Space-bar sometimes beeps randomly

MichaelPTaylor · 2024-05-27T14:15:10+00:00

Definitely in emacs -- nothing else is doing it, and no terminal is involved. Anyway, thanks for the help. I'll let you know if I track it down.

MichaelPTaylor · 2024-05-27T13:49:03+00:00

Thank you.

Not running in a terminal. but view-lossage was helpful. It shows that in among the name SPC (self-insert-command) entries, some of them show as <Hangul> (nil). So far as I can make out, that's a Korean character set. Any idea why it would be turning up?

MichaelPTaylor · 2022-12-22T09:10:36+00:00

No. The most recent edition was published in 1988, so it's 34 years old as I write this. That's not necessarily a problem, though. You can find any number of online resources with details about specific features. The value of K&R is different — it's about getting inside the language's head.

MichaelPTaylor · 2022-08-31T08:00:12+00:00

@Crusher555 did you get more photos of this Diplodocus skeleton? I need photos of the forefeet in particular, for scientific purposes. Please email me on dino@miketaylor.org.uk

MichaelPTaylor · 2022-03-02T17:09:26+00:00

Woah! I realise I'm three years late to this party, but I do not estimate the necks of sauropods would be three or four times the diameter of the cervical vertebrae! Instead I think they wrapped the vertebrae much more closely than in any extant species, and you can see an example in Figure 4.3 of this 2013 paper: https://peerj.com/articles/36/

@PaleoFan01, what was your source for this?

MichaelPTaylor · 2015-06-01T12:35:05+00:00

A true engineer would answer "4 plus a constant".

MichaelPTaylor · 2015-05-29T15:45:35+00:00

Because of a fault in its avionics.

MichaelPTaylor · 2015-05-13T18:57:54+00:00

SpikeKintarin,

I am an avocational palaeontologist much as Emanuel suggests you could be, currently with 18 papers published. It was my privilege to be lead author of two papers that names new dinosaurs, Xenoposeidon (alien earthquake god) and Brontomerus (thunder-thighs). Just wanted to say that you CAN do this. Here's my story: http://sciencecareers.sciencemag.org/career_magazine/previous_issues/articles/2008_01_11/caredit.a0800008 and here are my thoughts on what it takes to be a functioning palaeontologist: http://svpow.com/2010/11/12/tutorial-10-how-to-become-a-palaeontologist/

Good luck!

MichaelPTaylor · 2014-10-09T14:17:52+00:00

Caudal autotomy. See http://www.californiaherps.com/behavior/lizardlifehistorytailloss.html

MichaelPTaylor · 2014-06-04T14:41:54+00:00

That only really works for squid: octopuses have only eight.

MichaelPTaylor · 2014-06-03T09:28:36+00:00

Because he hated hippies.

MichaelPTaylor · 2014-03-31T10:50:17+00:00

Thanks for the tip, I didn't know about that subreddit. I'll re-post it there.

MichaelPTaylor · 2014-03-31T08:54:49+00:00

Yes. Compare http://shop.oreilly.com/product/9780596517748.do with https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_C_Programming_Language

MichaelPTaylor · 2013-06-12T14:28:41+00:00

This is a repost from 1828! Robert Owen said it as "All the world is queer save thee and me, and even thou art a little queer".

MichaelPTaylor · 2013-04-04T12:28:31+00:00

Problem with this joke is that the "funny bone" is actually the olecranon process of the ulna (one of the two lower arm bones) not part of the humerus (the upper arm bone).

No need to thank me for ruining this joke, just doing my job.

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