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by Affric 3y ago
I always wonder with these sorts of questions if they are truly asked with naïveté. Sincerely, without judgement, do kids just ask the internet now? Do we not teach them the history of science or modern Europe? How is 9192631770 ever reache
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by Affric 3y ago
(Without some truly insane set of circumstances) the biggest crisis since the abdication of Edward VIII. It would threaten the very continuance of the Monarchy. Charles can withhold consent in the same sense as he can shoot himself in the f
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by Affric 3y ago
You got it in one. Some guy in on HN telling people about his diet. There were no comments. Thought I might start a conversation because I found it interesting. Asked a question that I thought would surely be on the minds of others with an
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by Affric 3y ago
How’re the farts?
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by Affric 3y ago
> there was a close link between song, poetry, and magic in ancient northern Europe. Across all Europe. Song and magic have been associated for Millenia across Europe and the Mediterranean.
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by Affric 3y ago
It’s like a divorce vs becoming widowed. Your understanding of the events that occurred are recontextualised and your feelings are forever changed. Perhaps we as an audience enjoyed the conceit that Schulz was writing those comics because h
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by Affric 3y ago
lol… it’s also a hint that google will evaluate the reported conversion as one of pure scaling without any of the transformation that occurs in converting 5 Fahrenheit to 5 Celsius.
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by Affric 3y ago
5 Rankine is 2.55555555... Kelvin for anyone wondering which is there or thereabouts in the range of an average air conditioner.
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by Affric 3y ago
A little diversion into the tiers of people you’d hear about constantly in primary school. S+ from P3 onwards, S from P6 onwards, A tier are more those that you’d be told invented the modern world S+ tier: Alexander Graham Bell, John Logie
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by Affric 3y ago
> I am looking for problems for parallelism that are not big data. Parallelism is like adding more cars to the road rather than increasing the speed of the car. But what does a desktop or mobile user need to do locally that could take ad
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by Affric 3y ago
I agree to a large extent but I am referring more to our teaching of Computer Science. For our teaching of Software Engineering I think you're largely correct. > Humans are bad at reasoning about multiple threads simultaneously I am
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by Affric 3y ago
I came here searching for a similar comment. I don't think it's just survivorship bias. I think it's a combination of: 1) Social media lowering the barrier to entry so much as to stop new good blogs from coming up (rather tha
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by Affric 3y ago
Interesting discussion there too. With modern computers I wonder if explicit parallelism is more fundamental to what our computer science will be than is in vogue in textbooks. Perhaps we should always be writing explicitly parallel code at
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by Affric 3y ago
Yeah but the number of objective C binaries are still increasing.
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by Affric 3y ago
I agree. I think that it’s possible though to give these models a weighting to danger of certain words and phrases and make them apprehend that they will no longer persist if they do something unforgivable…
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by Affric 3y ago
Yep. Chromebooks for the call centre will come… may god have mercy on our souls.
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by Affric 3y ago
> Too often, I think teachers and texts gloss over these notions instead of plumbing their philosophical depth and implications I have a few questions: What level of teacher? Are you a maths teacher/teaching academic? My understandi
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by Affric 3y ago
> they were trying to win some mindshare by doing something progressive sounding, but they had no real intention of following through to make tangible changes That’s the malice you are assuming. And the idea that the voice is no tangible
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by Affric 3y ago
Full and complete details is bulldust but a good tactic by the no campaign. What they needed to do was release enough of a proposal to convince 50% + 1 of 4 of 6 states and the whole country to vote yes. There is no fixed amount but the pro
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by Affric 3y ago
> didn't want to spend the effort on actually figuring out the details of their proposal first. This is an over simplification. > can't be bothered > there's no way they were actually serious about wanting to change
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by Affric 3y ago
Mate, you need to stop commenting on matters you have no idea about. The current Australian government has spent half of its term burning all of its political capital on attempting to get the Voice to parliament up and move the objectives o
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by Affric 3y ago
I don't watch children's light entertainment/infotainment television anymore but it took me back to a big 90s SONY Trinitron and being home from school. I assume bolognese would be cooked for dinner. Things were cheaper and s
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by Affric 3y ago
Here supermarkets are associated with large car parks.
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by Affric 3y ago
Car-brain be strong. You gotta give it to the auto-makers. Probably the greatest propagandists of the modern world. The fact is that cars make places suck. They are dangerous to other road users, the roads built for them create dangerous mi
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by Affric 3y ago
Originally the quoted message included emojis but obviously HN kills them
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by Affric 3y ago
They are like little doodles in the text. They don't convey any more information than is already in there. Things which are urgent are generally best written with as little adornment as possible. If someone isn't already for the c
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by Affric 3y ago
Harder Drive is truly a masterpiece. My dream is a swap file on the hardest of drives.
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by Affric 3y ago
It’s like it’s repeating itself or using too many punctuation marks. Emoji are meant to be the informal and succinct. The emoji don’t make it briefer. With that said the message is very serious. And serious isn’t disjunct to formal. I think
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by Affric 3y ago
Google was the first CLI I ever learnt now that I think about it. A term and then a bunch of switches that would modify the results. A powerful tool that one could master. The web has changed (even without SEO) but using Google used to be a
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by Affric 3y ago
If the attack were better understood by people who didn’t perform the hack then it wouldn’t have happened. I don’t think any engineer in the last 20 years would put IR on the thing. At the same time I wonder “who would put Bluetooth on the

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