SeanDav

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by SeanDav 9y ago
I am a layman in this field and not read the paper (behind a paywall), but not sure I see how using a method that requires random numbers to generate random numbers makes sense?
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by SeanDav 9y ago
From the source article: > robust, easily repairable and good quality products: "minimum resistance criteria" to be established for each product category from the design stage My console was not "easily repairable".
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by SeanDav 9y ago
I totally support this. I accidentally cracked the touch screen of my car radio console. The car is nothing special, a Ford Mondeo that is a few years old. Cost to replace touch screen module: more than the entire value of the car! That i
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by SeanDav 9y ago
Not many people would mind a company making a small profit from tax-funded research, if they are offering a value-added service, but the scale of Elsevier profits is ludicrous. It is one of the most profitable large companies on the planet.
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by SeanDav 9y ago
I too have had a catch-all @mydomain for around 10 years and it works beautifully for me. In addition to @mydomain I also have 2 email addresses. My main email that I give directly to places I trust like my bank and the second one I direct
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by SeanDav 9y ago
Love the idea and effort behind this, but concerned as to how Lego is going to react. The fact that they don't appear to hack the original software, but use a dual-booting arrangement is probably good news.
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by SeanDav 9y ago
> "Fry was at the forefront of those who weaponized Twitter, with an army of sycophants attacking any of his real or imagined foes. He was instrumental in creating the problem he bemoans." A comment like this absolutely requi
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by SeanDav 9y ago
> "That's also a meaningless argument. It's true of any turing-complete language." Title 1 of course. Title 2 is a far more compelling reason to stay with Python 2.x. If I program for fun, then Python 3 is definitel
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by SeanDav 9y ago
Alternative view titles: Zero - The Number of Applications that Can only be Developed in Python 3 or 7456324 - The number of companies that only use Python 2.x Although these made up titles are slightly tongue-in-cheek, they do server t
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by SeanDav 9y ago
What needs to be encouraged is genuine improvement. I think the child that came 14th should get recognition, if last time she came 33rd in the same field. In addition, top performers should always be encouraged. Relative to their peers, t
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by SeanDav 9y ago
Perhaps we should be taking a stand and boycotting goods from China? According to this source, China has double the emissions of USA: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_carbon_di... If looked at on a pe
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by SeanDav 9y ago
I can't believe that the printer market has not been disrupted by someone offering a decent printer without ridiculous ongoing printer cartridge costs. I just bought a £99 printer that will cost more than £99 in printer cartridge costs
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by SeanDav 9y ago
Slightly OT: Anyone notice the irony of this thread being right next to another HN thread titled: "As Computer Coding Classes Swell, So Does Cheating" ?
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by SeanDav 9y ago
> "If even Eric–who heads Mozilla’s marketing team–uses Chrome every day as he mentioned in the first sentence, ..." Right there is why Chrome is eating Firefox's lunch.
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by SeanDav 9y ago
This is a perfect example of why companies should never offer unlimited services, if they don't expect users to actually take them up on the offer... While I can understand and agree that fair-play should be a part of the service, if t
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by SeanDav 9y ago
One of the more interesting materials proposed for shipbuilding to save steel, was ice/sawdust. Apparently not quite as impractical as it sounds. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pykrete
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by SeanDav 9y ago
Really excited by this. Bookmarked for a more detailed look later. Small tip - You might want to review your spell checker settings, which seems to have passed words like: "developper".
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by SeanDav 9y ago
It never ceases to amaze and frustrate me that almost every time I buy a legal DVD, I am punished by being required to watch non-skipable content warning me that pirating is illegal (I can just hear the irony dripping). This can often be fo
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by SeanDav 9y ago
I would think the main use case for React Native is multiple platform development. It solves a different problem to Kotlin.
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by SeanDav 9y ago
Can second that. Zoom works on Windows/Linux/Mac.
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by SeanDav 9y ago
Zillow, should make it very clear then that their estimates are complete works of fiction and any resemblance to actual value is purely coincidental and unintended.
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by SeanDav 10y ago
The idea is to make it easier for the average person. Those involved with subchapter S corporations are probably not amateurs and are not the target audience.
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by SeanDav 10y ago
> " It does make me feel a bit less inclined to play old RPGs now, knowing that I’m grinding just to increase a few bytse of memory." Superficially, most games can probably be judged the same way, even physical games like gol
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by SeanDav 10y ago
On a related note, I accidentally cracked the touch screen of my 8 year old Ford Radio/AC control unit. Cost to replace 4,500 GBP, which is more than the entire value of the car currently. Insane, because it basically means if you crac
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by SeanDav 10y ago
Agreed, I have bought probably a dozen games in beta, but usually in the £5-15 range and more than likely, further in the release cycle. Usually the more raw the game, the cheaper the price - I would have expected a game like this that has
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by SeanDav 10y ago
£19 for a probably bug-ridden, no documentation or tutorials game, where I am largely acting as a bug-finder for the game seems excessively expensive.
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by SeanDav 10y ago
Perhaps go with AWS and not Google then - let the market speak.
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by SeanDav 10y ago
It is quite simple, if you are not paying for the product, you are the product and even if you are paying in some cases. This is well known. Also well known, is expect no privacy online. Always assume everything you do online is being monit
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by SeanDav 10y ago
Unless you can prove that one method is significantly faster or the other structurally dangerous, it is just a matter of coding style and opinion. Agree to disagree, or let the lint tool be the referee.
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by SeanDav 10y ago
It would be a huge concern if people stopped vaccinating. I am definitely in favour of vaccination - but if my experiences are anything to go by, the government and healthcare establishment have done themselves and the public no favours in

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