Paul_S

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by Paul_S 11y ago
I don't think 'geek' means anything any more and even the researchers fall back to relying on self identification. Title of the paper should be amended accordingly.
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by Paul_S 11y ago
In this particular situation you can developed two versions - one darker, one brighter - and blend them together in gimp. I don't really do such intrusive/creative editing.
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by Paul_S 11y ago
You've got the development momentum but it's still not as good as rawtherapee for the editing bit which is the only part I'm interested in.
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by Paul_S 11y ago
Now it's caused by walking whilst holding your phone.
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by Paul_S 11y ago
It's terrible sci-fi but the sci-fi bit is only there to draw moralistic parallels between aliens and the Chinese. Some gruelling stories about China's culturual revolution that were pretty interesting but otherwise it's pret
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by Paul_S 11y ago
I don't think downvoting is fair but when you criticize it's good to provide explanations. So when you say it's "absolutely implausible" and it "couldn't possibly" then you should write why exactly it
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by Paul_S 11y ago
Most of the time writers just don't care about researching what they are writing about - this is not limited to sci-fi. Whenever a writer does any sort of research it's magnificent - see: The Martian. With knowledge readily availa
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by Paul_S 11y ago
Driving is hard. Or not. Driving an F1 car is hard. Driving an 18 wheeler is hard. Driving a Fiat is not. You can probably learn to "move" an 18 wheeler or an F1 car but bets are off whether or not you're going to go on to wi
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by Paul_S 11y ago
Once the book is returned isn't it enough to record it in aggregate and remove the record from the personal file? Maybe they should change the way they keep records. Or is that a police thing from way back that requires them to keep a
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by Paul_S 11y ago
This is pretty much spot on but not necessarily for long. I'm really saddened by how badly kickstarter is being abused. There was a time when they could've put in vetting into the process but it's really late now. I fear peop
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by Paul_S 11y ago
Let's call it a contributing factor and make the headline less insane.
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by Paul_S 11y ago
It's amazing how something that is in the end just a computer company can be so uniformly loved (contrast with apple with equal parts of love & hate). I've never heard anyone rag on Amiga (other than to criticize its mismanage
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by Paul_S 11y ago
I know it's real and not satire but it's hard to take it seriously despite the good intentions behind it. Out of morbid curiosity I checked out the games consoles advisory: "Take Two is also responsible for the much-criticise
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by Paul_S 11y ago
Back in the 80s on BBSes and 90s on usergroups and finally the Internet a bunch of techies did whatever they wanted and normal people didn't get anything. Now they're getting more than any of us got back then and we're not st
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by Paul_S 11y ago
Can't know if this is indeed the case but quite a few tor alternatives are out there so this drop needn't be sinister. This is seemingly tangential but when untargeted surveillance is used steganography beats encryption.
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by Paul_S 11y ago
I always thought that debian's highly complex bureaucracy would keep things like this from happening and make it the immortal distro you can rely on but this is one in the series and I'm reconsidering my opinion. Maybe despite the
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by Paul_S 11y ago
I don't know if it works. At least they believe it does, otherwise they wouldn't be doing it. It's just part of the bigger social media package so I don't know if it's even possible to evaluate it individually. How
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by Paul_S 11y ago
Wish I knew someone working in advertising (words not often spoken) so I could ask them but from a consumer point of view I have a suspicion that advertising is adapting just fine and shifting even more from overt to covert advertising. My
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by Paul_S 11y ago
No. Knots like those are the devil because they use the thin end. Also a pain to untie as you can't slide out the widening end easily.
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by Paul_S 11y ago
Tying a tie is a fairly useless skill but surprisingly it is a skill because it can't really be broken down to a foolproof algorithm. I have tied a tie almost every weekday of my adult life (granted that is not much grounds for authori
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by Paul_S 11y ago
I'm scared by how terror laws can be used to justify anything the state wants to do. I think it's too late to stop it now.
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by Paul_S 11y ago
I tried it and it's just not good value for money. I'm surprised they're making a loss. What kind of high costs must they have to be losing money with the prices they charge?
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Loss-making online meal delivery firm HelloFresh plans flotation(uk.reuters.com)
1 points by Paul_S 11y ago|1 comments
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by Paul_S 11y ago
Please do. Rejection hurts the same no matter how it's delivered and saving time lets both of us get a better chance to find what we want quicker.
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by Paul_S 11y ago
This is such comic book villainy I just don't believe it happened as described. I wonder how the other side would describe it.
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by Paul_S 11y ago
If you want to save the internet get involved with mesh networks. Emailing or tweeting your politicians is easy to do but pointless.
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Vim based modern C/C++ IDE(github.com)
2 points by Paul_S 11y ago|1 comments
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by Paul_S 11y ago
Can you really imagine a 18th century France style revolution in the west today? Try! I can't. Why is that? People haven't changed in 200 years yet it's completely unimaginable.
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by Paul_S 11y ago
Are you an escrow service? Do you mediate disputes?
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by Paul_S 11y ago
Reminds me of Chaplain Tappman peeing heavy water in Joseph Heller's Closing Time. Whenever I read a story like this I can't help but think that things are improving when it comes to treatment of employees and how much value we pu

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