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I think you can rotate images by actually rotating them, or by putting a flag in the metadata saying "rotate 90°". Support for the second is uneven. Part of general move away from tools and towards platforms :-(
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I inherited a lot of digital photos from my dad. He scanned all his negatives, but the scanner produced giant 25MB jpeg files. Powertoys and irfanview were both part of my workflow for getting a handle on them.
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Have you seen Scott Alexander's future history of the Silmarils?
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The writer of Beowulf knew it over a millennium ago
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If you define successful as making money, we actually know the answer to this: become good at pictures of sexy anthropomorphic animas.
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I feel like people have been quoting the "body water percentage" fact for my whole life. But every five years or so the number changes. It was 75%. Then 82%. Now it's down to 60%? Is the truth out there? Were people just wetter in the 80s and 90s?
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I was told once that 1 baud is one sine wave per second. Past 2400 it is too hard to squeeze more cycles onto a telephone wire so they started using amplitude to get more bits per baud.
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Hello, I enjoy this too. Just that every so often it throws up an impossible puzzle. In case you feel like going back to it :-)
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Variant: both players can freely play nought or cross on their turn. If you make three in a row of either symbol, you win. It's still solvable, but it feels a lot less obvious somehow.
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The answer is—yes. Digital Tolkien has details.
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Fessor is obviously confused... "Deutschmark" is sort of the same shape as "drachma" (start with d, end with ma) and they are both pre-euro moneys no longer in use
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I didn't fully understand that joke until just now!
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Smbc has some excuses for you ➡️ www.smbc-comics.com/comic/you-too
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O RLY owl to make a comeback in 2030s as a way of making money off nostalgic 40-somethings
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I love Colin Rudd's version of this song— m.youtube.com/watch?v=pISz...
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That's when people with pickup trucks deliberately mess with their engines to make their exhaust as black and smoky as possible, basically as a middle finger to people who are worried about climate change.
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Does that mean rolling coal is now illegal in Tennessee?
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If you give every poor person $100 per week, how do you stop landlords from just raising their rents by $100 per week?
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I clicked through to the 2010 comic, and the comments underneath it are just—WOW.
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I love her work—"I sang of leaves" is probably my favourite but many good ones. I also recommend Colin Rudd, eg m.youtube.com/watch?v=NT5-...
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Oh my god, I have to buy that 😮
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I am reminded of Ambrose Bierce:
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Honestly not hard to imagine eg a Marriage table with Husband and Wife columns, and constraints that Husband is a person with Gender=Male, etc.
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Yeah exactly. Then: pale skin is a status symbol because you don't work outside. Now: tanned skin is a status symbol because you have leisure while the sun is up and can go outside.
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Some ferns: grow miniature versions of yourself on your fronds, then when they get big enough, drop them into the soil so they can start growing by themselves.
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NZ is death+50 for books. But we've promised the UK to increase it to +70. But we have like 15 years to actually make the increase. So...maybe? Depends on the priorities of the new govt I gues
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It's not inspiring...
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There's some good stuff buried in later verses. Eg We Three Kings contains the iconic Christmas lines "Sorrowing, sighing, bleeding, dying / Sealed in a stone cold tomb"
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I tried to buy it today but they don't ship to New Zealand :-(
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Kind of amazing that Z turned into I and I turned into Z
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The story I heard is that spices became much cheaper in Europe, so that even common folk could afford spiced food. But quality meat was still expensive, so rich people switched to high-quality meats as a status symbol.
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I have read that the checkout screens make things worse by inhibiting airflow without actually providing any protection. So, on balance, maybe a good thing 🤷♂️
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Worst Guess Who lineup ever
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Reminds me of Terry Pratchett's "breakaway oxidation phenomena"=uncontrolled fires
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Also discovered by Polynesians. Hard to know exact dates but they may have been visiting South America around the time vikings were up north, or a little later.
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Where is Andrew Geddis writing these days?