LeonB

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by LeonB 2y ago
“Naming things” can’t be listed first, the joke doesn’t work if you put naming things first.
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by LeonB 2y ago
In Australia, at most domestic airports, you can enter the secure area without a boarding pass. For example, as I saw on the last domestic flight I caught, you can give a teary farewell right before they board. Also, in Australia at most do
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by LeonB 2y ago
It doesn’t specify a standard format. It describes a common format. https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc4180
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by LeonB 2y ago
There is no spec or standard or consensus on “Normal” CSV. I like it when CSV follows RFC 4180 too - but it’s descriptive not prescriptive.
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by LeonB 2y ago
Maybe also add that as an issue at the repo. (Writing it as a comment here is/was still useful because it may help others)
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by LeonB 3y ago
They already use LLMs to generate the questions other “people” are asking — and blatantly lie that the source of these is from real people. They (google) also claim to be the source of the MC Hammer song “U Can’t touch this” (amongst countl
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by LeonB 3y ago
I was answering the question of why there is (genuine) irony that a person can find in the name. A lot of people have trouble detecting irony. Showing that something can easily be interpreted in a non-ironic way does not, in any way, dispro
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by LeonB 3y ago
I’m not complaining. I’m trying to help you see why people can detect irony in the situation. I certainly was not angry about it. Please don’t respond to me further. (“Tekla” did indeed go ahead and triple down. That’s troll behaviour.)
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by LeonB 3y ago
The implied meaning (global) is in strong contrast to the actual meaning (restricted to the USA).
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by LeonB 3y ago
I think I see how you’re interpreting the sentence. Imagine instead the word “and” in place of the comma before “developing”. The letter writers wants the author to be “dramatising (their events) AND developing scenes in which the reader…”
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by LeonB 3y ago
Given the magnitude of the question though — they ought to be granted at least a few hours to think about an answer before responding.
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by LeonB 3y ago
My siblings and I did unusually well at school (relative to cousins and peers) - and it’s possible this was due to having an “older” father. There’s a 2017 study that older parents produce kids with a higher Geek Index — https://
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by LeonB 3y ago
I remember one of my engineering lecturers giving a good rule of thumb as “your retirement date, plus 10 years”
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by LeonB 3y ago
> a negative factor for brains try telling that to the parrots in the trees, they're a social animal and seem happy enough.
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by LeonB 3y ago
Perhaps all of life is just elaborated procrastination. We stumble onto the stage, busy ourselves with something and then we’re gone for eternity. But building something and sharing it with others: if it is procrastination it’s quite produc
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by LeonB 3y ago
Nature causes various food sources to ferment which is exploited by many animals.
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by LeonB 3y ago
That’s basically what one of the first apps I ever wrote did! But that was back in 1999, and it wasn’t hard to choose a framework, Visual Basic 6 was so fun and easy. If I wrote it today I’d use .net, and im not sure if it’d work on Mac&#x2
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by LeonB 3y ago
Fair enough. But the author of the original article is German, and I’m explaining why he described the instance name as he did.
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by LeonB 3y ago
100% agree. The user should fall into the “pit of success” — no matter where/how they first enter the pages of matrix or element … it should be natural that they end up at the correct getting started for them.
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by LeonB 3y ago
I had a hunch … so I opened a German to English translator and put in the words Cyber furz In English: Cyber fart Every day is a school day!
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by LeonB 3y ago
That’s horrible. Good luck, I hope this gets resolved some how.
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by LeonB 3y ago
I work with one system where the main entity is a “sale” which is processed beginning to end in some fraction of a second. A different system I work with, the main “entity” is, conceptually, more like a murder investigation. Less than 200 o
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by LeonB 3y ago
I feel like an open social-graph could be used to create reputation and trust - opening up a lot of things and closing down many avenues of exploitation … or I guess I used to feel that way, that the combination of FoaF (friend-of-a-friend)
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by LeonB 3y ago
Agree - and not simply the presence of ads, but the scammy, fraudulent type. I just saw the tiniest “X” to close an ad I’ve ever seen. And clicking it just opened the advertisers site anyway. That’s not a sustainable strategy, that’s just f
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by LeonB 3y ago
You’ve stated that “the majority of real science is dull work, such as requesting money, writing presentations to convince people you're right, and debugging experiments.” (I agree on the third point) But regarding the first two as bei
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by LeonB 3y ago
Many accessibility tools on windows use the IAccessible com interface to get text from applications (including google chrome and chromium and many other browsers and applications.) If google chrome doesn’t prevent this from occurring, Windo
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by LeonB 3y ago
It would harm accessibility for one thing.
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by LeonB 3y ago
> I'm struggling to see how somebody on their own could come up with a non-trivial scientific result that was meaningful in any way. Richard Feynman at 67, partaking in an inquiry into the space shuttle challenger disaster, dunked s
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by LeonB 3y ago
Yes absolutely this — > my fav pet peeve remains the unclear toggle button. When the icon is white, is it on? Is it off? Does the line through the microphone mean it’s muted? Or that it mutes when tapped? No one knows, tap it a few more
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by LeonB 3y ago
The heading made me immediately want to read this article in hope of sharing my ongoing grief at the terribly, criminally disappointing finale of Game of Thrones. And yes it was included as the golden standard of beyond terrible in section

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