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jjgreen

10,159karma·4,124submissions·February 7, 2014
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I live my life by the Latin dictum carpe diem: seize the carp.

https://jjg.gitlab.io/en/

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Heh, I found this site when I was an undergraduate and passed the link on to a senior topologist in the department on a whim; he was delighted, purchased a couple of them, and when I went for a postgr…
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> Ruby on Windows is a nightmare. It hurts when I do this ... [punches self in face] ...
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Like the Italian Vodaphone backdoor reported by Bloomberg? https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/04/30/huawei_enterprise_r... …
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Enduser
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As did Jackson Pollock [1] and other artists ... [1] https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/modern-art-was-cia-... …
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Looks interesting, thanks
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Invite me to live there, I'll bring down the the tone.
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My (not uncommon) name used to have my site in the top 3, then I was pushed to page 5-6 by the opening of a Night Market in Bangkok , I guess there are worse ways to go.
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Carnist, I believe, is a term used by vegans to refer to those who support ideologically that it is acceptable to use animals for food, rather than someone who eats meat. There are people who do no…
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Thank you
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Omnivores are generally polite enough to call vegans that which you call themselves, perhaps you'd like to return the favour?
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French crows are bigger than English crows, and behave rather differently. An English crow on a pavement will hop out of the way of an approaching pedestrian, a French crow will stand there and look …
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This is great, not so much for the BigInts, but rather for small BigInts, aka, integers. At last there will be integers in js.
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It's an Indian site, and Indian English idiom can often sound odd to English or American ears.
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... the whole history of our species.
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I find it strange that there's a "Boston tea party" coffee chain in the UK
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Problem solved! https://whereisscihub.now.sh/
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As with the killing of Jean Charles de Menezes in London, you may well find that the cameras turn out to be "broken".
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True that, I had a load of code in 2.7 which I was dreading migrating to 3, but pretty much that change sorted it.
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A lot of the time, the TeX output target is paper, and there (with a decent resolution printer) it looks rather splendid (in my view anyway).
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Because it takes part in (and occasionally wins) the Eurovision song contest.
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You know, I really don't know: it always looks strange and wrong to me. I can live with American fondness for the "Oxford comma" (enumerating "one, two, and three"), but that…
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Not in British typography (it does in American).
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Very useful metric, whenever you're asked to do one you know your potential employer is an idiot, so walk away.
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Only for a week or so, you soon acclimatise.
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Please don't use "UUID" for that, it's taken (and useful).
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Wales voted to leave by about the (UK) national margin.
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