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(I got some help from an LLM and math.stackexchange.com/questions/11...)
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Actually, there's a solution to the first problem that works for ellipses as well. Instead of constructing the perpendicular to a chord, construct two parallel chords and draw the line that joins their midpoints. Repeat. The intersection of the two lines is the centre of the ellipse. Easy from there
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I've been hearing about this forever. Apparently Amtrak has "right to preference" in Federal law, but that has yet to be enforced.
www.amtrak.com/content/dam/.... Dedicated high-speed lines would obviate the problem, all right.
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The trellis verticals are even shown on this plan.
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It has the other handedness in this case.
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She's not strange! Tens of thousands of tourists have visited the zone.
thenational.shorthandstories.com/chernobyl-a-...
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Photo is from the Clinton era
clinton.presidentiallibraries.us/items/show/4...
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How about "Musk shouldn't be disrespecting *anyone* like this"?
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I apologize for this reply, however, while dogs may be charismatic, they're definitely not typically counted among the charismatic megafauna! The term tends to be used with an eye on increasing public support for conservation of populations in the wild.
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It's also the UK goverment's fault for pursuing a misguided policy on this issue.
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The situation with Apple is now not "no security", it's "no end-to-end secrecy". Relatively few online services have *ever* offered end-to-end encryption, i.e. the situation where "the provider of the communication service is not able to decrypt the communications". It's not the end of the world.
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collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O82712/...
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"Gleichschaltung is a compound word that [...] was derived from an electrical engineering term meaning that all switches are put on the same circuit allowing them all to be activated by throwing a single master switch." en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gleichs...
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It seems too funny to be true, and some sources say it's fake.
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Via www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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I saw a variety of accommodation there. More modern buildings were centrally heated and ensuite (or close to it).
When I say it became cosy, I mean not just in reality but also in the "Dark Academia" idealization of medieval universities which ignores how spartan they could be.
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Wikipedia records some minutiae about that lamppost.
I'm not sure exactly when academic life started to become cosy. Central heating only came in anywhere in the 70s. Old college buildings must have remained exposed to the cold long past that. Some must still be.
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It was a place where sushi was viewed with suspicion by a good fraction of the population. This probably sounds like a "somewheres vs anywheres" moan, which is not my intention. I'm an anywhere. I'm just remembering the chilliness and the austere, non-metropolitan vibe of the pubs & outskirts.
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Just an extraordinary sense of speed here youtube.com/clip/UgkxgL5...
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I think this tweet was too good to be true. It has been deleted.