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kerbiloid

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  1. When you have GPS, you have a calculator, no need to calculate in head and spend your brain resources on remembering the useless pi numbers. 22/7 (i.e. also 11 * 2 / 7) works perfectly for me and the Phoenicians for thousands of years. It's always good to remember that: ab * 11 = a[a+b]b, i.e. 25 * 11 = 275 0.11 ~= 1/9 0.14 ~= 1 / 7 Together, these simple formulas do wonders. Also, sqrt(1.5) ~= 5/4, sqrt(5) ~=9/4, 21/3 ~= 5/4,
  2. Calling 911 when you live in the USSR, where the emergency service phone numbers were: 01 - fireguards, 02 - militia (police), 03 - ambulance, 04 - gas pipe repair service.
  3. And while it great ISP (literally, a photon rocket), its thrust is pathetic. Also it's a nuke-powered X-ray laser.
  4. Sounds like a beginning of a half of horror movies... Let's just hope that no mutated bloodsucking thing lives in the sink.
  5. 500 / 568 = 0.88 Same as 9 eggs in a pack of 10. Known as "a nine of eggs", when inattentive customer thinks it's "a ten".
  6. It's enough to know that pi ~= 22/7 Precision = 0.04% Try to find such ruler.
  7. Yes, yes. A cultural community.
  8. Aren't licenses and juridical texts being randomly generated by AI long ago? Can a professional lawyer distinguish the human docs from the auto docs? *** Say, like the known yandex.ru's "Vesna" essay generator. (Sorry, in Russian. Google can't autotranslate it by URL). https://yandex.ru/referats/?t=philosophy&s=15787
  9. If plant a stick into the ground as a gnomon, wait for the night, and measure the shadow angle of the stick in reflected Martian light in upper culmination, and do this at once at several places, the shadow lines intersection will show the 3d position of Mars. Thus, the distance also can be computed.
  10. What if they found the Pioneer picture, and think that humans have just two genders? What a shame...
  11. Only: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TMK http://www.astronautix.com/t/tmk-e.html http://www.astronautix.com/t/tmk-1.html https://www.russianspaceweb.com/spacecraft_manned_mars.html http://www.astronautix.com/m/mk-700.html Particulary Energia: http://www.astronautix.com/m/marpost.html
  12. Biker mafia. They are like alcomafia with gallons, pints, and quarts but with wheels and inches. No need to say that the bikers are fond of pints and quarts, too. Aggressively toxic masculine conservatism. No problem. Just pour 470 ml in a 500 ml bottle and take money for 500. It's a time to replace those ugly .45 and .38 with clear and accurate 11.5 and 9 mm. Starting from cowboy movies. "Get my eleven-and-half, you unpleasant person! Bartender! 470 ml of whiskey!"
  13. A funny fact about the G pronunciation. In Russian books George Washington is sometimes /dzhordzh/ (modern tradition, direct transcription from English), sometimes /georg/ (historical tradition, all English names via Deutsch), depending on author's preferences. So, in Russian it could be also said "gif like Washinton's name". P.S. Does Charles III know that in Russian press he's always officially referenced as Karl III? Ja, ja, das ist so. https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/Карл_III_(король_Великобритании) While other Charleses, like Charles Dickens, are still Charleses. And as well, then-prince Charles was Charles, not Karl. He became Karl on becoming a king, even if he isn't aware of. Because previous two were historically written as Karl I & II, so it would be strange to have: Karl I, Karl II, Charles III.
  14. https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/224988/where-does-the-word-gnu-come-from https://www.vocabulary.com/dictionary/gnu (Also listen there the correct pronunciation.) So, the /g/ pronunciation is obviously erroneous, and like everything in the GNU/Linux cult is unnatural and thought-out. The correct form of GNU should be !NU: Amn't surprised at all, as GNU / Linux is a clone of Esperanto cultists a century before. Btw, this drives to the idea that GNU/Linux culture should be rewritten in Esperanto, thus both cults can merge and become one, in the sacred name of Cthulhu. https://eo.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU
  15. But how do you know that it's /g/? Wiki doesn't explain.
  16. GNU Is it /gnu/ or /d3nu/ ? And GPL.
  17. Banned for mentioning "ban-jo" in another thread.
  18. ", five picosecond". "Look at that laser maniac.", whispering they behind your back.
  19. Banned for not reading others' signatures while having an overcomplicated one.
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