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England won a penalty shootout. Nothing else matters any more. Warning: I probably don't actually know my Netmeg from my Away Leg. The above is hardly pundit-quality predicting. ;) Go here and sound "informed": https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/2018-world-cup-predictions/ ;) (Although i...

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Assuming Brazil win their group, then the winner of Belgium v England is placed in the same quarter as Brazil, which isn't exactly desirable (the other quarter doesn't have any power house teams). But I don't think either team would want to take the morale hit losing a game might bring, particularly...

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Germany are done, but it isn't enough for South Korea - Sweden and Mexico to qualify from the group with Sweden at the top. I'm cautiously optimistic for England, but disappointment is part-and-parcel of the World Cup as an Englishman - my optimism will undergo adjustment after their match against B...

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Just like the railgun at 13 minutes. Maybe I missed, but it felt like at least one of those should have connected ... I care about netcode. When I or my opponent have missing packets, what does the game do about it? It seemed that when you lose connection, you stop and become invulnerable. I wouldn...

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https://youtu.be/GSYbP__YKi4 How did I miss that guy with the lightning gun at 10:35? Either my connection had died, in which case my client should have been telling me I got those hits anyway? Or his connection had died, and he was now invincible. Then the next thing I know he shot me and did dama...

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The thing I found with the Witcher 3 is that it was pretty tough early on. Levels were slow to come and you'd frequently run into groups of ghouls and things at double your level. Then once you get to about level 10 or so, the game sort of becomes easy - you get access to a lot more quests near your...

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The $30 version unlocks all champions, including future releases - I suspect the free version does not, but I cannot clarify myself. But worth testing I guess, it's not like it costs anything. Edit: I didn't watch the E3 announcement but, according to reddit, the trial download will unlock two champ...

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So Sacrifice turned out to be a lot of fun, if a bit painful for solo-queue. But the community is still pining for CTF, so that may come in and replace it. Right now, Sac has been dropped from match making games, but is still available for custom games. The two biggest problems with the Sacrifice ga...

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I suspect you are conflating "left" with "authoritarian" and "right" with "libertarian" as many on the American right do these days, when those charts are explicitly listing them separately. "Left-Right" lines are not consistent between countries or...

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I can't find any reference to Joi Harris stating she was not comfortable attempting the stunt that ended her life, nor that she was forced, and none saying Reynolds was responsible for hiring her. I can find plenty saying she wasn't qualified and that another, more experienced, stuntwoman was ready ...

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No, fillet rhymes with billet or skillet.
I had no idea that it was pronounced differently in American accent.

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It is enough to just get on a tall building and verify to can see farther off to prove the world is not flat. Maybe it's oblong, maybe it changes from places to place, but it would definitively prove it's not flat. Nah, clearly that's just due to the atmosphere being thinner at higher altitudes, so...

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There's extensive documentation about the calculation and interpretation of those values. I bet you haven't produced a single UML diagram, barely did any testing, and there's zero documentation, so your 700 loc aren't finished yet. To be fair, it has had zero testing. And basically no error handlin...

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*Spends a few days writing code at work* me@work:project$ sloccount src ... Total Physical Source Lines of Code (SLOC) = 700 Development Effort Estimate, Person-Years (Person-Months) = 0.14 (1.65) ... Total Estimated Cost to Develop = $18,578 So where's my cut of that $18k?

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So I recently obtained a bottle of "Cornish Moonshine" (it's a name, Google will find it) - it's 35% abv with an overpowering apple taste (it has "Apple Pie" written on the bottle - I'm guessing some apple juice was added after distillation?). It's way too sweet for me, so I don'...

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... huh. That seems a bit weird. Is there a way to do things so that I don't have to have that line in my __init__.py, or even not have the __init__.py at all? Directories with an __init__.py file are packages - you need the __init__.py file for python to recognise your directory as a package. Othe...

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>>> import labmath.labmath >>> labmath.labmath.gcd <function gcd at 0x7f880b94f9d8> Your package is labmath, which contains a module called labmath. In the __init__.py of your package, put: from labmath.labmath import * >>> import labmath >>> labmath.gcd <function gcd at 0x7f7b70e846a8>

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As other commenters have said, modern computers are pretty good at turning off before they get too hot, so any serious damage requires getting around the safety mechanisms first. There have been exploits that enable code to be executed under Intel's System Management Mode - a highly privileged mode...

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HIGNFY - Have I Got News For You (BBC panel show) StA:GoB2:DF - Slaves to Armok: God of Blood Chapter 2: Dwarf Fortress (full name for the game Dwarf Fortress) ASoIaF: GOT - A Song of Ice and Fire: A Game of Thrones (first book in the A Song of Ice and Fire series, which in turn is more famously kno...

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Copper has antimicrobial properties - maybe that's the point?

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I think this, like rowhammer, shows mostly that we are getting sufficiently good at software security that attackers have to exploit the hardware. Actually, Heartbleed is only about 2 months older than rowhammer. Who needs hardware exploits when you only have to press backspace 28 times? http://hma...

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"Spectre", the other vulnerability I mentioned, has some interesting implications. It doesn't seem as bad as Meltdown, it doesn't cross privilege levels, but it's also kinda worse. It's much harder to fix (there doesn't appear to be an OS level workaround at the moment), affects pretty muc...

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Reminds me of the Pentium Bug . (Ok, so it's different at its core(s), but the whole software fix and recall thing…) There was speculation as to the cause going around for the past couple of days, but we have details now. There are a couple of vulnerabilities here, but the "Intel specific"...

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Eebster the Great wrote:I thought you were saying that surface tension was somehow necessary for a straw to work.

Isn't it? If there were nothing "holding the liquid together", what's stopping air from breaking the liquid apart and just rushing along the straw?

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No, I can see that one would need a translator if they wanted to convert one lunatic's mad ramblings into the dialect of a depressed drunk.
What I can't envisage is wanting to communicate with either of these people whilst sane and/or sober.

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I was watching a commercial for a new high tech, super awesome shower head that will revolutionize how you wash yourself and a thought accorded to me; "What would happen if you bath regularly in undiluted vinegar?" I am a strange person. People might start looking at you funny. You know, ...

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adoption_of_the_Gregorian_calendar#Adoption_in_Eastern_Europe The USSR switched from the Julian to the Gregorian calendar in 1918 - the 30th Jan 1918 (Wednesday) was followed by 14th Feb (Thursday). Not quite "two sequential Thursdays", but a date-time complic...

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To be fair, most malware goes unnoticed. Being part of a botnet is unfortunate, but at least it doesn't force a machine restart. ;) There's an old, old meme (memory puts it as refering to Windows 95) comparing a typical computer virus (of the time) vs Windows, with on one side statements of "w...

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My guess is that lead and zinc deposits are more common in sedimentary layers (limestone, etc), so you're getting a warped view when you only look at the composition of igneous rock.

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How many people actually leave their session open overnight? I used to, before I installed Windows 10 and now my computer cannot wake up from sleep, forcing a reboot (or several). Forced restarts, even in the Win 7 days, where therefore an annoyance (albeit very minor). Goes to show that either you...

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Over heating is the obvious one - check all the fans for dust, etc, particularly for the PSU and CPU. It could be the power supply - if it's old and your computer already pushes close to its rated limit then it may no longer be able to provide enough juice. Of particular note is that once the PC shu...

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praetor_alpha wrote:But Counterstrike taught me that a knife in a gun fight can be very useful!

Certainly it helps you run faster.

You should definitely bring a knife to a race.

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Agreed, I had this one pot lid in college that I always thought would serve well as a buckler. Alas, my fencing coach viewed such improvised fighting implements as more of a liability than anything else, legally, if not practically in a bout. Maybe useful in a sword fight, but I don't think it'd be...

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While looking for an alternative image with an uptick for the 'red cone' sensitivity, I started to question its validity and the validity of any of those diagrams. One diagram in particular caught my attention (if it lists sources, I tend to believe those sources exist and are reputable): http://we...

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Is the goal here to allow people to enter arbitrary expressions in the config file? Or are you just trying to make it so they can enter numbers/strings/etc and have it load in as the appropriate types? Because in the latter case, it's probably going to be a lot cleaner to just read the values in as...

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So I need some configuration files that basically store key-value pairs and these need to be parsed. Values are typed (might be strings, ints or floats). The people that edit these files (non-programmers) are used to "Key = value" syntax: KEY1 = "string value" KEY2 = 123 ... The ...

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No one going to try to start a holy war over "vertices" vs "vertexes"? Vertexes all the way. No, because we all know the correct answer there. Vertices, you heathen! I tend to say "node", but that's because I usually deal with graphs in a programming context. I was def...

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Flumble wrote:Does an x with x^2=-1 really exist?

Yeah, but it's not unique.

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Yeah, the version isn't changing anytime soon. There is a solution: ... except Exception e: raise MyException, MyException(e), sys.exc_info[2] # traceback But I still think "what's the point"? Just let the exception bubble up - stop wrapping things up in useless exception classes.

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