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Is your cat coming out of her (his?) shell yet? Mine has looked for attention a few times this week, and surprised me!
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Yes, she's coming from under the couch now 
She still won't let me come near, but at least she's (mostly) out of hiding so I call that a win.
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Here in South Africa we call traffic lights robots. Click on the robots to prove you're not a robot 
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This was most confusing thing to me. On the first day at the plant, I asked at the entrance the directions to office I had to go. He told me to drive straight, turn left from second robot, continue till I cross rail track, turn right from first robot and then there is visitor parking on right. I was amazed that there are robots walking around in the plant (like they show in movies). I did not see a single robot and was lost in the plant for about 15 minutes.
"It is easy to decipher extraterrestrial signals after deciphering Javascript and VB6 themselves.", ISanti[ ^]
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reCaptcha is consistently rubbish, as far as I can tell. Either that or I'm an automaton. (I hate that, for one thing, it's American and assumes we all know exactly what a fire hydrant looks like. In the UK fire hydrants are neatly hidden away under covers in the ground).
Some years ago I spent half an hour writing a captcha routine in vb.net that colours and distorts text; but using characters that are not easily confused (so I don't use I l 1, 0 or O etc) and easily configurable as to the extent of distortion. Works well and I use it on most of my sites. I'd do an article on it but, on second thoughts, I'll wait until it dominates the world and then start charging for it... 
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Well, google thanks you for all the unpaid work you've done for them, training their AIs.
Oh, wait...
No it doesn't.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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And it should work [^]
The only question to ask is: "What could possibly go wrong?"
I do hope they've looked at the possible impact of forcing clouds to form over the sea, where forest fires don't frequently occur.
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Quote: The only question to ask is: "What could possibly go wrong?"
Doing nothing - that's what could go wrong - doing anything considered and almost sane is better than sitting around doing nothing - if it doesnt work, then you can modify/try another approach
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I won't argue against that, because degradation of the reef is having hideous effects on just about everything in the region, but if you don't figure out what side-effects it could have before you start, it may be too late to figure out what to do about them after the effect.
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Mark_Wallace wrote: forcing clouds to form over the sea
Well the article is clear that's not what they're doing; they're whitening the existing clouds. It has no impact (in theory) on the level of cloud cover. However I suspect it may make the rain fall (when it does eventually) as sea water, and if it does that over land, they may find they end up helping the coral but desertifying the land. Given the very very small effect that they can be expecting, one also has to wonder whether the negative environmental effects of mining / extracting the salt, transporting the salt, running the turbine (and extracting / transporting the fuel for the turbine(s)) may not massively outweigh the benefits.
On a slightly different topic, here in the UK we've had three weeks of largely unbroken sunshine (though rain is forecast for this afternoon). For a month traditionally associated with showers, that's very odd and I suspect part of the reason is the almost total absence of aircraft contrails. I saw one yesterday and, with little breeze, it was still clearly visible 15 minutes later but spread out over a wide arc of the sky. Given we normally get several high-altitude aircraft crossing over per minute, the overall impact on cloud cover must be considerable. In global warming terms, those clouds are acting as a blanket by night. I do hope someone is doing some serious (home-based) research to see if the effects are statistically significant.
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Even when I'm certain I know exactly what I'm doing, if someone asks me if I know what I'm doing, I reply "no".
And the most amazing thing about me is that I'm always right.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Gas is cheap and I am grounded!
If you can't laugh at yourself - ask me and I will do it for you.
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/ravi
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Thankfully the testosterone levels have dropped over the years 
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity -
RAH
I'm old. I know stuff - JSOP
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Yes same here
- Not allow to go to a party
- Be at home at 22:00
- and so on 
Gas: The Kinks - A Gallon Of Gas - YouTube[^]
It does not solve my Problem, but it answers my question
modified 19-Jan-21 21:04pm.
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When can I come out?, this time out is killing me!
I'm hiding from exercise...I'm in the fitness protection program.
JaxCoder.com
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After modernizing the power distribution within my home, all of my household appliances are grounded as well.
For the gas prices, they don't care. They are electric.
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We are! We are the Ramones, you hear?! And you. You've heard it first!
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This should have been loudly publicised in the West in January.
From the moment the contagion was announced (Jan 3rd, only 44 cases, and before anyone had even died from it -- and the same day China formally informed the US about it) just about everyone in China was wearing a mask.
The idea that a mask will protect you is not nonsense, but it's close. Wearing a mask stutters the spread by protecting everyone else, but anti-maskers only shouted about the not-quite-nonsense bit.
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But ... Our Great Leader declared that it would go away with the spring, as soon as as it got a little warmer ...
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The entire western world didn't take it seriously enough, so no-one wore masks, and the virus ripped through entire communities in no time flat.
Where numbers are high in Asia, it's predominantly because of small clusters of arrogant or stupid behaviour (e.g. religious meetings), where masks were spurned.
So, rule one, for the next one: Wear masks.
Rule zero is, of course, Don't be a dick, but that rule's appropriate at any time, not just during a pandemic.
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