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by adwf 11y ago
Pointless until you start dealing with macros. It can be important in some cases to know whether the closure "code" has been evaluated at that point or not.
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by adwf 11y ago
3) Loaning books. I frequently give family and friends print books that I've recently read. Currently Amazon's loan functionality is very poor (only once per book, must be read within 14 days). This leads me to buying books twi
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by adwf 11y ago
Doens't really matter whether it's public information or not in my opinion. Most of the nastiness of doxxing isn't from private info becoming public, but from it being posted in a highly public place. The occasional strange
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by adwf 11y ago
Yep, Steam frequently locks up like that for me. It hasn't crashed, but it takes some jiggling to be able to click on any menu items within Steam again.
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by adwf 11y ago
And better yet, four weeks notice + 4 weeks savings. Split the responsibility for redundancy between employer and employee. I worked at one job where a guy was made redundant - for economic reasons, not incompetence - just two months after
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by adwf 11y ago
I think he's really talking about aristocracy/gentry whether he realises it or not. Doubt is inherent in the process of intelligent reasoning. A highly intelligent person cannot come to correct conclusions about a topic without t
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by adwf 11y ago
And then there are the people who will round that figure up. I've heard some Green campaigners calling it a £100bn project...
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by adwf 11y ago
Government setting prices works for the NHS in the UK. If a drug is too expensive it just doesn't get authorised as a treatment and we go with something else. The collective bargaining power of the nationalised system effectively fo
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by adwf 11y ago
I don't really. Cheat sheet, official docs and Google do for the beginning. Then after a while programming in the same language I will just remember bits and bobs. But even in languages that I've programmed in for years, I stil
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by adwf 11y ago
Yeah, it's very cool! Sadly it doesn't seem to have great performance for a multihull. The spec sheet says 14kn top speed and 5kn average, which is rather poor for a 115' cat! A sailing cat of that size should be able to g
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by adwf 11y ago
Not mentioned in the article is how to deal with the encroachment of backdoors worldwide. If we allow the US to have a backdoor, we've allowed the principle of backdoors in general. What's stopping the UK asking for its set of k
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by adwf 11y ago
Those people are called teachers. Generally somewhat expert in their topic. Usually more so than the parents. If a kids approach to homework is to try everything and leave the answers he can't do for mum and dad, he'll be crippl
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by adwf 11y ago
More importantly, why are parents doing their kids homework anyway? They're never gonna learn - how - to learn, if the answer is always to ask mum and dad.
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by adwf 11y ago
Whilst it's true in principal that you should always parse xml/html with a proper parser, in practise it can be a little different. On the web you'll find just as much malformed html that will throw an error in any parser, a
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by adwf 11y ago
I went to a public school in England (ie. fee-paying) and it wasn't too dissimilar from this. Hours were 9am-9pm for classes, two meals, afternoon sport and evening study. Copying everything from the whiteboard was standard for a lot
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by adwf 11y ago
Well a huge amount of sport is about mentality, so winning a nice streak really does make people invincible. Also, I wouldn't necessarily characterise Silva as regressing to the mean, just getting old.
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by adwf 11y ago
That's one of the most pernicious things about the US tax system though. Because citizens get taxed by both the USA and the country they're in, it strongly disincentivises people from ever moving abroad (unless they revoke thei
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by adwf 11y ago
Most people don't intend to log in to Google Search, as far as they're concerned they're logged in to their email account. This is why Google got in so much trouble in France and the EU over the past couple of years.
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by adwf 11y ago
Absolutely; I'm not knocking his achievements. It's a rare intelligence who can work through NIH and succeed so well.
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by adwf 11y ago
Wolfram has always seemed to me to have the biggest case of "Not Invented Here" syndrome I've ever heard of. I mean, not only did he have to make his new language, new search engine, etc. He even tried to make a new kind of
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by adwf 11y ago
Yeah, a lot of the local government stuff in the UK is the equivalent of the US saying: "Oh, we believe this is a states rights issue, therefore we're not gonna do anything about it." It's another way of saying, fix it y
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by adwf 11y ago
My thought exactly: "Someone's found the semicolon key" Most of those semicolons could be replaced with a full stop or comma without losing any meaning.
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by adwf 11y ago
That's slightly better than having Theresa May :( No luck with any letters I've sent there!
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by adwf 11y ago
Yeah, the TV series has put me off reading them too. I'd rather just experience the one version of the story. I've been waiting for it to catch up to where I remember in the books. Having said that, I have bought the latest book
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by adwf 11y ago
Yeah, waiting til the series is complete and then reading them all in one go is the approach I've taken towards things. I'm making an exception for the new Brandon Sanderson series, but I think I'll regret that eventually!
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by adwf 11y ago
I've completely given up on reading multi-volume epics. Either stick to a defined 3 or 4 novel series (ie. call it a trilogy from the start), or go with a series of interconnected, but standalone, novels like Iain M Banks Culture book
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by adwf 11y ago
Thanks, that's a good workaround, I'll try it tomorrow. It should still be a default thing if they want mainstream adoption though.
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by adwf 11y ago
The main thing for me is the lack of a central account server. Even with XMPP, you still need to have an account and login somewhere to authenticate. With this, you have to authenticate each friend manually, but only the once. After that
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by adwf 11y ago
It's not my computer that's the problem. He has three and has separate profiles for each. Also, asking people to export profiles and import multiple times is a bit too technical and far too much effort to ask all my friends to d
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by adwf 11y ago
I've been using this for the last 6 months or so. Seems pretty good as a client. Stable on the comms side, although short of an audit, I'm just having faith in the security side of things. What it really needs is some way of hav

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