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As processors get faster, memory access speed gets relatively slower, due to the speed of light (and the physical distance between the CPU and RAM) staying constant.

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Hands up, still shot. On Wednesday, WSVN aired a cell phone video reportedly taken moments before caregiver Charles Kinsey was shot by North Miami police. In it, Kinsey, who survived, can be see lying on the ground with his hands raised, explaining that him and the autistic man he was assisting are...

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Opus_723 wrote:evidence-based diet experts ( what the heck are those called, anyway?)

Dietitians.

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https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/jan/01/british-couple-hospital-bill-baby-born-new-york A British couple say they could be in for a $200,000 (£130,000) hospital bill, after traveling to New York City for a five-day vacation, only for their baby boy to be born 11 weeks premature. Any updates...

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I think this explains the phenomenon.

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Xenomortis, can you define some kind of local function do_things :: BaseClass -> Object with overloads for the specific classes? (The program will still call the most specific overload, regardless of whether the object was bound to a variable of a superclass type in between, right?) Pretty sure Jav...

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If it absorbed red and reflected all other colors, it would look cyan.

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Poachers break into French zoo, kill a rhino, and steal its horn Police, who were investigating the crime, said the rhino had been shot three times in the head and one of its horns had been sawn off, probably with a chainsaw. . . . The poachers broke through a gate at the wildlife park during the n...

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From conservation of angular momentum, I predict that your rate of counterspinning will be by far the most notable and, edicts against permanent personal injuries aside, you would more obviously be centripetally flattened out (or worse!) beyond the frictionless surface limit. So maybe that's when y...

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Stand to top of the block. Spin in place, causing the block to spin in the opposite direction, conserving angular momentum. Keep spinning faster and faster, until the gold block flattens and expands outwards far enough to reach the edge of the circle. This assumes the rope won't be twisted up in the...

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Assuming this is the right one, it says it has 3 expansion bays, but you'll most likely have to remove the front panel to use them.

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Meteoric wrote:Priority lists are usually arrived at by taking a few initial guesses, and simming a lot of permutations. I suppose you could try to automatically generate all possible permutations, but this sounds inefficient.

Sounds like a good use for an evolutionary algorithm.

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A few days ago, I learned that the peace sign is a combo of the flag semaphore signs for N and D, standing for "nuclear disarmament." http://www.thisiscolossal.com/2017/02/delicate-sketches-of-the-original-peace-symbol-to-be-exhibited-in-london/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peace_symbols...

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I keep a metal coffee can in the fridge for oil/grease disposal (e.g. from browning ground beef). When it gets full, it goes in the trash and is replaced with a new can.

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It's a little ironic that the rubber sheet model of gravity relies on gravity to work.

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The Romans could never have invented algebra, because they always thought X = 10.

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There are a lot of things syntactically wrong with that code.

Edit: I think anything between <angle> brackets may have been filtered out. That would account for the blank #includes and some missing template parameters.

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Finally got around to playing this, so I could watch (most of) the Pacifist speedrun at AGDQ this year ( Twitch VOD , run starts at 38:43:25). I was able to watch the run until it caught up to where I was at about a hour in (Neutral ending, befriending Undyne). Just beat the Pacifist ending last nig...

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speising wrote:I just found it funny that the article ends with that, as if every reader would know where Charlotte is located. (I just assume it's a somewhat bigger place)

It is the largest city in the state.

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Derek wrote:
gd1 wrote:You know what Germany said to France in WW2 when they conquered it? Allemagne.

I don't get it.

"All mine"

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flicky1991 wrote:When you have a thought, do you tend to think it in words and sentences?: Yes
When reading a story, do you automatically picture the locations and characters in your mind's eye?: Yes
Do you typically tend to notice errors in spelling, whether your own or other people's?: Yes

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PM 2Ring wrote:I'll represent the colors by their initials, except I'll use the printers' convention of using K for black, so our colors in color-wheel order are WBKRG.

The official convention is to use B for black and U for blue.

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Some questions:
Do the lines connecting dots have to be straight, or are they free-form?
How thick are the lines?
Do they have to go between the centers of the dots, (i.e. perpendicular to the edge of the dot), or can they come out at any angle?

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Robuts: @Tyndmyr R2 and C3P0 are dicks, having known where the secret rebel base on Yavin was all along. What makes them dicks for knowing that? Before they were stranded on Tatooine, the next stop for the Tantive IV after picking up Kenobi was Alderaan, not the base on Yavin. Before Scarif, it'...

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It's a thumbnailed version of an image hosted on photobucket. EVERYTHING wants Javascript these days, probably to track how many times each image gets viewed and from what countries. Here: ScreenShot00191 Big skull.jpg THAT. I last saw that being herded across the dunes of Tatooine by sand-people. ...

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Mega85 wrote:
Lazar wrote:I've even retrospectively started saying (e.g.) "twenty oh four", even though I didn't at the time.

what about the year 2000? how would you say it? "two thousand"? "twenty hundred"?

"twenty oh nought"?

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doogly wrote:Which encoding is that table from?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Code_page_437

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gmalivuk wrote:What's the problem you think "one of these" has?

I think it's the massist language they're objecting to.

Or should it be "radiist"?

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I believe KrytenKoro's argument is this: 1. Gamergate had a campaign to get advertisers to stop doing business with Gawker. By doing this, they are implicitly declaring that this is a valid tactic. 2. Kellogg's recently stopped doing business with Breitbart. In response, Breitbart called this "...

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I think I'm not alone in misreading "patent" as "patient".

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Horribly written article. Absolutely no discussion about cloning or the movie 'Jurassic Park'? Those should be the bulk of the headline, and at the lead-in to the article should be something like "'Jurassic Park' fossil found: Dinosaur material found in amber could lead the way to cloning of d...

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I would be surprised if a vast majority of gamergaters are not also Trump supporters, especially given that both movements are supported by Breitbart.

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If I were trapped on a desert island, and could have an unlimited supply of any one type of apple, I'd be like, "How did this situation happen?"

So, an island with an apple tree?

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a = b
a² = ab
a² - b² = ab - b²
(a + b)(a - b) = b(a - b)
a + b = b
2b = b
2 = 1
Since 2 is even, and 2 = 1, then 1 must be even.

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Does MarI/O have free will?

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Greatest I am wrote:We can know, if a human takes my little test, that he or she is allowing me to manipulate their will which of course would show that they do have a free will.

Greatest I am wrote:The fact that you refuse says that you have a free will to not play.

If an experiment can't fail, it's not a very good experiment.

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What are the chances of faithless electors swinging the vote away from Trump (whether it be to a Hillary majority, or no majority resulting in a House vote)?

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Liberal arts is not the humanities. That stereotype is perpetuated by elitist conservatives who want to equate liberals with what they perceive to be useless degrees. Physics is a liberal art. Mathematics is a liberal art. Pretty much any science, hard or soft, as well as the humanities are liberal...

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I assume you mean other than humans?

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It's what happens when you do something like

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