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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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But what is default?

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Which part of 'saving' looks like corpses mindlessly marching towards civilians, who have a chance to go west south (well, Jon said they could have the lands directly south of the wall, but no one can stop free folk from going far south or even to Essos individually), to butcher the...

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s07e04:

Spoiler:

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Huh, part 4 of The Race is the only part that has a topic. Well, I won't retroactively make a topic for part 5 just to say the following. I finally got the "I swallowed a bug" reference. :D "Got" as in heard that line spoken in the film, not just that it's something River would ...

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It doesn't warrant its own topic/thread. You could've placed that message in something on youtube or fleeting/random thoughts or whatever appropriate topic is hiding in FaiD . Maybe there's even a long forgotten "jokes thread". Perhaps you could ask ST to merge this into the fleeting thoug...

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I'm not up-to-date with tablet pens, but way back (some 10 years ago) the only cheapish tablet pens that weren't battery-powered were Wacom pens. The others were powered with AAA cells or similar and therefore quite bulky and not like a regular pen. Moreover, cheap models didn't offer tilt sensors, ...

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ObsessoMom wrote:Wow, the Isle of the Dead is a roundabout! I'll have to adjust my theology accordingly.

So that's where dresden codak got that tomb environment from!

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It certainly triggered my email notification system (namely a timeout while polling the online players). Though I don't notice 300 new messages when the email tab is closed. :roll: (superfluous to say, I did notice after reading oscar's message and it's up now) That's the third time in about a week ...

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Peaceful Whale wrote:The characters in xkcd don't have faces, so why would their emojis have faces either?

Oooh, that's meta!

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So the best use would be to power a machine that sets an alarm 6 hours in the future and is triggered by that same alarm.

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I love the Maildir principle. No need to fire up a proper email client to filter and remove 900 new messages (because currently cron sends me a message every minute the xkcd minecraft server is down :roll: ) because the emails (proper) are just text files in a folder. :D (this has been known to peop...

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https://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/bun_alert.png Title text: “ Since buns range from crepuscular to nocturnal, it's recommended that you enable the scheduled "Do Not Disturb" mode on your phone to avoid being woken by alerts about Night Buns. ” A bun alert might not be such a bad idea: I don't ...

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I think it was the editing that made the 'teleporting' more jarring (speaking as one who hasn't touched a single book): We get a grand scheme of taking Casterly Rock narrated by Tyrion, then suddenly a cut to a naval battle (which, afterwards, left me wondering whether it took place at casterly ...

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I'm not to speak any good of any other TV network (especially american ones), but how would this solve anything rather than perpetuate segregation?

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Ah, free screenings for non-critics, that's news to me!

Soupspoon wrote:And then there was 1857. Unless you didn't take that as (somewhat) serious...

That comic was a completely hypothetical joke until yesterday.

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TIL (through a satire by Boondocks) in the USA there's an actual television network called BET (black entertainment television). Isolating your target audience by skin colour is bad enough, but they're allowed to even promote it through their company name.

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( Reacting solely with a bastardization of the thinking emoji seemed like a good idea: it's very relevant to the title text and it seemed like an apt response to the very existence of this film. Also I like its confused/dorky/cynic expression.) It strikes me as odd that there are so many negative re...

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What would be the benefit of clicking the "take including illegal goods" in case there are two buttons? Are illegal goods a risky business or only a hindrance? After a bit of searching the web, illegal goods do seem to be big risky business, so a "take only the 'legal' stuff" bu...

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No product with "smart" in its name can be any good.

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You want impressive numbers? 90 000, 132 000, five million, 70 500 000, three hundred million, N_A, g₆₄, TREE(3), eight.

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