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by antod 7y ago
> Though I'm a bit confused about whether Wayland (as an experimental option) in upcoming Ubuntu 20.04 LTS is even supported. I've been using Wayland out of the box on 19.04 and 19.10 to get fractional scaling and independent
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In NZ, gorse is actually a fairly good nursery for native trees/bush that will eventually shade it out and take over from it. The main problem gorse caused was taking over grassy farmland. Pine trees are another matter though, they mak
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by antod 7y ago
There are other ways to expect differences in velocity. A bit like the venturi effect in a pipe constriction, a constant flow rate will have to involve faster velocity when the area of flow reduces. If you trace a line on the wing cross sec
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In NZ, those minimums and surcharges are coming back and relatively common. Retailers are getting vocal about the "evils" of credit cards companies too.
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Although I would say 2007 was close to the peak of Python bleeding "mindshare" due to the hype cycle of Ruby and Rails.
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Is that the case this time? I was wondering why I hadn't seen the usual local (NZ) news coverage of fire fighters being sent across the Tasman. It was becoming a regular story for the last few summers.
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Yeah, I was also wondering which article they were commenting on. Seemed like a fairly broad base of examples to me.
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Definitely not in agriculture though, where protectionism and massive subsidies abound.
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"in-the-box" unless you're using the "cheaper" licence options. (possibly out of date opinion)
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As an utterly cynical layperson, algorithm means directly querying data. AI means feeding systems with training data and sprinkling them with magic obfuscation dust.
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There was a FoxPro inspired Python tool I remember from about 10-15yrs back: https://dabodev.com/ A bit more coding than Access, but it was DB independent on the backend. Looks like nothing has happened on it for quite a wh
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by antod 7y ago
Lucky you. I'm noticing an increasingly shrinking ability for them to their intended job lately. Sigh
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My high school computer lab (barely/rarely) ran off 8" floppies. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poly-1 The dozen or so computers were "networked" to a shared storage unit (Proteus?) that consisted of
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> I think something did go majorly wrong. IMO you're both correct, just referring to different times. It went mostly right, then it went mostly wrong
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Floppy disk, sure. But phone handset? Old movies and TV shows set in the past will keep that image alive like it did for us with knowing what phones looked like before our time. Unless you think movies/TV will go away too...
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That clarification should explicitly address the original email that contradicted it (eg self managed EE would be getting telemetry).
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I'm only now just wondering why (apparently - only looked at the first few search results) there isn't a vish shell....
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> I’m pretty much the same way. Ambient people sounds—unless really loud/intrusive—are fine. And I sometimes even probably prefer to silence/isolation. Interestingly that relates to one of the few acoustic design points I rem
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by antod 7y ago
All the planning charts and demolition orders for it have been on display in the local planning department in Alpha Centauri for fifty Earth years
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From memory the MiG-25 interceptor had quite a lot of steel in it for thermal reasons. Titanium was too difficult to work with for them at that time (or something).
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In a house fire you'll usually be killed by your burning synthetic furnishings before the burning structure gets much of a chance.
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> Like, do you think the best golfer in the PGA tournament is "really worth" ten times as much money as the 14th best golfer? To the sponsors? Yes.
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You're probably right :) It was rugged too. One problem I had years later when I went to start using it again was that it would drain the batteries too fast - they were seemingly always flat.
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The calculator that got me through engineering school in the early 90s. Excellent little machine, but I was a bit jealous of the guy with a 48S.
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> People seem to generally have very positive comments on DataDog - maybe it's me but I've generally found it frustrating. We hadn't used DataDog, but after our whole team kept getting endless semi personalised buddy bu
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From hazy memory there were two ways of configuring apache/mod_php. 1) The web server ran with a common account (eg www-data), and only had read access to users files. 2) The web server could be configured to run each site in the conte
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Yup, those were the two web "stacks" I had tried before PHP - around 1999 or so. At the time PHP did feel amazing compared to Classic ASP in VBScript (shudder), and I never really felt comfortable with Perl. There were other thing
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by antod 7y ago
I've only ever written one solver in Python about 10yrs ago. But it wasn't a search and never made guesses, it was an enumeration of all the analog elimination methods I'd ever figured out when solving them on paper. It was f
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As well as Kenken, I also like Killer Sudoku as a more interesting option than vanilla Sudoku. It's basically 9x9 Kenken with addition as the only operator, it uses a bunch of the same thought processes as Kakuro which I like too.
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Yeah fair point. I suppose for non Americans like myself, we would naturally put far less weight on the secondary discussion. Also I hadn't watched the documentary in question, so wasn't referring to its arguments directly. I do h

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