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Don Edwards
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Everyone is weird. Details vary.
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There's the option of an external fan... for testing, any cheap household fan and a place to set it & the drive so the fan is blowing on the drive. Then if that works but is overly inconvenient, you can explore other possible arrangements. I've had to do that a couple times, with an SSD dangling off the edge of the table by its cord (which helpfully means there's air on all sides of it) and the fan on a chair. SSDs slow down when overheated, writing to them heats them, and when you're writing multiple gigabytes...
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I've found an odd thing about my favorite cookies. Two of them, is enough. Three of them, is not enough.
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I'm skeptical.
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"Rain shower" normally implies one or more short periods of rain, each one probably only over a small area. The alternative is when it rains continuously for hours over a large area. (Or, in the US's Pacific Northwest in winter and spring, continuously for a few days and totaling half an inch.)
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Heh. I did this in '22 on another forum... ♩♩♫♩♬♪♫ Don’t take your warmth away from me Don’t you leave my arms all shivery ‘Cause I wish the night’s not through And waking up is hard to do. Remember when you held me tight Warm blankets wrapped all through the night So sound asleep the whole night through And waking up is hard to do. They say that waking up is hard to do Now I know, I know that it’s true Don’t say that this is the end Instead of waking up I wish that I could fall asleep again I beg of you, don’t make me glower Can’t we stretch the night just one more hour? Come on bed, I’ll stay with you ‘Cause waking up is hard to do. (original gets repetitive after that)
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Political Discussion Thread (READ FIRST POST)
Don Edwards replied to The Old Hack's topic in Off Topic Discussion
Well, when someone discovers a hole in safety rules, they draft a new rule and expect everyone else - not just the dummy who found the hole - to comply with it. Not hard to expect that the same would apply to security rules. And the people drafting the rules are not paragons of virtue and wisdom. They're people, just like the dummy who demonstrated the hole. -
My speculation is that the spellbook entry for a spell that a Wizard learns by observation is... nonexistent. And Jay is observing spells she hadn't seen before, at a far higher rate than we've seen any of the marked folks acquire spells. So presumably a substantial majority of her spells are learned rather than acquired.
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"I said, "Mr. Purple People Eater, what's your line?" He said, "It's eatin' purple people and it sure is fine" Hard to interpret that as NOT saying that the Purple People Eater eats purple people. Given that, there's nothing in the song that definitively says the creature is, or isn't, purple.
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Hope isn't going to cast a "modern knowledge" spell, or anything similar, unless and until she perceives a need to do so. Granted, that need might come in the form of "okay, just to shut you up" - cast - "oh shit you're right."
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Di Ku is credited with inventing several musical instruments and writing lyrics to many songs, with the music for them composed by his assistant Xianhei
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Note that the song is NOT specifying what color the creature is. Explicitly, it's a creature that eats purple people.
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Nonviolent tornadoes are pretty rare...
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I've heard it described as "feels like I'm being fucked up the nose by a tree."
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Discussion of Military, real or fictional
Don Edwards replied to The Old Hack's topic in Off Topic Discussion
I wouldn't say the Libertarian Party actually supports Russia. However, I would say they are excessively isolationist. -
Care to try to prove that we all aren't figments of some author's imagination?
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Post-mortem dumps (explosive devices)
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It's not all that new a thing, and it isn't just dragons. I remember one series (can't recall the title, unfortunately) of at least four fantasy books. Major characters were a pair of weapon-wielders. Physical descriptions, which included what weapons they bore, were copied verbatim from the first book into each of the others. Cover art NEVER matched on the weapons, which also varied from book to book. Back-cover blurbs sometimes didn't mention the weapons, but if they did, matched neither the text nor the cover.
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Depends on how accurately you want to simulate 'random'. R{n+1} = fractional portion of (pi+R{n})^x for some x>1 is good enough for a lot of casual purposes. I once read of a random-number generator that was adjudged NOT good enough for the purpose someone wanted to use it for, when it was found that graphing sets of three consecutive random numbers in three dimensions produced a set of parallel planes.
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NP Comic for Thursday, Mar 6, 2025
Don Edwards replied to Darth Fluffy's topic in EGS: NP Discussion
My weird brain just tried to combine that song with Hotel California. Please note, I didn't claim that the combo made any sense... -
Here's a reminder
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NP Comic for Saturday, Mar 1, 2025
Don Edwards replied to Darth Fluffy's topic in EGS: NP Discussion
Inbreeding combined with aggressive culling is how you improve a bloodline. Although if it's being managed by humans, there may be issues with the definition of "improve" - that's how we got dogs with such flat faces they have trouble just breathing, for example. For that matter, though, that's just a form of over-specialization. Which is what has driven multiple, independently-evolved versions of saber-tooth felines to extinction, when the environment around them changed such that their specialization wasn't helpful. (There's another try at the idea in progress. The Bornean clouded leopard. The longest fangs, relative to body size, of any known felines since the North American saber-tooths died out.) -
Prof: How to disable trackpad on Macbook (Can't vouch for it personally, but the instructions are rather similar to how to do the same thing on Linux Mint which is what I run.)
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Or milk, ice cream, etc. - actual milk-based dairy. Or something greasy. Or mayonnaise. Capsaicin is a non-polar molecule, so does not dissolve in water - but it does in fats and oils. And of course something that's somewhat dry and absorbent can soak it up. (Why are eggs sometimes classed as dairy? Because, in the US, they go in the refrigerator? So does orange juice. And fish.)
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I dunno, Las Cruces has its appeal. Gotta give at least a grin to a city where a major street is named Lover's Lane. (Well, literally, it's Amador Avenue.)