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by adhesive_wombat 5y ago
If people dislike receiving that email so much that they report it as spam, it's spam. Maybe if enough scummy companies have to mess about getting de-blacklisted, they might reevaluate whether their emails serve their customers, themse
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by adhesive_wombat 5y ago
Travelling at any interstellar velocity seems to also be so, because even pretty tiny dust specks can take out a space ship at appreciable fractions of c. So you'd need extremely good radar to avoid/deflect/destroy it (and yo
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by adhesive_wombat 5y ago
So then the problem is why do more people deserve to be in prison in the US in particular? Whichever way you cut it, it's bad for society for it to be such a large percentage.
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by adhesive_wombat 5y ago
On Firefox, Tridactyl[0] does this too. Which link it follows as is based on the rel=next (or prev if you used [[) attributes (i.e. the actually correct way that web pages all too often do not use) and then falling back to heuristics like t
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Luis Bitencourt-Emilio Joins Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees(lists.wikimedia.org)
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by adhesive_wombat 5y ago
I think the point was that executives won't have enough technical knowledge to be able to say much about it except in extremely vague terms like "we take security seriously". In fact, actually having too much of a clue is a p
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by adhesive_wombat 5y ago
Speaking of, whatever happened to that federated(?) ID thing where you are given the choice of several companies like Experian to validate your identity? I signed up years ago to do one thing and never used it since. Always seemed a bit odd
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by adhesive_wombat 5y ago
I have the Indian edition of Sedra and Smith, the difference being greyscale rather than black/white/blue images and rather worse paper. And a dire warning about where the book may be sold.
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by adhesive_wombat 5y ago
Yep, my Brother colour laser runs perfectly on coloured sawdust or whatever the eBay cartridges contain. In fact, it works so well that I almost feel bad that I'm not rewarding Brother by throwing down over £250 on a set of 4 cartridge
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by adhesive_wombat 5y ago
Apparently not: "Gauss himself apparently coined the term with reference to the "normal equations" involved in its applications, with normal having its technical meaning of orthogonal rather than "usual"." (Wik
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by adhesive_wombat 5y ago
Their bar for how much I might want to know about this subject is clearly set very low. I was expecting a full analysis, not just "we can only thrust away from the Sun and L2 is a metastable point so we have to always under-thrust slig
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by adhesive_wombat 5y ago
It's quite amazing that a few hundred ksloc of Javascript gluing together a bunch of npm packages can be valued on the same order of magnitude (in the billions) as a multi-decade scientific/heavy engineering undertaking.
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by adhesive_wombat 5y ago
Wikisource also has On the Economy of Machinery and Manufactures[1] in their current Monthly "sprint"[2] [1] https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Index:On_the_economy_of_machi... [2] https://en.wikisourc
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by adhesive_wombat 5y ago
Wikidata is a pretty neat thing that the WMF created well after Wikipedia launched. And it's not like the Mediawiki software has stood still since then, it's way more advanced now. Just because cars still mostly have 4 wheels does
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by adhesive_wombat 5y ago
If all you want is an ereader with ssh, a Kobo with Koreader will do that for you. They just run Linux, so it's quite a fun device for hacking around in. Plus Koreader itself is in Lua and is relatively easy to make changes to.
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by adhesive_wombat 5y ago
The Iraq Museum in Baghdad was looted in 2003 (and the artifacts that were not recovered presumably sold to collectors), the Delhi Natural History museum burned to the ground in 2016 (total collection loss) and the Brazil National Museum bu