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by bazzargh 11y ago
You do land on the second 'sister'. SITTING by her sister on the bank, AND of having NOTHING to do once or twice she HAD peeped into THE book her SISTER.
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by bazzargh 11y ago
The latter half of the article set all kinds of alarm bells ringing, starting with the pseudoscientific Air squats are one of the best ways to release enzymes that breakdown the production of fat in your body . So what's the evidence
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by bazzargh 11y ago
I recall in ~1990 I read a paper which described exactly this (attempt to make the same mistakes as humans). The argument for doing so in the paper was, IIRC that computers beating humans at chess was just a matter of time, but no longer in
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by bazzargh 11y ago
Relatedly, I have a 'nowplaying' commandline I use to capture whatever's on BBC 6 Music right now, since I listen when I'm working but don't pay attention to them saying who it is before the track: ruby -e &
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by bazzargh 11y ago
If you navigate to that page from the top menu, you'll find that's a hire price.
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by bazzargh 11y ago
That approach has limits, when DST raises its ugly head (for example, in a calendar scheduler). It's interesting that some of these systems ask you for timezones like "GMT London" - it appears to the user that they're as
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by bazzargh 11y ago
A UK version, showing Norse names (which famously show a very clear divide): http://www.britishmuseum.org/whats_on/past_exhibitions/2014/... And for just England, http://kepn.nottingham.ac.uk/
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by bazzargh 11y ago
I removed Moments from the ui with Stylish the same day they launched it, and image/video previews entirely in the main timeline. The selectors you want to hide are ".expanding-stream-item:not(.open) .js-media-container", &qu
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by bazzargh 11y ago
I'm surprised the '415 patent stands. That's the one for an in-window help pane. `C-h m` (describe-mode) in emacs looks very similar to what they describe and was certainly there in 1995 and earlier. I know there's lots
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I'm curious about why that was? From the graph showing the raam datapoints, there's a region with large gaps between points, and it would choose a track point that's well away from the original? I've written some code to
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by bazzargh 11y ago
Reminiscent of http://www.fromoldbooks.org/ - I met Liam who built that site at Akademy 2007; the wealth of scans on archive.org, google books, and flickr's public domain didn't exist then and Liam was ferreting t
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by bazzargh 11y ago
It's been done to an extent - a flashed message in the CMB appeared in Three Body Problem, here's the excerpt http://www.tor.com/2014/09/23/the-three-body-problem-the-uni...
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by bazzargh 11y ago
There's a short story, 'Antibodies', along those lines in Charles Stross' 'Toast' collection. http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/fiction/toast/to...
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by bazzargh 11y ago
Of course none of the accents in that clip are supposed to be Glaswegian...they're all meant to be from Edinburgh (though Robert Carlyle was born in Maryhill in Glasgow). For the full Glaswegian effect, try this bit of Rab C Nesbitt,
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I've written a tool to tell us exactly that, called nginspex...hoping to open source it shortly. We use generated configs with tens of thousands of lines, for me this was an exercise in learning what nginx is up to as well as being abl
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by bazzargh 11y ago
Well, that just records the commands , the output can still change, internet connections fail, etc. I have a tool I wrote for some internal presentations that uses the dumps from ttyrec to play back everything in response to random input
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by bazzargh 11y ago
This reads similarly to the arguments in Ben Goldacre's book, Bad Pharma ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bad_Pharma ) - worth a read. The book tackles a number of issues with clinical trials, not just in heart dis
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by bazzargh 11y ago
I'd dug out a link to Nellie Bly's interview with Susan B Anthony (mentioned in the article) as a source for wikiquote, if anyone's interested: http://fultonhistory.com/Newspaper%2011/New%20York%20NY%20W
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by bazzargh 11y ago
In the book, one character explains that tearing rather than cutting the books is specifically to get unpredictable unique shapes along the tears, to make matching for reconstruction possible... There will be some loss, true. Even where
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by bazzargh 11y ago
I do this the other way round; I block entire sites that use obnoxious ads rather than use an adblocker. Funnily enough, WaPo are on my block list - they must've hit me with a modal (I unblocked them temporarily to see if they're
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by bazzargh 11y ago
The National Library of Scotland has a great online collection of old maps as well: http://maps.nls.uk/ - going back to 1500, with slippy maps, side by side views, all sorts. It's not just Scotland, but the whole of th
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by bazzargh 11y ago
It looks like a bad edit to the wiki. https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Pairwise_summatio... ^ this user changed the error bounds, incorrectly. The worst case for the naive sum is pretty obviously epsilon*N (a
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by bazzargh 11y ago
I think the hit rate is a bit low. Might be better if, like a slot machine, there were buttons to 'hold' words. You should be able to both hold one word so that it stays fixed while the other varies, and hold it so that its replac
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by bazzargh 11y ago
I used to use mubi back in the Auteurs days but it was frustrating that the selection was so much smaller in the UK than the US (I recall it being around 10% of the films; anything that had had a mainstream cinema release was missing). They
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by bazzargh 11y ago
This is already built into the browser: in firefox, inspect element, then right click in the source and 'Copy Unique Selector' does this. In Chrome, you do the same inspect element, but the right click item is 'Copy CSS Path&
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by bazzargh 11y ago
those aren't affine transformations he's using, they're plane projective transformations (parallel lines aren't preserved). Yes, you can express what he means more simply, but as an 8x8 matrix problem - then just use a m
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by bazzargh 11y ago
I've often thought about doing something like this for documenting my bike trips; a 'somewhat straightened' map would work great down the side of the page with the story. The straight line route maps that used to appear in AA
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by bazzargh 11y ago
The link just points at the Brainpool curves, but the paper describing the 'new curves' etc is lots of fun. ( http://bada55.cr.yp.to/pubs.html , How to manipulate curve standards: a white paper for the black hat. )
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by bazzargh 11y ago
Idea: motorize a weeping angel ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weeping_Angel ), use this mechanism to have it drive towards someone when their eyes shut
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https://status.slack.com/2015-09/cfcbf70171f9c24c We rely on slack; we had multiple short outages last week. In slack terms, only a small number of teams were affected, but for us, that meant the whole company. To be f

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