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by II2II 2y ago
As tempting as a new toy may be, we are always welcome to put off getting new ones until we have made good use of the old ones. That is especially true of microcontrollers and development boards, where the need to upgrade is dictated by the
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by II2II 2y ago
Is it surprising the article would discuss that when it goes on to discuss cats been considered aloof, independent, and fickle in their affections? The cat/dog thing is yet another one of those stereotypes where many pet lovers could p
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by II2II 2y ago
It's not so much that it is acceptable for filters to misclassify email as we should keep our expectations realistic. Then again, I've never been one to treat the priority email folder with credulity. What it classifies as priorit
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by II2II 2y ago
Could someone elaborate on the reasons? Clearly translation is going to be one, since the market for any given game is going to be much smaller than the market for most social media sites. I would imagine that cultural norms, e.g. what is a
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by II2II 2y ago
Yet the Windows 3.1 calculator couldn't subtract properly. While I bring that example up in jest, there are real limitations to how computers do math. The calculator app may produce correct results for everyday problems. Yet there are
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by II2II 2y ago
There is a world of difference between being failable and doing a monumentally worse job. While the article is playing up the incident, it is better to say that the author discovered the filter is failable. Sure, file a bug report. Sure, po
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by II2II 2y ago
> They said the same thing about Facebook News and Canada. Canada is not in the same league as the EU or the US. In terms of population, we are very roughly 10% the size of either. In terms political influence, we may like to toot our ow
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This should not be surprising. People are fooled by phishing emails all of the time. It is arrogant to suggest that anyone, including ourselves, are immune to falling prey to phishing. One of the reasons why so many phishing emails look lik
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by II2II 2y ago
There is pbchess for Chess. It supports multiple ereaders. If I recall correctly, it includes a few other games and applications. For IF, QtFrotz was ported to Kobo devices. (For what it's worth, the main drawback with IF is the lack o
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Different people value different things. For some, stability and familiarity are important. While I am rather anti-corporation, it is also worth noting that there are people behind corporations: people who depend upon the institution, wheth
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by II2II 2y ago
Shift is can be another interesting key to hit. Many non-US keyboards have an extra key between shift and z (or whatever letter takes to place of z in a particular region. Not only are you reaching further to hit the shift key, but
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by II2II 2y ago
I could be wrong here since I don't develop compilers, but from my understanding many of the undefined behaviours in C are the product of not knowing what the outcome will be for edge cases or due to variations in processor architectur
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It's not just impulse control. That poor adult probably needs the "marshmallow" now while the wealthy adult has enough resources to "invest the marshmallow". There is also perceived risk. If the marshmallow is there
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Now that I'm aware, sure. If I wasn't told, I would assume that they were designed so that a new battery could be swapped in while one battery remained inserted to maintain power (much like an old Thinkpad I used to own).
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That's why I made the comment about disproportionate benefit. It is clear that news organizations want, or at least feel compelled, to use social media as a promotional tool under some circumstances. Yet they don't like the terms
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One flaw with the comparison is that event organizers submit their upcoming events to the newspaper and may even agree to an interview if the newspaper thought it worthy enough to write their own blurb. In some cases the event organizers wi
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> In the suburbs kids never stopped playing in the street. There are many different suburbs out there. Some feel like small towns, as they may have been at some point. Others feel like wastelands, places where you won't see many car
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I am all for walkable neighbourhoods, places where people feel welcome on the streets. Yet there is also the question of: how do we achieve that goal? As the article mentions, there is more to it than eliminating the car. Social structures
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by II2II 2y ago
I think a lot of it depends upon how you are exposed to the stuff. When I started studying more my license, I was interested in the technical side of things and dreaded having to learn Morse. I got lucky in that the requirement was dropped
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I like that word: diligent. Jordan seemed to be talking about it: prioritizing; helping, rather than burdening others. Gregor seemed to be describing a lack of diligence: not fleshing out learning, fretting over less relevant details. In my
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The difference between Apple and IBM is the latter lost control of their platform and those who inherited, arguably Intel and Microsoft, had no interest in exerting absolute control. (If they tried, it likely would have backfired anyhow.) A
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Early long distance communication often depended upon wavelengths suitable for ionospheric propagation, signals have been bounced off the moon, and (if I recall correctly) the earliest experiments in communications involved large reflective
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While a fad (in this context) depends upon a company maintaining a product, the act of maintaining a product is not a measure of how long the fad lasts. Take Facebook, the product. I'm fairly certain that it is long past its peak as a
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raises hand Some people don't jump on every fad out there. Most of the people who miss out on fads quickly realize that they aren't losing out on much simply because fads are so ephemeral. As far as I can tell, this is normal (t
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There is no doubt that the headline is an important hook. Yet there is a difference between a deliberately vague or misleading hook (which I would consider clickbait), and one that conveys what the article is about. I don't like wateri
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I don't know about most people, but the number of news sources that use information rich headlines suggest that there is a significant number of people who react negatively to clickbait headlines. And I suspect that many of these news
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Sure, but note the sales pitch was to encourage resiliency through diversity. While that may not be helpful in cases where one vendor may push the same breaking change through to multiple platforms, it also may be helpful. I remember doing
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They need the right type of public engagement. That hypothetical person who sees the picture of sulphur crystals then leaves 5 seconds later is unlikely to support NASA. If they have enough negative interactions, I would suggest that it wou
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It's worth noting that KOReader is available for desktop Linux users, both as a Debian package and AppImage. The interface is better suited to touch screens though. I suspect that is why noone has bothered to port/build it for oth
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They want someone to invigilate the exam. That is reasonable, particularly since it appears as though in-person exams are still available. I'm not sure what the situation is in GB but, in Canada, the question bank (and answers) were pu

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