bencollier49

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by bencollier49 4y ago
> Helping people get a good night's sleep -- without drugs -- would likely help, if only to stave it off in those at risk. Or reverse causation.
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by bencollier49 4y ago
> It should not replace or disrupt anything good that already exists, and this includes family and community relationships. The man was bang on (for example, with reference to the discussion of intimate relationships posted here today).
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by bencollier49 4y ago
Not sure about that but it could certainly be pre-diabetes.
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by bencollier49 4y ago
It's an interesting observation that a lot of these are in the North West. We're around there and live on a road with a twin about 500m away. It can occasionally be problematic, but postcodes certainly help.
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by bencollier49 4y ago
I mean, by definition you wouldn't. You'd just be worse off without knowing about it. Not saying LinkedIn is great, but..
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by bencollier49 4y ago
This is really frustrating. I love the Heroku interface - perfect for quick small projects - but it's becoming increasingly unstable / insecure / unreliable.
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by bencollier49 4y ago
No, but if the endpoint worker was from the source country (not the outsourced country), then the arrangement would fall foul of anti-tax-evasion legislation in most countries.
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by bencollier49 4y ago
This is incredible and what a project! But the retrocomputing enthusiast inside me winces a little at all that lovely old hardware being wrecked..
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by bencollier49 4y ago
Sadly that is now the case. I think the proper meaning will fall out of use thanks to US media. I am comforted by reports of US children talking about pavements, dustbins and shopping centres thanks to Peppa Pig.
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by bencollier49 4y ago
That was quick https://www.msn.com/en-gb/money/other/java-and-bedrock-editi...
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by bencollier49 4y ago
Arguably, music isn't what young people care about any more (Rick Beato did one of his vidijeremiads about this recently), so there aren't any youth music subcultures. It does seem to have refocused towards identity politics.
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by bencollier49 4y ago
This was already done once for micro-USB 12 years ago: https://www.wired.com/2010/08/europe-univeral-phone-charger/
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by bencollier49 4y ago
But if the GMOs are made resistant to pesticides and weedkillers, that encourages the excessive use of chemicals to promote a monoculture.
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by bencollier49 4y ago
It's mostly a case of figuring out when people will be available to work together. Some companies have a concept of "core hours". As long as you're active during the core hours, the rest are flexible.
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by bencollier49 4y ago
> The good news is that Spotify's SDK and API are actually powerful enough that you can build up an entire alternative interface In most big web services, actual functionality in the API normally seems to leads to its eventual depre
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by bencollier49 4y ago
For now.
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by bencollier49 4y ago
I don't seem to be able to migrate any of my children's accounts, the onboarding process just fails in strange ways. Got tired of trying to make it work.
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by bencollier49 4y ago
Cheating doesn't seem to be punished any more in the UK because universities need the fees. I witnessed an egregious case of cheating in an MSc exam which was caught, and as far as I can tell, the perpetrator just had to resit. One of
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by bencollier49 4y ago
The people who made Docker didn't account for the full range of British double entendres when it came to naming images. I can't remember what the second word was, but I'm pretty sure the first was something along the lines of
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by bencollier49 4y ago
About once or twice a month I come across a site which hasn't been tested properly on Firefox and a flow of some sort doesn't work. The most recent was accessing scientific papers via a journal and academic society login. The redi
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UK monkeypox cases double to 20(bbc.co.uk)
11 points by bencollier49 4y ago|1 comments
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by bencollier49 4y ago
I'm trying to get my head around what sort of damage an object of this size travelling at terminal velocity would do.
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by bencollier49 4y ago
More microplastics - it's all a bit depressing, to be honest. "p-Chip micro-transponders can tolerate extreme temperatures (-200°C to 500°C); withstand microwave irradiation; ride out high g-forces (15,000 g); and hold up against
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Google assuring open source code to secure software dependencies(theregister.com)
5 points by bencollier49 4y ago|1 comments
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by bencollier49 4y ago
I mean to say that Magician was the book which introduced the world.
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by bencollier49 4y ago
That's a good shout actually. It would make a terrific film in the right hands.
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by bencollier49 4y ago
The book "Magician" by Raymond E. Feist, which this game came from, is a great read and interesting in as much as the book came after and grew out of a long-running RPG campaign, if I remember correctly.
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by bencollier49 4y ago
That's an interesting cross-disciplinary thesis for back then. What degree were you doing?
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OpenVMS on x86-64 reaches production status with v9.2(theregister.com)
3 points by bencollier49 4y ago|0 comments
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by bencollier49 4y ago
Musk is up next.

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