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Re:Why is the liver so weirdly regenerative? on Friday September 25, 2026 @07:33AM (#49843115)
People who died in an accident, think car accident or fell off a roof. Otherwise healthy people who didn’t die of a disease.
Re:Formalizing Fermat's Last Theorem on Saturday September 05, 2026 @05:50AM (#49574913)
What are the chances that a small C program uncovers a bug in the C compiler, maybe in its type checker?

What are the chances that a very large C program uncovers a bug in the C compiler?

Evidently this cute comment was not understood by some.

@iso1631 is saying that wind farms (and by extension, their supporters) think Trump is ugly and noisy. So, they mutually think this of each other.

Re:OneDrive data now has an expiry date on Monday June 08, 2026 @08:48AM (#48444700)
It needs to read the repo under .git; that’s a lot of files that may not be synced, depending on local disk space, frequency of use, etc. The local disk is just a cache.

There may be an option to Always keep on this device, which might help.

Re:Your Backpack Got Worse on Purpose on Wednesday April 15, 2026 @12:31PM (#47781490)
Maintain quality but raise prices to throttle demand to a sustainable rate? Hard to do instantaneously of course; easier said than done etc
Re:Coursera to combine with Udemy on Wednesday December 17, 2025 @08:41PM (#46307999)
Barry Nalebuff’s Intro to Negotiation is pretty fantastic. Had you negotiating against strangers in well-designed scenarios, then getting feedback from others on the recordings.

Perry Mehrling’s course on Money and Banking is good too.

That’s the parent’s point: a same-day flight may be expensive for the detainee and look bad for ICE.
Re:Improve Jupyter Notebook Reruns by Caching Cells on Friday December 22, 2023 @08:49AM (#38734084)
But compilers are deterministic, no?
I cook eggs every morning with a pat of butter in a well-seasoned cast iron pan. Works great.
Re:What are you supposed to do with old clothes? on Wednesday August 10, 2022 @04:15PM (#32417803)
In Canada, furniture pillows always come with a New Material Only tag, indicating that recycled textiles have not been used. I assume this is regulated and has been in place since the dawn of time.
That gut-wrenching feeling.
Re:Why is it hard to buy things that work well? on Tuesday March 15, 2022 @01:01PM (#30687797)
But the question was "how does the pricing work in this situation?" and I would expect a repair shop to know how their pricing works.
Potable water for drinking etc. The sea there is pretty salty, I think.
"tortuous" is the word you're wanting there. :)
Natural gas is very likely unavailable in remote areas. Usual fuels would be propane or diesel, which can be trucked in.
By "income", parent is referring to employment income. But their true income is the real estate investment of their primary residence, which nearly doubles their income.

They are borrowing $300k I guess (1.5m + 0.2m, less 1.4m), and will likely sell their new house for far more than $1.5m when they sell again in another dozen years.

The point was that all those brands are owned by Coca-Cola, after all.
Re:Workplace Wellbeing Is a Scam? on Tuesday May 11, 2021 @07:33AM (#27116773)
I think my wellness is inherently my issue, and I'd prefer that my employer stayed out of it.
Re:7% of Americans don’t use the internet. Who are they? on Tuesday April 06, 2021 @10:42PM (#26720016)
No, it's % of adults.
There was a time when the clergy was Catholic, but might various "scientific experts" be filling that role today?
Re:Shorting and Indian capital markets on Friday January 29, 2021 @07:49AM (#25956701)
140% of stock /issuance/, not outstanding. Shorting stock creates new stock. Once all shorts are closed, the 100% of issuance is still outstanding and someone's holding it. Not everyone can get out!
Re:The day my voice broke on Monday January 25, 2021 @09:07PM (#25911602)
What if, by "object", we mean not a specific instance of an object, but rather the whole category of objects? Do penguins or other animals link a specific vocal sound to "shell" or "children" or "nest"?
Re:Man dies from eating more than a bag of liquorice a day on Thursday September 24, 2020 @04:59PM (#24583583)
That just sounds like an invitation to try! No indication of possible harmful effects?
Re:How many pieces can a puzzle have? on Wednesday August 19, 2020 @07:44AM (#24209381)
Ah, but how many sequences of 3 evenly spaced numbers does the sequence have?
Re:The Most Misused SSN of All Time on Wednesday September 25, 2019 @07:05AM (#21069539)
Half the thickness?
Re:Boeing 737 MAX crash and the rejection of ridiculous data on Wednesday April 10, 2019 @03:27PM (#19627949)
BBQ lid? Many have thermometers that go higher than this (say, 700F), and they're often outdoors.
Re:How many deaths make a disaster newsworthy? on Thursday May 17, 2018 @08:05AM (#17090584)
This list still applies:

> engineering, management, government, preparedness, risk forecasting, response

I'm afraid that's none of your business, Mr Fastball.

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