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by NGRhodes 5y ago
One of the people in my team has a PHD in weather forecast modelling and it was only a few hours ago we were talking about the Met Office having a decade(s ?) old Fotran core with lots of stuff bolted on.
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by NGRhodes 5y ago
Not only are software development life cycles different, but also the attitude to development. Which is not a surprise when in most cases, the output is not the software (or system), but research or learning; the code is merely a side effec
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by NGRhodes 5y ago
We are superior bots.
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by NGRhodes 5y ago
Tictok have agreed to a $92 million settlement for lack of notification to users about data collection. https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/tiktok-owner-agrees-9...
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by NGRhodes 5y ago
This looks great. My wife is training in sucide awareness and prevention (college level course) in the UK; how applicable is Koko outside the USA ? How are you validating how well you system works or has a positive effect,have you had input
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by NGRhodes 5y ago
The Firefox snap is also maintained by Mozilla.
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by NGRhodes 5y ago
One of a number of reasons Ubuntu does not even meet the minimum requirements to tender for a cut of the millions the University I work for invests in Linux systems (research workstations (often packed with NVIDIA GPUs), clients to control
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by NGRhodes 5y ago
Conversely Linux Mint has agreed for Mozilla to provide debs directly for Mint. https://blog.linuxmint.com/?p=4244
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by NGRhodes 5y ago
Early ASP.net was a fairly awful experience for the web stuff I did. ASP.net 1 and it was missing a lot of basic functionality that came in .net 2 and was not compatible with the stuff we had created in .net 1 to fill the gaps. Visual Studi
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by NGRhodes 5y ago
In theory I would like this feature for discovery, but the signal to noise ratio for me is terrible, I have tried to use it, blocking 20 topics and it's still a poor experience for me. I could well be an outlier for this feature.
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Surprise: The Big Bang isn’t the beginning of the universe anymore(medium.com)
1 points by NGRhodes 5y ago|0 comments
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by NGRhodes 5y ago
Hours and days of jobs need to be rerun in my experience, our researchers do a poor job of check pointing. Of all the issues we have with lustre, data loss has never been one whilst I have been in the team.
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by NGRhodes 5y ago
Yes, there are reports of people having their accounts permanently deleted due to photographs on OneDrive they claimed breach terms and conditions.
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by NGRhodes 5y ago
I've had good luck with cheap generics (varying brand names, originating from China) from Amazon, now on my 5th battery with no issue.
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by NGRhodes 5y ago
If Libadwaita optionally extended GTK (based on desktop preferences) so that when Gnome apps are used on other desktops they can fall back to GTK or other inherited UI, that would be great, but at the moment, Libadwaita is a hard dependency
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by NGRhodes 5y ago
It's possible to design a ribbon bar that does not infringe on MS patents. IRC there are only valid patents for specific parts of the MS ribbon bar, not the whole bar. "Although Microsoft popularized the term with a new meaning, s
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by NGRhodes 5y ago
I tend not to return, but how do I know in advance that a site will have onerous ads ? Also generally well behaved sites sometimes serve up terrible adverts.
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by NGRhodes 5y ago
I only care about blocking adverts that ruin the browser experience. Is there any adblocker that allows a user to select rules to allow/deny based on parameters such as load time, CPU usage and bandwidth ?
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by NGRhodes 5y ago
How much energy was required to start the fusion ?
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by NGRhodes 5y ago
For GDPR, that could not be enough. If the data you hold can be used to indirectly identify someone, that information is subject to GDPR. The main example is when information can is combined with other information that allows individuals to
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by NGRhodes 5y ago
Not been free for me, pre-installed on all the Android Phone I have bought, part of the purchased product.
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by NGRhodes 5y ago
You can still get a google account without signing up for Gmail, so you can still use Google Docs and share/collaborate fine.
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by NGRhodes 5y ago
Why Kompute and not OpenCL ?
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by NGRhodes 5y ago
Worth noting there are many different ways to get CUDA with WSL2 working. If you follow the MS docs, they do not mention anything about install CUDA on the Linux VM, you do not get a functional setup to start using CUDA and if you follow Nv
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Distrochooser.de – A Linux distro recommendation website(distrochooser.de)
2 points by NGRhodes 5y ago|0 comments
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by NGRhodes 5y ago
I currently can't drive. I am slowly learning how poor an experience many places I visit are for pedestrians and appreciating more pedestrianised zones such as what is being planned here. Further, I am noticing how often places whe
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by NGRhodes 5y ago
/me waves from Leeds Uni. Hello fellow RSE.
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by NGRhodes 5y ago
I am in the UK. I buy from eBay, there are a number of big sellers to choose from. I tend to get my batteries from Amazon, I've probably bought 6 generic unbranded for my thinpads over the years, generally they seem to be about 90% cap
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by NGRhodes 5y ago
For my X220 I went for a cheap generic Chinese import (either Amazon or Ebay), its about 90% capacity of a genuine, but the price is so low its not a worry.
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by NGRhodes 5y ago
I like to buy ex-corporate ~5 year old Thinkpads, get from a seller who gives atleast 6 months warranty, put new batteries in and they are usually far better in every way than anything new for the same price. Am currently very happy with my

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