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i feel this comic would have been better (in a double-takey way) without the caption. don't pander to lazy readers, Randall!

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pogrmman wrote:The two main opposition parties have already challenged the results.

You mean "the two main terrorist organizations?"

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What made me really mad about N++ is that by default, it doesn't warn you if you close it with a changed document open that is still unsaved. Of course, it will open it on its next start again, with your edits. But that doesn't help you a lot if you expect those scripts you just wrote to work. Well...

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Well, of course he's changing course, nobody could have known politics is so complicated!

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What made me really mad about N++ is that by default, it doesn't warn you if you close it with a changed document open that is still unsaved. Of course, it will open it on its next start again, with your edits. But that doesn't help you a lot if you expect those scripts you just wrote to work. Rath...

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What made me really mad about N++ is that by default, it doesn't warn you if you close it with a changed document open that is still unsaved. Of course, it will open it on its next start again, with your edits.
But that doesn't help you a lot if you expect those scripts you just wrote to work.

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This is a late response, but I get so confused: Rayleigh died in 1916, and scattering his ashes made the sky blue? What color was it before? Gray, of course: haven't you watched any old movies? :p So how come it's blue in old paintings then? I know artists are bit of loonies, but did all of them ju...

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I don't expect them to notice anything. I expect them to be *dead*.

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They say carnivore meat doesn't taste very good, and i believe there's a risk of getting prion deseases.
While pigs are omnivores and could probably pose the same problems, they are usually fed a vegetarian diet.

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I propose we create a scale for AI level based on jobs they can replace.

Assembly line worker: check
bus driver: almost there
plumber: ??

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jonhaug wrote:red text

please don't use red, that's the mod's prerogative.

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I thought you are talking about Artificial Intelligence? The ability to cope with the unexpected would be precisely the differentiating quality to a stupid robot machine of today.

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Nah, it's still tautologic unless you can define "excessively" and/or "needless".
Sorry, the rabbit hole goes deeper still.

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Sure, but it's only an animal. We accept pain and death in animals, and even humans, for various reasons. The thrill of the fight and the pleasure of the win can be ample justification. You did not present a convincing argument that the welfare of dogs is to be preferred over the human's gain, excep...

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Does the dogs' rights to life and well being take precedence over your (impersonal you, here) right to take pleasure (and potential monetary gain from gambling) in their fighting? (or vice versa, however you want to phrase the question.) Yes. Clearly yes. [justification for tautology needed] What a...

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Hu, funny, i made something like that yesterday, on a cake with apples, and i thought it was my own invention... I'll only get to taste it tonight, i'm eager to see how it turned out. Mine was also an own invention out of desperation (i.e. no powdered sugar for a cream cheese frosting) :) Mine earn...

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Moo wrote:white chocolate cream cheese ganache

Hu, funny, i made something like that yesterday, on a cake with apples, and i thought it was my own invention...
I'll only get to taste it tonight, i'm eager to see how it turned out.

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Assume instead of a song, the ship sends a ping at regular 1 second intervals. They'll be received, if i'm right, at longer intervals than that, eg. 2 second for v=0.866c. The thing is, the one on the ship will receive earth's pings at 2s intervals, also! As long as there's a relative movement, both...

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Also, the human population was never as large as it is now. A change that would have driven a few nomadic tribes to migrate to a new place will be absolutely disastrous to today's densely inhabited countries and their equally densely inhabited neighbours. What happens when only a few million people ...

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Also, Windows N(ew)T(echnology)

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One camp says many species will become extinct due to rapid changes in the environment and habitats. Another camp says "SO what? Extinctions occur all the time." Better hope we or species we depend on aren't among them. Also any change in flora and fauna has huge economic consequences. (T...

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GlassHouses wrote:bruschetta

That's also a problem for german speakers, due to the trigraph 'sch'.

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First book: a group of robotic probes leave from their home world shortly before its sun goes nova (memorable quote: "that sort of thing will ruin your whole day"). They set up a home for themselves on an ice-covered moon in the Sol system and developed into artificial lifeforms with stro...

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Nowhere on the linked pages does it say that blasting of the athmospheres might be possible. In fact, it says Blasting off the gaseous layers of Uranus would be far beyond current technology. and, in a bit of understatement Blasting off much of its layers and leaving the core would currently be impr...

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... And I was wrong about that last one. The stars ARE centered in each field, but the flag's proportion is 8:5, not 14:9. The following is a proposed construction sheet for the flag: https://o.lgm.cl/xkcd1815/xkcd1815.sm.png SVG source of the above map This misses a rather important feature of the...

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Bisnett, the DWR spokeswoman, said... "Through the decades, the spillway has been inspected repeatedly and been found to be well maintained and satisfactory for continued use.” That is, if true, worrying in itself. Since it cannot be denied that the spillway was *not* performing satisfactorily...

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Bisnett, the DWR spokeswoman, said... "Through the decades, the spillway has been inspected repeatedly and been found to be well maintained and satisfactory for continued use.” That is, if true, worrying in itself. Since it cannot be denied that the spillway was *not* performing satisfactorily...

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See this nice Numberphile video about curvature: The Remarkable Way We Eat Pizza

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Why is watermelon on the pink and green bars?
if the pink is for the flesh, why is the green rind so good?

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I assume there are tons of crucial resources, like animated meme gif's in those packages.

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You have to channel the qi.

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Maybe you could strap the battery of an S7 in place of the CPU cooler of a PC. And then induce some CPU intensive computation (the "logic bomb"). After a while, you'll get some nice pyrotechnics. Anyway, the problem with logic bombs is that any computer advanced enough to even understand t...

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itaibn wrote:Does gcc have any features that let you run arbitrary code? After all it's a compiler, not an interpreter.

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

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Who is at first base?

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Aka "telemetry to improve your customer experience"

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elasto wrote:AOL account

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Zohar wrote:Roadkill?

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yvan eht nioj!

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I support everybody getting a defense. It would be horrible to have a legal system in which this wasn't the case. However, the defense they are using doesn't seem particularly strong here... Granted, I didn't see the event, so I don't know the full story, just what has been reported. I agree, but w...

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I suspect, with no evidence backing me, that you people who don't dislike frozen then unfrozen bread are simply fast eaters. I've been subjected to frozen unfrozen bread before, and let me tell you, for about 3 seconds the bread is nice and soft and good. But once it restores back down to room temp...

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