WorkLobster

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by WorkLobster 6y ago
I see the misunderstanding that D&I is about priority hiring based on certain characteristics over and above merit crop up a distressing amount. Every initiative that I have taken part in has explicitly abjured such action; it's il
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by WorkLobster 6y ago
I've seen an increasing amount of Use of Weapons bashing over the last few years; personal counterpoint is that it's not just my favourite of the Culture, but favourite novel full stop.
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by WorkLobster 6y ago
I think, in broad strokes, human origin for the temperature change is pretty simple to estimate and test? We know how infrared scatters on CO_2 from quantum/EM physics, so from that it should be possible to take the difference in globa
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by WorkLobster 6y ago
"Cannot function in society" is something of an exaggeration. I have never used WhatsApp and never really suffered for it. The only issue I noticed is needing to check in with individual members of the board game group and rock cl
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by WorkLobster 6y ago
> religious folks believe life and soul begins at conception By "religious folks", do you mean "modern Christianity"? Even then, I think it may be less of a given than you realize. For example, Thomas Aquinas wrote th
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by WorkLobster 6y ago
I am used to hearing this from software engineers who are secure in the knowledge that when they want to try out a concept, hardware time to do so will be cheap and readily available. At some point, you are going to have to take all of your
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by WorkLobster 6y ago
A good resource for basic questions/misunderstandings such as these: https://www.nap.edu/resource/25733/interactive/ > How do scientists know that recent climate change is largely caused by human acti
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by WorkLobster 6y ago
Thanks for that extra info. I'm wondering if Weinberg's comment may in fact have been in support of Salam and his (possibly frustrated) experiences in Pakistan, rather than in contradiction of it. I think it would have been a frui
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by WorkLobster 6y ago
Something to remark on: Abdus Salam (the Pakistani Nobel Physics laureate mentioned near the top) and Steven Weinberg (quoted two sentences later as saying he hasn't read anything worthwhile from a physicist working in a Muslim country
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by WorkLobster 6y ago
"Ok, let's keep the chatter down". I've always loved Kranz'(?) comment even more than the moment of first contact itself. As if to say "Stop cashing out on one historic achievement and work with us to make many
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by WorkLobster 6y ago
Allow me to contribute another experience. At various times, I've lived alongside twelve different pet cats, owned by family members who were also avid birdwatchers; usually, the garden would be crowded with birds at the feeders. In te
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by WorkLobster 7y ago
Re: files in the plain, the server application is bundled with a daemon that allows you to access files locally as a read-only FUSE mount, e.g.: seaf-fuse.sh start /mnt/seafile I find it pretty handy when running a web ser
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by WorkLobster 7y ago
Great resource, thanks! It would be interesting to see more context for each of the entries, such as examples in published work—I certainly noticed they'd incorporated ones used by science fiction authors that I like. Though I understa
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by WorkLobster 7y ago
You'd need to ask for at least three grammatical cases: nominative, accusative and possessive. We considered trying this a while back with our organisation's personnel tracker, but concluded it needed a disproportionate amount of
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by WorkLobster 8y ago
A few years later, after some discussion, they revisited it as "normal person minus consequences plus audience equals total fuckwad".[1] The post is worth the quick read; I like the suggestion that the solution is more clearly i
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by WorkLobster 8y ago
Dozens maybe, but apparently all on Hacker News! Clearly I've been looking in the wrong places to organise lift shares, when it could have been "Ask HN: Who's going to LSC?" ;-)
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by WorkLobster 9y ago
I think "zero" is being a bit uncharitable. What about plant and animal reintroduction programmes? What about culling invasive species? Use of firebreaks? Eradicating disease? Did you have any incidents in mind when saying active
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by WorkLobster 9y ago
> Maybe Russia did something or NOT but I still haven't seen any evidence up to now. The Wikipedia article[1] is a good place to start, and to my eye seems fairly comprehensive. Many users of Reddit have also done quite a good job
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by WorkLobster 9y ago
My guess is we'll need someone to provide OAuth tokens to spoof data for. Or at the minimum, details on what fields are required by "/oauth/token" for it to issue new ones.
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by WorkLobster 9y ago
I think you may have picked up on something there, talking about a "static society". I remember reading a comment from Hamilton at one point (possibly in the fore/afterword?) that the goal of the Night's Dawn trilogy was
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by WorkLobster 9y ago
Sure, that's indeed possible, but I'm not sure it's "obviously" a sign of re-purposing. It could just as easily be because someone was sharing warez from a common mail account, or some content owner erroneously repo
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by WorkLobster 9y ago
He mentions further down: > To discern the system's true purpose, I used Masscan to ping TCP port 80 across the entire IPv4 address space using a TTL of 10 [...] Sampling this list revealed that the system was primarily being used t
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by WorkLobster 9y ago
Same here. Given the title, I spent a couple of minutes trying to figure out the joke.
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by WorkLobster 9y ago
> IMO its much better to spread the resources into these efforts rather than dumping a bunch of money into monstrosity like ITER It's great to have a diverse approach in the R&D phase, but sooner or later you're going to ha
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by WorkLobster 9y ago
> The demand for batteries is already going to stretch the worlds lithium supply The usual comparison here is that one laptop battery's worth of Lithium is enough to provide an individual's energy need for life. So at current c
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by WorkLobster 9y ago
You've called it sneaky and surreptitious, but I suspect in many cases it can be very useful to be able to wrap a function without performing shotgun surgery on everywhere it's called.
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by WorkLobster 9y ago
Sure: javascript:(function()%7Bvar%20loc%3Dwindow.location%3Bif%20(window.location.protocol%20!%3D%20%22https%3A%22)%7Bloc%3Dwindow.location.toString().replace(%2F%5Ehttp%3A%5C%2F%5C%2F%2F%2C'http%3A%2F%2Fwebcache.googleuserconte
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by WorkLobster 9y ago
Having browsed nearly JS-free for the last two-ish years, aside from a bit of tweaking at the start, I have to say that it has made things a lot faster, more stable, and just much more of a pleasure to navigate. If anyone is interested, I h
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by WorkLobster 9y ago
Ah, yeah. Truth be told I realised after hitting 'send' that you may have meant that. This being the case, I think even if building fast webpages may not allow one to circumvent AMP in the instant, it is still a strong way of remo
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by WorkLobster 9y ago
Unless I'm missing something, it does: https://webmasters.googleblog.com/2010/04/using-site-speed-i...

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