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by ErrantX 14y ago
Wikimedia France just published an article (in English) with more details: http://blog.wikimedia.fr/dcri-threat-a-sysop-to-delete-a-wik... What's distressing about this is that they found a French Wikipedia sysop who they could identify i
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by ErrantX 14y ago
Why not! If so, it would be 3, so quite low. Now he needs an Erdos number :)
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by ErrantX 14y ago
This is slightly meta, but it's nice to see the attitude of the OP here. It quite matches my own. It's always disappointing to see my work appear somewhere else without credit, but usually it is not worth moaning about. At the end of the da
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by ErrantX 14y ago
I've recently just sold all my BTC, whilst the hype is still there :) A few friends said I was mad and they would be keeping theirs, but frankly I don't have time to keep an eye on the market and wait for the true peak. Which made me think
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by ErrantX 14y ago
Oh this is fantastic! My father teaches astronomy to kids (he has a mobile planetarium that he takes around schools [1]) and one of the main pain points he has mentioned is communicating a sense of scale to them. This is elegant because it
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by ErrantX 14y ago
I'd second this. I've never been a fan of this sort of gardening - but in an apartment it works, and is a hell of a lot easier than pots full of soil :)
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by ErrantX 14y ago
> The carrots were tasty but small, and we didn't get any squash, peas or Brussels sprouts. Not surprising, those are amongst the hardest to get right in my experience. Peas are a pain - you do need good trellis work for them, and to sp
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by ErrantX 14y ago
I'm in Lincolnshire and manage to grow most stuff. It does take a little more attention (I'm useless during the early months of the year because I always forget to check for frost warnings...). This year has been dismal so far :S because of
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by ErrantX 14y ago
Great to see someone else recommending The Real Seed Catalogue! They are a fantastic company, really know their stuff.
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Articles like this always make me a bit sad, as a keen gardener. It usually involves some "hip" but impractical course from a fancily named company who are masking over the fact that 90% of successful gardening is digging a hole and wateri
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by ErrantX 14y ago
> the men are overwhelmingly fit, handsome, and great in general I'm not ashamed to say I've used online dating with great success :) I'm by no means "fit", "handsome" or otherwise awesome - and my dating successes before OKCupid amount
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by ErrantX 14y ago
Even worse is the "Why not try X, your friend Y is." This was especially fun in my case when, under the heading "You might like" I had: "<girlfriends name> just signed up on <dating site>". :) I don't entirely mind them prof
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by ErrantX 14y ago
Oh piffle, the whole "why do you, as a guy" rhetoric is even worse. Although, for what it is worth, I have volunteered in a women's shelter for many years, so have a wealth of empirical information to draw on. What you're doing, though, is
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by ErrantX 14y ago
Really, firing the individual makes sense to me. Pycon does have a code of conduct, which includes avoiding sexualised language. I'm not into the whole big brother idea, but there is such a thing as "time and place" :) and the wrong time an
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by ErrantX 14y ago
> You should talk to more women about this. Here's a bit of free advice :) when you start to use this argument, consider that perhaps you've run out of good rhetoric. You seem a decent enough guy, if a little clueless, so I'll give yo
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by ErrantX 14y ago
> Women feel that a lot. No, no they really don't! Don't get me wrong, there are major gender issues within our society (not just the software industry). One of them is, this idea that ''all'' women are tender hearted souls who are ''co
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by ErrantX 14y ago
What's confusing to me is that it is unclear exactly what comments were made. Something about "forking" repositories and big dongles. It would be much easier to take a "side" if this were made clearer.... (one reason I'm not outright defend
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by ErrantX 14y ago
I have the opposite anecdote; which is that all of my email addresses redirect to my Gmail, and I don't recall a false positive for at least 6 months. And in the past they have usually been things like activation emails.
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by ErrantX 14y ago
Indeed. Education is only one part of the personal development you get at school. Socialising/communicating with your peers is another key thing. Which is why so many "proteges" tend to burn out, I think, or have emotional problems as they
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by ErrantX 14y ago
That doesn't seem fair either to me. I mean, perhaps I am a sap, but I feel sorry for bullies as well. Usually what drives them is deep seated emotional problems of their own; and by pushing them out of the system all you do is create adult
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by ErrantX 14y ago
That doesn't make sense. I was the kid with the chair; top of the class, got on really well with most of the teachers, mum was a school governor, history of being bullied... The teacher(s) new exactly what had happened. The administration d
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by ErrantX 14y ago
The system needs fixing by making what the bully did prior to the event actionable by the adults so it wouldn't escalate to where it did. Cameras would help. At a school, the adults are the system, so I think my point still stands. I've
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by ErrantX 14y ago
I don't think anything has touched me this deeply for years. I even got a little teary (which is rare for me). A lot of this I can relate to. School was hell for me, and I still struggle to forgive the adults around me during that period wh
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by ErrantX 14y ago
What a fascinating chap. I wish I could write/speak with the sort of clarity he has, even in such short comments. I realise he mentions that this clarity comes from heavy editing, but he also seems to have a very clear and organised way of
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by ErrantX 14y ago
Which is fine... except this system is pretty unsuitable for even small restaurants (coffee shops, OK maybe :)). The target market for this is very squarely (heh!) high end indie shops.
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by ErrantX 14y ago
Yep, that struck me to. A lot of previous long scroll examples have been "sexy" but lacked fluidity. I'm not a massive fan of long scroll in most cases; but it has it's occasional uses, and this was a brilliant implementation.
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by ErrantX 14y ago
Sometimes I worry that I'm missing my twenties. I'm 26 now and occasionally wish I had done more. But if you look back there are lots of things you've done. They might not be as crazy, exciting or important as some people manage. But the tr
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by ErrantX 14y ago
You've done a ridiculous amount of awesome things! If someone was interested in battery science how would they get started?
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by ErrantX 14y ago
I've always felt depression is only somewhat understood, as you say it's hard to diagnose. For example, #7 is a common one for me - and you simply can't see it or diagnose it unless I tell you. But you can usually tell from other things; li
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by ErrantX 14y ago
Yes. But. (and this post doesn't intend to argue Aaron was depressed, just thinks about the premise that he might have been) As someone who suffers a lot with depression, it is quite possible to be depressed and for no one close to you to

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