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But if people are paying for RH EL they won't be using Fedora for production workloads will they?
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I wonder who would be working in these thinking gyms? Nice idea. Extra mural studies for the age of agentic ai.
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Around 5000 words on the impact of tourism on de-industrialised cities and how property prices and rents drive new businesses. Some of it seemed reasonable to me (we have some of the pastiche 'experiences' being built in my city a
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> " optimised evidence-weighted statistical model " Isn't such a model inevitably going to be lagging what is happening? (Monkeys can see/smell/recognise the scat or track of a large cat very quickly and don&#x
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Going back to the Windows 95/98 era and Windows 2k at work I remember a link or line of text in one of the Equation Editor dialogs where they said you could upgrade to the full MathType. It is the compatibility with old documents that
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The list of books was welcome, and the work is impressive. I always made do with section pad and a hard pencil and a simple stencil, but it wasn't for camera ready publication use or anything. Just visualisation and discussion. My book
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Very successful large company retains staff until retirement. I find that vaguely reassuring. Hope the trend catches on. Thanks for posting this observation. Loose cannons have their uses in organisations (they can say things senior people
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I would imagine that a lot of people who use OpenBSD on their laptops/desktops run a lean installation with one of the window managers in base (an ancient fvwm version, cwm which I find very nice and twm). You can however have a full-f
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Nothing like 'vexatious litigation' in the US? https://www.gov.uk/guidance/vexatious-litigants
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Reached for comment by TechCrunch, Musk’s lead counsel Marc Toberoff said, “One word: Appeal.” One wonders on what grounds? In the UK, in a civil case like this, the judge I think comments on the likelihood of an appeal avenue once the ve
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Quote from the article we are commenting on... "Everything you set up to customize the system, like desktop icons, window positions, desktop resolution, and other settings is reset every boot unless you manually tell the system to sav
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I hope the 'slightly' in the title is a rhetorical device and wish you the best of health.
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Find a review of Dan Davies' The Unaccountability Machine and see what you think. I think that short term shareholder value may not be a good control variable given the state of the systems we navigate.
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Thanks to all posts above for engaging with my quest for minitab style text character dotplots! Below is an example of what I'm on about (artisan construction in Mousepad) and apologies to anyone on a narrow screen where the text mode
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Tangent to article: text character based charts for statistics. Decades ago I had an education version of MINITAB that ran under DOS and did scatter diagrams and dotplots and box and whisker plots from text characters (you could use pure te
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Does the institution in which your class occurs not have special access procedures? e.g stroke or permanent hand disability
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> "this mountain of circumstantial evidence and statistical analysis" On the stats side I'm seeing 1) stylometry expert finding nothing conclusive 2) The database made by scraping(?) the email archives being filtered in va
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Vollmann seems amazingly prolific, 'writing by the yard' as one of the editors put it. I've ordered the first volume of The Carbon Ideologies to see what the sentences and paragraphs are like, how it sounds. PS: Is it real
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Which Windows 11 sku did you use for that test?
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Thanks for the-mitr for posting this. I have only scanned the contents of Part 1 (reading from paper) and read chapter 6 quickly, because that is the only chapter that considers the issue of the layout of the printed material. My interest i
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In the medium sized public sector organisation I do some work in (not tech), most of the business type systems we use are reached via Chrome and are subscription based. I can log into them all using Linux with Chrome installed from home and
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Arkell v Pressdram was in response to a civil claim that never reached a court, so slightly different. I take the wider point though.
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Blender, Audacity, Ardour, Inkscape, GIMP, Kdenlive, Puredata (programming, but visual ), Krita. Are these not creative software? Perhaps not industry standard, but what is industry going to look like in a couple of decades anyway?
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Owen Gingerich was a historian of astronomy who did a census of printed early editions of Copernicus' book De revolutionibus . He found a tradition of students copying annotations from teachers readings into their own copies of the bo
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No love for Erving Goffman here at all? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Presentation_of_Self_in_Ev...
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Keep the windows open when using Vim on a Domes-Tos system. [Domestos is a brand name for bleach, and Vim is a scouring powder that was popular decades ago]
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There is a lot of coastline and not that many police/coastguards. In fact we have been closing down the coastguard stations since satellite tracking of commercial shipping became the norm. (I come from a part of the UK that was notor
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emmy_Noether Is the wikipedia page more or less correct or in need of editing in your view? (Given that you are probably the current world expert on Noether having written the book)
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https://gsp.humboldt.edu/OLM/courses/GSP_510/Articles/Mandel... Link to a pdf file that you don't need an institutional login for. I did an activity in a basic maths class based on this paper years
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Chelsea Light Removals > Here Reich fell in with musicians, dancers, sculptors and filmmakers. Sculptor Richard Serra was a neighbour of Reich’s at the time in Lower Manhattan, as was experimental filmmaker Michael Snow. For a brief per

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