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by xarope 3y ago
sir, put down that radioactive banana and step away slowly (apologies if someone has already put this up: https://xkcd.com/radiation/ )
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by xarope 3y ago
Not just china, but certain parts of india, e.g. Ladakh, also ban satellite phones (and yes, will jail you if found with one).
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by xarope 3y ago
Someone explain to me why is this any different to HFT bots trawling the web and reacting in microseconds to any adverse "news" about Boeing? ("news", since I'm not in that industry and don't know if they only
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by xarope 3y ago
I have worn the cold avenger (just google, it should be in the top 10 hits) in the south and north polar areas, and for high altitude. It's surprising how warm the air gets, I actually had to take it off at times whilst working hard.
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by xarope 3y ago
Bianca? Portia? (minor spoiler to the books)
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by xarope 3y ago
Another counterpoint, I have that same not-suspending-thus-cooking-in-my-bag issue often with a thinkpad P14s running windows 10 (intel i7-1270p) . However, my (5+ yrs old?) T480s running linuxmint never does it (i5-8250u). YMMV
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by xarope 3y ago
+1. I've run into this too, and ended up using set() to clarify.
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by xarope 3y ago
previous $JOB needed to support Autodesk products. Said products only run in MS windows. Sad pikachu face ensues.
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by xarope 3y ago
I would say that plaintext is correct. if password "secret123" is sent to you, it doesn't matter if it was sent via carrier pigeon, locked up in a secure briefcase and delivered by someone driving an aston martin, or via a TL
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by xarope 3y ago
Why is it hard to believe? In a group of my professional peers (about 12 people), there's one pilot (to be clear, one person who has a pilots license, and flies regularly). Just like there are also rock climbers, mountaineers, weight
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by xarope 3y ago
Is this Mr Bates vs the Post Office? Worth watching? I am just finishing up the latest season of The Crown, and was looking for some other british docudrama to watch (sometimes it's nice to watch a show without a mandated sex scene,
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by xarope 3y ago
Sous Vide is 50-60'C? I use to scoff, but turkey sous vided is yummy
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by xarope 3y ago
That happened to me in iceland. I wanted to get to this famous black sand beach, and maps sent me to a cliff ACROSS the sea from it, with the intention that I would then descend ~30m vertically down a cliff, and drive across the sea, to ge
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by xarope 3y ago
reminds me of the time I'd have the smallest font possible running in xwindows with a server log scrolling in it. I was so used to the pattern of the logs, I'd only need to see a change in said pattern to know something was wrong
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by xarope 3y ago
MoTG also had the concept of a stack, e.g. if I have two mishra's factory ( https://gatherer.wizards.com/pages/card/details.aspx?name=Mi... ), activate one to make it a 2/2, you decide to lightning bolt it
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by xarope 3y ago
Obliterated was universally panned by critics. But so have many shows which were panned in their era, and are now considered classics. So would you recommend watching it?
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by xarope 3y ago
Based on the synopsis, I expected to NOT like Breaking Bad, but Bryan Cranston's performance was superb. I will never be able to see another Los Pollos Hermanos with a straight face again.
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by xarope 3y ago
It's great, it's finally weaned me from mindlessly trawling youtube when I'm bored. I wonder if this is what Google intended, or if statistics will show less engagement on youtube?
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by xarope 3y ago
unsurprisingly, challenging jobs have all the hallmarks of a challenging game, requiring skills for logistics, resource and project/timeline management, meta-analytical skills to break-the-beta, curious mind to dig further. Oh yes, and
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by xarope 3y ago
I remember Coherent, it had a snail/nautilus logo, and came in a binder with a bunch of floppies. I bought it as I had a PC with a 286 (or maybe 386, but no separate FPU), 1MB of RAM (luxury, right?) and needed to get more familiar wi
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by xarope 3y ago
TIL, if sufficiently motivated (nice and hot laptop?), cats are also excellent at fuzzing input...
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by xarope 3y ago
I was actually expecting this to be some sort of complaint about the ersatz truffle oils on the market nowadays ( https://www.tastingtable.com/693090/truffle-oil-fake-no-truf... ).
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by xarope 3y ago
I have staggered up a 30% slope at 6000m, and remember taking a few steps and then having to have a breather (albeit with equipment and food weighing me down). Although I do ice climb at lower altitudes, I couldn't imagine effort to d
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by xarope 3y ago
In mountaineering, we just say Annapurna, and Ama Dablam. Another example, Khan Tengri, not Mt Khan Tengri (lol)
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by xarope 3y ago
ah yes, I still remember the rcs ci / co workflow
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by xarope 3y ago
As a former DBA and optimization expert, the more appropriate response is NOT "add more indexes", but rather to profile and analyze your query plans first, then make decisions off those; e.g. a long running query might be causing
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by xarope 3y ago
Guayaquil, where I saw armed guards (with rifles/shotguns?) at shopping mall entrances.
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by xarope 3y ago
I have a T480s as well as a T25 (let's not talk about the x300, x220 and earlier stuff I have, being used as bookends; I did have a 701 but sadly threw it out, much to my chagrin in recent years), and the T480s gets used more often, si
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by xarope 3y ago
I noticed this, someone in the group had a rifle, and also brought along a "sacrificial" husky (basically they told me they'd shoot at the bear, sic the dog, and everybody had to run away screaming). No idea how much of this

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