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It should really be ROY G CAB is you want a properly-balanced spectrum by modern color theory. Hue angles 0, 30, 60, 120, 180, 210, and 240; red, orange, yellow, green, cyan, azure, blue. Where is purple/violet in your model? Violet (as the spectral colour) is not part of the colour wheel whereas p...

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Devil N wrote:And then finally you'd receive about eight finely crafted words comprising a highly condensed summary of carefully considered thoughts. Which mean absolutely nothing to you since you didn't get to follow the thought process.

Guilty. I did say all I wanted to.

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Maybe this is only my personal ideal, but I always kind of figured the goal would be to make your site accessible to as many people as practical. Hahaha, if web designers did that, who would they look down their noses at while sipping their gluten-free mocha chai soy milk lattes over their Macbooks...

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Randall hates botnets so he doesn't allow people with insecure systems to enjoy his comics. :wink: Just how old is your version of Firefox that it doesn't accept TLS 1.2 with the allowed cipher suites? Even bloody FF31 is able to visit xkcd and that's browsing with a live grenade (see all the red st...

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speising wrote:
orthogon wrote:between, say, 50 and 60 degrees of latitude. Does the EU have such a member state?

Not for very much longer.

It can check out, but it can never leave.

There are quite a few other countries at that latitude range though.

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(But note that this is sort of unrelated to my previous post, because even a jailbroken phone cannot fix the basic problem that all media audio channels are mixed together, making it impossible to independently control the volume of apps.) It seems you can use pulseaudio, which is of course the awe...

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Resent? Nah, that's only us 1%. Most people will accept it and after a while not even be bothered. Moreover, if one doesn't, buying that phone was a bad decision and you can't make bad purchase decisions, now can you? :roll: I don't know how much truth there is in combating malware by locking down t...

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morriswalters wrote:I've asked a simple question, what makes a good password?

Where did you ask this question?

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On my phone, when there's something with audio in the foreground, the volume controls default to adjusting the 'regular audio' volume rather than the ringer volume. There's also a fold-out button next to the slider that appears on screen to show all volume sliders, so you can still adjust the ringer...

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Flumble I can accept ridicule. I have to because I don't know everything, and odds are I make myself look ridiculous all the time. You appear to be one step beyond that. How am I supposed to take that? I suggest you ignore me. I think the word is 'snark' –at least the word sounds like it is. The re...

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And I'll say it once more: abolish not only DST (and friends), but all timezones except UTC. So, at what time does January 4 change into January 5? And where? At 00:00 of course. Yes, that does mean a lot of people will do activities across a 'date line', but we have computers to assist us in telli...

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[got carried away by compterphile, so now speising is ahead of me] Silly billy, places can't "drift off into a different time zone", because time zones aren't physical . Those cities can be in any timezone they like. And I'll say it once more: abolish not only DST (and friends), but all ti...

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Soupspoon, is your construction akin to making a complete graph ? If you take the edges in a complete graph as symbols and the vertices as cards, you use all symbols exactly twice, all cards have exactly one symbol in common and it works for any number of symbols per card. Reading through, this is p...

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Naturally, this has been asked on stackoverflow before. On one side math behind it and on the other construction of the cards . The magical concept used is finite projective planes and I won't pretend to really understand it, but it seems to work. Like David said above, for n+1 symbols per card you ...

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Snow in King's Landing! (except maybe for sparing Tyrion this episode) I'd say killing Tyrion would be a risky move with two dragons at her doorstep, but I couldn't tell from Cersei's behaviour whether she was actually thinking of such consequences. Nice scheming of Cersei behind...

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What you perceive as white and gold is actually blue and black.

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Finally, while it is reasonable to assume that neurotypical individuals will be able to memorize unmodified words easiest, I'm not sure about the subset of individuals arguing over a 6 year old webcomic. I don't think the percentage of people with high-functioning Asperger's (or some other memory p...

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Or the browser itself likes to cache some stuff to disk. Or any of the background services wants to do something, since all you're doing right now is reading The Hobbit and your operating system does want to keep itself optimized (because otherwise you might complain, or worse, switch to another OS)...

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(Though may contain bobcat, off-frame.) The bobcat has been properly trained with that spray bottle to stay off-frame. It doesn't really feel like a BHG scenario to me. BHG would've proactively trained his drones to fly into other people's rooms. Or trained other's drones to fly into the wrong rooms.

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More speculation In terms of the Wall I assume the Night King will fly over it on Viserion and it will break the magic on it, letting the white walkers pass by it on the ground. Maybe show some sort of losing battle at Eastwatch against the army of the dead. Or maybe Viserion breathes Ice and he ju...

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^ using less steganography: he manually verified the accounts of your friends (bypassing the email verification) and they can log in now. (I guess the thing Angua said still applies if they want to join forum games, but I don't know which buttons ST pressed exactly. Who knows he might've pressed but...

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Dammit Randall, I bet we wouldn't have a fourth comic about eclipses!

"The ISS" is very nearby "Total Solar Eclipse".

Also what are the axes' units?

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The eminently practical Tyrion's thoughts on the succession were very astute. Especially his almost throwaway remark about how "The Watch, and, for all their faults, the Ironborn" select their rulers. I'm really curious to see if they will actually arrive upon a real solution to t...

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Maybe we should build a giant lamp at pogrmman's house and shine it at the Moon so the eclipse turns into a full moon? The local PD, the local FD, state troopers, the National Guard, CSI, TV station satellite relay vans will show up for sure. And the neighbours too, because of the power outage. Not ...

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I can't wait for the uninitiated to complain about the mistakes in nomenclature ...and you didn't have to. :mrgreen: I was curious about those 3 small symbols on the right edge. The outside 2 are being pointed at by lines/vectors and the inner one appears to label an angle. Checked the astrology/as...

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I always wondered where the solar plexus was. Didn't sound like a body part at all.

Are the distances and sizes to scale on this diagram?

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I'm thinking the crashes are not related to where someone is but probably something else that goes bad in the server over time. Agreed @raudorn, you're free to log in. :wink: It was recently mentioned that it might be possible to set the server to auto-restart after a crash. That feature would have...

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[edit]ninja'd by soup[/edit] That diagram is confusing me : the ecliptic plane is depicted as a line and the angle is depicted as (kind of) constant, implying a side-view of the Solar system (as it should be), but the Earth is depicted with the North Pole at the centre, implying a top-down view of t...

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Watched this too. Skip to 47:00 for this module. Stored food in the boxes. Mentioned equipment in some side panels. Saw a vaguely similar (unstacked) metal cylinder at ~21:55. Used that for urine. Came from the Russians, supposedly. Shares the Zarya storage space with Russians, incidentally. Thanks...

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Before google and facebook, life was meaningless. Now life means monetization. That can't be evil, right? :roll: Also I hadn't caught the news that google now has a tour inside the ISS. Who ordered a large shipment of cylindrical vessels and tubes ? They seem to be blocking half the storage. Can som...

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So I heard episode 6 is out on the undernet.

There are a couple of things that didn't sit well with me next week's episode. But, damn, the aforementioned Rule of Cool makes up for it tenfold.

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radorn, are you in some region with too much stuff going on? It's the second (or more-th?) time the server crashed at/after your login attempt. I think I can safely offline teleport you if need be.

Also, yes, the server is back up again.

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Also this week: Rick & Morty kills the Dream Team. Funny how beyond the wall the skies are about clear when we follow the bird's eye perspective, but there's an opaque snow storm when the people on the ground go in. Yes, there's unspecified time in between, but still. Any idea how well dragons f...

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For me it's mostly habitual: I started watching subbed anime, so any cartoon in "anime style" and with japanese customs, architecture and voices feels harmonious, while everything else feels jarring. Especially the female squeaky voices (which are still as annoying as vocal fry in Western ...

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rmsgrey wrote:
Weeks wrote:...
The lady doth protest too much, methinks

O, but she'll keep her word.

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That might be better.

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But I won't use the "h" word here. I don't want to give the movement more credit than I think it deserves... Which "h word" could you possibly mean though? :roll: Hitler had some less redeeming qualities, but I think none was "being too cool for something" or "bei...

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I think this only goes for Pro editions, but you can set the update policy to anything you like via the Group Policy manager (which is just one step away from using the registry, really). Now windows asks me every day to 'install' the newest Defender fingerprints, but at least it doesn't lead to a f...

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I sent a PM to _infina_ about the server status (it's beyond my saving at this point). Thanks for the updated purely topological transportation map, raudorn! :D At this point I think it'd be a shame to overlay the world map* with transportation nodes. *speaking of which: are any people in favour/aga...

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Pfhorrest wrote:Fires and everything's upside-down... you're in Australia, aren't you?

I don't see a barbie in the picture.

Nor any scorpions, alligators, snakes, spiders, kangaroos or emus for that matter.

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