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by astatine 5y ago
The launch event was revealing in itself. From NASA to SpaceX to Virgin, there is a huge shift in the launch coverage. Today's event was for the large part an ad for future passengers and I suspect that it was due to the rather "r
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by astatine 5y ago
As much as I don't want to defend the role of the government in this mess, twitter has done a terrible job in the optics dept. They have chosen to ignore steps like appointing people for certain mandatory roles, blocking the handle of
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by astatine 5y ago
I expect it will lead to greater compliance than today, in the near future even if not today. Making tens of thousands of engineers understand the nuances of various licenses is infinitely more difficult than making copilot start taking bet
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Officer plays Taylor Swift song to block video post to YouTube(bbc.co.uk)
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by astatine 5y ago
This is a theme that will apply in a variety of different areas, well beyond Silicon Valley. There was a sense in the late couple of decades that India will become a faithful follower of US practices (if not policies) with its easily access
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France is testing free public transport(bbc.com)
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Tata Steel to continue salaries for Covid victims' families m(bbc.co.uk)
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by astatine 5y ago
It is interesting that this uses a podcast + text rather than what would have been a more conventional video based tutorial. The use of a podcast for describing something so fundamentally visual as CSS looks really unusual. I just started g
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by astatine 5y ago
Thanks for the details. Will definitely go through this tutorial
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by astatine 5y ago
I struggle with CSS. I am not sure it's CSS that's proving difficult or the ability to design anything even remotely presentable. I suspect my struggles are more to do with the latter. Looking at good designs and trying to derive
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by astatine 5y ago
>the convenience of using Yandex and Google is at odds with the public perception of trustworthiness What's the likelihood that this will percolate to non-technical services? If more services think like this, maybe there is hope.
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Boeing faces new hurdle in 737 Max electrical grounding issue(reuters.com)
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by astatine 5y ago
Indeed. To complete the picture, Apple gave asylum. And Google denounced the employee as a traitor and recalled their ambassador to Apple. /s
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by astatine 5y ago
Sequence diagram with PlantUML and deployment diagrams with Gliffy. Every other type of diagram has fallen by the wayside, over the years. PlantUML with Visual Code is a breeze and makes life easy.
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by astatine 5y ago
Saw this and downloaded. Looks very good. Thanks for creating this. Fast, and plenty of features. I am using DBeaver and this looks like it can be a great replacement.
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by astatine 5y ago
I remember traveling exhibitions from Navkarnataka Publications which used to be fascinating. Mostly Russian books along with very nationalist (in the good sense) literature. Ukrainian Folk Tales and many Russian math books. I remember buyi
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by astatine 5y ago
> How many people intend to make slow, outdated, insecure software? The point is that some authors may claim simplicity, some may claim performance, others more security and so on. It is rare to have all adjectives thrown in - and easy t
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by astatine 5y ago
This sounds right, though it doesn't have to be. These type of words signal the author's intent and when 1 - justified by the actual deliverable 2 - substantiated with concrete data can be very useful. They can help create the rig
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Why shortages of a $1 chip sparked crisis in global economy(thestar.com)
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by astatine 6y ago
I think the test here could/should be of visible and definite authorship. A NYT article, with a byline, shared removes the onus from the disseminator. If the article is wrong, the liability goes back to the original author. A share wit
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by astatine 6y ago
That's so true! A third of the view it gets is the underside of your face and nose and the rest is the ceiling. I have this XPS and use an external webcam when I need one.
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by astatine 6y ago
It is an amazing story. Stories like this break barriers of nations, languages and status and make humans out of these otherwise exalted individuals.
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by astatine 6y ago
> Elle (ell) - Distance between elbow and fingertip. This exact measurement is used by flower garland sellers in several parts of India. In Karnataka, this measure is called the "mala" and represents the distance from the elbow
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by astatine 6y ago
You are right and your explanation is more precise. The fact there was no cognitive or other change due to the 27 extra minutes implies my interpretation. It's possible that the baseline using 5.5 hours of sleep is not the right one to
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by astatine 6y ago
Looked initially like a ripe candidate for the ignobel prize. But, it seems to distinguish sleep from hours in bed and finds that less sleep than time-in-bed doesn't seem to affect them much. Wonder if the type of work was the reason f
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by astatine 6y ago
Conflicted thoughts on this. On the one hand Google has this defined policy, which developers should be aware of. In this case they seemed to have generously explained the reason (must be the season for miracles). On the other, tarring all
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Microsoft Rewards – To Search on Bing(support.microsoft.com)
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by astatine 6y ago
The sense of smallness of the self is probably what causes the claustrophobia. The last time I read of agoraphobia was in an Ian Fleming novel!
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by astatine 6y ago
Off-topic, but does anyone else feel claustrophobic when reading about the vastness of the universe? I enjoy astronomy related topics but when reading articles about the scale or the expansion of the universe, etc I start feeling physically
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by astatine 6y ago
But naturally! He is worried about his internal IT team getting access to his own messages, like the Register's BOFH[0] /s [0] https://www.theregister.com/offbeat/bofh/

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