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by SimplyUnknown 7y ago
Pick the Netherlands, for example. No way to buy any (smart)phone.
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by SimplyUnknown 7y ago
If reproducibility is so important then why are we in the middle of a reproducibility crisis? [1] If reproducibility was really that important then the scientific body would be more focused on replicating results rather racing to being the
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by SimplyUnknown 7y ago
I think an analogy would be the following: You need to hammer a nail in a piece of wood. You could do this with a screwdriver but hammer is better suited for the job. However, a hammer made out of glass is less useful than the screwdriver.
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by SimplyUnknown 7y ago
I'm speculating that "slow down" in your first quote means "the flow doesn't plummet towards zero when it's busy" and in the second quote it means "reduce their average velocity". So in that sens
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by SimplyUnknown 7y ago
Ah okay, yeah I see what you mean. You are definitely right. RIP everyone with a pacemaker or another type of implant within more than 22km of that system. Implants are usually safe up to 5Gauss so that would be beyond 22km, I guess. I look
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by SimplyUnknown 7y ago
What problems exactly? The fringe field of an MRI is only a few meters outside the bore before it drops off to 1 Gauss. Especially with all the shielding around the machine there is not really a problem with it with normal use. The power co
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by SimplyUnknown 7y ago
I really like Telegram. Only end-to-end encryption by default and in group chats would make it perfect.
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by SimplyUnknown 7y ago
Forgive me if I can't read but I couldn't quickly find the following. Is it possible to use Opmsg as a library? If you want to use GPG as library in your application right now, you can't. The best thing you can do is parse GP
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by SimplyUnknown 7y ago
I have worked at my nation's meteorological office and they (and I'd assume others do too) provide this service. They do this by running an ensemble (at our office, a population size of 50) with different starting conditions of nu
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by SimplyUnknown 8y ago
My new theory is that he is Bill Wurtz
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by SimplyUnknown 8y ago
I'm still more comfortable with an antihero that is down to earth and knows when to shut up like Linus than with a full-time worshipped Hero persona, e.g. Elon Musk.
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by SimplyUnknown 8y ago
I'm subscribed to this for a few months now and I must say that in general I'm pretty positive about it. However, it is usually a mixed bag of topics and the perceived quality -- or actually how much I enjoy reading the curated ar
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by SimplyUnknown 8y ago
There's nothing wrong with it. As you say, many quality products come from this kind of work. However, you can read this article as saying: "The only way you can sell software is by listening to customers and building exactly what
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by SimplyUnknown 8y ago
I don't know how this differs with installing Hackintosh on real hardware, but then you provide a kernel extension (kext) called FakeSMC, which emulates the SMC chip present on real Apple computers. So in a sense, he is not using an ac
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by SimplyUnknown 8y ago
The Netherlands also had rebate for personal computers, called the "PC privé plan" (Private PC plan), where bosses could give their employees tax-free computers with a maximum of about 2300 euros at the start, which was cut to 150
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by SimplyUnknown 8y ago
Funny, I have devised almost the same mantra: - Make it - Make it correct (i.e. test/prove it works always) - Make it fast There is always some mixing going on but I think it is a nice way of building software.
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by SimplyUnknown 8y ago
How is this radical. People who have invested in knowledge (e.g. via taxes) should be able to access that knowledge, i.e. reap the benefits of their investment. There is nothing radical here. Sure, I get that this is radical in the sense th
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by SimplyUnknown 8y ago
My bike has the same problems as my convertible car: It gets flat tires, I get wet when it rains and it costs more energy to go uphill. Is my bike now a convertible car? The definition of a social network is not in its problems but in its f
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by SimplyUnknown 8y ago
Funny that your link includes WhatsApp as a social medium. I don't see it like that at all. For me it is just a free alternative to SMS. Besides, they say it is big in Latin Amercia but in my country, Holland, I would guess that by now
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by SimplyUnknown 8y ago
The focus I dislike most about this article is that a PhD is considered a means to an end. The author compares that opportunity (financial, mental, physical) is lost that is somehow to be compensated by having a PhD as opposed to people tha
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by SimplyUnknown 8y ago
Depends. Suppose you take those new-fangled school districts just built in the fifties. Are they better than the global average? Likely. Are they better than the average school district in America? Possibly. Are they better than the average
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by SimplyUnknown 8y ago
I would love to go fully FLOSS on my phone. I would even love a dumbphone better. I just need /love to use my smartphone for a few things: - Spotify - Google Maps - Sygic car navigation - WhatsApp/Telegram There are just no viabl
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by SimplyUnknown 8y ago
Bear in mind that (in my country) this is averaged over a 24 hours. So you will see fewer commercials during daytime but a lot of commercials during primetime such that it averages to 12 minutes per hour.
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by SimplyUnknown 9y ago
> You can be an outdated API module Nice. Still though, I assume the issue is larger than "some game from over 10 years ago is not working" and is more like "an entire API is not working"? If so, this also has serious
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by SimplyUnknown 9y ago
The EU does that for them. It's anything that can be traced to an individual. Same goes for 'handling personal information'; it's literally everything you can think of where PI comes into play.
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by SimplyUnknown 9y ago
The sales page is nice and all, but this is the page that matters: https://www.apple.com/legal/privacy/en-ww/ . TL;DR: we collect the shit out of you and share it with third parties as we see fit. If you disag
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by SimplyUnknown 9y ago
What other options do you have if you want a smartphone? I severely doubt that other devices (most notably Apple) are any better. I think that if you don't want this to happen you have to buy a dumbphone, which may or may not be an opt
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by SimplyUnknown 9y ago
> Keep a journal of sticking with this habit. I always print current month, put it up in my kitchen and I cross off days. I'm currently doing that for my diet, but it works for any habit you wanna build. You mean like a calendar? Th
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by SimplyUnknown 9y ago
There is another side of ToS in the Netherlands that I haven't mentioned: The ToS has to be reasonable. There is a blacklist which cannot appear in a ToS under any circumstance because it is unreasonable to ask from users. For exampl
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by SimplyUnknown 9y ago
IANAL, but it came up in a computing science/internet law course and in the Netherlands the current jurisprudence is that if you use (and continue to use) a service you are reasonably expected to read, understand, and adhere to the rul

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