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sunrat Posted February 8 Share Posted February 8 The Strange Case of Bobby DunbarA missing child, replaced by another Quote On August 23, 1912, Percy and Lessie Dunbar loaded up their two young sons and left their Opelousas home for a camping trip at nearby Swayze Lake. That night, four-year-old Bobby Dunbar wandered away from the family’s tent and disappeared. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
V.T. Eric Layton Posted February 9 Share Posted February 9 Sadly, there are lots and lots of "strange" cases of disappearances like this one. Many of these mysteries are NEVER solved. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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abarbarian Posted February 11 Share Posted February 11 If the mods can think of a better place for this then please do move it. Operating System Market Share Worldwide - January 2024 A very interesting site. Before you have look. What is the most widely used operating system in use around the world ?? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
crp Posted February 12 Author Share Posted February 12 On 2/9/2024 at 2:48 AM, abarbarian said: Why did Marsh's Library stop requiring the cage? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
amenditman Posted February 12 Share Posted February 12 15 hours ago, crp said: Why did Marsh's Library stop requiring the cage? Because no one wants to steal books anymore. It's all about digital piracy. Who has room for all those physical volumes? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
abarbarian Posted February 12 Share Posted February 12 Marsh's Library Dublin has a fascinating history. Quote While Marsh was at Trinity College Dublin, he was concerned that the library there was not well maintained, and that books were missing. It was difficult to use even for students of the college. For anyone else, there was no access to the college library, and he said of the Dublin booksellers that they had only ‘trifles and pamphlets’. It was this that made him think of building a library for the use of the reading public of his day. Public libraries were not very usual at the time and when he told his friends what he planned they commented that neither Oxford nor London had a public library. https://marshlibrary.ie/about/history/ Quote At the beginning, readers were allowed to go into the bays to choose their own books. Unfortunately, they were so interested in the books that they stole them from the Library. By the mid-1760s, there were over 1000 books missing. The Governors made an order that no-one but the librarian was to go into the bays, and that readers were either to read at the table in the reading room where they could be supervised, or be locked into the cages so that they could not steal the books. The reading 'cages' at the end of the Second Gallery 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
abarbarian Posted February 16 Share Posted February 16 OpenAI’s Sora Turns AI Prompts Into Photorealistic Videos The results are pretty amazing. https://media.wired.com/clips/65cd609bb4d2e54e7c66f6b7/720p/pass/mammoth.mp4 Quote AI-generated video made with the prompt “several giant wooly mammoths approach treading through a snowy meadow, their long wooly fur lightly blows in the wind as they walk, snow covered trees and dramatic snow capped mountains in the distance, mid afternoon light with wispy clouds and a sun high in the distance creates a warm glow, the low camera view is stunning capturing the large furry mammal with beautiful photography, depth of field.”Courtesy of OpenAI Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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sunrat Posted March 3 Share Posted March 3 1 hour ago, abarbarian said: Sounds like the kind of things one would hear on QI, one of my favourite shows. English is weird; who decided how to pronounce words, eg. why is row your boat different from having a row with your missus? And I doubt anyone can explain the pronunciation of yacht! And here's my parochial choice of the QI clips I watched today: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
crp Posted March 5 Author Share Posted March 5 On 2/16/2024 at 2:20 AM, abarbarian said: OpenAI’s Sora Turns AI Prompts Into Photorealistic Videos The results are pretty amazing. https://media.wired.com/clips/65cd609bb4d2e54e7c66f6b7/720p/pass/mammoth.mp4 no claims made for accuracy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
abarbarian Posted March 5 Share Posted March 5 On 3/3/2024 at 11:30 AM, sunrat said: Sounds like the kind of things one would hear on QI, one of my favourite shows. English is weird; who decided how to pronounce words, eg. why is row your boat different from having a row with your missus? And I doubt anyone can explain the pronunciation of yacht! And here's my parochial choice of the QI clips I watched today: Not one of my programs of choice. However there were some funny parts to the compilation. Narcoleptic horse is just too funny. On 3/3/2024 at 11:30 AM, sunrat said: And I doubt anyone can explain the pronunciation of yacht! Or heir ....( usually sounds like the blue speaker ( /eə(r)/ ) https://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/definition/english/heir Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
abarbarian Posted Friday at 12:37 PM Share Posted Friday at 12:37 PM (edited) Even the gods use Arch linux it seems. Edited Friday at 12:39 PM by abarbarian Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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