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thanatos519
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About thanatos519
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Comment #48539613
So many scientific principles visible in one image. Astounding!
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Comment #47529257
So can we orthonormalize it into OKaut space?
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Comment #47122700
YMMV. My first reading of Discworld was in publication order and I loved it! Anyways, yes, everyone should read this series, one way or another.
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Comment #47023587
That's pretty cool. Works great in my 320x90 kitty!
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Comment #47000353
I used to use the Sawfish window manager ... before it fell out of maintenance, oh and before I switched to DEs with the window manager bolted on. The thing I miss the most from Sa…
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Comment #46870008
The canonical source for that is https://www.hvsc.c64.org/ and it's awesome.
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Comment #46860002
I appreciate the lack of "talk to a lender" wall. Compare https://whathemortgage.com/ ← similar, for Dutch mortgages. It supports both annuity and linear interest structures. Also …
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Comment #46835076
... and got an STD, gave it to his wife, and wanted to slip antibiotics to her so she wouldn't find out ...
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Comment #46702068
88x31 is the size for such badges established in the early 1990s. These days it might need to be pixel doubled to look vintage.
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Comment #46643323
I am in your target audience! I can live from payday to payday on any salary. My only savings are mandatory pensions and my only asset is home equity. It's not recklessness or stre…
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Comment #46503957
This is catastrophic. I can't count the number of science and documentary programs they produced over the years. Revolution is overdue.
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Comment #46486801
I have essential workflows using x2x, xev, and xdotool. Apparently this kind of stuff is contrary to Wayland's security model, so I'm stuck on Xorg, and I'm ok with that.
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Comment #45488308
Backups should be far away, too. Apparently some companies lost everything on 9/11 because their backups were in the other tower.
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Comment #44700464
Works for me - those are the first things I turn off!
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Comment #44692688
I have no interest in Astronomer and I am happy to say that I have no idea what they do.
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Comment #44570036
100% hunters. It's just easier to hunt plants because they don't move around.
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Comment #44507452
Here in the Netherlands, via my bank I can list all of my pre-approved transfers and block them. I'm pretty sure every bank here is required to support this. PayPal also has this f…
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Comment #44492998
I gave different answers to these questions but you predicted the same answer ... does that mean most people give the same answer for these? :) > In general, I believe government s…
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Comment #44404948
I like how the headline is truncated. I was thinking of 'seen' or 'taken' but turns out it ended with 'shared'.
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Comment #44026688
I tried nose strips but I don't like disposables. I now use silicone nostril openers - two little tubes attached at the base that you stick up your nose. It came as a set of 4 size…
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Comment #44019587
There's a way to walhalla. Infrastructure, training, and liability laws prime the pump. When almost everyone is a cyclist, every driver knows that any cyclist could be a friend or …
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Comment #43981761
Yes! Just use an app to say where you want to go, and it tells you which of the 3 nearest bus stops to go to, and you get where you want to go reasonably quickly. No bus routes, ju…
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Comment #43973735
It's a great feature! I have used it in training sessions by giving each student their own login on my laptop, with the ssh shell restricted to 'screen -x ' - the only window that …
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Comment #43925259
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Comment #43764746
In high school I was all math>physics>chemistry>biology. So I didn't take biology. Much to my peril. I didn't learn that I wasn't just a brain on a stick until I was 25! At some po…