MarcScott

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by MarcScott 3y ago
First off, thank you for the debate. It's what I come to HN for. Out of interest, of the list in the first table, are there any books that you agree should not be accessible to young people? I find it interesting that parental pressure
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by MarcScott 3y ago
Thank you. I haven't read the book, so I have no idea from which stance it views her life. It very well might be a racist book, and contain false information. Now I am going to have to read it, to make my own judgement.
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by MarcScott 3y ago
Isn't this just an Appeal to Extremes argument? I already stated a book that shouldn't be in school libraries, one that is debatable, and one that should probably be included in libraries. My point about book banning or excluding,
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by MarcScott 3y ago
Is "The Life of Rosa Parks" inappropriate for children? Should it not be available in school libraries? Clearly I would agree that Fifty Shades of Grey should probably not be available in a school library. I would debate, given it
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Apple joins opposition to encrypted message app scanning(bbc.co.uk)
13 points by MarcScott 3y ago|1 comments
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Mr. Ranedeer: Your Personalized AI Tutor(github.com)
2 points by MarcScott 3y ago|0 comments
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by MarcScott 3y ago
Crapita is right. When I was a teacher I was forced to use SIMS https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/School_Information_Management_... It's possibly the worst software I have ever had the misfortune to interact with. It
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by MarcScott 3y ago
John Oliver did a pretty good piece on this - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jtxew5XUVbQ
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by MarcScott 3y ago
Why limit this to text based communication? How about also limiting what you say when talking with friends in a pub, just in case the conversation gets recorded and then leaked? What about conversations around the dinner table with your fam
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Twitter boss announces blue tick shake-up(bbc.co.uk)
4 points by MarcScott 4y ago|1 comments
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by MarcScott 4y ago
It's no more complicated than measurements and weights in the imperial system. We're a weird country. We decimalised our currency, our weights and measures in shops and science, but we can't let go of imperial measures. Among
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by MarcScott 4y ago
There are also coins called the Sovereign and Britannia, which are both legal tender, although not in general circulation. Both are minted from 24 carat gold. The Sovereign has a face value of 1 pound and I think the Britannia has a face va
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Stability for Blender(platform.stability.ai)
2 points by MarcScott 4y ago|0 comments
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by MarcScott 4y ago
There are a lot of comments here saying that printers and scanners are complicated! Really? More complicated than your microwave, fridge freezer, television? More complicated than your car? Printers and scanners aren't complicated, it&
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by MarcScott 4y ago
We had a far more recent one in the UK, that does have a Wikipedia article - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2013_horse_meat_scandal
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by MarcScott 4y ago
The dojo was cool, and the roof garden, plus the Western themed poker room and the Victorian drawing room with secret book cases that led to other rooms. It was the most extravegant place I ever visited, and as stated, it was almost empty.
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by MarcScott 4y ago
One groundhog won't be reporting in - https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/fred-la-marmotte-die...
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by MarcScott 4y ago
I hit a question limit on the last attempt, which I've never seen before.
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by MarcScott 4y ago
I tried this prompt >I want you to play a game of 20 questions with me. You will ask me questions, one at a time, to try and determine which animal I am thinking of. You will use my answers to inform your next question. You can guess the
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by MarcScott 4y ago
This would have made Sneakers a much more boring movie.
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by MarcScott 4y ago
I started learning to play the piano and training in Tae Kwon Do at around the same age. There's a similarity in both skills, in that you need to practice all the time, learn the drills; be they scales and playing Baa Baa Black Sheep,
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by MarcScott 4y ago
Yeah, I got up to 5k. I think that most of the problem was running the same route every time. There's no new experience, it's just a slog on the same roads and paths. When I know I'm going out on a hike, I pick really nice pl
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by MarcScott 4y ago
I did this about four years ago. I hated it. Even running with my collie or listening to audio books didn't help. It just felt like a miserable chore, every time I put on my running shoes. In the end I just quit. Now I hike every weeke
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by MarcScott 4y ago
You're mixing up Raspberry Pi Foundation with Raspberry Pi Ltd. The former is an educational charity. The latter is a tech company that funds that charity. The more money that is generated by RPL, the more money RPF has to spend on edu
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Powered by Raspberry Pi(raspberrypi.com)
1 points by MarcScott 4y ago|0 comments
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by MarcScott 4y ago
I used to have a VAIO P series laptop - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sony_Vaio_P_series It could just about fit in the back pocket of my jeans and had a sim card slot for mobile connectivity, if I remember correctly.
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by MarcScott 4y ago
Video and audio here - https://twitter.com/bert_hu_bert/status/1561466204602220544
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by MarcScott 4y ago
I don't own a smart TV. If I were to buy one, am I forced to connect it to my WiFi before I use it? Can't you just use one without an internet connection? My dumb TVs have Chromecasts attached. I know I'm handing my data to G
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by MarcScott 4y ago
Still in education, but now I work for the Raspberry Pi Foundation in the charitable sector.
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by MarcScott 4y ago
Do software engineers just spontaneously come into existence? Or do they begin their education with kindergarten teachers, and progress though to the professors that teach them at college? If a software engineer is contributing millions of

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