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"For the curious, here is Snowman in Hiragino (a collection of Japanese fonts that ship with OSX, and which seem to be the font that Mac users will usually see Snowman from); Snowman in CODE2000 (a freely available full-BMP-coverage unicode font), and..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by not_on_display
5 ¾ hours ago
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"You are the insect queen, young and sweet, bulging abdomeen / Insect queen, shedding wings on the window screen / You can mate, dig a nest, building the hive of your life / See that ant, watch that scene, digging insect queen!..." [
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favorited 7 times, recently by amethysts, zztzed, Brainy, bienbiensuper, Pallas Athena, Solomon, litlnemo
8 days ago
MeFi comment:
"cowbellemoo: yeah, the satellite is acting as a counterweight.
A trillion yen? That's, um, ten billion USD, if they're using American trillions. You're saying we could build seventy space elevators for the price of the bailout?..." [
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favorited 20 times, recently by manguero, a lot is two words, nightchrome, DU, mrzarquon, zardoz, merelyglib, neustile, yonation, pinothefrog, rokusan, Skorgu, acro, kolophon, mek, empath, gomichild, bettafish, feloniousmonk, spacewrench
10 days ago
MeFi comment:
"Yeah, the obvious reference here is Spook Country. Not that it seems unlike something Stephenson might also write about, though.
Can someone explain to me how a bulk carrier carries tanks? I thought they only carried, y'know, bulk crap...." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by mecran01
12 days ago
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"Yeah, I've always kind of assumed it was rude to stay through the mealtime rushes. But as long as there are tables free, I'm not costing the cafe anything, and odds are I'll keep buying the occasional drink or bagel.
(The rise of wifi and laptops..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by BrotherCaine
2 weeks ago
MeFi comment:
"Searching finds some news from near the area, e.g.: County judge: Bolivar's missing may never be found[Judge Jim Yarbrough] said search teams have scoured about 75 percent of the peninsula, [...]. He estimated too, that about 30 to 40 residents..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by Lesser Shrew
3 weeks ago
MeFi comment:
"The pseudo-Vanity-Fair piece's conclusion seems weird to me, since Iron Man and similar characters have always seemed to me to be echoes of early-20th(-late-19th)-century industrialists— Ford, Carnegie, etc., etc., ruthlessly building an industrial..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by Monochrome, brundlefly
4 weeks ago
MeFi comment:
"Zambrano, etc: My theory is that lots of people (possibly most people) will assume that if someone is shot by the police, or punished by authority in any way, they had it coming. If they appeared to lead a blameless, saintly life, it just shows how..." [
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favorited 12 times, recently by jlbartosa, tehloki, vsync, pinothefrog, Kadin2048, Reverend John, wires, BrotherCaine, perilous, aeschenkarnos, gladly, orthogonality
2 months ago
MeFi comment:
"Only 6 goats. But that still means I'm more than half of George Clooney!
What I find interesting is that we've discovered that Clooney/Portman is worth 10 goats. So can I give The Heifer Project $1,200 and have them send a Natalie Portman clone to..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by Greg_Ace
2 months ago
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"I felt exactly the same way when I was about to move in with my SO for the first time a number of years ago. But we talked about the need for "alone time" and it's worked out well. I think that as long as you both understand, emotionally,..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by Ladysin
2 months ago
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"I've yet to see a single stinger nettle in NA
Is a stinger nettle distinct from a plain old nettle? They're pretty common in the PNW, but I haven't seen them growing in Seattle proper.
sowbugs … roly-polies …
We called them roly-polies when I..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by tehloki
2 months ago
MeFi comment:
"Last I checked, barges still had bicycles beat on efficiency. You'd have to choose your commute pretty carefully to take advantage of that, though.
Electric-assist bicycles like this (and conversions) aren't too uncommon where I live...." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by Rarebit Fiend
2 months ago
MeFi comment:
"You know, it worries me: in another few decades, everyone who was actually in the camps will have died, and the deniers' job will get so much easier." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by orrnyereg, cass
2 months ago
MeFi comment:
"I often think MPDSEA is a bit loony, but in this case I think he's the voice of reason. This is a story of a small contractor pushing some bizarre dystopia-tech to anyone they think might listen, and not getting any real traction. Save the amazed..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by jenkinsEar
2 months ago
MeFi comment:
"dirtynumbangelboy, you continue to completely misunderstand what people mean when they say copyright infringement is not theft. It isn't theft. It may be wrong, it may be illegal, but it's not theft, any more than assault is theft, or slander is..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by tehloki, aeschenkarnos
3 months ago
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"I've always just assumed that people who like bottled water that much come from places with crappy infrastructure. I suppose the Hummer makes sense too if your local government is too inept to keep the roads paved...." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by parhamr
3 months ago
MeFi comment:
"Yeah, I've got to agree that some of these are not blunders (or attempts to remain unemployed): they're very effective ways of screening out jobs that the seeker wouldn't want to work at...." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by misanthropicsarah, Reverend John
4 months ago
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"I was reading somewhere recently that caffeine's diuretic effect was because it reduces your body's ability to move water around— you pee more because your kidneys are less able to separate the waste from the water, and you have to excrete more water..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by Solomon
4 months ago
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"I've always had much more respect for instructors who admit up front when you exceed what they know. (Especially if they say, "I don't know. I think maybe X or Y. I'll figure it out and we'll talk about it next week." and they follow..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by hulahulagirl
4 months ago
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"There's no reason one can't have an allergy or food sensitivity to the solanaceae. My SO appears to, in fact: her joints hurt if she eats tomatoes etc. Osteoarthritis? Dunno. Aches and pains? Yes. This is a bummer since she really likes tomatoes, but..." [
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favorited 4 times, recently by mdn, peacheater, amethysts, crabintheocean
4 months ago
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"IIRC, the thing doesn't amplify the person's speech --- it's just a buzzer. After the laryngectomy they can't make the buzzing sound that's the raw component of voiced speech, and this device supplies it. [Note: I am not a speech expert or anything...." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by LobsterMitten
6 months ago
MeFi comment:
"I wonder if anybody thought of having "open source" seeds where any changes you make get submitted back to the source.Well, as with so many technologies our civilization is built on, that is how it worked for the first ten thousand years or..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by infini
6 months ago
MeFi comment:
"do American pols always get this morally retarded every time big elections are around the corner?Some of our pols are always this retarded. It's just that we ignore our lawmakers except during Presidential election years...." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by easy_being_green
6 months ago
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"I'm not clear on whether he didn't seek permission from the company, or whether he didn't seek permission from traffic control. Only the second of those is dangerous (except to your job...).
Reminds me a bit of the Boeing pilot who did an..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by tarheelcoxn, subaruwrx
7 months ago
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"I can't think of a reason they should pay for the last shot — it's not as if it will do you harm to quit the immunization series in the middle. As an analogy, let's say that the clinic had been paying for you to go to some sort of training ("How..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by limeonaire
7 months ago
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"Another way to think of this is that a system will randomly walk through its state space (considering every microscopic arrangement of particles, etc., as a distinct state). Each macroscopic state — something that we, as human-sized observers, would..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by phrontist, DevilsAdvocate
8 months ago
MeFi comment:
"This was stupidly hilarious, as promised — but please, can we retire the term "f-bomb"? I wince every time I read it." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by khaibit
8 months ago
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"Density has to do with how compactly fitted each of the protons and neutrons are.
Um, no. Macro-scale density doesn't have anything to do with the size of the nuclei (where the protons and neutrons are). It's entirely determined by the mass of the..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by DevilsAdvocate
8 months ago
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"The state of medicine as a science or not is also the topic of Lewis Thomas' The Youngest Science, which I think is worth a read." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by paduasoy
9 months ago
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"Semantic markup was actually the original design for HTML, with tags like em, h1/h2/h3, p, and so on, having specific meanings for the reader of the text. The idea was that each browser or each user would be free to render "emphasis" or..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by Pinback
9 months ago
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"How do we manage to have nearly 70 comments and several references to fiction with nobody mentioning Pohl & Kornbluth's Merchants series? Yeesh." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by poweredbybeard, loquacious
9 months ago
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"You could try keeping a ledger of your cash transactions as well as your bank/credit transactions. Even aside from the current problem, if you're strapped for money this can also help you figure out exactly where your money is going. If some third..." [
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favorited 3 times, recently by yohko, mitzyjalapeno, Happydaz
10 months ago
MeFi comment:
"I wonder how long it will take for this program to create hackers.I figure half the point of the program is to create hackers. You have to get them started young, you know. Making sure they're not malicious hackers is a societal problem, like..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by Manjusri
10 months ago
MeFi comment:
"I had the same problems viewing it in Firefox. Looking at the page source, the problem was that their Javascript falls over if you've blocked the Google Analytics tracker script. I disabled those rules in Adblock and then I could see the videos just..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by sidereal
10 months ago
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"1. Yes. I get one of these SSH dictionary attacks every couple of weeks. Use strong passwords, or if you can, disable password authentication entirely and use per-user SSH keys (~/.ssh/authorized_keys).
2. You can deny specific users from SSH..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by cmiller
10 months ago
MeFi comment:
"A while back someone I know was wondering whether the conjunction of surveillance cameras in the UK and the data protection laws meant that you could request a copy of all the camera footage containing you. You could go on vacation in London, come..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by who squared, turing_test
11 months ago
MeFi comment:
"Ideally, ontology does reflect phylogeny. But, sourwookie, I think you were thinking of ontogeny." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by sourwookie
11 months ago
