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by beaker52 7y ago
This is why I've never understood what it is. I see words, (and it's not that I don't understand what those words mean) but I simply don't know what is meant by them arranged in this way. There's some understanding
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by beaker52 7y ago
I've never understood what the fascination with Turing machines is or what they actually are.
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by beaker52 7y ago
FWIW, Brain.fm is great for blocking out background noise
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by beaker52 7y ago
From observations of myself, I think this behaviour is compelled by a childlike grasping at control of some trivial external aspect of my experience to make up for my inability to control the bug I'm working on, for example.
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by beaker52 7y ago
Worry about naming your company/product due to trademarks, worry about selling your product due to patents. Makes me think twice and I haven't even got an idea yet!
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by beaker52 7y ago
It's always blown my mind that companies like this will operate not having enough cash on hand to actually provide the services they've sold. Maybe that's why they're in business and I'm not.
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by beaker52 7y ago
Articles like this remind me I need to brush up on my math. I don't even know what factoring is. Maybe I need to go and relearn algebra.
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by beaker52 7y ago
This. They stopped selling single use bags. Now I just have the option to buy a "bag for life" or nothing. Bags need to be priced at £1-2 to get people to get in the habit of carrying a suitable bag to the shop.
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by beaker52 7y ago
I see the same articles year after year. It's like the internet is on loop sometimes.
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by beaker52 7y ago
To be fair to the guy, he wasn't defrauding the airline. He bought lifetime tickets. Any normally purchased ticket that isn't flown wouldn't be considered defrauding because you associate it with ongoing profit. The fact this
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by beaker52 7y ago
Doesn't work on mobile grin
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by beaker52 7y ago
I feel like nuclear is the only (realistic) option we really have that'll help us navigate the gap between our current, and a more sustainable, less pollutant form of energy use. It's a shame there's such a fear of it. I real
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by beaker52 7y ago
I was told that in addition to codifying D+1 etc that "D-Day" was also phonetically derived from the term "the day", pronounced "thee" indicating a significant day in a still somewhat ambiguous way.
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by beaker52 7y ago
I'm being drawn into Apple by their stances on things like this and privacy. As much as I am bought into the Google eco-system, I'm questioning how long that'll be for.
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by beaker52 7y ago
I've long known my procrastination is born out of anxieties centered around the task or myself. But I'm so kind to myself that I forgive myself for procrastinating before I've even done it - a great example of the many ways&#
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by beaker52 7y ago
I made something like this (without the neural networks) just recording the typing cadance of users entering their password. If the cadance matches within a tollerance then it can be used as a crude indicator of identity, along with other f
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by beaker52 7y ago
I'm a bit salty about this - I've proposed the "dropping ie6 banner without actually dropping support" banner at multiple jobs in the past. Each time it was met with "ooooh we can't do that" by product. I
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by beaker52 8y ago
451: Unavailable due to legal reasons We recognize you are attempting to access this website from a country belonging to the European Economic Area (EEA) including the EU which enforces the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and ther
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by beaker52 8y ago
This. I think what you do in that break really matters. If it's taking a sip of coffee, browsing HN or answering a question then it's not going to help. I have learnt to race cars over the past 5 years. I can lap and lap and lap,
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Queerbaiting – Exploitation or a Sign of Progress?(bbc.com)
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Nano – An instant, zero-fee cryptocurrency(nano.org)
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by beaker52 8y ago
Nano is a crypto that already has some of these qualities and is already brought to market. https://nano.org/en Disclaimer: I own some nano
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by beaker52 8y ago
Bit of an odd response because I did define them as "Social activists" (for want of a better term, but it does the trick), which is a far cry from "these people". If you don't understand what I mean, that doesn&#x27
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by beaker52 8y ago
I noticed that someone criticised the blood droplet as "Ambiguous and multi functional". I've noticed a lot of this kind of attitude around discussions of race, LGBT and women's issues - activists pushing for "exclu
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by beaker52 8y ago
I wonder what people who spend hundreds of hours managing their own NAS, maintaining private email servers, avoiding Google and Facebook, using VPNs etc do to protect their privacy in the face of real world surveillance. I'm imagining
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by beaker52 8y ago
"make a spreadsheet", "listen to this podcast/audiobook", "INBOX ZERO", "check out this cool new app" (which turns out to be fundamentally the same as the last app) I feel like everything I'
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by beaker52 8y ago
https://magazine.atavist.com/the-mastermind This series was one of the most fascinating reads I've ever enjoyed!
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by beaker52 8y ago
That was specifically born out of the UK GDS programme if I remember correctly
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by beaker52 8y ago
How about testing in production? I'm heading in the direction of doing most of my testing there since all to often qa/test/dev environments don't actually represent the production system very well and it feels like we&#x
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by beaker52 8y ago
I'm probably in a minority around these here parts but... Am I the only one who doesn't worry too much about all this "tracking"? Trying to avoid tracking is like some weird obsession/hobby. You go to all these leng

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