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pulvinar

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    Comment #49238756

    The earliest I could find in newspapers is December 1978 ($169 in Danbury CT). Lots of other products named "Concept II" too.

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    Comment #49156924

    The chart defaults to ending at 2025. Move the right timeline marker all the way to the right (today).

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    Comment #49134229

    Jump down to the Cause section. Millions of high-powered electric kettles being switched on during a popular show's break.

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    Comment #48984663

    You're probably looking for Koomey's Law, though it has also slowed down.

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    Comment #48788259

    If you're looking for farmers who aren't averse to tech, there are a number with YouTube channels. They're also the sort who love to talk to people. That may skew their opinions fr…

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    Comment #48781436

    The trick for trees is capillaries, which change the equation. The 10 meter limit only applies to larger columns. With capillaries there's a high negative tension that allows evapo…

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    Comment #48682475

    Not flat between the wheel wells (42.9"), but on top of them. There's a photo (don't know if it's real though). https://www.slateforums.com/forum/threads/slate-truck-dimens...

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    Comment #48674137

    "Ads may appear for users on the Free and Go plans" and "we will not show ads in accounts where the user tells us or we predict that they are under 18" Could be that based on your …

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    Comment #47871548

    rlwimi was a nice one, especially for emulators. And it also had eieio, Enforce In-Order Execution of I/O.

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    Comment #47735133

    It's unrelated to the book, other than the title.

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    Comment #47623144

    The goal here is neutral buoyancy when in gravity so that it behaves as though there were no gravity. Put a bag of water in water and it floats like the rest of the water, gravity …

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    Comment #47318842

    In System Settings > Keyboard Shortcuts > App Shortcuts, add the shortcut: app Safari, name "Quit Safari", command-option-Q. This will leave command-Q doing nothing, yet still allo…

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    Comment #47225585

    That outfit was typical of clowns in 1890, and often used in the opera Pagliacci about a clown. [0] http://1890swriters.blogspot.com/2015/10/victorian-clowns-an... > [1] https://en…

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    Comment #47113399

    If it’s showing surface winds, it goes up. On windy.com there’s an altitude slider that lets you choose which wind level you’re looking at. Haven’t found that yet here.

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    Comment #47090739

    I'd like to see the internet return to those who aren't putting it out there for money, so AI companies (and anyone else) hoovering it up wouldn't bother them. Sharing should be th…

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    Comment #46809958

    GPT5.2 does catch it and warns to not trust anything else in the post, saying no competent person would confuse these units. I wonder if even the simplest LLM would make this parti…

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    Comment #46146529

    That's odd. ChatGPT (5.1) tells me Safari does not open an audio capture session for 'capability negotiation' that would show the mic icon. I assume you have Safari > Settings > We…

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    Comment #46108861

    ChatGPT 5.1-Thinking, after having this pointed out: Short answer: no, your version isn’t the classic one, and my previous answer treated it as if it were. That was me pattern-matc…

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    Comment #46019632

    "One test, called a destructive physical analysis, involved dismantling small cylindrical batteries. This immediately revealed differences in quality."

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    Comment #45981096

    Title I see: "CPython may go Rusty, but older platforms risk getting iced out"

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    Comment #45889054

    There are other possibilities, the most likely being that the slide was already in the process of breaking when the child used it last, and he noticed that before others did.

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    Comment #45866193

    Yes, I've seen occasional strange responses to seemingly innocuous prompts. Often a retry will succeed, but I've had to give up on some. I doubt it's the model itself in most cases…

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    Comment #45486151

    In US cities they have substations and neighborhood stations. I'd guess one of those.