Ntrails

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by Ntrails 8y ago
Cities should be optimised for (clean/electric/cheap) public transport and cars electric or otherwise are a pain in the ass. They're inefficient, space consuming and impossible to manage. We can use all that spare roadspace
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by Ntrails 8y ago
(and thus often simply not uploading at all as the cost outweighs the benefit)
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by Ntrails 8y ago
> they should have known better than to try to predict this. There's no downside, only free publicity. If they, by good fortune and a following wind, get it right - then the publicity is incredible. If it's wrong they laugh a
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by Ntrails 8y ago
I do not want a company car that much...
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by Ntrails 8y ago
a 20% reduction in mis-classification or a .2% absolute improvement in success, or a 0.02% relative improvement to success.
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by Ntrails 8y ago
> I thought this was common behavior when making projects for themselves instead of work If work don't want my stupid comments then they can do without my terrible code too ^_^
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by Ntrails 8y ago
any company that values its IP/client lists/etc will (should) run an "activity log" over any employee who hands in their notice, typically for the 3-6 months preceeding the date of handing in notice. Some poor sap then g
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by Ntrails 8y ago
> So kudos to you for not relagating the kid to non-person status like that. I was raised to do as I was told, sit quietly and speak when spoken to in company. It did me no harm whatsoever, and meant I could behave in public without co
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by Ntrails 8y ago
> We should encourage people with rare generic deceases to use fertility treatments that filters out particularly bad genes; or adopt children instead. Where does it end? My Aunt had cancer. My father high blood pressure. I think one
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by Ntrails 8y ago
It's incredibly hard (impossible?) to come up with a system which cannot be prepared for by a subset of students with access to top tier tuition. You can do some score normalisation based on background but I expect you'd agree th
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by Ntrails 8y ago
> When I was very small (2-4), if my parents were painting a room, I was also in old clothes with a paintbrush "helping". Same with spring cleaning or whatnot. One of my favourite childhood photos is me mowing the lawn (with a
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by Ntrails 8y ago
> I wonder how climbers overcome this? (Personal experience, and I'm shit, so pinch of salt.) The difference with what you describe is that you have a time pressure - you're being passively carried into the state where you&#x27
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by Ntrails 8y ago
> I believe basically means someone has to be offended by your nakedness. Which means nude beaches, organised naked cycle events and such like are all perfectly legal. Fortunately we're all incredibly good at being offended by any
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by Ntrails 8y ago
Interesting. I have had a couple of people in interviews (who know SQL/Databases on cv) writing code a lot like that pulling in two whole tables, joining them, and then filtering the joined results. It is possible i was overly harsh i
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by Ntrails 8y ago
> It is really unfortunate that Europeans don’t have a sense of Manifest Destiny and Potential for the whole of Europe but instead fall back to nationalism, whenever a challenge like the financial crisis or refugee crisis emerges. It&#x
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by Ntrails 8y ago
> It's important for us to own our own tools, and keep the right to do with them as we wish At no point in my life have I had any investment in linux, it's not mine . I use windows at work, I develop using .Net-y languages in
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by Ntrails 8y ago
> Also 1v1 me scrub I wanted to play SF against the bot so badly - even knowing I'd get absolutely destroyed over and over agin
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by Ntrails 8y ago
Losing weight is not without cost. Be it hunger, time/effort, boredom, or unmet cravings. Everyone has the right to choose which kind of cost they are willing to endure in order to lose weight - this includes refusing to pay any cost
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by Ntrails 8y ago
idk, it reads as though the university has handled this pretty well so far? It certainly helps that the author has a verifiable track record of engaging and encouraging women in CS.
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by Ntrails 8y ago
> claiming to be contractually entitled to hold people against their will unless they use an "explicit safe phrase" is nonsense to begin with, which is why I was hoping the rebuttal would address that argument I agree, but at t
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by Ntrails 8y ago
A large part of me thinks that Devs are hurtling towards the same graduate job demographic as lawyers.
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by Ntrails 8y ago
> Good grief, that's nasty. And this is why I habitually fuck with peoples computers when they leave them unlocked. As annoying as it is to find your keyboard is dvorak and your mouse pointer is invisible - it's better than fi
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by Ntrails 8y ago
Why on earth would you want to prosecute the supermarket where ICE buys loo roll? The builders merchant who sold them fence posts? I mean, the hyperbole is real here - because there's zero chance the international courts prosecute any
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by Ntrails 8y ago
> I mean the creepy ones, suggesting contacts based on minute details from your profile, or encouraging you to import all your contacts so they can be spammed? None at all. The only emails I get from linkedin are friend requests and me
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by Ntrails 8y ago
I'd need some argument for it being a different reality . Brain in a jar/The matrix style VR perception altering technology could make me experience a different world - but it wouldn't be reality. I actually could still see
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by Ntrails 8y ago
My attitude to getting old is extremely tightly linked to my expectation of it following the shape that my father's later life did. I've seen what is likely coming, and the only changes which matter are to lifestyle - not attitude
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by Ntrails 8y ago
> Psychedelics might reveal to you that the neat little reality that you thought you had all figured out is a lot stranger and different from from what you thought it was, that your understanding of it might be all wrong, and that your p
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by Ntrails 8y ago
> Can repair pretty much nothing, but handy for sticking posters to walls. idk, it kept a roofing tile in place for a bloody long time until my mother really lost patience with the sight of bluetac on the roof
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by Ntrails 8y ago
> Couple of years ago, one of my friends bought a store at a strip mall. The store was making a loss. And the previously owners were an elderly couple. So my friends thesis was that they weren't exactly tuned into the digital presen
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by Ntrails 8y ago
But I resize my browser all the time? Even with timezone + language surely it's a very short lived fingerprint? When it's not manually sized it's snapped to either side of a standard screen. idk - it seems like that can&#x

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