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 Discussion on question by So Few Agai…

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TripeHound
Jul 30, 2024 04:08
"and the whole world has followed his story" No they haven't.
 

 Discussion on question by Řídící: How…

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TripeHound
Jul 16, 2024 19:02
I wonder how much luck we (in the UK) would have asking the French, for instance, to use "United Kingdom" or "Great Britain" instead of "le Royaume Uni" or "la Grande Bretagne".
 

 Discussion on question by Core of rea…

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TripeHound
Jul 15, 2024 16:46
"without the written consent of the Landlord" Have you actually asked the landlord?
 

 Discussion on answer by T.E.D.: Is th…

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TripeHound
May 30, 2024 12:59
@vsz Why there is a lack should probably be a separate question. This question and its answer is about whether there is evidence for one person's putative reason for that lack.
 

 Discussion on answer by Michael Hall:…

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TripeHound
Jan 18, 2024 09:52
@algiogia But you said in the question that you've already spent the store credit, so that portion has essentially been refunded (in the form of the things you bought with the credit).
 

 Discussion on question by Sanchises: …

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TripeHound
Nov 30, 2023 16:13
Not a DIYer, so I may be talking rubbish, but does "right now our radiators are typically very hot in a small area and pretty much cold for the rest" mean the radiator(s) in one small area of the house are set hot, and the others are set cooler; or a small area of a single radiator is hot, and the rest of that radiator is cold? If the latter, that sounds like they may need bleeding.
 

 Discussion on question by Louis: Is t…

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TripeHound
Sep 17, 2023 13:27
The "best" weasel words for the original assessment would have been "There are no outstanding issues identified through pentesting."
 

 Discussion on question by akinuri: Wh…

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TripeHound
Aug 27, 2023 12:11
@ilkkachu Except it's 256 rectangles, labelled 0 to 255.
 

 Discussion on answer by Jon Custer: H…

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TripeHound
Oct 13, 2021 18:05
@Allure Possibly (I've not checked) the effects of different time-zones and/or different conversions to local time?
 

 Discussion on question by CiurkitboyN…

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TripeHound
May 11, 2021 02:31
Ask a question on StackExchange :-)
 

 Discussion on answer by Dan: Do I hav…

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TripeHound
Mar 14, 2021 21:04
@NotThatGuy I'd say it's more like someone (the company) paying the OP to take that child on a two-week holiday, saying "Here's the outward ticket, we'll send you the return-ticket during the second week". They then suddenly decide they want to cut the holiday short, don't send the return ticket, and have the temerity to ask "Oh, and can you bring the child back for free?"
 

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TripeHound
Jan 29, 2021 07:38
I strongly suspect that by "the investors of some of the now bankrupt firms will just go on to find other highly paid jobs" the OP meant those that manage the investing... the ones (formerly) in red braces, power suits driving Porches :-)
 

 Discussion on answer by Harper - Rein…

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TripeHound
Dec 8, 2020 04:15
@Harper-ReinstateMonica Thanks for the background/framework... some I knew, some I didn't. However, while your answer has been very helpful, it was ThreePhaseEel's sentence about testing of 15A duplex receptacles that most clarified things for me, so I've accepted their answer.
TripeHound
Dec 8, 2020 04:15
@grahamj42 Yes, I was aware that 3A and 13A are the only common ones now (although the others are still available -- I checked), and nearly mentioned that... but decided the comment was long-enough, and the fact the common choice of sizes is smaller than it used to be didn't really alter the point.
TripeHound
Dec 8, 2020 04:15
"and I bet the fuses are sized to protect the appliance." Yes. Fuses come in 3A, 5A, 10A and 13A sizes (the maximum for a 13A socket), and would be chosen according to the size of cable they protect (which in turn would be chosen according to the maximum draw of the appliance). I don't know precisely what our regulations say about tolerances etc., but conceptually at least, something drawing a maximum of 4A might be fitted with 6A cable and a 5A fuse. If the appliance went wrong, the fuse should blow before the cable has a chance to overheat.
 

 Discussion on answer by Connor Garcia…

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TripeHound
Nov 10, 2020 17:33
@ConnorGarcia Presumably if you plugged the figures for the earth/moon into the above, it should show a max % area occluded of somewhere close to 100%?
 

 Discussion on answer by Raffzahn: Pro…

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TripeHound
Nov 6, 2020 18:47
It is well known that all elevators are going to end up sulking in basements :-)
 

 Discussion on question by Trish: The …

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TripeHound
Oct 26, 2020 19:38
@jamesqf "(As not everone who has a cat realizes they are a cat servant)" Fixed :-)
 

 Discussion on answer by Trish: Is it …

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TripeHound
Oct 1, 2020 17:45
"The contents of the package are fully owned by the sender [...until] you sign for the receipt of the package" I don't know if this still happens in the UK, nor whether it does/has happened in the US, but I have seen companies' T&Cs along the lines of the buyer taking ownership on payment and requests that the company "arranges dispatch on the buyer's behalf". The idea (I assume) is that if the goods are lost in transit it is up to the buyer to complain (to the carriers) or seek recompense from them.
 

 Discussion on answer by ohwilleke: Ho…

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TripeHound
Aug 10, 2020 20:41
Presumably the end of the first paragraph of Step 3 is not specifically about age discrimination, but about any protected status.
 

 Discussion on answer by Stephen Kitt:…

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TripeHound
Jul 21, 2020 17:22
@Nelson "it's a huge PITA to figure out someone else's reasoning" I guess it depends on why you're doing it (forced to vs. because you want to), and on the person. Yes, it can be frustrating, but I can still remember the feeling of accomplishment when I nailed reverse-engineering the map format of Wolfenstein 3D.
 

 Discussion on answer by Andy aka: Why…

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TripeHound
Jun 13, 2020 04:28
@richardb Tri-state refers more to how the output circuitry works. A two-state output drives high or drives low. Tri-state essentially leaves the output undriven so other devices can control it. The actual output level is still always high or low.
 

 Discussion on question by csrowell: I…

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TripeHound
Jan 20, 2020 14:51
@multithr3at3d The problem I've seen with password-fields and "not telling the users" is not that some sites restrict the characters allowed in the password, but that they don't tell you what is required for a password to be acceptable. The BACS website (for UK direct payments / direct-debit collections) used to periodically force you to change your password. When you entered a new one, it would sometimes say that it didn't meet their rules (e.g. mix of letters, numbers, symbols; etc.) but didn't tell you what those rules were!.
 

 Discussion on question by dwjohnston:…

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TripeHound
Nov 2, 2019 00:01
@Mari-LouA Sorry, I wasn't questioning that it's reasonable to initially refer to someone with an obviously female-sounding name by a female epithet; just that it doesn't necessarily tell you anything about what they were (or appeared to be) at birth.
TripeHound
Nov 2, 2019 00:01
@Mari-LouA I don't think you can assume that because they're (now) called e.g. Anna that they are (or were) female at birth. The person might have been born an Adam and later decided/realised they're really an Anna.
 

 Discussion on answer by David: Is the…

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TripeHound
Sep 10, 2019 13:39
@David Them is fightin' words!
 

 Discussion on question by AJFaraday: …

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TripeHound
Aug 9, 2019 13:27
@einpoklum Exactly what I was going to say. And once a fool has been parted from all his money, they become disillusioned and choose another trade. Hence why none are seen!
 

 Discussion on answer by Barry Harriso…

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TripeHound
Aug 6, 2019 10:55
@BarryHarrison OK, it feels far too low to be certain other factors aren't skewing things.
TripeHound
Aug 6, 2019 10:55
I fully agree the sample size is too small for anything meaningful. However, I would argue 33*large debt + 36*small fortune is not the same as 70*10k + 1*-500k. The dichotomy in your second example would (without a significant reason why) be very unusual and unlikely sampling.
TripeHound
Aug 6, 2019 10:55
@Theik That is (if my understanding is correct) why they used the median (=middle value) rather than the mean (=average value). That one 500k debt would only move the median over one place (in your example, from one 10k person to the next 10k person). Median is far less susceptible to uncharacteristic outliers than is the mean.
 

 Discussion on question by user: Why d…

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TripeHound
Jul 29, 2019 12:54
@Uwe Originally, not of any line of longitude but of the one passing through Paris (wiki).
 

 Discussion on answer by Graham: Why n…

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TripeHound
Jun 14, 2019 13:19
@PeterCordes I know it's not as simplistic at that: the point of the comment was that when processor's clocks speeds jumped from low hundreds of MHz to multi-GHz, the jump in overall performance wasn't as big as those numbers might at first imply.
TripeHound
Jun 14, 2019 13:19
@PeterCordes First, as I said, I was glossing over a lot of complications and other enhancements over the years. I wasn't forgetting how pipelines work... under ideal conditions (ignoring superscalar) there'll be 14 instructions in it, progressing one stage every clock. But, while one instruction might complete every clock, each instruction will take 14 clocks to finish. [cont]
TripeHound
Jun 14, 2019 13:19
"Once clock speeds got up to GHz" It may also be worth noting, for those not "of a certain age" that today's multi-GHz speeds can't directly compare with (much) older speeds because of increased pipelining (see this Wiki page). So – very crudely and with lots of things ignored – a 4.2GHz processor with a 14-stage pipeline is closer to 300MHz, for those that had to decide between a 486DX-33 (33MHz) and a 486DX2-50 (25MHz, clock-doubled).
 

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TripeHound
May 12, 2019 23:28
@Makyen Sorry... I missed the "in this case" part. You are, of course, right that frequency needs to be checked as well as voltage.
TripeHound
May 12, 2019 23:28
@Makyen The first photo shows the input as accepting "50-60Hz"
 

 Discussion on answer by Luc: Is Dicew…

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TripeHound
Apr 27, 2019 18:41
@MechMK1 But the point is, I believe, while you carefully chose a phrase that wasn't "guessable", many/most people (the same ones who choose password123) will pick "Mary had a little lamb" or similar. Just as using the password-generator of a password manager stops people choosing non- (or at least not-very-) random passwords, Luc's point is that Diceware stops them picking non-/not-very-random passphrases.
 

 Discussion on question by OddDev: Why…

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TripeHound
Apr 17, 2019 19:17
Presumably because it could help a stalker/angry-person track the poster down. It's not as blatant as posting your address, but it's not far short. It's also conceivable that it's not the posters that blur the numbers but the platforms (though I've no evidence whether any do or don't).
 

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TripeHound
Feb 20, 2019 15:37
@10100111001 Agree. "The slides are online" (or "take a copy of the mimeographed notes" as it was in my day -- 1982-6) is one method of knowledge transfer. Unfortunately, since the transfer doesn't involve going via the students' brains, it's of questionable use.
 

 Discussion on answer by alephzero: I'…

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TripeHound
Nov 15, 2018 19:36
@shoover As well as what jpmc26 says, many people "of a certain age" (as the wife would have been) have an almost superstitious dislike of wills ("If I write a will, it will mean I'm going to die soon") so it's not too surprising (especially if the husband had previously handled all financial matters).
 

 Discussion on answer by problemoffice…

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TripeHound
Nov 5, 2018 15:23
@J... And, of course, if the OP should land a job at a software house using Oracle, asking "Can you not switch everything to Postgre because that's what I know" won't go down well!
 

 Discussion on question by Harry: My s…

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TripeHound
Nov 1, 2018 18:03
@Harry In that case, although I've no experience learning the guitar, and you're probably right to factor-in any notes of caution in some answers... then at first glance, if he's currently coping well with a full-size guitar, and you decide to buy a guitar at all, then it seems reasonable to stick with a full-size one that he's used to, especially if an experienced teacher recommends this.
TripeHound
Nov 1, 2018 18:03
What size guitar is your son currently learning on?
 

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TripeHound
Oct 24, 2018 12:07
@DonQuiKong Anyone with 40 millions in their account could probably get someone from the bank to fly out with the money in person!
 

 Discussion on question by Wilson: Why…

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TripeHound
Oct 4, 2018 15:50
@RichF "I hated the old monitors in their 132 CpL mode. It was not only awkward to read, but very ugly as well" It was very useful when I was developing fax software without the benefit of a graphical terminal: a VT220's 132-column by (IIRC) 48-line mode provided a dense-enough way of viewing a fax's pixels before I got the actual "talking to a fax modem" code working :-)
 

 Discussion on answer by jpatokal: Is …

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TripeHound
Sep 6, 2018 15:56
@CannonFodder While it may be convenient to have the public key that signed a document (passport) on/with the document, you cannot rely on that (it, or the signer's identity must be confirmed against a list of "known signers"). Otherwise, anyone could create their own private key, sign fake passport data and include their public key. Without the extra check, this would appear genuine.
 

 Discussion on answer by BrenBarn: By …

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TripeHound
Aug 29, 2018 13:39
+100 Was part way through a similar answer. Kyle: you really shouldn't be saddling yourself with $40k+ of debt at your age (at any age?) just for a new car: save up for a decent used car at a fraction of this price.
 

 Discussion on question by Eulb: If ev…

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TripeHound
Aug 22, 2018 18:37
Have things like the internet been wiped out? It obviously wouldn't last long with no one to look after it, but if everyone around me disappeared/died, I'd probably try making contact online... I'd even risk asking an off-topic question on SO/SE! (Probably only to find that one of the 34 other people was a moderator and see it closed :-( )
 

 Discussion on answer by Tetsujin: Wha…

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TripeHound
Aug 4, 2018 18:01
@Tetsujin "The place where English was invented"? You mean Greece, Rome, Germany, Denmark, France and India to name a few?
 

 Discussion on question by nilāmbara:…

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TripeHound
Aug 3, 2018 18:41
Another possibility to eliminate before you make any accusation: in some (many?) countries, universities can offer Honorary Degrees. While probably not a very likely explanation, it should be checked.