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heuristically_alone wrote:Then get a new child after that.

Grandchild, please!

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zaphodbeebledoc wrote:I wonder if one of the detectives was wearing an implausibly long scarf?

No that was a dancer

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Title text: At first, I moved from pokémon posters to regular oil paintings, but then these really grumpy and unreasonable detectives from the Louvre showed up and took them all. They wouldn't even give me back my thumbtacks! Hey, I go for watercolors {you insensitive clod} Also, happy Convenience ...

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Gzip was too big to be practical. So were bzip2 and xz. Strangely enough, :lol: :lol: :lol: I can zip 200TB of "9" into a rather smaller file. How? Don't zip and gzip use the same compression algorithm? But if I don't include all the comment strings, I have nothing but '9's, a zero-inform...

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GlassHouses wrote:
cellocgw wrote:
Ken_g6 wrote:Gzip was too big to be practical. So were bzip2 and xz.

Strangely enough, I can zip 200TB of "9" into a rather smaller file.

How? Don't zip and gzip use the same compression algorithm?

I dunno, but I do know duplicate replies occasionally sneak into threads.

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And if you limit the triangles to just the really bright stars, say magnitude <+2.5, (maybe 46 at a time), then you get 15,180 triangles. So triangles are easy. She should be looking for squares or pentagons. Problem with that is: any 3 noncollinear points make a triangle. To make a square or highe...

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This got me curious if I could generate 200TB of nines. Well, I think I can: perl -e 'for($i=0; $i < 200*1024; $i++) { print "9"x(1024*1024*1024); print STDERR "$i GB so far\n" }' Then the next question would be how to submit it? Gzip was too big to be practical. So were bzip2 a...

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qvxb wrote:It's not really a phone if it doesn't have a dial.

Here You Go

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It reminds me of this graph, showing the predicted and actual release-to-manufacturing date of Windows 95 (23 years ago this month!): https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20150824-00/?p=91751/ “Management fairly consistently underestimated the number of days until RTM by a factor of 2.3.” E...

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Wonder what a 3rd-order polynomial fit predicts.
And how much worse it gets if you apply a decaying weight series (older data gets less weight)

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I think the art is equally interpretable as her being a left or a righty, them being stick figures and all. Since we can't tell the orientation of her shoulders or hips or anything. consider the motion lines. for her to be using her right hand, they would mean she used a backhand throw, which seems...

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Surely an LED bulb has a lower effective temperature than a normal (incandescent) light bulb. They have about the same surface area, but an LED bulb emits less total EM radiation. LEDs only look "hot" because their spectrum is so different to that of a black body. Not clear what you mean ...

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da Doctah wrote:Where on this diagram would you place Dr Manhattan?

Just below Dr. Bronx .

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Disappointed that a few things didn't make the chart.

-- nice cold bottle of beer
-- bucket of liquid nitrogen
-- your mama

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somitomi wrote:...huh.
I literally have no idea what the joke's supposed to be.

How ironic.

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richP wrote:"Irony" and "literally" are frequent candidates for the "You keep using that word, I do not think it means what you think it means" award.

It's literally ironic that...[fill in here, best response wins something]

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Don't cross the beams.

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Sunidesus wrote:I'm not at home so I can't actually measure but I'm thinking my paperback of Les Mis might get the closest. That thing is a brick. Or maybe Battlefield Earth, which is similarly brick shaped.
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So you're saying that those books are....

... wait for it ...

Thick as Brick?

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Personally, what I want to know is what the book is - I don't own any books that are thicker than they are wide, and I don't think I own any that have a dragon holding a sword in its teeth (neither by the handle nor by the blade) on the cover (which, with certainty approaching 1, doesn't contain an...

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TL;DR

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It could be worse. To my knowledge¹, the sun has yet to eject a mass of coronal zombies our way.

[1] admittedly limited

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Oh, come on already. How could Randall have left out Colossus ? Or these days, I suppose some self-replicating AI?

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ucim wrote:
somitomi wrote:It still baffles me the US doesn't have an ID you can expect all people to have over a certain age, but I do live in a post-communist illiberal democracy, so what do I know about freedom?
We do. It's called a facebook id.

Jose

Dang, I thought it was our /. ID . sigh.

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Alphonse wrote:
pogrmman wrote:Admittedly, I was kinda expecting something different from this for comic 2k, but it's still a good one.

2000 isn't really important. We're still 48 comics away from a relevant comic number.

depends: was the first comic number 0 or number 1 ?

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As an opticker with a strong hobby-interest in eyeball-related medicine, the alt-text did it for me. Excellent joke + sarcastic dig.

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Randall posits a space elevator ("fire pole") hanging to the Earth from our Moon, and describes many things that can go wrong (even with an unobtainium "pole"). However, there's a fix for the variable-distance and the bottom-end-velocity problem. Taper it, make a compound pendul...

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I’m happy that my birthyear comic is one of beret guy’s business strips. They always crack me up. I was particularly pleased by the biggest expense bit. I want to work there. Can I get a job there? My birthyear was me trying to ask a pretty girl out on a date , so you've got me beaten on coolness. ...

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This is the most confusing thing I've seen since the IRS instructions for the AMT.

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Randall needs more honest work and fewer hobbies.

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Apparently, fire trucks are too inconspicuous for Teslas. We've still got some ways to go before we reach that point. Somewhere around 2027, where Randall seems to put it (including the "widely adopted" bit!), looks rather optimistic to me. Please don't rabble-rouse. We don't know yet whe...

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"Leave the driving to us" <-- Greyhound crashes are incredibly rare. Not so useful when you want to go down the road to the chemist, I suppose. But in all seriousness, local Assisted Living places have certified drivers to take residents shopping, movies, events, etc. Beats letting your ag...

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[url=https://xkcd.com/1991/] I think a few of these are in the wrong place. "Geology" for example. Randal seems to be defining it as "the study of Earth", of which there is one. It's better defined as the study of the features of a planetary body, we don't know how many planets ...

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If you want to get more scared, 1) there is no minimum age to get an aircraft pilot's license. (for personal use. Becoming a commercial pilot is another story) In the US, all of the FAA-generated certificates I can find have minimum ages. For example, §61.83 Eligibility requirements for student pil...

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If you want to get more scared, 1) there is no minimum age to get an aircraft pilot's license. (for personal use. Becoming a commercial pilot is another story) 2) There is no minimum age, and not even a license requirement, to handle most all boats. (again, for personal use) 3) I wonder if there is ...

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Gone but not completely forgotten, at least for us aging Boston-area folks: IDKY -- I don't know yet TTTC - too tough to call Created and used liberally by Richard "Dicky" Alberts in his weather forecasts. In the interest of true confessions: the first time I saw meaniehead, it was out of ...

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I seem to remember some smartypants folks back in the early days of web browsers who set up a server that would split an image across as many devices as you had on hand. You had to browse to a common URL on all your toys, and click on some sort of map to identify the devices' screens' relative posit...

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orthogon wrote:It's ok, because usr/local is a symlink to /.

Wait... if I cd to /usr/local, I get sent to /. ?

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Iv wrote:Oh... Someone is getting into deep learning...

s//learning//shit/ FTFY

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What we have here, is,a FAILURE to communicate!

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serutan wrote:
fibonacci wrote:If you point a telescope out to the right off the edge of the chart, on a clear night you can spot "Vegans".

Standing next to MacIntosh owners.

Hey, why you dissing people who use the world's best raincoat?

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