Slow_Dog

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by Slow_Dog 3mo ago
Indeed. Pick any two of Ticketmaster, Dice, AXS, Skiddle and seetickets. There are so many it's not straightforward to track down where your ticket is when you're off to the gig.
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by Slow_Dog 3mo ago
Maybe there are reasons Europe is pulling away from the US? The current US president has threatened to invade European territory, is attempting to impose Russia's preferred "peace" plan on Ukraine, and has recently relaxed sa
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by Slow_Dog 4mo ago
So you're saying you can spot AI generated bullshit, but not spot a deliberate and hilarious contrivance that the author uses to reinforce their point?
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by Slow_Dog 5mo ago
A Good Snowman Is Hard To Build and A Monster's Expedition are games in the same genre with much better presentation than Sausage Roll.
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by Slow_Dog 5mo ago
It's 30 years since I visited Zion. So beautiful. The best part of a trip that included Lake Powell, Yosemite and the Grand Cannyon, though those were all great. Being British, basically no-one here has ever heard of it, so I'm al
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by Slow_Dog 3y ago
This explains the naff "Captain Crunch" section of Neal Stephenson's "Cryptonomicon". Not that you can get it where I live; it would have made sense to do a "Weetabix" section with the same theme.
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by Slow_Dog 3y ago
The document's initial example of diagonalization doesn't explain it properly. It shows how you can find a binary string that's not in the list; fine. But it's conveniently a list of 5 strings of length 5. It doesn'
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by Slow_Dog 3y ago
It's got several 4x7 pixel displays.
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by Slow_Dog 3y ago
It's not even that. Plenty of everyday people "swanned around having a lovely time" too; or at least, didn't think the restrictions should apply to them. Sure, in some of the cases he cites there's rank hypocrisy in
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by Slow_Dog 3y ago
Venus has the smallest average distance from each point of the Earth's orbit to the nearest point on the other planet's orbit. I.e. whenever we're shown a diagram of the solar system, the "circle" that is Venus&#x27
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by Slow_Dog 4y ago
I have Glaucoma. The software seems on a par with the other automated fields tests I have regularly at hospital, and the output looks similar, showing approximately the same areas of degredation. Those automated tests are also approximate,
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by Slow_Dog 4y ago
It's made clear from the context that "good" is "a good match". There's nothing wrong with most of those other men, but they're not going to be people that she will want to spend the rest of her life with.
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by Slow_Dog 4y ago
"the member whose value is closest to zero" is described by those 14 symbols within the speech marks. As you say, the definition is contradictory.
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by Slow_Dog 4y ago
One seeks to find a clear and beautiful double-negative-free rendition of the same sentence, written by thy own fair hand. Alas, one seeks in vain, as the critic fails this test of courage.
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by Slow_Dog 4y ago
I'm in my mid 50's. The software group I'm part of has a spread of ages with people older than me all the way down to new graduates. I was new graduate once. For the vast majority of programmers, programming just a regular jo