Gareth Rees

Cambridge, United Kingdom

https://garethrees.org/

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Documented way to disable ASLR on OS X?

osx osx-mavericks aslr asked May 27, 2014 at 20:04

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27 votes

Sudoku using 'exact cover' solver

python algorithm recursion sudoku community-challenge asked Dec 15, 2013 at 14:31

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26 votes

Bilbo’s song of Eärendil in “The Fellowship of the Ring”

poetry j-r-r-tolkien the-lord-of-the-rings interpretation asked Jul 13, 2020 at 17:02

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21 votes

Were English poets of the sixteenth century aware of the Great Vowel Shift?

history-of-literature meter asked Nov 25, 2020 at 12:23

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16 votes

Origin of “Good books are the warehouses of ideas”, attributed to H. G. Wells on commemorative £2 coin?

quote-source h-g-wells asked Jan 6, 2021 at 15:08

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15 votes

Decrypting a substitution cipher using n-gram frequency analysis

python cryptography community-challenge asked Jun 12, 2015 at 23:00

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12 votes

What is the libellous meaning of ‘daffy-down-dilly’?

meaning dorothy-l-sayers unnatural-death asked Mar 22, 2020 at 12:17

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12 votes

What evidence is there for the "recession of accent" theory?

history-of-literature theory meter asked Apr 27, 2020 at 20:27

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11 votes

What is the history of the universe/canon/word-of-god approach to literature?

theory asked Feb 11, 2019 at 14:53

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9 votes

Why does Kipling's poem ‘The Three-Decker’ differ between editions?

rudyard-kipling editions the-seven-seas asked Feb 21, 2018 at 13:15

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Difference between numpy.array shape (R, 1) and (R,)

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How do you detect where two line segments intersect?

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205

How to calculate bounce angle?

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147

Algorithm for finding the fewest rectangles to cover a set of rectangles without overlapping

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137

Add one year in current date

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137

django - why is the request.POST object immutable?

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128

How should I understand the output of dis.dis?

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Are people on average more likely to die in an extinction event than in a car crash?

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107

Was the title "The Lord of the Rings" picked on purpose to be ambiguous?

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Emacs, removing all lines that don't match?

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Get locals from calling namespace in Python

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How do I move away from the “for-loop” school of thought?

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Algorithm for classifying words for hangman difficulty levels as "Easy","Medium", or "Hard"

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How do I access the contents of the current region in Emacs Lisp?

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Why is Aragorn so weird to Pippin when they make their final farewell before going back to the Shire?

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What is the difference between a KD-tree and a R-tree?

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Is pollution a problem in urban cycling?

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100 gunmen in a circle kill next person

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Getting mail attachment to python file object

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How can I check if a current buffer exists in Emacs?

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TypeError: coercing to Unicode: need string or buffer

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Did H. G. Wells use an emoticon in “The Time Machine”?

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What are atan and atan2 used for in games?

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Dynamic programming knapsack solution

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Python: take max N elements from some list

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django icontains with __in lookup

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Why did Alexandre Dumas use Greek names for the three musketeers?

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Tips for profiling misbehaving Emacs Lisp?

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How to read a CSV file from a stream and process each line as it is written?

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Speed up solution to Project Euler problem 75

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