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by pale-hands 6y ago
I've got about 50 of his 71 novels. For sure they're entertaining, well constructed and the use of language is delightful. There's something you notice if you read a whole lot of Wodehouse in quick succession: I'd estima
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by pale-hands 6y ago
This is cool! Unfortunately it is case sensitive, one search term I tried applied to four different colours, differing only by case.
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by pale-hands 7y ago
Good question. Maybe (just speculating here) because it would be dangerous to land with too much fuel on board? Planes dump fuel for that reason when aborting shortly after takeoff, but that may only be a problem with tanks close to full.
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by pale-hands 7y ago
Unfortunately there's a scam for that,apparently. The scam caller tells the victim to call their bank, but doesn't hang up. The victim hangs up, calls the bank, the scammer is still on the line.
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by pale-hands 7y ago
Global average temperatures 6000 years ago were 0.5 °C warmer than baseline (1961-1990 average), now it's 1.1 °C. Historical warm periods were local, and global average temps did not exceed current temperatures. (Also, modern is a
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by pale-hands 7y ago
> We're at historically normal levels of warming. Misleading. You have to appeal to pre -history to find temperature levels similar to current. > Eventually we'll plunge into another glacial period, and no amount of CO2 wil
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by pale-hands 7y ago
A therapy from this research could be very useful for astronauts, on ISS or a Mars mission.
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by pale-hands 7y ago
Another niche sport recommendation: unicycling! Good for core, a unique skill, insanely fun. Learning is a test of perseverance. If you're physically talented, advanced skills will keep you engaged. If you're merely able-bodied,
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by pale-hands 7y ago
Even if it were true that the climate has changed as much and as rapidly in the past, what difference does that make to our current situation? All but a few years in the next 3 centuries will be hotter than all but a few years in the past 3
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by pale-hands 7y ago
The Brexit Party Ltd. care enough that they have threatened legal action.
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by pale-hands 7y ago
I'm in the UK. I get about 2-3 a week on the landline, 1-2 a week on the mobile. 30% "This is Microsoft/your ISP, your computer is hacked", 30% "You were involved in an accident that wasn't your fault", 10
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by pale-hands 8y ago
You seem to be conflating the duration of a geologic event (i.e. rate of change, which is the subject of discussion) with the absolute age.
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by pale-hands 8y ago
It seems that scala-meta is alive ( http://scalameta.org ), but is now about developer tools (e.g. code formatting plugin used by IntelliJ). The macro part of scala-meta was spun off to https://github.com/scalacent
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by pale-hands 9y ago
This would be perfect for me, and I suspect there are a lot of people in my situation: I would far prefer to pay for news than have intrusive and possibly dangerous advertising, and I do subscribe to a couple of news sites. I'm not goi
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by pale-hands 9y ago
I think you've identified the two most important topics. A nitpick, though: I disagree with your definition of forcing, it's the same as my definition of feedback. A forcing is anything that moves the temperature away from the equ
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by pale-hands 9y ago
Great advice. I've had squeezeboxes since the SB1 in 2003, and recently got a Hifiberry amp running Squeezelite. It's as minimal as it gets -- power brick, RPi + amp in a custom case, and speakers. The class D amp is surprisingly
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by pale-hands 9y ago
> I haven't seen anyone on either side put forth detailed policy proposals other than voluntary carbon caps You missed a carbon tax, in my opinion the mechanism most likely to make a difference. > In my opinion, advanced technolo
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by pale-hands 9y ago
You would expect closely related languages to have similar words for a common animal, i.e. to be at least somewhat conserved. I do find it mysterious. Another one: Dutch vlinder, Afrikaans (very close descendant) schoenlapper. I think the p
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by pale-hands 9y ago
Opposite of the topic (ultra-nonconserved?), "butterfly" is a word that is strangely different in even closely related European languages (Romance, Teutonic, Slavic). Doing a cursory check in Google Translate now, but I've on
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by pale-hands 9y ago
You addressed the substance (or not) of aaron695's post far better than I did, but I'm prepared to believe that the post is sincere, absent any actual evidence of shilling. (See also, Trump's repeated insinuation that protest
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by pale-hands 9y ago
Aaron695 described himself as a "climate denier", though, which is unusual. The Paris Accord, by itself, cannot do nearly enough to avert disaster, but it was the best that could be done diplomatically (especially in the light of
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by pale-hands 9y ago
If you are "Happy to agree with AGW", you're not a climate denier, or even a climate skeptic as Scientific American would define it. (Unless, of course, your agreement with AGW is not really that). The article is about consil
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by pale-hands 9y ago
A big strength of Scala scripting is the availability of the whole JVM ecosystem, and the ivy integration in Ammonite makes this seamless. Check out the "Ammonite Cookbook" section of the site for some examples. The bash equivalen
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by pale-hands 9y ago
This is your claim, right? > The conditions required for the amount of land-based ice to melt [in order for coastal cities to flood] will have meant that the extinction of most (if not all) life on this planet would have occurred long ag
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by pale-hands 9y ago
> The conditions required for the amount of land-based ice to melt will have meant that the extinction of most (if not all) life on this planet would have occurred long ago. I very much doubt that you could support this statement. The ge
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by pale-hands 9y ago
Good point, but this is just the BBC giving an example of a distance that its audience can easily grasp.
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by pale-hands 10y ago
I think the dependencies (like Netty for a web framework) would have to be migrated first. Scala native has a subset of java core libraries (from e.g. io, nio, util) rewritten in Scala, which could be a blocker if there's anything miss
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by pale-hands 10y ago
Yeah, the current macro system will be replaced with scala-meta, which is a different macro system, but it hasn't happened yet. Scala-meta doesn't have def macros yet, so it's not ready.
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by pale-hands 10y ago
D'oh, thanks! Can't believe I missed that.
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by pale-hands 10y ago
Will macros work with Scala Native, as they do with ScalaJs? (I believe that compile-time metaprogramming is the way forward, especially if the target doesn't support reflection or dynamic code loading).

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