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auganov
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> Is it possible to "lockdown" the Google Chrome engine in our electron apps so that future chrome changes don't break our apps? Don't upgrade the Electron version? Electron bundles it's own chromium. It won'
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> I like the analogy that English writers don't have to be at Shakespeare's level; even being able to write a shopping list is a very useful. Hence it's a good idea to teach everyone reading and writing at school. Language
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All of the things mentioned are already being done without VR headsets. People can go through their entire lives not realizing they've been stereoblind. The world seems as real to them as to anybody else. It's not obvious to me VR
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> Cursive is just a Clojure plugin for IntelliJ Well, I'm ignorant about the IntelliJ ecosystem. Can I take some of what Cursive is providing and use it with Racket or Common Lisp?
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Yes. But problems with tabulation have already been rendered unlikely by hand recounts. Many/most places haven't done them or have only had limited ones, so this would add some extra reassurance. But out of plausible theories of f
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First you need to get all the states to hand them over. Many seem unwilling. As for analyzing, you don't necessarily know what you're looking for before examining them. For example - if there is a distinct pattern of markings sugg
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The very reason I find Lisps enjoyable is all the things an editor can do for you with a Lisp. Smartparens, rainbow parens, easy eval of forms (+ pprinting, macroexpand, inline replace etc), jump to definition, for Clojure - contextual awar
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If you look at table 4 it's pretty obvious all the model does is separate people who post about politics from those who don't. Given the methodology [0] this result is unsurprising. Those labeled as "unreliable" seem to
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> ... the mere accessibility of the ... website in the Union ... is insufficient to ascertain such intention > Local EU websites are covered by virtue of being EU websites, not because they're accessible in the EU. None of this t
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> The law applies to any service targeted at EU citizens. It does not apply to services that any EU citizen happens to be using even though they're primarily intended for citizens of other countries. > A "local" Bavaria
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Wizzair, 40m for baggage drop-off https://wizzair.com/en-gb/information-and-services/faq/frequ... Air Baltic, 40m for baggage drop-off, 30m for business class https://www.seatguru.com/airlines
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You can talk to yourself out loud as if you were doing a screencast about whatever you're working on. Should override background verbal thinking. There are some positive correlations between self-talk and performance too, shouldn'
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> That sounds pretty exceptional. 45 minutes is usually given as the minimum time to go through airport security, since you have to allow enough time to not miss your flight if you do get pulled out for some reason (or be prepared to som
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The main point is the ideal night train scenario as per grandparent comment could be rare. Checked a number of possible 1000km routes [0], most were over 10h. Found just one that took 8h, Paris - Berlin. And these are not night trains. The
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How many such routes are there in Europe? Checked a bunch and seems like 9 hours is a decent timing even for the fastest train option. While by plane you're always looking at something under 2 hours.
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Cannot find a simple explanation of what "Ecosystem Accounting" really is. Sounds like a number of disjoint ideas without any specifics. If you want to even start challenging GDP, you need something that can be reliably calculated
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> I think the text is probably too small but I don't realise because in proportion to the smaller screen size it looks large. My laptop is 1366x768 and it feels "wrong" to be zooming-in when screen real estate is already s
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Yes. But ideally this should happen instinctively. Say, if you're thinking, it's pretty natural to defocus or look at wherever. Whenever you're not actually reading or looking at something on the screen your eyes should wande
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Screen time itself shouldn't cause eyestrain. Reading is the most likely culprit. Pay attention to when you're actually exerting your eyes. For example, when trying to read a very small font you should feel your eyes working harde
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Well, personally, I wouldn't want to be thought of as disadvantaged. Nor the other way around, though I guess that's less bad. You could give the "right" answers to get the "result" you want. But lying isn'
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DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3233/JAD-201058 When doing simple questionnaire based studies like this, it should be standard practice to ask a few purposefully ridiculous control questions. Ask them which brand wine they l
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Pick random answers when asked stupid questions. If enough people start doing this they'll stop asking.
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> We learn it to know who were are. It can be very much about telling you who you're supposed to be rather than the other way around. Israel and Hebrew is actually a good example. Modern Hebrew was created pretty much solely for nat
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In this case there's no upside to doing it "correctly". Or at least that's what many doctors think. So have no reason to care about overstating risks.
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Hmmm, well, so if we're talking purely about indentation wrt control structures, I can see the point, maybe. But if we're talking about the ability to eyeball what's going on, I'm not sure... In Clojure if you see a macr
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These two examples are pretty different unless I'm not getting something? The equivalent of the first in Clojure would be (assuming it's js): (doseq [i (range 3)] (x i) (y i) (z i)) And the equivalent of the
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Pick a sufficient number of iterations. Recursively hash a random input that many times and use the resulting hash as the encryption secret for the message. Publish the encrypted message, the seed[s], the number of iterations and detailed d
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No, but when you define it that way it's hard to have a discussion about "health". Generally if people aren't dying or aren't living in pain it's unclear what's a good measure or if it can be considered in
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I find the discourse around exercise to be very peculiar. Despite scant evidence, the belief that exercise is important to health [0] is extremely prevalent. Even in those cultures that aren't too athletic. Anything to the contrary is
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Pretty annoyed with Typescript too. Mostly because of its popularity. Before Typescript most compile-to-js languages existed in their own world. You might have not liked them. But you'd never have to deal with them. Typescript has beco
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