roghummal

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by roghummal 5y ago
> Jane Poynter helped design and then lived in a 3-acre dome called Biosphere 2, completely sealed off from the rest of the world, for two years and 20 minutes. Walking back into society was a shock. >"I run over to say hello to
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by roghummal 5y ago
abandoned or done?
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by roghummal 7y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stall_(engine)
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by roghummal 7y ago
If John Carmack started updating a .plan, people would figure out how to check a .plan.
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by roghummal 8y ago
I read the 'remote' bit to be referring to where you do your course work.
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by roghummal 8y ago
>I like the low prices and the efficiency of the checkout process. I especially liked standing in line for five extra minutes while the customer in front of me demanded they pay a different (lower) price for their frozen pizzas because,
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by roghummal 8y ago
>Useful for testing. And as a speed hack for Quake 2!
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by roghummal 8y ago
>Sure, mistakes happen, my own PhD contained a major blunder (discovered several years after submission -- at least somebody read it ...), but I'm extremely open about it. So what was it?
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by roghummal 8y ago
Are you converting "an unfinished never-posted blog post" into "a rambly twitter thread"?
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by roghummal 8y ago
This is how the many trucking companies work. They'll train you for a CDL but require you drive for them for a period (a year?) or pay for the cost of training.
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by roghummal 8y ago
"The Pointy-haired Boss (often abbreviated to just PHB or "The Boss") is Dilbert's boss in the Dilbert comic strip." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pointy-haired_Boss
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by roghummal 8y ago
I take it to mean they paused the VM, allowing them to complete the game in sections when they had the time.
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The Archer Intro Using Only Powerpoint(duarte.com)
1 points by roghummal 8y ago|0 comments
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by roghummal 8y ago
Imagining... a human being?
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by roghummal 8y ago
Our Ob or Ros?
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by roghummal 8y ago
They removed the stump joke from later (CD onward?) editions because it generated too many calls to support about missing disks. Damn shame! :)
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by roghummal 8y ago
I compiled "Chris Nystrom's 'C' port of Mayfield-style StarTrek, 1995" and the only adjustment needed was renaming the getline() function (getline()->xgetline()) to avoid a conflict with stdlib.
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The Girl Who Was Plugged in [pdf](f.waseda.jp)
1 points by roghummal 8y ago|0 comments
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by roghummal 8y ago
>"Elbereth" must now be the only engraved text on a square to function So... "elberethelberethelberethelbereth" won't work anymore, either.
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by roghummal 10y ago
X, Y, Z, A, B, C: • hopeless. • clearly resolved to die. • likely to be intoxicated and thus more disinhibited. • willing to carry out actions that might leave them injured or disfigured. • unconcerned with consequences because of a high r
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by roghummal 10y ago
It can really help when the letters are handwritten.
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by roghummal 10y ago
>A lot of sites using that technique also let you click an X button or click the darkened non-form area to continue. If that's supported, I always choose it as a tiny protest (in hopes that someone actually profiles how click-outs a
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by roghummal 10y ago
To tie the two together (IRC/++ATH0)... /ctcp #channel PING ++ATH0 :D http://everything2.com/title/%252B%252B%252BATH0
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by roghummal 10y ago
Good excuse to break out the soldering iron.
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by roghummal 10y ago
>I want to set up a supervised google account for my son for hangouts et al... Why?
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by roghummal 10y ago
Thanks for contributing! It's rare that someone contributes without adding anything worth reading. YOU are BETTER. RARE isn't just how you take your eggs. You're not a hypocrite. You're a trendsetter. It's so lame t
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by roghummal 10y ago
>“I feel sorry,” he says, his breath moist against my neck. “Everyone’s going to hit on her.”
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by roghummal 10y ago
Why didn't hecubus(OP) take the title or headline? "How the chili pepper got to China" is a relatively small part of the article.
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by roghummal 11y ago
"Just dropped Croteam an email to ask if my Linux work can be published too. I'll report back" https://twitter.com/icculus/status/708326894597488642 Here's to hoping!
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by roghummal 11y ago
Google for "The Mystery of When to Stop Antidepressants" and click through there. Didn't work for me in 'incognito mode' but it did when running normally. YMMV.

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