Jiocus

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by Jiocus 5y ago
If you are an EU resident, you can lookup representatives of your country at "Members of the European Parliament[1]". Send them an email, give them your thoughts, or just bookmark their MEP profile, for now, if it seems too daunti
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Fair enough!
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I think you're omission of what Todd Austin really answered in the article, on this question, is close to insincere. > Todd Austin: It’s about 10 percent slower on average. We could reduce those overheads if we had more time to opti
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Georgia
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Your question may be more relevant than you think. Yes, lack of illumination will obscure capture of any scene, if making it dark enough. This is a consequence of our imaging technology. Even great cameras are severely limited in how they c
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Source code often does facilitate it's own method of paginating, into different files. One could argue that is the whole point of the practice. Pagination or not, both pagination and files provide some degree of spatial sense just as
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I have a mnemonic short story in my head that places modernists and post-modernists roughly in first and second half. > Post-modernism reacted to the modernists high ideals and empty promises. After all, it was their era (the modernists)
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Window is also from Old Norse (meaning "wind-eye") which has replaced fenester in English. Meanwhile in Swedish, the French origin "Fönster" is preferred.
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And vice versa. What has enriched English is much of Scandinavian origin[1][2]. An recent example in Sweden involved a politician protesting about anglicanisation of the Swedish language. He wanted to replace some widely used English term w
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Maybe not relevant to your issue, but sqlite in-memory databases can be tricky. IIRC closing the connection wipes it out. Creating a new connection means creating a new fresh database. Tried it on-disk?
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I imagine an unfortunate and unwilling architect of a genocide thinking softly, "Lucky for me suffering is limited by the exclusion axiom. Suffering can never exceed the Whole."
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Being text-based, and chat, I'd guess IRC is many times lighter to (financially) sustain for a set amount of users, compared to many web based social network today. Page loads, reloads, dynamic content, rich media and more does add up
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Using defaults aimed at compatability with other zip archivers, today and tomorrow, doesn't strike me as odd.
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This isn't an oddity or issue with Python zip creation, it's expected behaviour as per ISO/IEC WD 21320-1[1]. > The compression method shall be either 0 (“stored”) or 8(“deflated”). The format does not prescribe a
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Seems to work fine on Firefox
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> "200 SQL statements is a ridiculously high number for a single page" > "For most sites, 200 queries is way, way, way too much." > "[This is] bad design" Now, if we read these statements again, now as
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> when the researchers probably didn't even think about transgender people at all This here is the problem , and public discourse has a solution to the word you're seeking: transinclusive. "-inclusive" succinctly prov
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I think it's the other way around. The BBC public radio are (were?) not allowed to condone -any- private businesses or products. Then it get's a bit tricky. Trademarks are a consumer protection device which affords the consumer to
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The word “idiot” predates the brief medical use for a mentally disabled individual. Originally an ancient greek insult, suggesting that someone doesn't understand politics. Such was life debating at the agora. At least it was one examp
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OWASP has been a major authority on web security for a long time. Their best known material is well regarded in both academia and industry (I wasn't aware of the half-hearted contributions until now). OWASP's best asset, in my opi
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Removing a persona non-grata and their related authored material may serves multiple purposes: - The organization signaling to stakeholders that they condemn and take appropriate action against behaviour. - The organzation engaging in damag
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+1 on this one. Just happened to rewatch Citizen Kane last week
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Edit: A warm mention of Steven Black's hosts, https://github.com/StevenBlack/hosts for those interested in more of OP's subject. Use both methods instead of just one. They differ in nature, and can be impleme
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This reminded _SWIM_ of another artifact of netizen legalese. Some forums were almost hysterical as nobody ever did or experienced anything ever. There was only frequent hearsay about "Someone who [wasn't] me". I hope SWIM is
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> I don't like when things default to it as an editor Then, let things know what editor you prefer; $ export EDITOR='vi'
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Taiga Project announces major release of Taiga(blog.taiga.io)
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After having worked intensely with Ubiquiti Edge devices (their routers specifically), I'd recommend them time and again. Their Debian derivative EdgeOS is great to work with, both as an enabler for advanced administration, but also an
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Amphetamines have documented and accepted medical value to individuals diagnosed with conditions such as sleep apnea, eating disorders and ADHD. Do you ascribe also these individuals and their practicioner with drug connotations, maybe you
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That's why could should use nginx and cooperate with the app. Maybe 'http_auth_request_module' for subrequesting to the right service, but I'm guessing passing correct headers will could do as well
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“IANAL” and all, My take is that legal work is, and has been, a high status domain of knowledge work requiring skill, effort and hard work to aquire. What cannot be solved with Excel&friends, may not be suited for such tools (or so the

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