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AnnaBee wrote:Bismuth is not a metal. Its a semi-metal.

That's something of a stretch. It would be like saying aluminum isn't a metal.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lists_of_metalloids

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Did you know there is an xkcd equivalent of bash.org at http://www.xkcdb.com ? I only learned of it recently in one of the comic threads.

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(Inability to dribble? Who cares? Stand still and pass. It'll look like " ultimate frisbee ", except no frisbees, and the other team is too short to do anything about it.) I've tried stilt-walking before and I get dizzy just thinking about what that might look like. All that passing and c...

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I recall reading a "best of 2016" list which included some kind of fast-paced two-player variant of MAME, wherein players would have to quickly perform a certain task in a game (complete a lap, defeat your opponent, etc), after which the emulation would immediately switch to a different ga...

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Oh, and it's the oxygen that is blue (look at its liquid form ;-) I'm not sure if you're being serious. As per http://chemed.chem.purdue.edu/demos/main_pages/14.2.html , liquid oxygen is blue because the dramatically lower volume of liquid oxygen enables a three-body excitation process that is comp...

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https://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/incognito_mode.png Title text: They're really the worst tech support team. And their solutions are always the same. "This OS X update broke something." "LET'S INFILTRATE APPLE BY MORPHING APPLES!" Goodness, 15:11 GMT and no thread yet. Oh well. If yo...

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Anybody got any more verses for the it's a moiré? The communicators from the original Star Trek used moire patterns assembled from a specific kit. http://www.herocomm.com/Details/MoireStory.htm Unfortunately "communicator" is a darn difficult word to work into the verse. But If you recall...

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Looks like the hover text got fixed at some point. We may rest easy knowing that unicode support for title text is not broken.

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When you swim in a creek and an eel bites your cheek it's a moray... Nah probably not. Morays are salt-water fish, and only make brief forays into brackish or fresh water looking for prey. When you swim in the sea and an eel bites your knee that's a moray... Spider Robinson did a lot of That's Amor...

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Well, geez, all this time I've been pronouncing it "mwar". And yes, the title text is messed up here in Windows 7 with both Firefox and Chrome – both the music notes and the accented "e". Internet Explorer 11 fares slightly better in that it manages to come up with Chinese charac...

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͏͏ I'm more inclined to say that emojis were a mistake, because A) most fonts don't support a significant part of the range and B) most people are only exposed to one or two emoji fonts anyway, which defeats the point of Unicode. Remember around ten years ago, when there were all those obnoxious ban...

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https://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/onboarding.png Title Text: 'So we just have a steady flow of metal piling up in our server room? Isn't that a problem?' 'Yeah, you should bring that up at our next bismuth meeting.' "We do business here and we'll turn into dirt later." Good $deity, that's some...

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somitomi wrote:it has some inputs my laptop doesn't.

Perhaps you should offer some clarification here? Those inputs might be much more usable in XP than in Linux.

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Ah, merde. I finally decided to buy Shovel Knight at full price, as I heard they were going to be increasing the price shortly, in conjunction with the whackload of new DLC the creators would be introducing. "It probably won't go on sale again," I thought. And of course it did. (And of cou...

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Have you heard about this spectacular sh!tstorm?
http://www.criticalhit.net/tabletop/tra ... e-backers/

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Here go guys: -It's literally a game just like Monument Valley for or old pc -Mid to late 90' -protagonist was a guy -I believe you had to obtain gems or something for a portal to open for you to move to next level. -the puzzles were set with a space/universe background. You can at least provide so...

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LaserGuy wrote:I'm extremely impressed so far. Whole series is on for $22, which I expect I'll probably grab as well.

The price has gone right down to $5.49 in the past.
https://isthereanydeal.com/#/page:game/ ... episodesiv

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Eh, I am left with the impression that Chess seems to come down to practice and memorization more than anything else. Cracked suggests that knowing a few quick plays will be enough to impress most people you play against. http://www.cracked.com/article_20214_5-so-called-signs-genius-that-any-idiot-c...

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Did you catch the news about the Humble Freedom Bundle? https://www.humblebundle.com/freedom $30 USD will get you a pretty solid collection of around 50 indie games, including The Witness and Stardew Valley. Alas, I have half the games in my library already and can't possibly justify the purchase – ...

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With a 95% Tomatometer rating, I was expecting huge things from this film – but it is indeed so very generic most of the way. (The bits with the tattoos reeked of someone desperately trying to replicate Aladdin.) I'll take The Red Turtle or Kirikou and the Sorceress over this any day. By the way, a ...

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Oh, it's another one of those "relatable" comics that are so big these days. (Seriously, I find this relatable.)

cellocgw wrote:And, yes, it took me a week to even check that there was one

Thank you for pointing that out; I was entirely oblivious until just now.

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Remember how excited everyone was about Armikrog? I guess it's something that it resulted in a finished product, at least. I never did get around to playing that. Otherwise, the only gaming products I've backed have been Torment and The Bard's Tale IV – the latter mostly because it came with Wastela...

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I too just saw the film at a second-run theater. I found it a bit hard to follow at points; I hope that doesn't just mean that I'm getting old. It was definitely more cohesive than most of the other Harry Potter films, at least. I took a look at the screenplay afterwards because I was thinking maybe...

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By the way, have any of you tuned into Class? Worth watching at all? Eight episodes is a low time commitment, at least.

I wound up watching part of an episode one night and it seemed suitably Who-ish.

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Was the old Vista installation 32-bit? 32-bit Windows drivers are fundamentally incompatible with 64-bit versions. If that's the case then the driver might still cooperate with the 32-bit version of Windows 10. (The principal disadvantage is that 32-bit versions are restricted to 3 GB of RAM.)

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One hundred reads and no takers. Oh well.

Turns out www.instagram.com is distinct from instagram.com as far as the whitelist is concerned. Who would have thought?

Here's hoping someone else out there finds this useful.

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I'm not sure traffic here lately makes this the best place to post this, but I'm not quite sure where else to go. (Maybe someone can provide a suggestion..?) I'm using Flashblock in the latest version of Firefox, but Flashblock and Instagram don't seem to get along. If I click on an Instagram video ...

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SecondTalon wrote:His last Reddit post was two years ago, with the second and third most recent being three and four years ago respectively.

So i''m going to say no.

Seems to me he must surely be posting under an alias, so as not to be mobbed by fan mail and death threats.

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Thank you for the suggestions. No flowers on this one. It never even occurred to me that it could flower. The leaves are not particularly symmetrical. It seems to me that the most prominent feature is that the leaves are connected by their centers and not by an edge. The stems are also thick and spo...

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Spoiler:

It sure is entertaining. I've flipped through some lists and its identity eludes me. Any ideas?

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My riddle from Page 30 has been solved at last. I feel obliged to post about it rather than being a Denver Coder . * Background: A game from elementary school. * System: Apple IIe * Year: Late 80's early 90's. * Perspective: 2D overhead * Art style: Extremely basic This was an educational game that ...

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I find myself thinking of the end of Heaven Sent, from the previous season of Doctor Who. (What a smashing good episode that was. Didn't make a lot of sense, but smashing good.) As an aside, I don't see the point in trying to get physics half-right. Either get them right (but then it's going to be d...

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Finding the names of animated shorts is a rather hopeless endeavor, isn't it? So there's this film I'm thinking of that, for the longest time, I was pretty sure was Tales of the Night . It is not Tales of the Night, nor does it appear to be another one of Michel Ocelot's short films or anything else...

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So, was I the only one expecting the plot to be: You find out at the end that this whole world and mad scheme was a fantasy world made up by the gemstone which explained why no one recognised him, why no one noticed all the people with massive scars over their faces and why the journalist woman app...

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I've always been quite confused by the sale of "brown gravy". This is a thing you can buy. Apparently its sole attribute is that it is Brown. Also gravy. Not "savory", not "meat", not "old fashioned", just ... brown. Anyway, anyone else here watching "Two...

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I learned somewhere that the formatting instructions for a paragraph are contained inside the paragraph mark. The line break would therefore be a new paragraph mark that contains "no" formatting, for the text that is now the previous paragraph, but the text following that line break would...

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Oh my gourd. Today I learned that you can take absolutely plain unformatted text, paste it into a left-justified paragraph, and – if the pasted text contains a line break – the paragraph will switch to full justification, for no reason at all . The "new" paragraph following the line break ...

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Random question of the moment: Consider an extended ASCII character table. http://www.maxi-pedia.com/web_files/images/code_ASCII_OEM.png Row E consists of a somewhat random assortment of greek letters. Right after mu and tau, but before uppercase (?) theta and uppercase omega, we see what looks like...

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Man Thinking About Just Packing Up And Making Exact Same Mistakes Someplace Far Away

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Did you catch that the end credits music was literally called "The Master of the Mystic End Credits" ? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q4uoNAFfvKg I was reminded of Monty on the Run for some reason. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xEE8203hmBQ Am I the only one who didn't quite get how the ...

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