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OK, so what does gio mime inode/directory tell you?

You're trying to get directories to open properly, and they'll be handled by whatever is registered for mime type inode/directory.

Presumably either nothing is registered, or whatever is registered isn't set up right.

So what did gvfs-mime --query inode/directory give you? Does it point to a reasonable-looking .desktop file? Does the file manager command from that file work when you run it directly?

If not, try to find any /usr/share/applications/*.desktop files that do successfully launch the file manager you want.

If you can't find anything there, check you can run the file manager from the command line, modify an existing .desktop file to do the same thing, and then set gvfs to use that .desktop file for mimetype inode/directory.

It's not particularly fancy, but you're welcome to borrow it. Where are you based?

Found the details (they're on the Blog rather than in the Poll Library for some reason): http://www.deltapoll.co.uk/steve-fisher-condorcet

Anyway, I think those pie charts are supposed to show how 3 different final pairings would do in a transferable vote (ie, if it comes down to Remain vs the May deal, May wins by collecting the 2nd preference votes from No Deal types).

I think they're just looking at the transferable vote scenario as a proxy for how tactical voting might play out.

That also works: it just means you're looking at where the bottom surface of each layer touches the sphere, instead of the top surface.

If the top of each layer intersects the (hemi-) sphere, the top plank has zero radius. It could just be a vertical spike or something.

Making the intercept at the centre of each layer, as for the planks in the 2-dimensional version, would give you a non-infinitesimal top layer.

No trouble - the formula just tells you the relationship between the x & y coordinates of a point on the circumference. We can just look at the top-right bit as Clockwise said, and stick to positive x & y (it's simpler if we just say the origin 0,0 is in the centre of the circle).

So, x is the sideways distance from the centre of the circle, to the middle of the plank we want to measure.
That leaves y as the height of the top of the plank above the middle of the circle. We actually want 2y in the end, because there's the same length below the centre as above, but solving the equation for y is how we get there.

OK, so D=240, and r=120 (since this formula uses radius instead of diameter).
I assume that means the centre plank should be 240 long?

If so, the next plank to the right has x=30 (the centreline is 30cm right of the middle of the circle), and

           x^2 + y^2 = r^2
becomes   30^2 + y^2 = 120^2
                   y = √(120^2 - 30^2)

and then we repeat the whole thing for x=60 for the second plank, etc.

plank#   x        y        height
0        0        120      240
1        30       116      232
2        60       104      208
3        90       79       159

So you'd have one plank #0 in the centre, 2 of plank #1 (just right and left of the centre), etc.

Equation of a circle centred on the origin is x^2 + y^2 = r^2.
You're looking for the values of 2y as x takes the values W/2, W+W/2, 2W+W/2,... right?

NB. I assumed you wanted the corners of the first (longest) plank touching the circle, rather than the midline touching the circle and the corners sticking out a bit. If that's wrong just use x=0 for the first plank, x=W for the second, etc.

Reboot into recovery mode and use the passwordless root shell?

Well I got away with it at work, but YMMV.

As hamrack says, it's mostly fine unless someone actually reads the text over your shoulder.
They might wonder what you're doing with the mouse, though.

Also: not really a meme, sorry for that.

https://pippinbarr.github.io/itisasifyouweremakinglove/

Sort-of safe for work.
At least with headphones.
At least some work.

Misha, left, models a leopard-print scarf and a new heart taken from a dead child.

So an M6 version of this?

You might be able to ask All-City what their supplier calls them...

Too fast to stop before X. Too fast to react in time to avoid Y.

You can usually use alt+right-drag to resize windows (and alt+left-drag to move them) without having to nail the tiny borders.

As TW says it depends on the window manager, but it seems pretty common.
If not there's often a resize option in the window manager's context menu - it'll either have a button on the title bar, or right-click the title bar or the window's button in your task switcher.

Well if it's specifically intended to be a just-deniable-enough message to other defectors (or to a domestic audience who are receptive to the message), then it's supposed to be obvious. Obvious but hard to prove definitively.

All the stuff about release-upgrade-motd suggests the release specifically wanted fsck to run after reboot.

The

... taking ages to count(?) the files ...

was presumably the first fsck, and it decided it needed manual intervention.

recognising and reacting to risk in our almost infinitely variable streets

Are most accidents caused because people exceeded their capacity to do this? Or because they were well within their capacity to recognise risk but were distracted/impatient/tired/not looking/dazzled by the low sun that no-one could possibly have forseen?

There are lots of situations robots might be rubbish at navigating, but the default failure mode should be to slow down, give way, and if necessary stop and let the human figure it out. They don't suffer from fatigue, impatience or distraction, and almost literally have eyes looking in every direction simultaneously.

Robots are brilliant at the bits of driving humans are bad at, and frankly lots of humans aren't very good at the bits where they should notionally have the advantage.

Tiger is indeed a Scandi homewares-n-tat emporium.

All the Quen, all the time. It makes combat a lot easier (although getting better at dodging and parrying helps a lot too).
The other signs are sometimes useful, but nowhere near as often.

The various clean air improvements are definitely welcome, but reallocating road capacity from motor to cycle traffic (or following through on existing plans to do so) seems like a relatively quick easy win.

Given his stated focus on healthy streets, even reallocating space just to pavements or more continuous bus lanes might be an improvement, but obviously I'll take a cycle track if it's offered. But he doesn't seem to have done any of those.

I have no particularly strong feelings on either Khan or the relative wisdom of blue paint or other schemes versus some other course of action, but:

a long-term plan isn't a course of action. It's just a stack of firelighters unless you can compel your successors to follow it, which he can't.

He wasn't elected to run a think-tank producing reports, but to run an executive producing action.

Twinstick style, like the Binding of Isaac?

They're practically worthless if you practically can't sell them, as the remaining lease period is shorter than a bank will lend against.
Which may or may not be true (I have no idea), but is what the article claims.

I looked up their blog to see if it explained their thinking.

It's noticeably short on specific complaints or proposed improvements, and very long on hypothetical problems and rhetorical questions.

They seem to be convinced that making cars give way to the cycle lane when turning off Chiswick High Road will cause queues of idling traffic, for some reason, and also think that lots of loading bays are being removed which I don't see at all (their closest one on Chiswick Lane is staying).

There's also some suggestion that the floating bus stop will be bad, but mostly ... it seems like they don't like the pavement right outside their shop on Chiswick High Road being narrowed. The fact that all or most of the reallocated space is currently used for street furniture and bike stands rather than walking isn't mentioned.