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Vanadium 50
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Ollie1125 said:it's not homework it's an assignment
How can you argue with logic like that?
Ollie1125 said:it's not homework it's an assignment
PeroK said:I know, I nearly choked on my cup of tea!
strangerep said:(Context omitted as an act of mercy.)
This was in response to:Baluncore said:That suggests you are so far behind, that you think you are first.
StevenRice said:I won't be able to tell you everything you say you need. Because I fear that someone might steal my ideas.
pbuk said:Option E: You won't affect the original files by doingrm -rf /run/timeshift/backup
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If you don't have a reliable backup or clean underwear on hand I recommend instead a variant on Option B: [...]
...most motion is proper motion, parallax is not hugely smaller.
We will never know whether this was a subtlety by @Vanadium 50 or pure luck, that he had chosen the direction Rome ##\longrightarrow ## Paris and not the other way around. If it was Paris ##\longrightarrow ## Rome, then the plan would had been a perfect one, because all roads lead to Rome.pinball1970 said:That's not a plan. A plan explains how the process will work. It has a beginning, a middle and an end. Your plan is similar to (but not as good as) a plan to drive from Rome to Paris: "Drive out of Rome. Drive on various streets until I bump into Paris."
Backdrop. The thoughts Mikee M was interested in was a pop sci video (which to be fair he acknowledged as pop sci) on possibility of multiple big bangs. Unfortunately he just posted the yt video 13 minutes long and said 'thoughts.'MikeeMiracle said:
Thoughts?
Bandersnatch said:Only social scientists have real social life. Physicists manage with half-life. Botanists are barely vegetating. Chemists are bonding among themselves.
symbolipoint said:Proficiency spoils when it is no longer maintained nor pushed to further development.
russ_watters said:Using my mentorsupermediocrepowers for good, I read the post you deleted, and honestly it looked fine to me.
Verbing weirds language, according to Calvin and Hobbes.PeroK said:To "nerd out" is new to me. But, as the US linguistics professor said "one can verb any noun".
Or as I expert it: One can noun.PeroK said:To "nerd out" is new to me. But, as the US linguistics professor said "one can verb any noun".
Can is also regular: can, canned, canned.fresh_42 said:Or as I expert it: One can noun.
One being regular verb: to noun, nouned, nouned, and one irregular: to expert, export, expart.
Baluncore said:All Gods believe in mathematics.
PeroK said:To "nerd out" is new to me. But, as the US linguistics professor said "one can verb any noun".
Although said in the context of someone trying to do quantum mechanics without complex numbers, I also think it might make a great entry in a self-help book (something something lower case i something something taming ego something something)A. Neumaier said:Nothing at all is gained by trying to avoid i.
Nugatory said:You were asking about the unpublished work of “amateur physicists”, and their work develops the science of physics about as much as palmistry develops the science of anatomy.
Vanadium 50 said:Hey, don't "like" my oost.
UrbanDictionary said:oost
to dry hump someone of the same sex once with great vigor while they are bending over while shouting "OOST!", perhaps while they are picking up something. ideally an oost should knock someone over. oosts can be performed from a standstill or with a run up.
Then you'll have to post a link to the original. (I don't read each and every post on PF.)Vanadium 50 said:I have my 8000. Go "like" the original by @Nugatory!
That quote is two lines. I'm afraid I will have to disqualify your entry.Vanadium 50 said:
Hey, when I started the thread, I said "Sometimes I see a line (or maybe a brief multiline) post . . ." ##-## and in all reasonable deference, I ask how should anyone presume to DQ an entry of GM @Vanadium 50? In my opinion, his quote of @Nugatory's masterful remark was also quite masterful.Ivan Seeking said:That quote is two lines. I'm afraid I will have to disqualify your entry.
Isn't "In fact, maybe" rather fence-straddling? ##-## and might not such a mandatory requirement be rather stultifying? ##-## I think that whether to include a back-pointer link should continue to be left up to the person who posts the quote . . .strangerep said:In fact, maybe posting a link to the original should be a mandatory requirement for new posts in this thread?